Seminar: Katie Siek (Indiana University), Amplifying Voices: Inclusively Developing Sociotechnical Health Systems with People
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Amplifying Voices: Inclusively Developing Sociotechnical Health Systems with People
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Human computer interaction researchers engage with people to identify their needs and develop prototypes. Unfortunately, due to multiple resource constraints, populations are typically recruited locally and engaged in activities that may not introduce participants to the possibilities provided by innovative technologies.
In this talk, I discuss how we have developed two inclusive methods that empower underserved people to participate in the design process. We created the Asynchronous Remote Communities (ARC) method to engage people from all over the world to identify their needs and engage in design brainstorming. Concurrently, we investigated how to empower people to build their own interactive systems with minimal technical knowledge to inform researchers' ideas of what people want in smart environments. I show with case studies in reproductive health and aging-in-place how these methods amplify understudied communities' voices in the design process. I conclude with insights on how we can iterate on these methods to make them more inclusive and apply them more broadly in computing domains.
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Katie Siek is a professor of Informatics at Indiana University Bloomington. Her primary research interests are in human computer interaction, health informatics, and ubiquitous computing. More specifically, she is interested in how sociotechnical interventions affect personal health and wellbeing. Her research is supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the National Science. Dr. Siek currently serves as secretary for the Computing Research Association Board and vice chair for the Computing Community Consortium Council. She has been awarded with the IU Trustees Teaching Award, FACET's Mumford Excellence in Extraordinary Teaching Award, NCWIT Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award, a CRA-W Borg Early Career Award, and Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance Distinguished Visiting Fellowships. She earned her PhD and MS at Indiana University Bloomington in computer science and her BS in computer science at Eckerd College. She was a National Physical Science Consortium Fellow at Indiana University and a Ford Apprentice Scholar at Eckerd College.
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