Showcase features device created at KU
A handheld device created at KU will aid researchers collecting data in the field. The Personal Data Recorder, which was invented by assistant research professor Troy Zarcone, was featured this week at the 2004 Technology Showcase. Doug Koch/University Relations
A new device developed at KU will help researchers collect data in the field without having to look away from their subject.
The Personal Data Recorder was invented by Assistant Research Professor
Troy Zarcone. He adapted a PDA to an ergonomic chassis with buttons
that can be programmed to suit the data being collected.
The new tool allows researchers to record information in real time
while keeping focus on the subject, which increases data accuracy
and reliability.
That information then can be downloaded to a computer for further
analysis.
The Personal Data Recorder was among devices featured at the 2004
Technology Showcase Nov. 3 at the Lawrence Holiday Inn Convention
Center.
More than 30 exhibitors represented a variety of high-technology
businesses in the Lawrence area, including start-up companies
created from KU
technologies and KU inventors.