Wearable Health: Exploring Human-Centered Solutions of On-Body Technologies
  to Improve Healthcare
From: CCC Blog - 10/31/2016

George Mason University professor Vivian Motti proposes the concept of
noninvasive, wearable technologies to improve healthcare as well as education
by designing improved interfaces at the university's Human Centric Design
Lab. "A more comprehensive understanding about the users' perspectives on
wearable technologies facilitates the identification, classification, and
analysis of the benefits and drawbacks of current solutions, helping in the
definition of new design guidelines and patterns to improve the development
of next-generation technologies," Motti says. "We expect to improve the
interfaces and interactive solutions of wearables by iteratively involving
human users in the design process and by understanding how different contexts
of use impact the overall user experience with emerging technologies." Among
the applications Motti's team is investigating is the use of a smartwatch app
to support learning-disabled students so they can be more autonomous. "We
also investigate privacy aspects in the context of mobile and wearable
applications, seeking to understand better the threats, risks, and
implications involved in these interaction scenarios, to devise solutions
that are easier for users to understand and use," Motti notes. "Our research
on usable privacy focuses on small devices, such as smartphones and watches,
and graphic user interfaces."

Read the entire article at:

http://www.cccblog.org/2016/10/31/great-innovative-idea-wearable-health-exploring-human-centered-solutions-of-on-body-technologies-to-improve-healthcare

Links:
Vivian Motti
https://sites.google.com/site/vivianmotti/welcome

Poster presentation (video 1:26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mje7MPL8byk