Challenges in Applying Context-Aware Systems to Health and Wellness
Speaker: A/Prof Anind Dey, Carnegie Mellon University
When: 2007-10-04 14:00:00
Venue: 78-420
Host: Assoc/Prof Jadwiga Indulska
Abstract:Context-aware systems have reached a certain level of maturity:
researchers can build reliable infrastructure to support
applications, and have compelling applications to build. However, in
order to make context-aware systems usable by end-users,
particularly for the domain of health and wellness, a number of
additional steps have to be taken, including advanced modeling,
improved intelligibility, and enhanced control. In this talk, I will
discuss the state-of-the-art in context-aware systems, and describe
how this current state is not yet sufficient for supporting usable
and adoptable context-aware systems for end-users, using a number of
case studies (cognitive support and diagnosis of elder drivers,
cognitive support for Alzheimer's patients, and motivational support
for those trying to lose weight) to illustrate these points.
Biography:Dr. Anind K. Dey is an Assistant Professor in the Human-Computer
Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. His research
interests lie at the intersection of human-computer interaction and
ubiquitous computing. Specifically he performs research in
context-aware computing and sensor-based interactions. He has
conducted research in building context-aware infrastructures
(including the Context Toolkit), models for context-aware systems,
applications of context-aware applications and definitions for
context-aware systems. Recently his interests have focused on how to
make context-aware systems usable and adoptable by end-users.
Anind received a Bachelors of Applied Science in Computer
Engineering from Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, Canada in 1993,
and Masters of Science in AeroSpace Engineering from Georgia Tech in
1995. He received a 2nd Masters of Science and a Ph.D. in Computer
Science at Georgia Tech in 2000. He was a Senior Researcher at Intel
Research Berkeley from 2001-2004 and an Adjunct Assistant Professor
in the EECS Department at UC Berkeley from 2002 to 2005.
Type: ITEE Seminar
Contact:Assoc/Prof Jadwiga Indulska, seminar host (jaga@itee.uq.edu.au)
or Guido Governatori (ITEE seminar co-ordinator)
(guido@itee.uq.edu.au)