Heart HALO

2018
iOS application
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ORA is building out-of-the-box visualisation systems that allow users to explore complex data in an intuitive and actionable way.

The HALO is an intelligent digital object for a post-data world. Download the Heart HALO app for iOS

HALO is a 3-dimensional digital object who's colour, form and behavioural characteristics are all determined by the data being streamed into the system. It is a digitally-organic representation of data-self – kind of like a Tamagotchi – but one driven by your personal data.

ORA's first product is called the Heart HALO. The HALO is a 3-dimensional object that maps complex data flows into an aggregate, and intuitive, picture that signals the performance of an entity or a person.  This is achieved by writing data calls that populate up to six “vertices” of the HALO : 1. size (diameter), 2. color (full-spectrum blue to yellow), 3. complexity (sine wave amplitude), 4. speed (slow to fast), 5. brightness (% opacity), and 6. wobble (asymmetrical movement).

ORA’s first product is for the Apple Watch where in partnership with the Mayo Clinic we are building a digital platform that allows for health to be pictured. Instead of going through the mental gymnastics of combining exercise type and calories burned to know if you're living optimally, you instead look at how your Health HALO is performing. Combinations of metrics, allows us to engineer health phenotypes – which are essentially characterisations of people depending on their lifestyles – athlete versus couch potato. Unique combinations of values result in unique looking HALOs, allowing the user to very quickly understand who they are based on how they live.

The Mayo Health HALO is composed of four primary axes : 

1. SIZE (number of rings) = activity as steps

2. COLOUR (cold blues to warm yellows) = peak exercise heart rate and duration

3. COMPLEXITY (amplitude of sine-waves of rings) = moment to moment heart rate

4. MOVEMENT (symmetry of the generative animation) = stand indicator

The more active you are in a day, the larger and faster your HALO grows. As you exercise and elevate your heart rate, your HALO transforms from cool to warm colours and approaches yellow if your HR has reached the Mayo prescribed threshold for your age. A smooth and slow moving HALO indicates your heart rate at that moment is relatively low, while a spiky and fast moving HALO indicates a high heart rate. If you've exercised the minimum recommend 30mins per day, your HALO fills up to a solid bright colour. Your HALO is symmetrical if you move regularly throughout the day, and decays into a wobble motion if you are sedentary for long periods at a time.

HALO is a new approach to data visualisation that is object-oriented and whose primary function is aggregation and synthesis – bringing vast amounts of data into a single object that allows for correlations and higher-order relationships to be understood.