From seramar at umich.edu Mon Oct 3 13:35:06 2011 From: seramar at umich.edu (Maria Souden) Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 18:35:06 +0100 Subject: [Sighlth-l] SIG HEALTH business meeting? Message-ID: Hey y'all, Are we doing anything at ASIST to get together as a SIG? Thanks, Maria --- Maria Souden, MSI, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow School of Information and Library Studies University College Dublin Belfield, Dublin 4 Ireland +353.1.716.7660 maria.souden at ucd.ie -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From naresh.agarwal at simmons.edu Sat Oct 8 00:33:19 2011 From: naresh.agarwal at simmons.edu (naresh.agarwal at simmons.edu) Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2011 00:33:19 -0400 Subject: [Sighlth-l] Invitation to the SIG HLTH meeting during ASIST In-Reply-To: <20111008002924.82924s16g47w789w@email.simmons.edu> References: <20111008002431.87064wseorxjpf9b@email.simmons.edu> <20111008002924.82924s16g47w789w@email.simmons.edu> Message-ID: <20111008003319.19314n3d2e5drhjj@email.simmons.edu> Hi everyone, Peggy and I wish to invite you all to the SIG Health meeting during the ASIS&T Annual Meeting at New Orleans. The meeting will be held on Monday October 10 from 12:30 - 1:30pm in Room A Jackson of the conference Hotel - New Orleans Marriott. We will also be holding elections for some key positions. It will be a chance to get involved and plan the year ahead. Warm regards, Naresh Agarwal, Chair, SIG HLTH Peggy Gross, Chair-elect, SIG HLTH From seramar at umich.edu Sun Oct 9 12:02:19 2011 From: seramar at umich.edu (Maria Souden) Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2011 11:02:19 -0500 Subject: [Sighlth-l] REMINDER: WHERE YOUR WORLD MEETS MINE: INFORMATION USE ACROSS DOMAINS In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: The *11th Annual SIG-USE Research Symposium*, * * *Where Your World Meets Mine: Information Use Across Domains* is happening here at ASIS&T Annual Meeting, New Orleans Marriott, *Wednesday, October 12, 8am-4pm*. All are invited (and i*t's not too late to sign up*)! *Five fabulous keynote speakers* and a chance to discuss and reflect on the synergies information behavior research enables as we work across a wide range of disciplines and domains*. Hope to see you there!! * *Symposium Schedule* *8:00 ? 8:45* Continental breakfast. *8:45 ? 9:00* Welcome and introduction ? *Lynn Westbrook* *9:00 ? 9:20* Introduction to the topic of information use across domains *(Carole Palmer, *Professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Director of CIRSS, Center for Informatics Research in Science & Scholarship*) * *9:20 ? 10:00* Keynote presentation: Health and Healthcare *(Nancy Roderer, *Director, Welch Medical Library and Division of Health Sciences Informatics, Johns Hopkins University, and *Bo Xie*, Assistant Professor, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland)* ? moderator: Maria Souden* *10:00 ? 10:15* Break *10:15 - 11:45* Morning discussion groups *11:45 ? 12:15* Discussion group wrap-up -- *moderator: Maria Souden* *12:15 ? 12:45* Chatman Award presentation and presentation of SIG USE awards *12:45 ? 1:30* Lunch *1:30 ? 2:15* Keynote presentation: Social work and social issues *(Julie Hersberger, *Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies*, *Department of Library and Information Studies, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro,* and **Jacqueline Solis, *Coordinator of Liaison Services and Librarian for American Studies, Folklore, and Linguistics, Davis Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) -- *moderator: Denise Agosto* *2:15 ? 3:30* Afternoon discussion groups *3:30 ? 4:00* Discussion wrap-up and conclusion -- *moderator: Denise Agosto* * * *Where Your World Meets Mine: Information Use Across Domains* will explore the intersections of information seeking and use with domains outside of information science. In the last decade, information science?s attention to cross-disciplinary questions has remained a central focus of the field. To some degree, working in information science inherently means working acrossboundaries. As information behavior researchers and practitioners, we must not only be immersed in information science practices and perspectives, but able to entertain, incorporate, and challenge the perspectives of the various other domains in which we work. This Symposium invites researchers, graduate students, and practitioners to reflect on and discuss experiences in their own work of boundary crossing, boundary living, and boundary pushing. A series of keynote dialogues will pair information behavior researchers with practitioners from related domains of study, with the goal of stimulating lively and focused discussion sessions among participants. Participants will emerge with new understandings of and reflections on how working across a wide range of disciplines and domains enables synergies between our world and the worlds of our collaborators.* * --- Maria Souden, MSI, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow School of Information and Library Studies University College Dublin Belfield, Dublin 4 Ireland +353.1.716.7660 maria.souden at ucd.ie maria.souden at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pwalker at tulane.edu Thu Oct 13 13:01:01 2011 From: pwalker at tulane.edu (Walker, Philip D) Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:01:01 +0000 Subject: [Sighlth-l] Public Health Informatics satellite broadcast scheduled for October 27th Message-ID: The History of Public Health Informatics: Where Do We Go from Here? Satellite Conference and Live Webcast Thursday, October 27, 2011 12:00-1:30 p.m. (Central Time) 1:00-2:30 p.m. (Eastern) * 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. (Mountain) * 10:00-11:30 a.m. (Pacific) What is public health informatics (PHI)? Simply put, PHI is a sub-field of public health. Program faculty will journey through the evolution of public health informatics and describe how key events over the past decade have contributed to development and utilization of many computerized systems that