Upcoming Brown Bag Series Events
If you are interested in presenting at WIC Brown Bag series, please contact us.- Date: September 14, 2007
Time: 12:00a-1:00p
Place: Informatics 107
Title: Internships
- Date: Friday, October 19, 2007
Time: 12:00a-1:00p
Place: LH 101
Title: How to search for academic jobs
- Date: Friday, November 16, 2007
Time: 12:00a-1:00p
Place: LH 101
Title: How to apply to graduate schools
Past Technical Brown Bag Events
- Date: March 31, 2006
Time: 11:30a-1:30p
Place: LH 215 D
Why: Practice job talk in anticipation of CU-Boulder interview
Title: Sanitized Prototypes and Cargo Pants: Design and Evaluation of an Assistive Application for Dialysis Patients
Presentation: pdf
Abstract:
Medical informatics, broadly defined as the integration of information technology in health care, is revolutionizing all aspects of medicine from electronic medical record systems to portable systems that assist clinicians with medical decision-making and data entry. The human-computer interface issues in medical informatics are particularly interesting because there are often diverse user groups with different requirements for the same application (i.e., clinicians and patients).In this talk, I present Dietary Intake Monitoring Application (DIMA), a patient-centered application designed to assist dialysis patients in monitoring their dietary needs. Dialysis patients who do not comply with their dietary restrictions run the risk of undergoing additional emergency dialysis, hypertension, pulmonary edema, and death. Currently, patients try to remember their fluid and sodium consumption or record it in a food diary. However, these techniques fail in 80% of dialysis patients. To improve patients' ability to record their fluid and sodium consumption, DIMA allows patients to record this information using a personal digital assistant.
The varying levels of patient literacy and computing skills present a particular challenge for the design of DIMA. Furthermore, user studies must be conducted in dialysis wards, which are small, stressful, prohibit audio/video recordings, and change rapidly without warning. In this talk I discuss methods we developed to make patients more comfortable using DIMA in their everyday lives, our framework for usability studies in nontraditional environments, and interface design issues for people with varying literacy skills. I conclude the talk by discussing future research directions in non-traditional environment evaluation techniques for interdisciplinary projects.Biography: Katie A. Siek is a Ph.D. candidate in the Computer Science Department at Indiana University, Bloomington. Her primary research interests are in human computer interaction, medical informatics, and ubiquitous computing. She is a National Physical Sciences Consortium fellow and a founding member of Indiana University's Women in Computing (WIC) group. Katie has served as president of both WIC and the Computer Science Graduate Student Association. She holds a B.S. in computer science from Eckerd College and a M.S. in computer science from Indiana University.
Speaker: Stacy Kowalczyk (SLIS)
Stacy Kowalczyk is a PhD Student in SLIS and has worked in the software industry before. Stacy will give us a practical guide to managing small projects. Project Management is also her minor for the PhD.
Speaker: Jenn Riley (Digital Library Program)
Jenn Riley, is the Metadata Librarian with the Indiana University Digital Library Program (DLP), where she directs metadata activities for DLP projects and collaboratively develops functional specifications for search and browse applications. One of her current projects is leading the Variations2
Prof. Shankar will be sharing with us her research experiences in social informatics. The talk will be followed by an informal discussion. Refreshments are sponsored by WIC.
Speaker: Prof. Melanie Wu (Informatics)
Prof. Melanie Wu is a new faculty member in Informatics. Prof. Wu will be sharing with us her research interests, internship experiences and experience in searching for academic positions.