Lab News
Dr. Mynatt presented to the Georgia Tech GVU community today about he role as the Executive Director of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) and what research and funding in computing looks like in Washington D.C. and what is on the horizon. The video from this talk can be found here.
Effective immediately, our leader Beth Mynatt received a promotion to distinguished professor! This is based on her scholarship and contributions to the College of Computing, The Georgia Tech community, and her commitment to advancing the field of computer science. To learn more about this accomplishment, go to http://www.cc.gatech.edu/news/571571/computings-mynatt-named-distinguish....
Congratulations Beth!!
ECL will be at ICWSM in Cologne, Germany on May 17-20th. Jessica Pater, in collaboration with Casey Fiesler, Anna Lauren Hoffmann, Nicholas Proferes, and Stevie Chancellor have organized a workshop on Ethical Social Media Research. More information on the workshop can be found at http://icwsm.org/2016/program/workshop/#w2.
The Everyday Computing Lab will be presenting research at the 2016 EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare Conference in Cancun, Mexico May 16th - May 19th. Maia Jacobs will be presenting her paper with James Clawson and Dr. Elizabeth Mynatt "A Cancer Journey Framework: Guiding the Design of Holistic Health Technology." Additionally, she will be presenting at the Future of Pervasive Health Workshop.
The Everyday Computing Lab will be presenting research at the 2016 Workshop on Interactive Systems in Healthcare (WISH) which was held at the ACM CHI conference this year in San Diego, CA. Maia Jacobs will be presenting on the "Lessons Learned from a Year-long Deployment of Customizable Breast Cancer Tablet Computers" and Jessica Pater will be presenting a poster focused on "Connecting Online Presentations of Eating Disorders to Clinically Significant Indicators. "
The Everyday Computing Lab will be presenting research at the 2016 ACM CSCW Conference in San Francisco, CA on February 29 - March 3. Jessica Pater will be presenting the paper, "Hunger Hurts but Starving Works:" Characterizing the Presentation of Eating Disorders Online Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 in the Food and Health panel. This research was a collaboration with Oliver Haimson of UC Irvine and Nazanin Andalibi of Drexel University.
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named our very own Beth Mynatt as an 2015 ACM Fellow for her contributions to human-centered computing and to the development of health information technologies! The ACM Fellows Program honors the top 1% of the ACM membership - celebrating the exceptional contributions of its members to the field of computing. Congratulation Beth on well-deserved achievement!
Georgia Tech recently held A symposium on the future of computing - The Sunbird Symposium. Our own Beth Mynatt was selected to moderate a panel on Wellness and Autonomy that included Phillip Alvelda, Emily Bazelon, and David Henry. Check out the local NPR station's coverage of this event
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The ECL was invited to present their work at the National Institute of Health for the conference on Wireless Health. Maia Jacobs presented the paper, "Lessons learned from a yearlong deployment of customizable breast cancer tablet computers". Dr. James Clawson and Dr. Beth Mynatt are also authors on the paper.
Abstract: Patient-centered technologies demonstrate great promise for users, however they often focus on solitary moments or singular tasks within a broader healthcare journey. We utilized a technology probe to investigate how patients managing long-term diseases use flexible health tools throughout their health journeys. Through a yearlong deployment, we provided 36 cancer patients with a suite of resources on customizable mobile tablets. The majority of our participants did engage with the technology throughout treatment and into survivorship. We analyzed participants' tablet adoption, usage patterns, and customization and describe how each of these influenced technology engagement and changes in use. Finally, we identified a set of lessons researchers can use to guide the design of future patient-centered technologies. Specifically, we discovered that customizable tools reveal insights into patients' goals and values, integrating health and non-health resources encourages participants to return to health resources when needed, and a need exists to expand our definition of health resources.
The Jeannette Rankin Women's Scholarship Fund presented Beth with their Smart Woman Award for her leadership at the GT Institute for People and Technology and for impacting lives through personal health informatics and human-computer interface design. The Jeannette Rankin Women's Scholarship Fund provides scholarships and support to low-income women 35 and older across the US to build better lives through college completion. Congratulations Beth!