DIF Project

The Movision Pro digital platform for physical and occupational therapists, and chiropractors enables providers to create personalized home exercise programs for patients. The Augmented Reality app that applies AI will also provide real-time feedback to patients at home. Cole Hagen, a PhD student in Neuromotor Science is leading the project in partnership with Personal Health Informatics and Rehabilitation Engineering lab.

DIF further enhanced this project by implementing real-time feedback capabilities for patients on their successfully completed repetitions. This approach creates accountability, leading to more effective and successful treatment options.

Project Founders

DIF Consultant

DIF Advisor

Manoj Chacko
Associate Director, Institute for Business and Information Technology

Awards

Movision Pro, Recipient of the 2023 Digital Innovation Award
Yuval Shimoni, Recipient of the Fall 2024 Niraj & Cara Patel Endowed Scholarship

Testimonials

“The project has strengthened my technical skills, allowed me to learn new technologies, and also express my passion for health and fitness.” Yuval Shimoni

“DIF has been instrumental in creating a structure and team to push Movision forward. We now have a roadmap to make the vision a reality.” Cole Hagen

The Fanalli platform ensures that genuine fans can access concert tickets at fair prices. Rhea Mohite, Management student, recognized that ticket bots inflate prices, depriving fans of fair prices: “Fanalli unlocks the power of fandom to create an enjoyable concert ticket buying experience.”

DIF partnered with Fanali after their entry into the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship’s Idea Competition. Cole Roberts and Ayush Gupta are designing the platform’s architecture to create a Minimum Viable Product (MVP), with Manoj Chacko providing architectural guidance.

According to Cole: “The project has allowed me to refine the skills I acquired as a Management Information Systems (MIS) major including building an application and starting a business.” Ayush, a CIS student added: “I enjoy learning new programming languages and getting a glimpse into the dynamics of working in industry and startups.”

DIF is partnering with Omid Pourshahid, Assistant Professor, Lewis Katz School of Medicine to develop a platform that allows providers to assess and manage patient rehab, and patients’ ability to provide data that is used to regularly adjust their rehab plan.

Lu Lu, Associate Professor, School of Sport, Tourism and Hospitality Management and Wangoo Lee, Graduate Fellow are partnering with DIF to explore the role of AI avatars in hospitality. The Embodied Intelligence project will involve comparison and effects of AI avatars on the efficacy of hospitality interactions.

Raghu Sankaran, CIO, Scholastic Inc., an IBIT partner, is working with DIF to investigate the results produced by generative AI solutions to increase transparency and predictability. The DIF team includes Konstantin Bauman, Assistant Professor of MIS, Yan Wang, Associate Professor of CIS, Manoj Chacko, and Munir Mandviwalla.

Sankaran notes that: “There are so many unknowns and facets around Gen AI that that we need to evaluate, so partnering with Temple was a no brainer to help us make progress on multiple fronts simultaneously.”

The goals include evaluating (a) how generative AI responds to different types of requests (b) evaluate the accuracy and appropriateness of the responses, and (c) estimate the factors that contribute to the responses and how that can be used to improve the tool. The DIF team has configured a virtual lab that includes the major Gen AI platforms and generated preliminary results.