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On Summer 2017, I had the amazing opportunity to join HCIC 2017. The HCIC Annual Conference brings together researchers from academia, industry, and government at Pajaro Dunes Resort in Watsonville, California. The conference format and shared meals provide opportunities for interaction and learning in a fun and relaxed environment. The theme of this year’s conference is Design Futures. The workshop was very productive. I had the chance to meet and talk with several different professionals who provided great advice and encouragement for my work. I also presented a boaster poster. A “boaster-poster” is a poster that describes your most current research endeavor and/or interest. The idea is to foster dialogue about your topic of interest/research so you can meet like-minded HCIC 2017 attendees. I presented the poster with the following title: Intergenerational Sharing of Health Data among Family Members. Abstract An explosion of affordable commercial wearable sensing devices and mobile health applications has opened up new possibilities to practice self-tracking and enjoy its benefits. However, elders often do not engage with health tracking technologies because they do not see much benefits. Leveraging the inherent reciprocal relationship among family members is one potential approach to promote the practice of health tracking. My research aims to understand and support intergenerational sharing of health data as a collective and collaborative family project of mutual support. Based on interviews and scenario-based focus group discussions, I examined on family members’ understanding of one another’s health and well-being, their current health related practices, and issues around health management as a means to facilitate intergenerational health collaboration. Author KeywordsHealth; family; intergenerational; collaboration; self-tracking; data sharing.
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In April 2017, I had the opportunity to participate at CRA-Women Grad Cohort Workshop together with a group of other females students from IST. The CRA-W Grad Cohort program, initiated in 2004, is generously funded by sponsors from industry, ACM, CRA, academia, the National Science Foundation, and the computing community. Grad Cohort aims to increase the ranks of senior women in computing-related studies and research by building and mentoring nationwide communities of women through their graduate studies. Here for more information: http://cra.org/cra-w/events/grad-cohort-workshop-2017/ I decided to attend because I think it is important to connect with other women in computing, and learn from each other experiences and research achievement. The workshop presented me different perspectives of research methodologies and we heard great advice from senior women in computing on how to succeed and overcome barriers in our career path. This workshop was super helpful because I could relate with many of the stories shared and I realized I am not the only one facing these difficulties. So, I found support and understanding among those women. We are all in this together! My experience is similar to many women who caved the way to find space and fight to be heard and valued. Recently, I was award to go to a conference and all the women from my lab congratulated me except the men. They just ignored my achievement and did not even mentioned that. This is just one example of the fight I face every day. I have the plan to pursue Academia Career. This conference helped me because they offered lectures to help you find jobs, to create your professional persona, to understand the difference between academia and industry. All those lectures helped me to understand better the research reality and to prepare me for the job market. I met a student from Irvine University and she is at her 1st year PhD program. I presented a poster about my research, and she is interested in working in a similar project. Her excitement about my work really encouraged me to continue doing a good job. She said she is really interested to work together with me in the future. I would highly encourage other women from our department to go to this conference. It is a great opportunity to learn and grow from senior women in computing. Project Title: “Understanding Information Needs and Challenges faced by International Spouses during Adjustment” Project Goal: propose a design solution that will help international spouses to increase their community orientation and improve their access to local social services. The design requirements built upon these themes will be used to design technical systems that can support international spouses to engage in social activities and help them to connect with local community members. Role: self-initiated project, leading researcher, project management, completed/revised IRB Methods: Interviews and focus group, Thematic data analysis (See more details below). Project Timeline: 10 weeks (Summer 2017). Research Procedures: Data Collection:
Example of Discussion Points from Focus GroupProject MotivationBased on my own research interest, I decided to initiate this project with my advisor support. This project examines ways in which technology can be designed to provide support and services to international spouses during their adjustment to a new host environment. In particular, we would like to investigate the needs of spouse’s communities, the challenges faced by this population during adjustment, and propose design implications for developing systems and services to improve their access to social services and to promote community development and civic engagement.
The continued growth of international students coming to U.S. for higher education had significantly impacted institutions and the communities that host those students. According to Penn State News report, there are more than 7,728 international students across campus (Penn State News, 2016). Many of these students are accompanied by dependents (spouses and/or children) when they move to the U.S. However, as newcomers in a host country, international students face various challenges. Specifically, spouses who come holding an F-2 dependent status face the challenge imposed by their immigration status. F-2 dependents-spouse cannot work under any circumstances (Dependents, 2013). Therefore, spouses may face challenges such as language and communication problems, isolation and loneliness, and problems with daily tasks and living management in the new environment (Oh & Butler, 2007; Brown, Ayo & Grinter, 2014). In this project, I investigated the needs and challenges faced by international spouses during adjustment in their new host environment. I also wanted deepen our understanding about spouses’ current living experience in the new host environment, and examine ways to help spouses community overcome current barriers and improve their inclusion in their local context. Using an iterative, human-centered design approach, I conducted interviews and promote focus group discussion sessions to investigate mechanisms that will allow spouses to improve their adaptation process and support their social inclusion in the local community. References: Brown, D., Ayo, V., & Grinter, R. E. (2014, April). Reflection through design: immigrant women’s self-reflection on managing health and wellness. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1605-1614). ACM. Dependents. (2013). Retrieved May 18, 2017, from https://global.psu.edu/info/internationals-psu/students/dependents Oh, C. Y., & Butler, B. S. (2016). Newcomers from the other side of the globe: International students’ local information seeking during adjustment. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 53(1), 1-6. Penn State News (2016, December 8). Penn State ranked 13th in the U.S. for international students enrolled. Retrieved May 18, 2017, from http://news.psu.edu/story/441079/2016/12/08/penn-state-ranked-13th-us-international-students-enrolled During my 2nd year Ph.D. program, I collaborated as Research Assistant at Design Square Lab. My supervisor was assistant professor Dr. Eun Kyoung Choe: https://terpconnect.umd.edu/~choe/ Project Title: Intergenerational Sharing of Health Data among Family members. Project Goal: to inform the design of technology that will support tracking and sharing of health and well-being information between elderly parents and their adult children. Project Motivation: An explosion of affordable commercial wearable sensing devices and mobile health applications has opened up new possibilities to practice self-tracking and enjoy its benefits. However, elders often do not engage with health tracking technologies because they do not see much benefits.
Role: Leading research assistant, Project management, Mentor undergraduate students Methods: Interviews and Focus Groups, Qualitative data analysis, Scenarios, Prototyping Research Timeline: 2 years Project Outcome: The preliminary results were published in the Proceedings of the 11th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Health, ACM. Link: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3154895 Project Research Contribution:
Study Materials: ➔ Two studies: Interviews and Focus Group
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AuthorI am a motivated minority doctoral student with a strong background in research and teamwork. Plus, I have industry and academic experience. Archives
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