STAR :: Social and Technological Action Research Group

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 prelimary pilot studies, and now we are expanding its capabilities.

Current Researchers: Michael Yeganyan, David Schramm, Meg Cramer, Monica Tentori and Gillian Hayes
Past Collaborators: Sen Hirano, Gabriela Marcu, Mohamad Monibi, David Nguyen
Project: Visual schedules and choice boards are tools used in current best practices for helping children with autism and other special needs. These non-verbal kids need help communicating their choices, understanding time and activities, [...]

Our paper on the design of a mobile tool based on the Social Compass Curriculum was accepted for publication at this year’s Ubicomp conference. The citation and abstract are below…. look for the camera ready version of the paper to show up on our publications page as soon as it is done.
Tentori, M. and Hayes, [...]

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

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

Ensure: designing a healthcare system for families….

An Empirical Investigation of Concerns of Everyday Tracking and Recording Technologies

David H. Nguyen, Alfred Kobsa, Gillian R. Hayes

“Opportunities for Pervasive Computing in Chronic Cancer Care “ Accepted to the Pervasive 2008 conference in Sydney Australia.