FitBaby’s new funding from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation announced

March 3rd, 2010 by ghayes | No Comments

FitBaby's new funding from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation announced

FitBaby work supported with $480,000 grant over next two years from Robert Wood Johnson’s Project Health Design. Four other grantee teams are also working on Observations of Daily Living for chronic health concerns.


Posters to be presented at WISH 2010

February 5th, 2010 by ghayes | No Comments

Posters to be presented at WISH 2010

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 [...]


Usability and Usefulness of Personal Health Records

January 16th, 2010 by STAR | No Comments

Usability and Usefulness of Personal Health Records

Researchers: Leslie Liu and Gillian Hayes Personal health records have enormous potential to improve both health documentation and patient care. The introduction and adoption of these systems however, has have been relatively slow. We conducted three different types of studies focused on evaluating PHR systems: a traditional usability evaluation, clinician interviews, and a heuristic evaluation. [...]


Papers accepted to CSCW workshop on Collaborative Health Technologies

December 21st, 2009 by ghayes | No Comments

Papers accepted to CSCW workshop on Collaborative Health Technologies

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 [...]