Design at Work: Cooperative Design of Computer Systems
Design at Work: Cooperative Design of Computer Systems
Who gets to know what when: configuring privacy permissions in an awareness application
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Personal health information management
Communications of the ACM - Personal information management
Shared family calendars: Promoting symmetry and accessibility
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Healthcare in everyday life: designing healthcare services for daily life
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
When social networks cross boundaries: a case study of workplace use of facebook and linkedin
Proceedings of the ACM 2009 international conference on Supporting group work
Proceedings of the ACM 2011 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Proceedings of the ACM 2011 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Designing a social network to support the independence of young adults with autism
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Interaction design and emotional wellbeing
CHI '12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Pervasive Computing for Hospital, Chronic, and Preventive Care
Foundations and Trends in Human-Computer Interaction
The design of an online community for welfare recipients
Proceedings of the 24th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference
Exploring remembrance and social support behavior in an online bereavement support group
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
HeartLink: open broadcast of live biometric data to social networks
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Designing for- and with- vulnerable people
CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Understanding the conflicting demands of family caregivers caring for depressed family members
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Patterns of support in an online community for smoking cessation
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Communities and Technologies
Fine-grained sharing of sensed physical activity: a value sensitive approach
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM international joint conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing
Methodological Review: Older adults and mobile phones for health: A review
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Co-designing patient-centered health communication tools for cancer care
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare
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Social support is a critical, yet underutilized resource when undergoing cancer care. Underutilization occurs in two conditions: (a) when patients fail to seek out information, material assistance, and emotional support from family and friends or (b) when family and friends fail to meet the individualized needs and preferences of patients. Social networks are most effective when kept up to date on the patient's status, yet updating everyone takes effort that patients cannot always put in. To improve this situation, we describe the results of our participatory design activities with breast cancer patients. During this process, we uncovered the information a social network needs to stay informed as well as a host of barriers to social support that technology could help break down. Our resulting prototype, built using Facebook Connect, includes explicit features to reduce these barriers and thus, promote the healthy outcomes associated with strong social support.