STAR :: Social and Technological Action Research Group

FitBaby work supported with $480,000 grant over next two years from Robert Wood Johnson’s Project Health Design. Four other grantee teams are also working on Observations of Daily Living for chronic health concerns.

Congratulations to Monica and co-authors for their recent acceptance to Pervasive Health:
Gonzalez-Fraga, J., Tentori, M. and Martinez, F. (2010) “Artifacts’ Roaming Beats Recognition for the Estimation of Care Activities in a Nursing Home”, To be presented at  PervasiveHealth (2010), Munchen, Germany, March 22-25

Congratulations to Monica Tentori and co-authors on the acceptance of their paper to IEEE Intelligent Systems.
Tentori, M., Rodrigez, M.D and Favela, J. “An agent-based middleware for the design of activity-aware applications” Accepted to publication in IEEE Intelligent Systems

Gillian posted a new blog entry on our summer camp from last year targeting teaching girls about computing and engineering through the use of PicoCrickets and the chance to “play engineer” through hands-on arts and crafts style computing activities.
http://ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&editorial_id=524
It’s also a good time to let everyone know that the women from WICS (Women in Information [...]

The STAR group will be busy at WISH this year with five posters!  We are really looking forward to an amazing event.
Attitudes and Readiness for Adoption of an Electronic Medical Records System: A Preliminary Case Study
- Jed Brubaker, Yunan Chen, Karen Cheng, Chris Combs, Sheba George, Sidney Harrison, [...]

Congratulations to Gabriela Marcu who was awarded a scholarship from Microsoft.

From the Microsoft Research website:
The Microsoft Research Graduate Women’s Scholarship is a one-year scholarship program for outstanding women graduate students and is designed to help increase the number of women pursuing a PhD. This program supports women in the second year of their graduate studies. [...]

Congratulations to Jed Brubaker and Janet Vertesi on the acceptance of their paper on death and social networking sites to the CHI 2010 workshop HCI at the End of Life.
Death and the Social Network
Jed R. Brubaker & Janet Vertesi
We analyze profiles and associated comments on social network sites following the death of the user to [...]

Evaluating the Usefulness and Usability of Collaborative Personal Health Record Systems
Leslie S. Liu & Gillian R. Hayes
Personal health record systems (PHR) have great potential to improve both health documentation and patient care. The introduction and adoption of these systems, however, have been relatively slow. In this work, through usability evaluations and clinician interviews, we evaluated the usability of, usefulness of, and [...]

Reaching Diverse Student Populations in Embedded Ubiquitous Educational Environments
Organized by Meg Cramer, Moderated by Gillian Hayes
Panelists: Tom Moher, UI Chicago; Walt Scacchi, UC Irvine; Roy Pea, Stanford; a representative from High Tech High School
The physical built environment in educational settings has profound implications for learning. Yet, many technologies for learning are simply re-appropriated computers built for business or [...]

vSked: Evaluation of a System to Support Classroom Activities for Children with Autism by Sen Hirano, Michael Yeganyan, Gabriela Marcu, David Nguyen, and Gillian Hayes accepted for CHI 2010.