Julie A. Kientz

http://www.juliekientz.com
jkientz [at] u.washington.edu
Faculty
Human-Centered Design and Engineering, Information School

Keywords: Human-Computer Interaction, Health Care, Autism, Children, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Ubiquitous Computing

Julie A. Kientz is an Assistant Professor in the department of Human Centered Design & Engineering and The Information School. Her research interests are in the area 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.

Julie received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2008, and her B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Toledo in 2002.

Projects


Publications

KidCam: Toward an Effective Technology for the Capture of Children's Moments of Interest
Julie A. Kientz and Gregory Abowd
Pervasive, 2009. Full Paper
Baby Steps: Evaluation of a System to Support Record-Keeping for Parents of Young Children Baby Steps: Evaluation of a System to Support Record-Keeping for Parents of Young Children
Julie A. Kientz, Rosa I. Arriaga and Gregory Abowd
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2009. Full Paper (PDF)
Are You Sleeping? Sharing Portrayed Sleeping Status within a Social Network
Sunyoung Kim, Julie A. Kientz, Shwetak N. Patel and Gregory Abowd
Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2008. Full Paper