RESEARCH
ProHealth and Center of Excellence for Women in Technology Emerging Scholars Research Experience for Undergraduates
During the summer of 2017 as well as the 2017 - 2018 academic year, I took part in the ProHealth REU and the Center of Excellence for Women in Technology Emerging Scholars Research Experience for Undergraduates. I researched how patients and health care providers prioritize and manage the treatment of Discordant Chronic Comorbidities (DCCs), and how we can design technology to help improve the health, quality of life, and disease management abilities of patients. Discordant Chronic Comorbidities is the simeultaneous presence of two or more chronic conditions with differing treatment instructions. By specifically studying patients with Type-2 Diabetes and at least one other unrelated chronic condition, we were able to determine some of the common problems faced by these patients and begin to develop a mobile application that will allow them to easily manage all of their conditions and treatments.
At the conclusion of the ProHealth REU my research was awarded the ProHealth REU Best Project Award and the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering REU Best Project Award.
I also had the opportunity to present my work at the 2017 Indiana Celebration of Women in Computing, where I won 1st Place in the Poster Competition.
Throughout this research experience I worked with Dr. Kay Connelly, Dr. Patrick C. Shih, Dr. James Clawson, PhD candidate Tom Ongwere, and Sergio Ramirez-Martin.
Our paper, "Design and Care for Discordant Chronic Comorbidities: A Comparison of Healthcare Providers’ Perspectives" will appear in the 2020 Proceedings of the Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare.
Our paper, "Design Hotspots for Care of Discordant Chronic Comorbidities: Patients’ Perspectives" was presented as part of the Proceedings of the 10th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction.
This extended abstract, "Designing Technological Interventions for Patients with Discordant Chronic Comorbidities and Type-2 Diabetes" was a finalist at the 2018 CHI Student Research Competition.
Attached is a link to the poster that I presented alongside my extended abstract as part of the 2018 CHI Student Research Competition.
Our paper, "Too Many Conditions, Too Little Time: Designing Technological Interventions for Patients with Type-2 Diabetes and Discordant Chronic Comorbidities" was accepted at the 2017 AMIA Workshop on Interactive Systems in Healthcare.
Attached is a link to the poster I created to present at the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 2017 Workshop on Interactive Systems in Healthcare.
Attached is a link to the poster I created to present my final work at the conclusion of the ProHealth REU.
At the ProHealth REU Blog you can learn about how I spent my summer as a ProHealth REU student, including the progress I made each day and some of the other exciting opportunities I had at ProHealth.