Pina and Hayes’ Work Featured in Medical News Today!
Congratulations to Laura Pina and Gillian Hayes, whose work was featured recently in Medical News Today in an article titled “Stress measured and advice delivered by app to help parents cope in real time“. Computer scientists at Microsoft Research and the University of California, San Diego have developed a system that combines a mobile application […]
Hayes Announced as Endowed Robert A. and Barbara L. Kleist Chair in Informatics!
Huge congratulations to Gillian Hayes, who will be the first holder of the newly endowed Robert A. and Barbara L. Kleist Chair in Informatics! Bob and Barbara Kleist are long-term supporters of the university, and have graciously donated $1M to establish the endowment. Thank you to the Kleists and congratulations to Gillian! Find more information […]
Congrats to Pina and Hayes for PervasiveHealth Best Paper Award!
Congratulations to Laura Pina, Gillian Hayes, and their co-authors for winning the Best Paper Award at PervasiveHealth 2014 for their paper “In Situ Cues for ADHD Parenting Strategies Using Mobile Technology”! citation: Pina, L., Rowan, K., Roseway, A., Johns, P., Hayes, G. R., Czerwinski, M. In Situ Cues for ADHD Parenting Strategies Using Mobile Technology. […]
Haimson Awarded UCI Faculty Mentor Program Fellowship!
Congratulations to Oliver Haimson, who has been awarded a UCI Faculty Mentor Program (FMP) Fellowship for the 2014-2015 academic year to work with Dr. Gillian Hayes! The Faculty Mentor Program (FMP) Fellowship is designed to increase the number of students who complete their Ph.D. degree and successfully acquire a faculty appointment.
Hayes Featured in Zocalo Public Square
A short article by Gillian titled “There’s actually an app for that” was recently published in Zocalo Public Square, a journalism project from Arizona State University. Now, people have been using computers for kids with autism for decades. So, that’s not new, but what we do have in the last few years is the advent […]
Best Paper Nominee at ICT4S 2014!
A many-authored paper, including STAR group members Lynn Dombrowski and Gillian Hayes among its authors, was nominated for a Best Paper Award at the ICT for Sustainability 2014 conference! TITLE: ICT4S 2029: What will be the systems supporting sustainability in 15 years? AUTHORS: Birgit Penzenstadler, Bill Tomlinson, Eric Baumer, Marcel Pufal, Ankita Raturi, Debra Richardson, […]
STAR Ubicomp 2014 Papers
STAR group members will be presenting two papers at Ubicomp this year: Ringland, K., Zalapa, R., Neal, M., Escobedo, L., Tentori, M., and Hayes, G.R. et al SensoryPaint: A Multimodal Sensory Intervention for Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders. To Appear in Proc Ubicomp 2014. Matic, A., Hayes, G.R., Tentori, M., Abdullah, M., and Schuck, S. Collective use of […]
PervasiveHealth Best Paper Candidate!
Congratulations to Laura Pina and Gillian Hayes, whose paper “In Situ Cues for ADHD Parenting Strategies Using Mobile Technology” has been selected as a best paper candidate for PervasiveHealth 2014! Pina, L., Rowan, K., Roseway, A., Johns, P., Hayes, G.R., Czerwinski, M. In Situ Cues for ADHD Parenting Strategies Using Mobile Technology. To Appear in […]
Autism AppJam
The 2nd Annual UCI Autism AppJam was a huge success! Over 25 teams created applications to help people with autism and their families. Gillian Hayes and Kate Ringland are quoted in a recent article in the O.C. Register:. UC Irvine graduate student Kate Ringland’s team created a dance therapy application for Kinect. The application challenges […]
Hayes Named Faculty Director for UCI’s New Civic and Community Engagement Program!
Congrats to Gillian Hayes, who was named the Faculty Director for the new Civic and Community Engagement program at UC Irvine! The minor in civic and community engagement is open to all undergraduate majors on campus. The minor is a chance to use your academic experience to make a difference in the world and get […]