Entry 1

In this paper, the authors sought out to investigate what types of crafting projects older adults would produce in order to enhance their health, while fusing electronics into this process.  The methodological approach employed was an ethnographic style of observations between five different groups, using a survey to examine how the participants craft and their interest in health and technology.  There were a few major findings that came out of this study, such as, the knowledge that beings sensitive to the way the researchers constructed their groups, support members, and share artifacts can aid in generating a reassuring environment for older adults to acquire new skills.  Also, we can learn what older adults would build to refine their health if they could create something on their own.  Thus, linking the gap of understanding of how we can produce using electronics by placing emphasis on a subset of older adults who are already making things with their hands.  From this we can take away a better knowledge of how to educate older adults about new skills while considering ways in which they currently create.

In my opinion, I thought this article was very informative due to first hand experiences I have had with older adults and their lack of confidence in being able to produce or even work with technology.  With the rise of electronics, I’ve  observed that older generations tend to be swayed away from using technology because they think they don’t need it.  With this study It really has got me thinking of ways in which family members of mine, for example, my grandparents, can use technology to help improve on their well being.  Stemming from this I would like to look further into how the use of technology in everyday activities such as Quilting or knitting can aid in improving not only the health of older adults, but also in teens and young adults.

Jelen, Ben, and Katie Siek. “Empowering Older Adult Crafters to Electronically Enhance Artifacts for Health.” (2017): 1-6. Print.

 

Todays Session

I thought todays session went very well.  I discovered Mendeley which will help me not only for my research this summer for REU ProHealth but also during my final year of school.  Also, being able to get a feel for what is to come this summer was very intriguing and gave me something to look forward to.  Lastly, after todays session I am able to get an idea of what graduate school entails and how I can this knowledge to get ahead of my peers.

 

When Do We Eat? An Evaluation of Food Items Input into an Electronic Food Monitoring Application 

-Katie Siek

Forward Citations

  1. K. Resnicow et al., “Validation of Three Food Frequency Questionnaires and 24-Hour Rscalls with Serum Carotenoid Levels in a Sample of African-American Adults”, American Journal of Epidemiology, vol. 152, pp. 1072-1080, 2000.
  2. J. Dwyer et al., “Estimation of Usual Intakes: What We Eat in America – NHANES”, The American Society for Nutritional Sciences J. Nutr., vol. 133, pp. 609S-623S, 2003.
  3. A. A. Stone et al., “Patient compliance with paper and electronic diaries”, Controlled Clinical Trials, vol. 24, pp. 182-199, 2003.
  4. K. H. Connelly et al., “Designing a PDA Interface for Dialysis Patients to Monitor Diet in their Everyday Life”, HCI-1, 2005.
  5. S. S. Intille et al., “Just-in-time technology to encourage incremental dietary behavior change”, AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings, 2003.

Backwards Citations

  1. Roman Amstutz, Oliver Amft, Brian French, Asim Smailagic, Dan Siewiorek, Gerhard Troster, “Performance Analysis of an HMM-Based Gesture Recognition Using a Wristwatch Device”, Computational Science and Engineering 2009. CSE ’09. International Conference on, vol. 2, pp. 303-309, 2009.
  2. Katie A. Siek, Kay H. Connelly, Yvonne Rogers, Paul Rohwer, Desiree Lambert, Janet L. Welch, “When Do We Eat? An Evaluation of Food Items Input into an Electronic Food Monitoring Application”, Pervasive Health Conference and Workshops 2006, pp. 1-10, 2006.
  3. Paulo Lopez-Meyer, Stephanie Schuckers, Oleksandr Makeyev, Edward Sazonov, “Detection of periods of food intake using Support Vector Machines”, Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) 2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE, pp. 1004-1007, 2010, ISSN 1557-170X.
  4. Jei-Fuu Chen, Ling-Ling Wu, Seng-Cho Chou, “Effects of Journaling Dietary Intake App on the Health Outcomes of Chronic Kidney Disease Stage 3B-5”, System Sciences (HICSS) 2016 49th Hawaii International Conference on, pp. 3379-3388, 2016, ISSN 1530-1605.
  5. Syahrul N. Junaini, Johari Abdullah, “MyMobiHalal 2.0: Malaysian mobile halal product verification using camera phone barcode scanning and MMS”, Computer and Communication Engineering 2008. ICCCE 2008. International Conference on, pp. 528-532, 2008.

 

Mendeley

  • I love how accessible it makes all the articles I have ever skimmed through because in previous situations when doing research I have came across useful sources, read through them, and then when I tried to go back and look for the article later, I either lost it, or couldn’t find the information I previously was looking at.
  • The highlighted notes saves me a lot of time I would usually spend re-skimming articles for particular information I am looking for.
  • Overall, Mendeley keeps everything neat and in one place, allowing for my research information to be more organized and efficient.

 

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