Orange technology

Orange technology
Origins
The idea of Orange Technology was first proposed by Professor Jhing-Fa Wang, at the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, 2009. It calls on worldwide scientists, economists, psychologist, sociologist, engineers, and all the other experts to devote their attention to such a movement: From Green movement to Orange movement. Orange movement not only underscores the importance of the research on humanistic technologies, but also brings more health, happiness, and warm care to human beings eventually.
During the past 200 years, the industrial revolution has caused a considerable effect on human lifestyles. A number of changes occurred the second industrial revolution, and biotechnology development. Although such evolution was considerably beneficial to humans, it has caused a number of problems, such as capitalism, utilitarianism, poverty gap, global warming, and an aging population. for example, the green movement, which successfully creates awareness of environmental protection and leads to the development of green technology or green computing. However, the green movement does not concentrate on body and mind balance. Therefore, a solution that is feasible for shortening the discrepancy between technology and humanity is of utmost concern.
In 1972, the King of Bhutan proposed a new concept that used gross national happiness (GNH) to describe the standard of living of a country, instead of using gross domestic product (GDP). The GNH has attracted considerable attention because it measured the mental health of people. Similar ideas were also proposed in other works. For example, Andrew Oswald advocated Happiness Economics by combining economics with other research fields, such as psychology and sociology. Moreover, a book entitled “Well-Being”, which was written by Daniel Kahneman (a Nobel Prize winner in Economic Sciences in 2002) explained the fundamentals of happy psychology. The common objective of those theories is to upgrade the living quality of humans, and to bring more happiness into our daily lives. Recently, the IEEE launched the humanitarian technology challenge (HTC) project by sponsoring resource-constrained areas to build reliable electricity and medical facilities. Such an action also highlights the importance of humanistic care. Like the HTC project, Intel has supported a center for aging services technologies (CAST) (www.agingtech.org), and its objective is to accelerate development of innovative healthcare technologies. Several academic institutes responded to the trend and subsequently initiated medical care research, such as the “CodeBlue” and “Mercury” projects at Harvard University and “Computers in the Human Interaction Loop” (CHIL) at Carnegie Mellon University. Recent surveys on global healthcare markets and aging population also revealed the same phenomenon. In response to the world trend and inspired by those related concepts, Professor Wang created a new interdiscipline “Orange Technology” for studying and promoting health, happiness, and humanistic care. Orange technology and green technology complement each other well. Green technology focuses on environmental protection, whereas orange technology highlights humanism/humanitarianism. Both plug the gap generated by the opposite side. Through such combination of green technology and orange technology, i.e., GO technology, a holistic mission can be achieved.
During the panel discussion in ICOT 2013, Professor Isaac Prilleltensky, School of Education and Human Development
University of Miami, USA, suggested that the concept of orange technology can be further extended by adding community-based factors into the original model. That is, health, happiness, and care models are not just constrained to individuals but expanded to families, communities, and nations.
Professor Wang hopes that through such brainstorming like ICOT 2013, nations all over the world can be united together and become an Orange Kingdom (OK).
Model
* H<sub>2</sub>O Model: According to the studies, it includes the studies on 1) health technology, 2) happiness technology, and 3) warm technology. The detailed research fields may include:
# Healthcare and disease treatment for the elderly
# Healthcare and disease treatment for children
# Care and disaster relief for striken areas
# Care for low-income families
# Care for those with the problems of physiology, psychology, and spirits (i.e., body and mind care)
Orange Technology can even be extended to other areas, such as Orange Economy, Orange Design, Orange Product, and Orange Space, Orange Service, to bring more health, happiness, and warm care to human beings.
Related activities
* The 1st Orange Technology Expo, Tainan, Taiwan, 2010
* The 2nd Orange Technology Expo, Tainan, Taiwan, 2011
* The 3rd Orange Technology Expo, Tainan, Taiwan, 2012
* The Press Conference on Orange Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, 2012
* The Interview from Taiwan Public Television Service, 2012
* Call-for-proposals by National Science Council, Taiwan, 2012
* The Interdisciplinary Project: "Orange Technology——Research and Implementation of Advanced Health, Happiness, and Care Technologies," 2012-2014
:This project is a three-year plan for studying human health, happiness, and care topics. Additionally, the research scope ranges widely from psychological, physiological science to human-mind research. This project is composed of the following seven subprojects:
:* Subproject 1: i-Care Cloud Robots for Senior Companion
:* Subproject 2: Study of Gross National Happiness
:* Subproject 3: Development of Brain-Body Fitness Training Program
:* Subproject 4: Recognizing Affection in Conversational Speech
:* Subproject 5: Research on Noncontact Millimeter-Wave Life Detection System and related CMOS MLDS Sensor RFICs for wireless healthcare applications
:* Subproject 6: Assessment and Intervention for Brain and Cognitive Aging
:* Subproject 7: Neuroscience of Well-Being: fMRI-Based Research on Happiness
* The 1st International Conference on Orange Technologies, Tainan, Taiwan, March 12-16, 2013
* Call-for-papers of the Special Issue in the Scientific World Journal, 2013
Related products
* iCare Robot
* Happiness Detector
* LR (Listening/Reading) Book
* Aging Prevention and Evaluation Software
* Life Detection System
* Body-Mind Fitness Training Software

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