Lab News
Matthew Hong was recently awarded a 2019 George Family Foundation Fellowship! The George Family Foundation was established by Georgia Institute of Technology alumnus Bill George, who had a successful career in health care. He made significant contributions in health care delivery through his leadership and his many books on Authentic Leadership. Congrats Matthew!
ECL will be attending CHI 2019! Jessica and Beth will be participating in the The Workgroup on Interactive Systems in Health (WISH) . Jessica will present her paper "Notjustgirls”: Exploring male-related eating disordered content across social media platforms . We are look forward to seeing everyone in Glasgow!!
The Computing Community Consortium recently convened a visioning workshop focused on new research visions for authoring rich graphical content for new workforce training. The workshop was co-lead by Beth, Holly Rushmeier (Yale), Kapil Chalil Madathil (Clemson), Tony Derose (Pixar), Jessica Hodgins (CMU), and Blair MacIntyre (GT + Mozilla). To listen to the Catalizing Computing podcast which discusses the goals and outcomes of the event, click here. Congrats Beth!!
The 2019 Institute for People and Technology (IPaT)'s Industry Innovation Day focused on agile health and the Everyday Computing Lab was well represented! From expanding AI apps for cancer care journeys to connecting digital self-harm to clinical practice to empowering people with mild cognitive impairment, our research embodies this year's theme. Check out more about the event here
Beth recently sat down for an interview with the Managed Care Cast Podcast where she discussed the history and impact of the MyPath app. MyPath uses AI to guide patients' cancer journey. To listen to the interview, click here
The Globe & Mail recently published an opinion piece about the various aspects of digital self-harm and the consequences of it on individuals, families, and communities. Jessica's dissertation work focusing on expanding this definition and connecting it to clinical practice was featured. Congrats Jess!
Today Beth is participating on a panel at AAAS on A New Paradigm for Health Care in the 21st Century along with Amit Sheth and Vijay Chandru and . The AAAS is the world’s largest multidisciplinary scientific society dedicated to advancing science for the benefit of all people. Learn more about the discussion here. Congrats Beth!!
Our own Dr. Maia Jacobs was recently announced as the winner of the 2019 iSchools Doctoral Dissertation Award ! The iSchools Doctoral Dissertation Award recognizes the best iSchool dissertations of the preceding year. Nominations are solicited from all members of the iSchools organization (over 100 institutions worldwide) and judged by an award committee drwan from leading international schools. The Award Committee felt it was timely and important, and lauded its impact in how patients manage their health. Congrats Maia!!
The lab will be well represented at CSCW this year! Jessica and Maia are part of the organizing committee for the Conducting Research with Stigmatized Populations workshop (https://sites.google.com/view/stigmaresearchworkshop2018). Maia and Beth will be presenting their paper MyPath: investigating breast cancer patients use of personalized health information on Wednesday. We look forward to seeing everyone in Jersey City this November!!
This semester we have a wonderful group of new students working in the Everyday Computing Lab! Pearl Ruparel, Rach Feinberg, and Aparna Ramesh are Masters students and Cooper Link, Anjana Balamourougan, and Jack Weinkselbaum are Undergraduates. They are working on a range of exciting projects that span from adaptive mobile tablets to optimization of health mobile apps to developing tools to support patients and caregivers. To learn more about these great students, click here. Welcome to the lab!!