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I'm organizing a workshop to define a research agenda for privacy and security of healthcare technologies, October 26-27 2009. Apply now!

I'm helping to organize a workshop on ethics and pervasive computing, March 3-4 2010.

I'm the victim of a Silver Bullet podcast by Gary McGraw, talking about privacy, women and books.

Check out my blog on elders and technology.

I was the co-chair of the program committee for the third Pervasive Health Conference, which was held in London April 1-3, 2009.

I'm part of a team recently awarded an NSF grant to look at technology in the homes of elders: ETHOS web page.

I had a best paper nomination at Ubicomp, 2007!

I've been referred to as a "the Emily Post for the digital generation gone wild". Yikes!

I received a 2006-2007 Outstanding Junior Faculty Award and the Trustees Teaching Award from Indiana University.

I was on NPR talking about my research. Check it out!

Kay Connelly

Dr. Kay Connelly is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at Indiana University. She is the Senior Associate Director of IU's Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research, a part of the Pervasive Technology Institute. She is an active faculty advisor to WIC@IU.

Dr. Connelly's research focuses on user acceptance of ubiquitous and mobile computing technologies where there is a delicate balance between such factors as convenience, control and privacy. Dr. Connelly's most recent work emphasizes health and wellness applications to empower both the ill and the healthy to manage and improve their own health and make healthy choices.

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Using Behavior Modification Theory to Understand and Guide Technological Interventions, Tammy Toscos and Kay Connelly. Chapter to appear in Informatics of Diabetes, Bill Aspray and Barb Hayes (eds). In press (Expected publication: 2010).

Interdisciplenary Collaboraitons from a Health Informatics Perspective, Katie Siek and Kay Connelly. Chapter to appear in Informatics of Diabetes, Bill Aspray and Barb Hayes (eds). In press (Expected publication: 2010).

Merging Health Literacy with Computer Technology: Self-Managing Diet and Fluid Intake among Adult Hemodialysis Patients, Janet L. Welch, Katie A. Siek, Kay Connelly, Kim S. Astroth, M. Sue McManus, Linda Scott, Seongkum Heo, and Michael A. Kraus. To appear in Patient Education and Counseling.

Enhancing Learning: A Study of How Mobile Devices can Facilitate Sensemaking, Yvonne Rogers, Kay Connelly, William Hazlewood and Lenore Tedeesco. To appear in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 2009.

Why it's Worth the Hassle: A Case Study in Using In-Situ Studies during Design, Yvonne Rogers, Kay Connelly, Lenore Tedesco, William Hazlewood, Andrew J. Kurtz, Bob E. Hall, Josh Hursey and Tammy Toscos. To appear in the Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UBICOMP), September, 2007.

Do I Do What I Say?: Observed Versus Stated Privacy Preferences, Ashraf Khalil and Kay Connelly. To appear in the Proceedings of the Eleventh IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT), September, 2007.

When Do We Eat? An Evaluation of Food Items Input into an Electronic Monitoring Application, Katie Siek, Kay H. Connelly, Yvonne Rogers, Paul Rohwer, Desiree Lambert and Janet L. Welch. In the Proceedings of the First International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (Pervasive Health), November 2006. Innsbruck, Austria.

Context-aware Telephony: Privacy Preferences and Sharing Patterns, Ashraf Khalil and Kay Connelly. In the Proceedings of Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW), November 2006.

Pride and Prejudice: Learning how Chronically Ill People Think About Food, Katie A. Siek, Kay H. Connelly and Yvonne Rogers. In the Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2006, pages 947-950. (ACM Digital Library link)

Mobile Applications that Empower People to Monitor their Personal Health, Kay H. Connelly, Anne M. Faber, Yvonne Rogers, Katie A. Siek and Tammy Toscos. To appear in Springer E&I. (Request Paper)

Fat Finger Worries: How Older and Younger Users Physically Interact with PDAs , Katie A. Siek, Kay H. Connelly, and Yvonne Rogers. In the Proceedings of Interact 2005, LNCS 3585, p. 267-280. Rome, Italy, September 2005. (Springer Link)

Improving Cell Phone Awareness Using Calendar Information , Ashraf Khalil and Kay Connelly. In the Proceedings of Interact 2005, LNCS 3583, p. 588-600. Rome, Italy, September 2005.(Springer Link)

Technology to Empower Patients with Chronic Conditions , Kay Connelly. In Extended Abstracts of CHI 2005: Workshops - HCI Challenges in Health Assessment, Portland, OR, April 2005.

A list of all of my Publications.

Recent Invited Talks

Pervasive Technologies for Health: a Focus on the Human. Abstract. Powerpoint. Given at Motorola Research, Microsoft Research, University of Washington, Glasgow University, UCD-Dublin, Open University-England, Handicom Lab at the Institut Telecom-Paris, LAAS research laboratory in the Department of Information and Engineering Sciences Technologies at the French National Center for Scientific Research-Toulouse France.

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