Gillian Hayes, Kleist Professor of Informatics in the School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine, will present a webinar on “HCI and Design for Healthcare Researchers and Practitioners” at 1 p.m. CT on Thursday, March 16. About the webinar: Technological systems are increasingly essential to healthcare, but these systems are often unusable and […]
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Title: mCerebrum: Enabling Sense-Analyze-Act on Mobile Phones About the webinar: mCerebrum is a general-purpose software platform that supports discovery and validation of digital mHealth biomarkers and sensor-triggered interventions. It supports data collection from multiple sensors in phones and wearables (e.g., wrist- and chest-worn sensors, smart toothbrushes, as well as weight and blood pressure monitors). mCerebrum supports […]
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Title: Contextualizing Health Behaviors using Spatial Data and Technology: Advances, Opportunities, and Challenges Presenter: Dr. Marta Jankowska of the Qualcomm Institute, UCSD Date/Time: Thursday, July 27, 2017 About the webinar: Spatial technologies are playing a key role in research studies aiming to consider contextual aspects of behaviors connected with health. A recent development is the use of Global Positioning […]
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Presented: Dec. 7, 2017 Title: Improving Behavioral Measurements from Mobile Devices Presenter: Stephen Intille, Ph.D., Northeastern University About the webinar Automatic interpretation of sensor data is creating exciting opportunities for “just-in-time” behavioral measurement and intervention. However, to fully develop new context-sensitive or behavior-sensitive technologies requires improved methods for gathering and interpreting temporally-dense behavior, state, and context data. Intille will discuss […]
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Title: Visual Exploration of Smoking Cessation Data Presented: February 7, 2018 Presenters: Polo Chau, Ph.D., and Moushumi Sharmin, Ph.D. About the webinar Part 1: Discovery Dashboard Drs. Chau and Sharmin will present Discovery Dashboard [1], a visual analytics system for exploring large volumes of time series data from mobile medical field studies, in the web-browser and in real […]
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Title: Defining and obtaining the right technology for your mHealth project. Presenter: Jon Moon, Ph.D., President, MEI Research, Ltd. Presented: April 5, 2018. About the webinar: Biomedical research increasingly requires specialized technologies, such as instrumentation, mobile ‘apps’, and analytics that may not be immediately available. However, many clinicians and health researchers don’t have ready access to what they need. […]
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Title: Advancing Implementation Science in an mHealth World Presenter: Laura Damschroder, MPH, MS Presented: June 28, 2018 Link: https://youtu.be/n50ZOhhBsZc About the presentation: mHealth technologies are effective in some contexts and not others. Why is this and what strategies can be used to help ensure effective use of mHealth technologies? This webinar will introduce foundational implementation science concepts and how they […]
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Dr. Leroy Hood, a member of all three national academies and recipient of National Medal of Science for his pioneering work on systems medicine, will delivered the keynote speech for the MD2K annual meeting on Oct. 1 at the University of Memphis, FedEx Institute of Technology on October 1st at In the talk, Hood shared […]
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Title: Predicting mental health and measuring sleep using machine learning and wearable sensors/mobile phones Presented by: Akane Sano of Rice University Date: Dec. 6, 2018 About the webinar: This seminar highlights lessons learned from ambulatory studies for collecting continuous multi-modal human data and analysis & modeling for health, wellbeing and performance. The talk will provide an overview of the objectives of the […]
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Title: Amulet and Auracle: Wearable Platforms for mHealth Research Presenter: Dr. David Kotz Presented: March 18, 2019 Link: https://youtu.be/Y1Y2Zktlr4E About the presentation: The advent of mobile and wearable computing technology has made it increasingly possible for individuals to wear devices that can sense their physiology or health-related behaviors, collecting valuable data in support of diagnosis, treatment, public health, or other […]
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