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A shrimp's tale: why we need to fund research

DEPARTMENT: Letter from the editors

A shrimp's tale: why we need to fund research

By Sean Follmer, Inbal Talgam-Cohen

HTML | In the Digital Library
Tags: General, Governmental Issues, Social Issues

On the NLP issue

DEPARTMENT: Inbox

On the NLP issue

By XRDS Staff

HTML | In the Digital Library
Tags: MISCELLANEOUS

Health 2.0: the digital health revolution

DEPARTMENT: INIT

Health 2.0: the digital health revolution

By Diana Lynn MacLean

HTML | In the Digital Library
Tags: Social Issues, User Interfaces

The essentials of a computer scientist's toolkit

COLUMN: Advice

The essentials of a computer scientist's toolkit

By Numair Khan

HTML | In the Digital Library
Tags: Computer and Information Science Education

Staying in touch

DEPARTMENT: Updates

Staying in touch

By Claudia Schulz

HTML | In the Digital Library
Tags: Communications Applications, Office Automation, Organizations

Vital technology

COLUMN: Milestones

Vital technology

By Jay Patel

HTML | In the Digital Library
Tags: HISTORY OF COMPUTING, LIFE AND MEDICAL SCIENCES

An antidote to impostor syndrome

COLUMN: Careers

An antidote to impostor syndrome

By Dean Jackson, Taliver Heath

HTML | In the Digital Library
Tags: Miscellaneous, Occupations

My $300 home cloud server

DEPARTMENT: Blogs

My $300 home cloud server

By Wolfgang Richter

HTML | In the Digital Library
Tags: Servers

Gathering people to gather data

SECTION: Features

Gathering people to gather data

An interview with Paul Wicks, Vice President of Innovation at PatientsLikeMe, a patient network and real-time research platform.

By Diana Lynn MacLean

HTML | In the Digital Library
Tags: Database applications, On-line Information Services

Opportunities of social media in health and well-being

Opportunities of social media in health and well-being

Intelligently leveraging data from millions of social media posts is a modern public health approach that has the potential to save many lives.

By Munmun De Choudhury

HTML | In the Digital Library
Tags: Database applications, On-line Information Services, Public Policy Issues

Here comes the #engagement: A serious health initiative made trendy

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Here comes the #engagement: A serious health initiative made trendy

Creating a user experience to communicate the seriousness of HIV prevention and awareness can be both educational while entertaining. This combination along with a sense of cultural influence helps to both attract and engage millennials.

By Fay Cobb Payton, KaMar Galloway

HTML | In the Digital Library
Tags: General, On-line Information Services, User Interfaces

Challenges in personal health tracking

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Challenges in personal health tracking

Increasingly, personal health data can be tracked and integrated from numerous streams quickly and easily, but our feedback lingers in the land of "show the user a graph and hope." How can we help people make sense of personal health data?

By Matthew Kay

HTML | In the Digital Library
Tags: User Interfaces

Did I take my meds today?

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Did I take my meds today?

People tend to believe they are more aware of their own health behaviors than they really are. In this article, we present technologies that employ ubiquitous home sensing to support awareness of healthy habits.

By Matthew L. Lee

HTML | In the Digital Library
Tags: Network Architecture and Design, Robotics

Seeing is believing

Seeing is believing

Why visualization will play a critical role in bringing big data decision making to a hospital bed near you.

By Megan Monroe

HTML | In the Digital Library
Tags: Social Issues

Wearable technologies

Wearable technologies

Wearable computing has the potential to fundamentally alter healthcare by enabling long-term patient monitoring and rehabilitation outside of the lab.

By Sinziana Mazilu, Gerhard Tröster

HTML | In the Digital Library
Tags: Social Issues

Profile Trevor van Mierlo

The Regenstrief global health informatics group

COLUMN: Labz

The Regenstrief global health informatics group

By Suranga Nath Kasthurirathne

HTML | In the Digital Library
Tags: Organizations, Social Issues

Radiography

COLUMN: Back

Radiography

By Finn Kuusisto

HTML | In the Digital Library
Tags: Digitization and Image Capture

The anatomy of a human disease network

COLUMN: Hello world

The anatomy of a human disease network

By Marinka Zitnik

HTML | In the Digital Library
Tags: Network Architecture and Design