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Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2018 11:31:17 -0500
From: Herman Saksono
Subject: Fwd: PHI Seminar Thurs (Dec 6) 3-4pm: Designing Personalized and Adaptive Support Across the Breast Cancer Trajectory
*Designing Personalized and Adaptive Support Across the Breast Cancer
Trajectory*(Note: The previous email incorrectly said that the talk will be
at WHF-118. It should be *WVF-118*)
[image: PHI Seminar (Dec 6th) Digital Flyer.png]
*Maia Jacobs, *Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
*Thursday*, December 6th, 3-4pm
*WVF 118*
*Abstract: *
With the rapid increase in chronic disease diagnoses, more responsibility
is being placed on individuals to manage their health at home and in
everyday settings. Technologies for everyday illness management must offer
the flexibility and robustness to conform to individuals’ evolving health
situations. Existing tools typically focus on a small subset of goals or
tasks, such as symptom tracking or exercise monitoring, placing the burden
on patients to integrate information from disconnected sources and
repeatedly find and incorporate new resources as their healthcare needs
change.
In this talk, I will discuss new computing approaches for mobile health
tools that consider the diverse and changing support needs of individuals
following a cancer diagnosis. Using exploratory studies with cancer
survivors and their care teams, I’ll discuss common challenges that impede
learning about and managing cancer in daily life, with a specific focus on
the barriers faced by individuals living in rural communities. These
studies culminated in the design and evaluation of two novel mobile health
systems: MyJourney Compass and MyPath. Longitudinal evaluations of
patients’ use of these systems demonstrate the ability for personalized
health tools to encourage health management behaviors and influence
patients’ health beliefs.
*Bio: *Maia Jacobs is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Research on
Computation and Society at Harvard University. Her research contributes to
the fields of ubiquitous computing and personal health informatics through
the development and assessment of novel approaches for mobile health tools
to support chronic disease management. Maia completed her Ph.D. in
Human-Centered Computing in the College of Computing at Georgia Institute
of Technology, advised by Dr. Elizabeth Mynatt. Maia’s research has gained
national attention, having been recognized in the 2016 report to the
President of the United States from the President's Cancer Panel, which
focuses on improving cancer-related outcomes. Prior to joining Georgia
Tech, Maia received a B.S. degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering
from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and worked as a User Experience
Specialist for Accenture Consulting.
Herman Saksono
Ph.D. student in Computer Science
College of Computer and Information Science
Northeastern University
hsaksono@ccs.neu.edu
ccs.neu.edu/~hsaksono
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