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About Julie Kientz

Julie A. Kientz (pronounced like "Keentz") is an Assistant Professor in the department of Human Centered Design & Engineering and The Information School and Adjunct Assistant Professor in Computer Science & Engineering. She is also director of the Computing for Healthy Living and Learning Lab and is active in the Design, Use, Build (dub) Group alliance. Her research interests are in the areas of Human-Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous Computing, and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. In particular, she is interested in determining how novel computing applications can address important social issues and evaluating those applications through long-term real world deployment studies using a balance of qualitative and quantitative methods. Her most recent research involves the design and evaluation of computing technologies to support decision-making for teams of caregivers, including therapy for children with autism and supporting parents tracking the developmental progress and health of their newborn children. Dr. Kientz received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2008, under the advisement of Gregory Abowd, and her B.S. in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of Toledo in 2002.

Recent News

  • Baby Steps has recently been covered by a number of news articles:
  • I demoed Abaris, Baby Steps, and KidCam at the CRA sponsored Computing Research that Changed the World Symposium in Washington, D.C.
  • Two full papers relating to the Baby Steps project were presented at CHI 2009 and Pervasive 2009:
    • Kientz, J.A., R.I. Arriaga, and G.D. Abowd. "Baby Steps: Evaluation of a System to Support Record-Keeping for Parents of Young Children." To Appear in the Proceedings of CHI 2009. Boston, MA. 2009.
    • Kientz, J.A. and G.D. Abowd. "KidCam: Toward an Effective Technology for the Capture of Children's Moments of Interest." To Appear in the Proceedings of Pervasive 2009. Nara, Japan. 2009.
  • I am serving on the Pervasive 2010 and Pervasive Health 2010 Program Committees.