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EMR: Electronic Medical Records
There is no doubt that improving health care in the United States is a major focus for politicians on both sides of the aisle, corporations, and patient advocates. In many cases, information technology is hoped to be the solution to a variety of problems in health care…
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Estrellita: Helping Caregivers and Clinicians of Preterm Infants
We are designing, developing, and deploying an innovative and feasible mobile solution for collecting infant and caregiver observations of daily living (ODLs), sharing these data with their clinical providers, and visualizing and summarizing these data for both the parents and clinicians caring for these children. This system, called Estrellita, has been shown to be helpful in preliminary pilot studies, and now we are expanding its capabilities and evaluating Estrellita in a longitudinal field deployment.
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Interactive Visual Supports for Children with Autism
Project: Visual schedules and choice boards are tools used in current best practices for helping children with autism and other special needs. These non-verbal kids need help communicating their choices, understanding time and activities, and so on. We are working with Windows SmartPhone, Linux small displays, and large touchscreen-enabled platforms to develop solutions that ease [...]
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Food Assistance Outreach with e-Government Applications
Food assistance outreach workers assist clients in applying for governmental nutrition assistance programs utilizing both offline and online application systems. These outreach workers make e-Government applications and services accessible to their client populations, by engaging in extensive human effort on behalf of their clients by negotiating information exchanges between governmental organizations and individual clients, fostering client and government relationships, and non-directly supporting and explaining underlying governmental processes to clients.
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Harnessing Hacking: Inspiring Girls to get Creative with Computing
Working with Girls Incorporated of Orange County, Microsoft Research, NCWIT, and Google, we have been able to conduct a series of classes on hands-on hacking.
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Usability and Usefulness of Personal Health Records
Researchers: Leslie Liu and Gillian Hayes Personal health records have enormous potential to improve both health documentation and patient care. The introduction and adoption of these systems however, has have been relatively slow. We conducted three different types of studies focused on evaluating PHR systems: a traditional usability evaluation, clinician interviews, and a heuristic evaluation. [...]
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Sustainability & Social Media: Scaling Social Networks to Social Movements
What lessons can we draw from research on social movements to enable arger-scale actions via social media and social networking? We are researching the use of social media help to engender social interest groups and social movements operate on a large scale over time.
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Perceptions and Attitudes towards Tracking and Recording Technologies in Everyday Life
We investigate people’s concerns about recording technologies in everyday life. We apply the Concern for Information Privacy (CFIP) model to shed light on information privacy concerns towards pervasive and ubiquitous tracking and recording technologies and identify areas not well handled by this model and suggest avenues for future work.
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An Interactive Social Compass
Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often demonstrate impairments in social skills. Social skills training is an effective way to develop age and functioning-level social skills to be used in a variety of situations. One successful curriculum that is currently in use in schools for teaching social skills to students with ASD is the Social Compass.
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Death and the Social Network
The death of a user does not result in the elimination of his or her account nor the profile’s place inside a network of digital peers. Friends use profiles postmortem to say last goodbyes, share memories, and coordinate funereal arrangements. These practices highlight three important themes for social networks and the representation of identity for their users: embodiment, representation, and temporality.
Projects
Estrellita: Helping Caregivers and Clinicians of Preterm Infants
We are designing, developing, and deploying an innovative and feasible mobile solution for collecting infant and caregiver observations...News
Star Member designated the 2012′s Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research
Minhnhut Thanh Vo will receive the 2012 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research. Only one ICS student...News
Star Member designated the 2012′s Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research
Minhnhut Thanh Vo will receive the 2012 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research. Only one ICS student...
Gillian Hayes is CCREC’s newest Fellow!
Dr. Hayes is the newest Fellow to join CCREC (The University of California’s Center for Collaborative Research for an Equitable...
Recruitment welcoming weekend at Aliso Beach
Informatics recently hosted it’s annual Rectuiment Welcoming Weekend event at Aliso Beach. Thanks to Helen He (a prospective...News
Star Member designated the 2012′s Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research
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Star Member designated the 2012′s Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research
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Star Member designated the 2012′s Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research
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Star Member designated the 2012′s Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research
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Star Member designated the 2012′s Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research