Open Science Research Initiative
Project VEET was born out of a growing realization that researchers do not have the tools and funding needed to understand the root causes of myopia.
Following the recommendations of the NASEM’s September 2024 Consensus Study Report, Myopia: Causes, Prevention, and Treatment, Project VEET provides the following:
- Sensors researchers can use to accurately monitor and comprehensively quantify the visual diet of preschool and school-age children (recommendation 5-3)
- Support for longitudinal studies of environmental risk factors for myopia that incorporate technologies for capturing data on working distance, temporal properties of near activities, and spectral characteristics of indoor and outdoor activities (recommendation 5-2)
- An open science model to create a comprehensive dataset of children’s (ages 3-16) changing visual diet (recommendation 5-1)
Devices for data collection
The VEET has been designed in collaboration with our research partners as the ideal data collection device for visual experience data.
Federated, public-science data model
The VEET supports an open science model in which researchers not only publish their work, but also their data and the metadata artifacts necessary to interpret them, according to FAIR Data Principles. This allows data collected across studies to cumulatively address the myopia research problem at scale..
Standards and tooling for datasets
SIXTY D supports open-source initiatives to create standards and tooling for the collection, storage, processing, and analysis of light-exposure data. These tools will support the analysis of data from the VEET as well as other light-measuring devices and dosimeters.
Please register here to find out more about the VEET!
We will contact you periodically with updates on Project VEET and the Open Science Research Initiative for Myopia.