Overview
Individuals frequently take an active role in managing day-to-day aspects of their health, like improving nutrition or increasing physical activity. Clinicians also increasingly teach health self-management skills to patients with a range of chronic illnesses, such as diabetes, hypertension or arthritis.
Our research team is designing and developing Salud!, a web-based platform for supporting health self-management. Salud! will allow its users to track personally-relevant aspects of their everyday life, and provide visualization and analytics tools with which to make sense of the resulting datasets. In effect, Salud! is a health-oriented, capture and analysis tool for temporal data.
To participate in the ongoing user studies contact us with a request to join.
Salud! uses Fugue Icons under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.
Dr. Elizabeth Mynatt
Elizabeth D. Mynatt is the GVU Center Director, past HCC Ph.D. Program Faculty Coordinator, and a Professor in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. There, she directs the research program in Everyday Computing — examining the human-computer interface implications of having computation continuously present in many aspects of everyday life.
Themes in her research include supporting informal collaboration and awareness in office environments, enabling creative work and visual communication, and augmenting social processes for managing personal information. Dr. Mynatt is one of the principal researchers in the Aware Home Research Initiative; investigating the design of future home technologies, especially those that enable older adults to continue living independently as opposed to moving to an institutional care setting.
Yevgeniy "Eugene" Medynskiy
Eugene is a third-year Ph.D. student in the Human-Centered Computing program at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research focuses on designing technology to support health self-management. He leads the development of Salud!. View More
Joy Buolamwini
Joy is a an undergraduate Computer Science major at Georgia Institute of Technology. As an undergraduate research assistant, she began working on Salud! in the Spring 2009. She assists with both the frontend and backend development of the web based platform while implementing visual elements and designing the accompanying web site. Apart from designing the the original logo and web presence, she also worked on the development of mobile visualizations of Salud! for the Android.View More
Dhawal Hemant Shah
Dhawal is a Master's in Computer Science student at Georgia Institute of Technology since Fall 2008. Dhawal began working on Salud! in Summer 2009 and will be developing an android app for Salud!
Sneha Nilakandan
Sneha is doing her masters in Computer science at Georgia Institute of Technology since Fall 08. She began my work on Salud in Summer 2009 and will be developing the visualizations for the Salud Web Application using Adobe Flex.
Ruchi Goswami
Ruchi is doing her Masters in Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology since Fall 2008. She began working on Salud! in Summer 2009 and is developing the SMS/MMS server on Android.