MPATH: Empathic Insights

Introducing MPATH: Empathic Insights by Gresham Smith - this patented approach is now a groundbreaking app that transforms your wearable's geo-located data into a visual map of your emotional journey! Discover your stress hotspots and comfort zones as you navigate your daily life, from busy intersections to bustling airports and hectic hospitals.

Get ready to revolutionize your mental well-being by gaining access to your own personalized stress map, anytime and anywhere you have location information. But that's not all! MPATH also empowers you to contribute to a larger, aggregated stress model, which will guide the design of future spaces that prioritize your mental health.

Join the MPATH movement today, and let's create a world that's more in tune with our emotional needs! Download now and start exploring your unique emotional landscape.

Background:

MPATH was conceived by engineer, Mike Sewell, while on a bike trip across the Netherlands. As an avid bicycle commuter, he quickly realized that the infrastructure, parks, and placemaking he encountered across that country was in stark contrast with what he typically encountered in the US. It seemed like every place was built to be intuitive, enjoyable, and well connected - effectively making travel there a joy. Up to this point, most planners, architects, and engineers tried to estimate the impact of a place or facility, but there was not a quantifiable model based on a user’s actual, emotional response.

He sought out to quantify that experience using a data driven approach. After an early mathematical algorithm was developed based on biometric data that could be obtained from most modern wearables, a platform was created to allow tests across several focused partners. These partnerships helped to hone the platform and approach to a point where now everyone can take advantage of an empathic approach:

Understanding how someone else feels and mapping those emotions to place, and then using what we are learning to design better places.

Additional Info:

Gresham Smith's empathic platform uses geo-located data collected from wearables to track how a user responds to the built environment—whether it's a pedestrian crossing the street at an intersection, a nurse working their shift at a hospital or a traveler making their way through an airport terminal.

Please view the app's Privacy Policy at the url below:
https://www.greshamsmith.com/privacy-policy/

Recent changes:
MPATH has been rebuilt from the ground up.
• Redesigned sign-in, onboarding, activity and study screens, with dark mode
• Faster map and activity loading
• Health Connect sync with activity routes and heart rate
• Strava, Garmin Connect, Fitbit and Polar connections, with prompts when one needs renewing
• Works on tablets and foldables, including landscape
• Notifications for new data and completed studies now work on Android