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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 You are receiving this email because you are subscribed to the Personal Health Informatics (PHI) mailing list, operated by Northeastern University (http://neu.edu). This mailing list is for anyone in the Northeastern community and Boston area interested in personal health informatics and related topics. To join, unsubscribe, or read archived messages, visit http://listserv.neu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=PHI. Members can send messages to the list using phi@listserv.neu.edu.