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Microsoft Faculty Fellowship for Dr. Tentori - June 11th, 2013

Congratultions to former LUCI visiting researcher Dr. Monica Tentori for receiving the prestigious Microsoft Faculty Fellowship!

“Monica Tentori investigates the human experience of ubiquitous computing to inform the design of ubiquitous environments that effectively enhance humans’ interactions with their world. Her research intersecting human-computer interaction and ubiquitous computing particularly focuses on designing, developing, and evaluating natural user interfaces, self-reflection capture tools, and new interaction models for ubiquitous computing. Her work is being applied to healthcare and urban living to support the needs of urban citizens, hospital workers, elders, and individuals with autism and their caregivers. Tentori’s research demonstrates that effectively designed ubiquitous environments have the potential to promote healthy lifestyles and independence, and positively impact attention, behavior, and workload.”

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Posted: 6/11/13 9:11 pm UTC by Add Your Comment
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LUCI is doing: FitBaby: Hospital to Home - May 9th, 2011

FitBaby: Hospital to Home

FitBaby: Hospital to Home

What has LUCI been up to recently?

FitBaby: Hospital to Home

Premature birth is associated with long term health impairments including neurological and cognitive deficiencies, chronic lung disease, and altered growth patterns of lean, fat, and bone tissues. Furthermore, parents of premature infants may experience excessive stress, post-partum depression, and other challenges associated with the birth of and caring for their child. We are designing, developing, and deploying technologies to detect abnormal baby movements in the NICU with accelerometers. Data collection continues as these high risk babies move home with a mobile solution for collecting infant and caregiver observations, sharing this data with their providers, and visualizing and summarizing these data. We are additionally developing a capture and access tool called Estrellita to share data with healthcare providers, close relatives, and friends.

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Posted: 5/9/11 10:00 am UTC by Make the First Comment
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LUCI members get many papers accepted by CHI 2011 - January 27th, 2011

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The LUCI lab has had several papers accepted to CHI 2011. The list of accepted works was just released and includes the following by students, researchers, and faculty:

Full Papers:

Situating the Concern for Information Privacy through an Empirical Study of Responses to Video Recording by David Nguyen (LUCI Ph.D.), Aurora Bedford and Alex Bretana (Informatics undergrads) and Gillian R. Hayes (LUCI faculty)

Unpacking Exam-Room Computing: Negotiating Computer-Use in Patient-Physician Interactions by Yunan Chen (LUCI faculty), Victor Ngo and Sidney Harrison (Informatics Masters students) and Victoria Duong (UCI undergrad).

Comparing Activity Theory with Distributed Cognition for Video Analysis: Beyond “Kicking the Tires.” by Eric Baumer (former LUCI post-doc) and Bill Tomlinson (LUCI faculty)

Infrastructures for low-cost laptop use in Mexican schools
Ruy Cervantes (Informatics Ph.D.), Mark Warschauer (Ed. Dept.), Bonnie Nardi (LUCI Faculty), and Nithya Sambasivan (Informatics Ph.D.)

Designing a Phone Broadcasting System for Urban Sex Workers in India
Nithya Sambasivan (Informatics Ph.D.) and Ed Cutrell (Microsoft)

Classroom-Based Assistive Technology: Collective Use of Interactive Visual Schedules by Students with Autism
Meg Cramer (LUCI Ph.D.), Sen Hirano (LUCI M.S.), Monica Tentori (UABC), Michael Yeganyan (LUCI M.S.), and Gillian R. Hayes (LUCI Faculty)

Homebrew Databases: Complexities of Everyday Information Management in Nonprofit Organizations
Amy Voida (Informatics PostDoc), Ellie Harmon (LUCI Ph.D.), Ban Al-Ani (Informatics Faculty)

Why Do I Keep Interrupting Myself?: Environment, Habit and Self-Interruption
Laura Dabbish (CMU), Gloria Mark (Informatics Faculty), Victor Gonzalez, (ITAM)

Refraining from Technological Intervention by by Eric Baumer (former LUCI post-doc) and Six Silberman (former LUCI Ph.D. Student)

Congratulations
Alex, Aurora, Bill, David, Eric, Gillian, Sidney, Six, Victor, Yunan, Ruy, Bonnie, Nithya, Meg, Sen, Monica, Michael, Amy, Ellie, Ban, and Gloria!

