STAR :: Social and Technological Action Research Group

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 [...]

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, Gillian Hayes, Sherrie Kaplan Heuristic [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

Thanks to the efforts of Michael Yeganyan and Jed Brubaker, we have a new WordPress enabled website!

The Workshop on Interactive Systems in Healthcare (WISH) to be co-located with CHI 2010 in April in Atlanta promises to be a fantastic venue for discussion of all things Healthcare, Informatics, and HCI. Please consider submitting!

The Eureka! Summer Program with Girls Inc. is an intensive enrichment program for 7th, 8th or 9th grade girls.