Gillian had the privilege of joining Gary McGraw, Kim DeVries, Jim Routh, and Avi Ruben in a great panel at RSA.  The panel was largely about how to negotiate Acceptable Use Policies and technical infrastructure for security given the mounting pressure for people in the workplace–especially those who are on the younger side of things–to make use of these tools, as part of their work and as part of multi-tasking.  Gillian also talked a bit about the challenges of and opportunities for educating people about these issues, especially when they are really young.  Meg’s great work on both Acceptable Use Policies in schools and teaching kids about identity, security, and privacy is highly related to these issues as well.

This panel has generated some online chatter:

The Computer World article did a great job of describing some of the generation gap issues in the workplace today and how these manifest in policies around technology and security.  They also translated it into Portuguese (at least we think they did, we can’t read that article.  InfoSecurity also provided some interesting commentary on the panel.  Finally, the CyLab blog from CMU gave probably the most detailed reporting on the event, even going so far as to describe our skits.  For those of you who weren’t there, yes, thats right, there were two skits…. thankfully, they were authored by Gary’s brother Walt McGraw, with help from Gary and Jim.  So, they turned out to be pretty funny, despite the limited acting experience of Gillian and the rest of the panel.

Student Researchers: Sen Hirano, Sunyoung Park, Leslie Liu

Collaborators: Julia Rich (UCI Medical Center), Dana Gravem (UCI Medical School)

PIs: Gillian Hayes, Karen Cheng (CDU), Dan Cooper (UCI Medical School)

Premature birth is associated with long term health impairments including neurological and cognitive deficiencies, chronic lung disease, and altered growth patterns of lean, fat, and bone tissues. Furthermore, parents of premature infants may experience excessive stress, post-partum depression, and other challenges associated with the birth of and caring for their child.

We are designing, developing, and deploying an innovative and feasible mobile solution for collecting infant and caregiver ODLs, sharing these data with their providers, and visualizing and summarizing these data for both the parents and clinicians caring for these children. This system, FitBaby, has been shown to be helpful in preliminary pilot studies, and now we are expanding its capabilities. Candidate ODLs include length and weight of the baby, feeding and sleeping schedules, and self-reported data about infant well-being and caregiver stress.  We are using a participatory design approach that includes clinicians, parents, social workers, and other relevant stakeholders.  This work includes ongoing collaboration with the UCI Medical Center Department of Pediatrics and Information Services Department to overcome clinical and technical challenges in our design, development, and evaluation as well as in planning for long-term impacts to the clinical workflow.

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

Girls get to “play engineer” by rotating through four roles each class period and wearing a button that says who they are and the great things they can do!

Multi-level mentoring includes professors working with college students working with high school students working with middle school girls!  We are all there together as a team, figuring things out.  Everyone has someone they can learn from and everyone has someone to mentor. In this way, we are able not only to introduce girls to technology but also to reinforce the interest in teenagers and young adults.

Special thanks to Barb Erickson for her guidance on this project as well as to Microsoft Research, NCWIT, and Google for their support.  And of course, thanks so much to Girls Inc, Sarah Drislane, and the ladies of WICS for their continued hard work!

Marcu, G., Kaufman, S.J., Lee J.K., Black, R.W., Dourish, P., Hayes, G.R., Richardson, D.J.  Design and Evaluation of a Computer Science and Engineering Course for Middle School Girls.  Proc SIGCSE 2010.

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 and Computer Sciences) at UCI are continuing this great work with their own workshops throughout this year!

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 Evaluation of Personal Health Records Systems
– Leslie Liu and Gillian Hayes

Sentient displays to connect people with cognitive disabilities to the digital era of social interaction
- Monica Tentori, Raymundo Cornejo, Jesus Favel

FitBaby: Using Observations of Daily Living to Improve the Health of Preterm Infants and Their Caregivers
- Gillian Hayes, Karen Cheng, Sen Hirano, Sunyoung Park, Dana Gravem, Julia Rich, Dan Cooper

Use of a Wearable Recording Device in Therapeutic Interventions for Children with Autism
- Gabriela Marcu and Gillian Hayes

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. Women who are interested in this scholarship must apply during first year of graduate studies. Scholarships are granted by Microsoft Research at the discretion of Microsoft.

Researchers: Leslie Liu, Jed Brubaker, Melissa Mazmanian, Scott Rudkin, and Gillian Hayes

Currently, most hospitals use numeric pagers as a means of medical personnel communication. These numeric pagers require a person to call the pager number, type in a phone number to call back, and then wait for the receiving end to call back. Using these numeric pagers require medical personnel to share landline phones, creating a health risk for medical personnel and patients alike. We are interested in understanding the experience of clinicians with new mobile devices like mobile and smart phones.

The MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas currently gives all physicians a BlackBerry instead of numeric pagers. The University of California, Irvine Medical Center will also soon deploy VoIP phones with texting capabilities to certain medical personnel. Using both these sites, we would like to understand the different technologies that allow for more information flow than what the numeric pager allows and understand the adoption and use of these technologies in a hospital setting, especially in the realm of “quality patient care”. We must also look at the medical staff’s perception on whether they believe that these smart/mobile phones actually increase, and therefore improve, the communication, thus inherently improving patient care as well.