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Posted: 1/27/11 7:36 pm UTC by Add Your Comment
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LUCI has 8 (!) papers accepted to CSCW - November 12th, 2010

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The LUCI lab will have a tremendous showing at CSCW 2011. The list of accepted works was just released and includes the following by grad students and faculty:

Full Papers:

“We will never forget you [online]”: An empirical investigation of post-mortem MySpace comments by Jed R. Brubaker (LUCI grad student), Gillian R. Hayes (LUCI faculty)

SELECT * FROM USER: Infrastructure and Socio-technical Representation by Jed R. Brubaker (LUCI grad student), Gillian R. Hayes (LUCI faculty)

Improving Communication and Social Support for Caregivers of High-Risk Infants through Mobile Technologies by Leslie S. Liu (LUCI grad student), Sen H. Hirano (LUCI grad student), Monica Tentori (LUCI post-doc), Karen G. Cheng (Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science), Sheba George (Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science), Sunyoung Park (LUCI grad student), Gillian R. Hayes (LUCI faculty)

The Values of Data: Considering the Context of Production in Data Economies by Janet Vertesi (Princeton University), Paul Dourish (LUCI faculty)

Social Mechanisms and Technological Affordances for Building Trust: ICT Use By Civilians in a Warzone by Bryan Semaan (Informatics grad student), Gloria Mark (Informatics faculty)

Notes:

Health Information Use in Chronic Care Cycles by Yunan Chen (LUCI faculty)

Forget Online Communities? Revisit Cooperative Work! by Yong Ming Kow (Informatics grad student), Bonnie Nardi (LUCI faculty)

What Do My Buddies Choose?: Informing Privacy Preferences with Social Navigation by Sameer Patil (former LUCI grad student), Xinru Page (Informatics grad student), Alfred Kobsa (Informatics faculty)

Congratulations
Jed, Gillian, Leslie, Sen, Monica Tentori, Karen, Sheba, Sunyoung, Bryan, Gloria, Yunan, Janet, Paul, Yong Ming, Bonnie, Sameer, Xinru and Alfred!

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Posted: 11/12/10 4:24 pm UTC by Add Your Comment
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Photos from “Workshop of the Californias” - September 6th, 2010

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Bill Griswold (from UCSD) posted some terrific photographs from our recent UCI/UCSD/UABC Workshop of the Californias in Mexico. If you didn’t have a chance to go, you missed out on a fun, informative trip. This is the second Southern California meetup that we have had recently and it seems to be turning into something promising. Thanks to Profs. Monica Tentori and Gillian Hayes for organizing.

More photos here.

Most of the attendees

Most of the attendees

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Posted: 9/6/10 8:24 pm UTC by Make the First Comment
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An agent-based middleware for the design of activity-aware applications - March 2nd, 2010

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Informatics Post-Doc Monica Tentori recently had her paper,
‘An agent-based middleware for the design of activity-aware applications’ accepted to IEEE Intelligent Systems.

Abstract: Activity-aware computing has emerged with the aim at letting smart environments to automatically infer activities, provide continuous activity awareness and opportunistically offer services without intruding in users’ focal activity but acting based on it. This new design philosophy calls for novel tools to help developers mirror human activities in computational ones adapting smart environments based on users’ executed activities. This paper proposes the use of autonomous agents to cope with the complexities associated with the development of activity-aware systems. We specialized the SALSA agent framework by incorporating customizable activity mechanisms that take advantage of the user’s context to infer and represent activities. We show the capabilities offered by the activity-aware autonomous agents by presenting an activity-aware smart hospital application developed with our middleware.

Get a copy of the paper here.

Congratulations Monica!

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Posted: 3/2/10 11:16 am UTC by Make the First Comment
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Artifacts’ Roaming Beats Recognition for the Estimation of Care Activities in a Nursing Home - March 2nd, 2010

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Congratulations to Informatics Post-Doc Monica Tentori on having her paper,
“Artifacts’ Roaming Beats Recognition for the Estimation of Care Activities in a Nursing Home” accepted to Pervasive Health 2010.

Congratulations Monica! (Pervasive Health 2010 paper)

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Posted: 3/2/10 11:16 am UTC by Make the First Comment
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