CAREER: Health Bridge: Motivating Personal Health Record Adoption by Low -Income Communities

该奖项是根据2009年《美国复苏和再投资法案》(公法111-5)提供资金的。肥胖和相关慢性病的增加促使学术、政府和商业部门应对这一流行病。辅助技术干预提供了一种廉价的方法来传播信息、跟踪健康指标并为个人提供个性化的结果反馈。然而，这些干预措施对低收入社区的有效性有限，因为这些干预措施在设计时几乎没有考虑到与健康有关的行为的社会和环境背景。个人健康记录(PHR)可以帮助个人接收个性化反馈和权威的健康信息，但由于隐私、可用性和更新问题，PHR尚未被广泛采用。这项建议的研究目标是发现如何将PHR整合到日常生活中，并使个人能够通过隐私界面自信地保护他们的PHR数据。该研究依赖于基于社区的、迭代的、参与式的设计活动，包括情境访谈、设计研讨会、跟踪和原型的迭代评估，以开发被称为健康桥的综合PHR框架。支持健康桥的研究包括社区建设、课程设计和K-12外展活动。研究方法和成果将被整合到皮？S设立的健康相关课程和健康相关信息学专业本科课程中。此外，PI和她的学生将通过开发外展材料来帮助增加未来信息学家的渠道，这些材料将由国家妇女与信息技术中心和计算机科学教师协会路演计划分发。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The increase in obesity and related chronic illnesses has motivated academic, government, and commercial sectors to address this epidemic. Assistive technology interventions provide an inexpensive method to disseminate information, track health metrics, and give personalized feedback on outcomes for individuals. However the effectiveness of these interventions is limited for low-income communities because the interventions have been designed with little consideration for the social and environmental context of health-related behaviors. Personal Health Records (PHRs) can assist individuals receive personalized feedback and authoritative health information, but have not been widely adopted because of privacy, usability, and updating issues. The research objectives of this proposal are to discover how to integrate PHRs into everyday life and empower individuals to confidently secure their PHR data with privacy interfaces. The research is relies upon community-based, iterative, participatory design activities including contextual interviews, design workshops, shadowing, and iterative evaluation of prototypes to develop a integrative PHR framework called Health Bridge.The research supporting Health Bridge includes community building, curriculum design, and K-12 outreach activities. Research methodology and results will be integrated into the PI?s established health related course and specialized undergraduate curriculum in health related informatics. In addition, the PI and her students will help increase the pipeline of future informaticians by developing outreach materials that will be distributed by the National Center for Women & IT and the Computer Science Teachers Association Roadshow initiatives.