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A Geofencing-Based Adaptive Messaging System to Support Patient Self-Management of a Low-Sodium Diet in Hypertension
This project will develop and test the effectiveness of a mobile application to help patients with hypertension reduce their dietary sodium intake by using mobile notifications at grocery stores and restaurants.
mHealth Delivery of a Motivational Intervention to Address Heavy Drinking Among College Students
This project will develop and test a smartphone application of an alcohol intervention for college freshmen, adapting a proven intervention for delivery through mobile technology.
Accessibility and Beyond: Designing Consumer Health IT for Disabled Individuals
The purpose of this project is to improve health care quality by creating design guidance for consumer health information technology that is responsive to the needs and preferences of individuals with physical, cognitive, and sensory disabilities.
Patient-Centered Virtual Multimedia Interactive Informed Consent (VIC)
This project will enhance the traditional informed consent process by developing the Patient-Centered Virtual Multimedia Interactive Informed Consent tool.
Improving Teen Care With Health IT
This project will develop and test a Web-based Health Assessment (iHA) for adolescents to screen for health risk behaviors, with an aim towards providing prevention and risk reduction counseling.
Personalized Engagement Tool for Pediatric BMT Patients and Caregivers
This project will develop a personalized engagement tool that leverages patient-specific information from an electronic health record to promote activation, communication, engagement, and self-management of pediatric blood and marrow transplant patients.
Patients as Safeguards: Understanding the Information Needs of Hospitalized Patients
In an effort to reduce medical errors and adverse events, this project will determine the information needs of hospitalized patients and caregivers, and develop design requirements for a solution that supports communicating safety concerns to providers.
Informing Consumer Health Information Technology Design: How Patients Use Social Networking Sites
This study showed that there is a range of how people communicate with their social network, how this information is communicated, the types of health information communicated, and the rationales for the communication.
vizHOME: A Context-Based Health Information Needs Assessment Strategy
The purpose of this project is to create a systematic way to understand and measure how household context—such as storage adequacy, lighting, and privacy affordance—influences personal health information management.
Addressing the Personal Health Information Management Needs of Older Adults
This project will examine the health information needs of older adults to inform the design of systems to support their health and independence.
