Introducing Dr. Byron Lowens!

Dr. Caine and Dr. Lowens at the PhD hooding ceremony.

After his graduation, Dr. Lowens will start a CI Fellows post-doc at the University of Michigan.

College of Engineering, Computing, and Applied Sciences Dean’s Professorship Award

Dr. Caine has been named College of Engineering, Computing, and Applied Sciences Dean’s Professor.

The award recognizes “top talent of high-performing faculty members.”

 

 

 

Cited in Article about Innovative Approach to Cybersecurity Education

Dr. Caine was cited in an article on the shortage of cybersecurity workers in the US published in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

“Among the institutions that are shifting to a more comprehensive notion of cybersecurity is Clemson University. Its Humans and Technology Lab conducts research aimed at making automated systems better reflect the ways people actually behave, with protections designed accordingly. Recent projects include studying how patients use electronic health records and exploring the risks to privacy posed by wearable devices.

Nationwide, colleges have a long way to go to incorporate that kind of broad approach into their educational and research agendas, says Kelly Caine, an associate professor of human-centered computing at Clemson, who heads the lab.”

Understanding Your Users Published

Dr. Caine’s first book, Understanding Your Users, a collaboration with Kathy Baxter (Google) and Catherine Courage (Citrix), was published today.

The book is available for purchase on Amazon, Google Play, iTunes and directly from the publisher.

Named Clemson Researcher of the Month

Dr. Caine has been named Clemson University Researcher of the Month.

The award honors a member of the Clemson community whose contributions to the academic and intellectual culture at Clemson University are outstanding.

 

 

 

Cited in Washington Post

Dr. Caine was cited in an article on the right to be forgotten vs. free speech published in today’s issue of the Washington Post.

She said, “without the ability to escape personal histories, ‘there’s no rebirth. There’s no starting over.'”

 

Named to Advisory Board of Freedom of the Press Foundation

Dr. Caine has been named to the Technical Advisory Board of the Freedom of the Press Foundation.

She joins eight journalists, technologists and academics who will discuss and devise methods for journalists to better protect their electronic communications from governments, criminals and others.

Awarded NSF grant to develop computational jewelry for mHealth

Dr. Kelly Caine (Co-PI) and Dr. Jacob Sorber (PI) of Clemson University along with Dr. Ryan Halter (Co-PI), Dr. David Kotz (PI), Dr.Andrés Molina-Markham (Co-PI), and Dr. Sarah Lord of Dartmouth College have been awarded a new grant from the National Science Foundation’s Computer Systems Research program to study the potential for computational jewelry to support mobile-health applications.

Dr. Caine’s role in the project will be to lead the human factors effort, with a focus on security, privacy and usability. More information about the project can be found at amulet-project.org.

 

Poster Wins 1st Prize at American Public Health Association Meeting

The poster titled “HealthyState: Presenting Public Health Data to Promote Healthier Life Choices” won first prize at the 2012 meeting of the American Public Health Association.

More information about the poster and the APHA meeting may be found at https://apha.confex.com/apha/140am/webprogram/Paper274122.html

Accepted position as assistant professor at Clemson University

Dr. Caine has accepted the position of assistant professor in the Human Centered Computing Division of the School of Computing at Clemson University.

In this position, Dr. Caine will continue her work on the human factors of privacy with a specific focus on privacy in health systems.

Awarded NSF grant to develop crowdsourced computer security

Dr. Kelly Caine (Clemson), Dr. Apu Kapadia (Indiana) and Dr. Michael Reiter (UNC Chapel Hill) have  been awarded $366,610 by the National Science Foundation to better understand the potential of crowdsourcing in computer security applications.

This research examines the concept of ‘crowdsourced security’ where the solution lies in people leveraging members of their community to secure their systems and devices. For more information, visit the NSF project page http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1228364

HealthyState Team Wins NAE/IOM Challenge

The HealthyState team (Michele Degges, Mukta Gundi, Pranav Gupta, Matthew Holfelner, and Anthony Monaco) won third place in the National Academy of Engineering / Institute of Medicine ‘Go Viral to Improve Health’ Collegiate Challenge.  The national challenge was to build an app that “accelerates the public use of health data and spurs innovation to improve health.” The award included $3,000 + $1,000 in travel funds for the student researchers.

