4/07/16: David Wetter – Social Determinants and Smoking Cessation

4/07/16: David Wetter – Social Determinants and Smoking Cessation

Title: Social Determinants and Smoking Cessation Presenter: Dr. David Wetter of Rice University Presented: April 7, 2016 About the webinar:  Health and health behaviors such as smoking cessation are highly patterned on a socioeconomic gradient. Healthy People 2020 defines the social determinants of health as the “conditions in the environments in which people are born, live, learn, work, […]
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4/20/16: Gregory Abowd – Interactive Computing Beyond Weiser’s Ubicomp

4/20/16: Gregory Abowd – Interactive Computing Beyond Weiser’s Ubicomp

Title: Interactive Computing Beyond Weiser’s Ubicomp Presenter: Dr. Gregory Abowd Presented: April 20, 2016, University of Michigan School of Information About the presentation: Mark Weiser’s vision of ubiquitous computing, or ubicomp, was inspiring and influential, but it is becoming a rather old vision. While the grand idea of ubiquitous computing can still inspire lots of research, there are several […]
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5/26/16: Deepak Ganesan & Addison Mayberry – Towards continuous eye monitoring in the mobile environment with ultra low-power computational eyeglasses

5/26/16: Deepak Ganesan & Addison Mayberry – Towards continuous eye monitoring in the mobile environment with ultra low-power computational eyeglasses

Title: Towards continuous eye monitoring in the mobile environment with ultra low-power computational eyeglasses Presenters: Dr. Deepak Ganesan and Graduate Researcher Addison Mayberry of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst Date: May 26, 2016 About the webinar The human eye offers a fascinating window into an individual’s health, cognitive attention, and decision making, but we lack the ability […]
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8/25/16: Michael Carroll – ResearchStack: Building a Cross-Platform Mobile Research Study in 30 Minutes!

8/25/16: Michael Carroll – ResearchStack: Building a Cross-Platform Mobile Research Study in 30 Minutes!

Title: ResearchStack: Building a Cross-Platform Mobile Research Study in 30 Minutes! Presenter: Michael Carroll, ResearchStack project manager Date presented: August 25, 2016 About the Webinar: ResearchKit (Apple) and ResearchStack (Android) are open source frameworks for researchers to inform and consent patients, and to collect personal health data from participants in trials. Carroll’s presentation will cover the basics about […]
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10/18/16: Benjamin Marlin – Machine Learning Methods for Mobile Health Research

10/18/16: Benjamin Marlin – Machine Learning Methods for Mobile Health Research

Title: Machine Learning Methods for Mobile Health Research Presenter: Benjamin Marlin, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst Date presented: October 18, 2016 About the presentation: This presentation, given at the University of Southern California, is similar to one Dr. Marlin gave at Wireless Health 2016, held Oct. 25-27 in Washington, D.C. See the slides here. About the presenter: Dr. Marlin […]
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1/26/17: Camille Nebeker – Research Ethics in the Digital Age

1/26/17: Camille Nebeker – Research Ethics in the Digital Age

Title: Research Ethics in the Digital Age Presenter: Camille Nebeker, Ed.D., M.S., of the University of California-San Diego. Presented: January 26, 2017 About the webinar Digital and Mobile technologies offer the potential to collect unprecedented amounts of real time data in free living environments. We can now monitor location using wearable sensors or by tapping into the global positioning sensors […]
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03/01/17: Ida Sim – Mobile Technologies for Health, CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar at UC Berkeley

03/01/17: Ida Sim – Mobile Technologies for Health, CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar at UC Berkeley

Title: Mobile Technologies for Health, presented as part of the CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar at the University of California, Berkeley. Presenter: Ida Sim About the presentation: Mobile and wireless health (mHealth) technologies promise to transform health and health care. Coupled with electronic health record (EHR), genomic, social, environmental, and other data, mHealth data has the […]
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2/23/17: Steven Steinhubl – An Introduction to All of Us — The Precision Medicine Initiative: Anything but clinical research as usual

2/23/17: Steven Steinhubl – An Introduction to All of Us — The Precision Medicine Initiative: Anything but clinical research as usual

Title: An Introduction to All of Us — The Precision Medicine Initiative: Anything but clinical research as usual Presented: February 23, 2017 About the presenter:  Dr. Steven Steinhubl is an Associate Professor of Genomic Medicine at The Scripps Research Institute, a cardiologist at Scripps Health, and the Director of Digital Medicine at the Scripps Translational Science Institute. The mission […]
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