ABI-ONE ghc program v14.indd - Grace Hopper Celebration of ...

Good health is a major contributor to our
quality of life. Improvements in the costeffective
delivery of quality healthcare that
is personalized to individual needs are an
important priority to our society. Both acute
health emergencies and chronic conditions
require care. That care comes both from
professionals and from family and friends; it
occurs both in institutions and at home; it is
both preventative and responsive.
Computing and information science and
engineering play an increasingly essential
role in providing that care. Every part of
the computing and behavioral sciences
can contribute to significant advances in
health and healthcare. We have major
opportunities now to combine our science
and technical interests and expertise with
our understanding of and empathy for
care-giving roles and responsibilities – to do
compelling research that has high societal
payoff.
In this talk, I will survey some of the ongoing
research and emerging opportunities in this
field. My talk is drawn from a broad-based
workshop on “Discovery and Innovation
in Health IT” that I co-chaired in fall 2009.
I look forward to sharing with you my
enthusiasm for this important convergence
of disciplines.
Academic Track
GHC to Go: How to Bring a Mini
Celebration of Women in Computing to
Your Local Community
Location: Dunwoody
Panelists: Gloria Townsend (DePauw
University), Deanna Kosaraju (Anita Borg
Institute), Joanne Cohoon (NCWIT), and
Elaine Weyuker (ACM-W)
Small regional celebrations for women
in computing are springing up all over
the United States. This panel will discuss
the formation of the Grace Hopper Regional
Consortium; talk about where regional
celebrations are planned over the next few
years, and how attendees can work together
p r O G r a m d e Ta i L
THURSDAY | SEPT 30
in their own community to start a mini-
Hopper with easy step-by-step instructions
and learn what support is available.
Industry Track
Enlisting Male Advocates in the
Workplace
Location: Regency Ballroom VII
Panelists: Caroline Simard (Anita Borg
Institute), Bruce Bigler (Intel), Gabby
Silberman (CA Technologies), Will
Allen (HP), Luis Fraga (University of
Washington), Colin Bodell (Amazon), and
Patty Lopez (Intel)
Organizational change to promote women
and minorities into key positions on
the management and technology ladders
can be accelerated when male advocates
in the workplace are enlisted and utilized
effectively. Sharing best practices of how
to create awareness, to engage, and to
maintain support by male advocates enables
us to be more successful in our chosen
career paths and is critical to increasing the
representation of women and minorities in
technology.
Technical Track – HCI, Imaging, and
Visualization
Location: Singapore/ Manila
EmailTime: Visualization of the
Temporal Email
Presenters: Minoo Erfani Joorabchi,
Ji-Dong Yim, and Christopher D. Shaw
(All presenters are from Simon Fraser
University)
To accomplish Social Network Analysis
(SNA), we design and develop
EmailTime, a tool for visualizing and
analyzing the email dataset (a social
network) over the course of time that enable
the user (analyst) to interactively explore
the email data of individuals or groups.
We present the EmailTime’s features such
as multiple views of plot and histogram,
filtering, etc. along with visualization
examples of Enron email dataset as our
benchmark. It also evaluates some measurements
such as centrality and similarity of
individuals in the network. EmailTime helps
the user to find out “who” knows “what”
and “when” and discover the unusual
behaviors in the network.
AND
Integrating Multiple Computational
Techniques for Improving Image
Access: Applications to Digital
Collections
Presenters: Judith Klavans (University
of Maryland, College Park) and Jennifer
Golbeck (University of Maryland, College
Park)
Museums traditionally rely on trained
cataloging professionals to create
metadata for their collections. While this
authoritative information is well-grounded,
it is brief and limited in its description of the
museum objects since the human cataloging
task is time-consuming and expensive.
New techniques provide an opportunity
to expand subject-oriented explanatory
metadata. Social tags and linguistic analysis
of descriptive text holds promise, but there
are many challenges to integrating these
computational techniques for museum applications.
In this paper, we present our initial
investigations along these lines and discuss
a research program to improve the integration
of computational linguistics, humancomputer
interaction, and recommender
systems to improve access to images in a
museum context.
AND
Visualizing Search Results: Evaluating
an Iconic Visualization
Presenters: Minoo Erfani Joorabchi,
Arefeh Dalvandi, Hasti Seifi, Lyn Bartram,
and Christopher D. Shaw (All presenters
are from Simon Fraser University)
Commercial websites offer many items
to potential site users. However, most
current websites display results of a search
in text lists, or as lists sorted on one or two
single criteria. Finding the best item in a
text list based on multi-priority criteria is
an exhausting task, especially for long lists.
Visualizing search results and enabling users
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