Chethan Sarabu, MD

OpenNotes’ magic lies within the simple act of empowering patients and their family members to have access to their full medical information so that they can participate in their care. Providing access to clinical documentation in addition to the laboratory test results and reports in a patient portal helps to synthesize information and provide context.

Deportation, and even the threat of it, has tremendous health implications for the most vulnerable populations among us. Children are unfairly shouldering these burdens, ranging from lack of access to food or water, and extending to lifelong psychologic trauma. In medicine, to “first do no harm,” we must step outside the hospital and look at the environments in which children are being raised and stand up for the voiceless.

ABSTRACT
This paper is about the evolution of a system prototype
called Pensieve whose goal is to support people’s reminiscing
practices. A number of technologies exist to manage
memory-related content; however, these technologies tend
to take a model of memory as information that leads to a
focus on capture and access. Pensieve is instead based on
reusing memory-laden content people already create in social
media services. This idea is supported by theories of… Show more

ABSTRACT
This paper is about the evolution of a system prototype
called Pensieve whose goal is to support people’s reminiscing
practices. A number of technologies exist to manage
memory-related content; however, these technologies tend
to take a model of memory as information that leads to a
focus on capture and access. Pensieve is instead based on
reusing memory-laden content people already create in social
media services. This idea is supported by theories of autobiographical
memory, insights from interviews with eight subjects,
and experiences with two prototypes deployed to ten
users. These interviews and experiences suggest that people
value even simple tools that support reminiscence, as well as
providing both design goals and research questions around
the design of tools that support people in reminiscing. Show less

Designers of mobile, social systems must carefully think about how to help their users manage spatial, semantic, and social modes of navigation. Here, we describe our deployment of MobiTags, a system to help museum visitors interact with a collection of "open storage" exhibits, those where the museum provides little curatorial information. MobiTags integrates social tagging, art information, and a map to support navigation and collaborative curation of these open storage collections. We studied… Show more

Designers of mobile, social systems must carefully think about how to help their users manage spatial, semantic, and social modes of navigation. Here, we describe our deployment of MobiTags, a system to help museum visitors interact with a collection of "open storage" exhibits, those where the museum provides little curatorial information. MobiTags integrates social tagging, art information, and a map to support navigation and collaborative curation of these open storage collections. We studied 23 people's use of MobiTags in a local museum, combining interview data with device use logs and tracking of people's movements to understand how MobiTags affected their navigation and experience in the museum. Despite a lack of social cues, people feel a strong sense of social presence—and social pressure—through seeing others' tags. The tight coupling of tags, item information, and map features also supported a rich set of practices around these modes of navigation. Author Keywords Show less