Hi All,

Today you will be reading a summary on a health informatics paper, see a citation tree, and a few more things…I hope you enjoy!

WARNING this is a LONG post!!!

Health Informatics Paper Summary:

Works Cited

Jelen, Ben, and Katie Siek. “Empowering Older Adult Crafters to Electronically Enhance Artifacts for Health.” n. pag. Print.

You can also access the entire paper here. 

The Paper “Empowering Older Adult Crafters to Electronically Enhance Artifacts for Health” by Ben Jelen and Katie Siek introduces to us the idea that older adults who are involved with crafts/hobbies may be interested in using technology to enhance their craft/hobby designs so that they integrate health uses within them. The methods they used to discover this idea are that of ethnographic-style observations of different groups, a survey exploring how these groups craft and their interest in health and technology, and they conclude with a participatory design workshop currently underway. Their major findings thus far include observations of three major themes that include group structure, group support, and lastly artifact sharing. Alongside these findings, within the survey they concluded multiple findings as well such as older adults look to videos and online resources less for help with their crafts and they also generally have less interests in learning more about their overall health. Contributions this paper will overall make are that of our understanding behind older adults and introducing them to new technology in which they can implement themselves to improve their own health. There are many different technologies and ideas behind the idea of self-implemented health technology but this is mainly focused for young children/adults as opposed to this paper which introduces this concept for older adults. This paper has introduced a few new topics to me that I would not have originally thought about very much and it slightly shocked me with some of its findings such that older adults are willing and open to learning new technologies within their crafts/hobbies to improve their health.

Citation Tree: 

My Citation will be on the Paper, “An empirical study of typing rates on mini-QWERTY keyboards,” by Edward Clarkson, James Clawson, Kent Lyons, and Thad Starner.

Forward Citations:

1. Mark D. Dunlop , Finbarr Taylor, Tactile feedback for predictive text entry, Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 04-09, 2009, Boston, MA, USA
2. Constantinos K. Coursaris , Dan J. Kim, A Meta-Analytical Review of Empirical Mobile Usability Studies, Journal of Usability Studies, v.6 n.3, p.117-171, May 2011
3. Edward Clarkson , Kent Lyons , James Clawson , Thad Starner, Revisiting and validating a model of two-thumb text entry, Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 28-May 03, 2007, San Jose, California, USA
4. Neva Cherniavsky , Jaehong Chon , Jacob O. Wobbrock , Richard E. Ladner , Eve A. Riskin, Activity analysis enabling real-time video communication on mobile phones for deaf users, Proceedings of the 22nd annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology, October 04-07, 2009, Victoria, BC, Canada
5. Christopher Chepken , Edwin Blake , Gary Marsden, Day labour mobile electronic data capture and browsing system, Proceedings of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists Conference on Knowledge, Innovation and Leadership in a Diverse, Multidisciplinary Environment, October 03-05, 2011, Cape Town, South Africa

Backward Citations:

1. Helena Roeber , John Bacus , Carlo Tomasi, Typing in thin air: the canesta projection keyboard – a new method of interaction with electronic devices, CHI ’03 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 05-10, 2003, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA  [doi>10.1145/765891.765944]
2. I. Scott MacKenzie , R. William Soukoreff, Phrase sets for evaluating text entry techniques, CHI ’03 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 05-10, 2003, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA  [doi>10.1145/765891.765971]
3. Kent Lyons , Daniel Plaisted , Thad Starner, Expert Chording Text Entry on the Twiddler One-Handed Keyboard, Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Wearable Computers, p.94-101, October 31-November 03, 2004  [doi>10.1109/ISWC.2004.19]
4. Kent Lyons , Thad Starner , Daniel Plaisted , James Fusia , Amanda Lyons , Aaron Drew , E. W. Looney, Twiddler typing: one-handed chording text entry for mobile phones, Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, p.671-678, April 24-29, 2004, Vienna, Austria  [doi>10.1145/985692.985777]
5. I. Scott MacKenzie , William Buxton, Extending Fitts’ law to two-dimensional tasks, Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, p.219-226, May 03-07, 1992, Monterey, California, USA  [doi>10.1145/142750.142794]

Citation Manager:

I have recently signed up to use the citation manager Mendeley and so far it is pretty useful and easy to understand, I will keep you updated on it and let you know if it is worth taking a look at!

More REU Bonding: 

Today after learning many new things a few of us decided to hit the gym and let off a little bit of steam and afterwards we hit up Chipotle and discovered our campus access cards can get us a free meal there! I keep on looking forward to my next ten weeks with this fun and intelligent group of people!

Until Next Time…

Julia 🙂