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vSked: An Interactive Visual Schedule System for use in Classrooms for Children with Autism Michael T. Yeganyan, Meg Cramer, Lou Anne Boyd and Gillian R. Hayes Children with autism often experience substantial challenges in understanding, structuring, and predicting the activities in their daily lives. The use of symbols to represent a series of activities, also [...]

STAR group did really well on the NSF front this year. First year PhD students Meg Cramer and Jed Brubaker won a fellowship and an honorable mention, respectively. STAR alumna, currently a PhD student at CMU, Gabi Marcu was also a winner. More on the fellowship program can be found at: http://www.nsfgrfp.org/ The National Science [...]

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Call for Papers:  Theme Issue on Technologies for Autism Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), also known as Pervasive Development Disorder, includes impairments in social interaction, communication—both verbal and non-verbal—and stereotypical or repeated behavior, interests and activities. A recent report by the Centers for Disease Control using data from the United States in [...]

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An excerpt from the article…. Although mobile technologies are nearly ubiquitous in the lives of teenagers in modern industrialized nations, they are rarely used in schools—places where these youth spend a significant percentage of their time. Today’s teenagers, 75% of whom own cell phones, are considered by many to be responsible for the rampant uptake [...]

Interactive Visual Supports for Children with Autism Gillian R. Hayes, Sen Hirano, Gabriela Marcu, Mohamad Monibi, David H. Nguyen, and Michael Yeganyan Interventions to support children with autism often include the use of visual supports, which are cognitive tools to enable learning and the production of language. Although visual supports are effective in helping to [...]

After a fun skit-filled panel discussion on social networking, Gen Y, and security in the workplace, a few different news outlets have added some colorful commentary of their own.

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