Kay Connelly

Dr. Connelly's research focuses on user acceptance of ubiquitous and mobile computing technologies where there is a delicate balance between such factors as convenience, control and privacy. Dr. Connelly is currently investigating three application domains: 1. convenience applications such as automatically configuring a cell phone's notification mechanism depending on the physical and social context of the cell phone owner, 2. health care applications to empower both the ill and the healthy to manage and improve their own health, and 3. work and learning applications such as a tool to assist students in gathering environmental data while simultaneously supporting data analysis in the field.

Technology acceptance blog, with a focus on pervasive healthcare applications. Vita (probably out of date). Personal web page. Answers to frequently asked questions by incoming students.

Courses

• Spring '08 B490 -- Mobile Computing
• Fall '07 P535 -- Pervasive Computing
• Fall '07 C241 -- Discrete Structures for Computer Science
• Fall '07 Health, Technology and Aging (co-instructor)
• Fall '06 B649 -- Pervasive Computing
• Spring '06: B490 -- Programming on the Go
• Fall '05: B649 -- Pervasive Computing

Research Interests

• Ubiquitous/Pervasive Computing
• Health Informatics
• Usability Studies and Methodologies
• Security and Privacy

Select Publications

• Why it's Worth the Hassle: A Case Study in Using In-Situ Studies during Design, Yvonne Rogers, Kay Connelly, Lenore Tedesco, William Hazlewood, Andrew J. Kurtz, Bob E. Hall, Josh Hursey and Tammy Toscos. To appear in the Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UBICOMP), September, 2007.

• Do I Do What I Say?: Observed Versus Stated Privacy Preferences, Ashraf Khalil and Kay Connelly. To appear in the Proceedings of the Eleventh IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT), September, 2007.

• When Do We Eat? An Evaluation of Food Items Input into an Electronic Monitoring Application, Katie Siek, Kay H. Connelly, Yvonne Rogers, Paul Rohwer, Desiree Lambert and Janet L. Welch. In the Proceedings of the First International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (Pervasive Health), November 2006. Innsbruck, Austria.

• Context-aware Telephony: Privacy Preferences and Sharing Patterns, Ashraf Khalil and Kay Connelly. In the Proceedings of Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW), November 2006.

• Pride and Prejudice: Learning how Chronically Ill People Think About Food, Katie A. Siek, Kay H. Connelly and Yvonne Rogers. In the Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2006, pages 947-950. (ACM Digital Library link)

• Mobile Applications that Empower People to Monitor their Personal Health, Kay H. Connelly, Anne M. Faber, Yvonne Rogers, Katie A. Siek and Tammy Toscos. To appear in Springer E&I. (Request Paper)

• Fat Finger Worries: How Older and Younger Users Physically Interact with PDAs , Katie A. Siek, Kay H. Connelly, and Yvonne Rogers. In the Proceedings of Interact 2005, LNCS 3585, p. 267-280. Rome, Italy, September 2005. (Springer Link)

• Improving Cell Phone Awareness Using Calendar Information , Ashraf Khalil and Kay Connelly. In the Proceedings of Interact 2005, LNCS 3583, p. 588-600. Rome, Italy, September 2005.(Springer Link)

• Technology to Empower Patients with Chronic Conditions , Kay Connelly. In Extended Abstracts of CHI 2005: Workshops - HCI Challenges in Health Assessment, Portland, OR, April 2005.

A list of all of my Publications.

Recent Invited Talks

• Pervasive Technologies for Health: a Focus on the Human. Abstract. Powerpoint. Given at Motorola Research, Microsoft Research and University of Washington.

Education

• PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, October 2003
• MS in Computer Science from the University of Illinois, May 1999
• B.S. in Computer Science and B.A. in Mathematics from Indiana University in May, 1995.

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