support public health practice. Special focus will be given to major PHI applications including syndromic surveillance. Emerging (e.g., geographic information systems, text-messaging) and future (e.g., social networking, public health information exchange) PHI applications will also be discussed. For registration information, please visit: http://adph.org/ALPHTN/Default.asp?id=5288 For program description and course objectives, please visit: http://adph.org/ALPHTN/assets/102711flyer.pdf -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hersh at ohsu.edu Fri Oct 14 20:51:08 2011 From: hersh at ohsu.edu (Bill Hersh) Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:51:08 -0700 Subject: [Sighlth-l] Public Health Informatics satellite broadcast scheduled for October 27th In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <29E5FFEB5F46EF49BCB846EC260E2799027276CC21DE@EX-MB04.ohsu.edu> I think public health informatics is better described as the intersection of public health and the larger biomedical & health informatics fields. Bill Hersh From: sigmed-l-bounces at asis.org [mailto:sigmed-l-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of Walker, Philip D Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 10:01 AM To: sigmed-l at asis.org Subject: [Sighlth-l] Public Health Informatics satellite broadcast scheduled for October 27th The History of Public Health Informatics: Where Do We Go from Here? Satellite Conference and Live Webcast Thursday, October 27, 2011 12:00-1:30 p.m. (Central Time) 1:00-2:30 p.m. (Eastern) * 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. (Mountain) * 10:00-11:30 a.m. (Pacific) What is public health informatics (PHI)? Simply put, PHI is a sub-field of public health. Program faculty will journey through the evolution of public health informatics and describe how key events over the past decade have contributed to development and utilization of many computerized systems that support public health practice. Special focus will be given to major PHI applications including syndromic surveillance. Emerging (e.g., geographic information systems, text-messaging) and future (e.g., social networking, public health information exchange) PHI applications will also be discussed. For registration information, please visit: http://adph.org/ALPHTN/Default.asp?id=5288 For program description and course objectives, please visit: http://adph.org/ALPHTN/assets/102711flyer.pdf -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mattbetz at grinbath.com Sun Oct 23 15:44:46 2011 From: mattbetz at grinbath.com (Matthew Betz) Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 14:44:46 -0500 Subject: [Sighlth-l] Low cost eye tracking system developed by Texas Tech researchers Message-ID: Effective eye tracking just became affordable with the shipping today of Grinbath?s EyeGuide? to customers worldwide. Invented by usability researchers at Texas Tech University in 2010, EyeGuide? has undergone hundreds of user tests as part of its development process. The result is a complete hardware and software system that works on both Windows and Macs, calibrates any user in any lighting condition, and retails at under $1,500. ?We needed eye tracking in our lab because of client demand,? said Dr. Brian Still, CEO of Grinbath and the current director of Tech?s Usability Research Lab. ?Many of the current eye tracking devices, although very good, are far too expensive for many out there. I just couldn?t choose buying one of those over paying a graduate assistant. So we made EyeGuide?. Initially it served as a solution just for us, but as we worked with it and improved it, we realized that it offered a viable solution for others like us who research users or build products, design advertising, or engage in other activities that could benefit from eye tracking research.? EyeGuide? includes an adjustable, wireless headset that houses an infrared camera and LED light, which can be used inside or outside and, most importantly, with users who wear contacts, glasses, and even bifocals. Videos on the Grinbath website, www.grinbath.com, demonstrate actual testing of users, including children as young as three. After testing as many users as needed, researchers can take advantage of EyeGuide??s built-in analysis tools to generate data similar to what more expensive eye trackers offer, such as heatmaps, AOIs (clusters), gaze plots, and bee swarm. All video, select images, and .html and .csv data can also be exported to run in other programs. EyeGuide? will also soon feature a real time API that allows researchers to monitor user activity and stream test data live to another program. This feature, and all other future enhancements, will be free to customers for EyeGuide??s lifetime. ?Free upgrades, in fact, define Grinbath at its core,? said Dr. Still. ?We?re educators and researchers, and we?re going to remain educators and researchers. We want EyeGuide? to be affordable enough to buy?effective enough for others to rely on to get the job done. That?s why we will upgrade it as much as needed, for free, to make it better. Further, that?s why we?ve brought on an advisory board of leaders in user experience, psychology, medicine, web design, and other fields. Their sole role is to help us continue to make EyeGuide? an effective, reliable solution that people can depend on to integrate into the work they need or want to do.? In addition to free upgrades, Grinbath offers various educational opportunities to researchers and educators. The EyeSay? webinar series will be kicked off on World Usability Day, November 10, 2011. The first webinar, ?Visionaries in Usability,? will feature Dr. Tharon Howard of Clemson University, Dr. Joyce Carter of Texas Tech University, and Dr. Still. Together, they will discuss the use of eye tracking as an addition to the usability professional?s tool kit. Future webinars will include hot topics in eye tracking research and data collection such as discussions of methodology and data analysis. These webinars are free and can accommodate 100 participants. -- Matt Betz Chief Information Officer Grinbath LLC PhD Student Texas Tech University