Jed was recently quoted in articles in the Huffington Post and the German Magazine PAGE about death, Facebook profiles, and digital identity. “Facebook doesn’t do a good job of thinking about death,” says Brubaker, the scholar who studies death on social media. “It doesn’t have that concept. There’s no checkbox that says ‘I am dead,’ […]
New video from Project Health Design highlights the great work we did as part of this Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Pionner Portfolio Initiative. You can fastforward to get to Estrellita if you want, but the video is really interesting overall and demonstrates how PHRs and patient-generated data are poised to revolutionize healthcare.
Sen and Gillian are in San Francisco sharing Estrellita with the world. Health 2.0 is a different kind of venue than we normally attend, being very industry, clinician, and patient focused. Of course, these kind of events give us a chance to really influence practice beyond our academic communities. Our efforts at Health 2.0 are […]
Gillian and Khai were at USC yesterday for a national workshop of autism and engineering. The program included speakers who are experts in psychology, genetics, speech recognition, imaging, and more. Gillian also gave an overview on “Human-Centered Approaches to Technology and Autism” that covered much of the STAR lab’s work in this space. It was a […]
Its been a little lonely around here this summer, but we are happy to welcome home Jed (who was away at Microsoft Bay Area interning for the summer), Sen (who was away at IBM TJ Watson interning for the summer), and Kerri (who is a new PhD student). We kicked off our fall with the […]
Sen presented a poster at Ubicomp 2012 this year: uSmell: A Gas Sensor System to Classify Odors in Natural, Uncontrolled Environments Sen Hirano, Khai Truong, Gillian Hayes Smell can be used to infer context about environments. Previous research primarily has shown that gas sensors can be used to discriminate accurately between odors when used in testing […]
On July 19, 2012 Boaz Gurdin officially joined the organization “EchoUser” as an Experience Researcher. EchoUser specializes in user-centered design, research, and evaluation in software and mobile solutions. To learn more about the organization, please visit their website: http://www.echouser.com Congratulations, Boaz!
Jed Brubaker will be a guest on Iowa Public Radio’s show “Talk of Iowa” tomorrow morning (July, 11, 2012; Wednesday, 10 AM Central/Noon PST). The segment is on the ways in which social media is impacting death and grief. Link to the talk show session: [Jed’s online at 31:45 till 48:57] http://news.iowapublicradio.org/post/mourning-digital-age More information on […]
Star has some exciting news to announce! Congratulations goes to Dr. Hayes for for receiving a highly competitive Google Faculty Research Award in the area of Privacy. About the Google Research Award: “… the Google Research Awards program aims to identify and support world-class, full-time faculty pursuing research in areas of mutual interest. Google Research Awards are one-year […]
Congratulations goes to Brubaker, Kivran-Swaine, Taber, and Hayes as their ICWSM 2012 submission, “Grief-Stricken in a Crowd: The language of bereavement and distress in social media” was nominated for a best paper award! Congratulations and good luck in Dublin!