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CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Predicting individual disease risk based on medical history
The monumental cost of health care, especially for chronic disease treatment, is quickly becoming unmanageable. This crisis has motivated the drive towards preventative medicine, ...
Darcy A. Davis, Nitesh V. Chawla, Nicholas Blumm, ...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
The GroceryMate: eliciting community empathy and transforming it into purposeful action
People who are homeless in the United States lack adequate amounts of nutritious food which is detrimental to their health. We are designing a grocery shopping assistance device t...
Rajasee S. Rege, Jennifer L. Allen, Eric P. Drewsk...
CSCW
2008
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Supporting medical conversations between deaf and hearing individuals with tabletop displays
This paper describes the design and evaluation of Shared Speech Interface (SSI), an application for an interactive multitouch tabletop display designed to facilitate medical conve...
Anne Marie Piper, James D. Hollan
SUTC
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Using Body Sensor Networks for Increased Safety in Bomb Disposal Missions
Bomb disposal manned missions are inherently safetycritical. Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) technology potentially offers an opportunity to increase the safety of the operatives in...
John Kemp, Elena I. Gaura, James Brusey, C. Dougla...
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
SQL extension for exploring multiple tables
The standard SQL assumes that the users are aware of all tables and their schemas to write queries. This assumption may be valid when the users deal with a relatively small number...
Sung Jin Kim, Junghoo John Cho