STAR :: Social and Technological Action Research Group

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.

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 [...]

Online communities like second life can be a great place for people to develop relationships, and explore who they are and who they want to be, even when faced other challenges in the offline world. This project focuses on the ways identity, privacy, self-presentation, and interaction all interplay in online communities.

Brainstorming is a collaborative activity. GroupMind is a large group display that will connect to participants’ laptops (local and remote) to foster brainstorming.

Situated Practices of Looking: Visual Practice in an Online World
Lilly Irani, Gillian R. Hayes, and Paul Dourish