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FitBaby’s new funding from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation announced

ghayes — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:21:37 +0000

Project HealthDesign is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Pioneer Portfolio. They have generously funded our work on FitBaby for the next two years with a grant to PI Gillian Hayes and Co-PI Karen Cheng (one of our amazing collaborators from Charles Drew University). Project Health Design is focused on the use of ODLs to support chronic care. Here is a little excerpt on ODLs from the Project Health Design website:

Observations of Daily Living (ODLs)

Observations of daily living are sensations, feelings-thoughts-attitudes, and behaviors that occur in the course of everyday life – such as sleep patterns, diet, exercise levels, pain episodes, and mood – that are not typically part of one’s clinical record, but are critical to managing an individual’s health and guiding their treatment.

Paper accepted to Pervasive Health

ghayes — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:00:13 +0000

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

Posters to be presented at WISH 2010

ghayes — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:07:53 +0000

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

Ensure: designing a healthcare system for families

Michael — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:45:18 +0000

Researchers: Sunyoung Park in collaboration with a great team at CMU

Parents always desire to take good care of their children and to manage their numerous responsibilities, including the family’s healthcare. Dual income parents often feel the pressure of tight schedules and busy routines. (In terms of tight schedule and busy routine, even though dual income parents feel in a hurry, their jobs doesn’t wait for them and make breakdown.) Without a proper system in the home, it can be difficult to track their children’s health information, leading parents to feel hopelessly out of control.

Interviews with several dual income parents and pediatricians revealed three main problems. First, there is communication disconnect between parents and healthcare providers. Second, mothers and fathers often have different opinions about children’s health management. Third, there is no proper and effective way to organize their children’s medical information. To address these issues, we are designing a healthcare system and service to reflect parents’ needs and improve automatic recording of children’s medical/health information.

Publications:
Park, S.Y., Jeong, H.Y., and Zimmerman, J. (2008). ENSURE: Support for parents in managing their children’s health. Design & Emotion Conference, Hong Kong, Oct 6-9 (Accepted for publication).

Jeong, H.Y., Park, S.Y., and Zimmerman, J. (2008). Opportunities to support parents in managing their children’s health. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing System (CHI), Work-in-Progress, Florence, Italy, April, 3225-3230.