STAR :: Social and Technological Action Research Group

David Nguyen, Aurora Bedford, Alex Bretana and Gillian Hayes had a paper accepted on people’s perceptions of pervasive video recording: Situating the Concern for Information Privacy through an Empirical Study of Responses to Video Recording Meg Cramer, Sen Hirano, Monica Tentori, Michael Yeganyan, and Gillian Hayes had a paper accepted on evaluating vSked in practice [...]

Our paper on post-mortem habits and practices on social networks was accepted to CSCW 2011.

Our paper on digital identity on Facebook and craigslist Missed Connections was accepted to CSCW 2011.

PHR paper accepted to iConference 2011 Our paper on the evaluation of personal health record systems has been accepted to iConference 2011, which will be held in Seattle, WA. Citation and abstract below. Liu, L.S., Shih, P.C., Hayes, G.R. Barriers to the Adoption and Use of Personal Health Record Systems. To Appear in iConference 2011 [...]

For children with autism, iPads an attractive option by Kellie Chi The article begins… “Leann Henkel of Trinity, North Carolina, bought her son Blake an iPad for his 18th birthday on the first day the device was available. Blake, who has autism, is normally shy, but when he’s using the iPad, people approach him and [...]

Our paper ”Disability Studies as a Source of Critical Inquiry for the Field of Assistive Technology” by Jennifer Mankoff, Gillian Hayes and Devva Kasnitz was just awarded the SIGACCESS best paper award. ABSTRACT Disability studies and assistive technology are two related fields that have long shared common goals–understanding the experience of disability and identifying and addressing relevant [...]

Today the Wall Street Journal covered the Project HealthDesign efforts around Observations of Daily Living, including our project. Laura Landro reports: To help improve care for chronic diseases and other health conditions, researchers participating in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Project HealthDesign are asking patients to use smartphones and other devices to collect data about their [...]

Congratulations to the stellar (no pun intended) undegraduate students who recently got funding for summer research: Ryan Wallace, ”Evaluating Innovative Technologies for Supporting the Needs of Children with Autism” Jared Haren, “Visualizing Personal Digital Traces Using Mobile Phone Logs” Alex Bretana, “Understanding and Envisioning Ubiquitous Computing Systems in Volunteer Management and Coordination” Chris Combs, “Evaluation of [...]

Our paper on the design of a mobile tool based on the Social Compass Curriculum was accepted for publication at this year’s Ubicomp conference. The citation and abstract are below…. look for the camera ready version of the paper to show up on our publications page as soon as it is done. Tentori, M. and [...]

Ever wondered if Pippin has Wifi? Does the campus Starbucks take gift cards if so, then “UCI Dining” is the app for you! UCI Dining has just been named one of six finalists from across the nation in the Google “Juicy Ideas Collegiate Competition.” Teams from MIT, Stanford, and University of Washington are among the [...]