Havas Drive

Doug Barr
Doug Barr
Director of Innovation

At Havas Drive, we just want one thing....to rule the World. Or at the very least, the Internet. We're the group of people that as kids, asked for Legos and a new version of DOS, instead of that football or dollhouse on holidays. We're the ones who in school, never knew what it's like to get a "B"....even in Supersymmetric Quantum Field Theory. Yes, we're Geeks but we go by other names too... Code Ninjas, Gurus, Software Jedi and others. Just don't call us un-imaginative. Because imagination is what binds us together and above all else, that's where our thinking starts. From creating immersive, three-dimensional environments, to using motion sensing technologies and diving into mobile, Havas Drive is an imagination thinktank of sorts, leveraging cutting-edge technologies to re-think how we think about digital in healthcare. Get to know us through our blog, or check out some of our project videos and images, then you will see where the ambition starts.

Services

Havas Drive is a digital healthcare company focused on the development of innovative tools that are designed to drive deep interaction and engagement. Using our proprietary technology, Havas Drive represents a revolutionary approach to building a rich and ongoing dialogue with doctors and patients to facilitate action that clients desire for their brands.

Our core services are built around a suite of advanced spatial technology solutions that are a unique fusion of social media, rich educational content, branded environments, and collaborative applications. These environments are represented by eCongress, Virtual Hospital, Knowledge Exchange Center, or can be a completely customized experience to support brand and messaging. These social computing enhancements provide participants an opportunity to freely exchange media, thoughts, ideas, and knowledge in digital form, allowing the transference of captured information to be shared on a much broader scale.

In addition, we are expanding into mobile applications through new and exciting technologies such as Augmented Reality and motion-sensing technologies, to develop new ways of interacting with healthcare applications. And we've just launched an #a11y practice, the first digital accessibility practice at any major healthcare advertising network. We offer strategic and technological products serving populations with low vision, blindness, autism, degenerative illnesses, behavioral disorders, cognitive difficulty and hearing impairments. Some examples include tablet devices, gaming consoles, haptic interfaces, virtual prosthetics, adaptive therapies, text-to-speech functionality and Second Life.

Excited about the possibilities? Please contact us or visit our media gallery below for examples of our applications.

Doug Barr
Director of Innovation, Havas Drive
212-287-3086
doug.barr@eurorscg.com

Kel Smith
Director of Innovation, Havas Drive
609-945-9494
kel.smith@eurorscg.com

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Blog

8:14 PM Jan 6th from Larry Mickelberg & Doug Barr

Wow.  That was fast.  Blazingly fast. No, we're not referring to how quickly 2011 went by, but rather how quickly technology trends moved and disrupted entire industries in 2011. Name the industry and it was vastly affected: newspaper, film, retail, publishing, the list goes on.

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