Health App Might One Day Tell Flight Crew When You’re Blue or Green
Photo Credit: A crew member checks FlightBeat to get a sense of the mood in the cabin. Delft University
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Any ideas to improve airlines’ understanding of how their passengers feel in-flight couldn’t come soon enough.
The old flight attendant call-button could be on its way out if a clever health app by Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands takes off.
Instead, flight attendants will get a clear view of what passengers are distressed or ill just by looking at an app on their airline-issued tablets which monitors passenger well-being.
This may all sound too sci-fi to fly (and for now it is), but airlines are considering a number of ways to gauge well being and passenger satisfaction—without relying solely on passenger feedback.
Students Flaminia del Conte, Mirthe Monninkhof and Quirine van Walt Meijer designed the FlightBeat platfo
