35 Innovators under 35 - 2013
From: MIT Technology Review - Sep/Oct - 2013

If you want to use technology to make life better for people with autism and
their families, the trick is to make the technology secondary.

Julie Kientz is an expert in human-computer interaction. But unlike many
other computer scientists, she spends much of her time far away from a
computer screen, figuring out the human side of the equation.

With her people-first perspective on technology, the University of Washington
professor is at the forefront of an emerging idea: using relatively simple
and common computing tools to improve human health. Kientz has created novel
ways of helping people with sleep disorders and families with autistic
children, such as a program that uses Twitter to help track key developmental
milestones.

Read the entire article at:
http://www.technologyreview.com/lists/innovators-under-35/2013/visionary/julie-kientz/

Links:
Julie Kientz
http://faculty.washington.edu/jkientz/

Computing for Healthy Living & Learning
http://depts.washington.edu/chilllab/