Case study · project completed

GlassesOff

The patient's computer and a central server, in one feedback loop.

Custom developmentA medical-technology project

GlassesOff developed a treatment for presbyopia — reading without glasses — through computerised training. We built the system that ran it.

The system linked the patient's computer to a central server in a feedback process: the software sent data on how the treatment was going and received back instructions for continuing it, under the supervision of ophthalmologists and optometrists.

How it worked

The feedback loopDiagram: the patient's computer sends training data to the central server, and the server returns instructions for continuing the treatment. Ophthalmologists and optometrists supervise.The patient's computerThe central serverTraining dataInstructions to continueSupervised by ophthalmologists and optometrists
The feedback loop

Why this was not just another client-server

A system feeding a clinical decision cannot settle for "sent and received": every training session had to arrive whole, be read correctly at the other end, and come back as a concrete instruction for this patient rather than for an average. The people approving those instructions were ophthalmologists and optometrists, and the system was built so that they had something to look at.

A medical-technology project

A system connecting a user's device or computer to a server, with a decision in the middle that someone is answerable for — that is the work.

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