Awarded NSF grant to develop technologies to help underserved older adults age in place

Dr. Kelly Caine and Dr. Kay Connelly have  been awarded $500,000 by the National Science Foundation to better understand how technologies can assist underserved older adults as they age in place.

The project will ultimately provide guidance to community members, service providers, and governmental agencies about how to wield technology to enable those populations to age in place. Researchers will identify and analyze existing technologies, then compare and contrast those with the specific needs of low-SES older adults.

Featured on I3P Podcast

Dr. Caine is featured on the latest podcast of the I3P (http://www.thei3p.org/media/podcasts.html). The I3P podcast series  aims to address and inform viewers on topics related to cybersecurity and I3P initiatives.

Named Co-Director of PHIT Lab

Dr. Caine has been named Co-Director of the Pervasive Health Information Technologies Lab. Dr. Caine, and Co-Director Dr. Connelly will direct research aimed at understanding how technologies can be used to empower both the ill and the healthy to manage and improve their own health and make healthy choices.

The PHIT Lab website is http://www.phitlab.org.

APA Talk on EHRs Featured on the Human Factors Blog

Dr. Caine’s talk on EHRs in clinical practice has been featured on the Human Factors Blog.

APA Talk on EHRs in Clinical Practice

Dr. Kelly Caine has partnered with Centerstone Research Institute CEO Dr. Dennis Morrison to host a session on electronic health records at the 119th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association. The conference will be held August 4-7, 2011, at the Walter E.WashingtonConvention Center in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Caine’s and Dr. Morrison’s session, “Electronic Health Records in Clinical Practice,” will focus on how, when designed using human factors methods, electronic health records may be used to support evidence-based practice in clinical settings. It also will include an overview on the current state and use of electronic health records in behavioral health settings, and feature an interactive discussion regarding the potential future uses of electronic health records in clinical practice. The session, meant to deepen participants’ understanding of the role and potential role of electronic health records in their practices, will take place on Saturday, August 6, from 8:00 a.m. to 8:50 a.m. in Convention Center Room 148.

The annual APA convention is the largest gathering of psychologists and psychology students in the world and attracts more than 12,000 attendees from all areas of specialization in psychology including research, practice, education and policy.

PETS 2011

This week Dr. Caine attended the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium in Waterloo, Canada.

The goal of the conference was to bring together anonymity and privacy experts from around the world to discuss recent advances and new perspectives in privacy for the Internet and other communication networks.

Featured on NPR’s “All Things Considered”

Dr. Caine was featured on NPR’s “All Things Considered” on July 25. The segment posed the question, “Are passwords really the best way to protect your digital identity?” With studies routinely proving that consumers choose weak passwords, researchers are exploring the potential of other methods of authentication. Dr. Caine, an engineering psychologist, noted in the interview that there is a reason biometrics haven’t been widely adopted as authentication standards. “Your credentials–so, your face, your iris, or your fingerprint–can’t be re-issued if they get compromised.”

Paper demonstrating importance of visualization on disclosure decisions presented at CHI2011

Today Dr. Caine presented work demonstrating the importance of visualization on disclosure decisions at the 2011 ACM Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) in Vancouver.

Along with her co-authors, Dr. Lorraine Kisselburgh and Ms. Louise Laureau, Dr. Caine studied the effects of providing users, and potential users, of Online Social Networks (e.g., facebook) with visual and numeric feedback about the audience to whom they are disclosing. They found that augmenting an interface with a visualization or numeric display of the audience helps people disclose in a way that is more in line with their own preferences. In addition, Drs. Caine and Kisselburgh and Ms. Lareau suggested alternative designs that could make use of this new information to help social network users manage their privacy.

The full paper, Audience Visualization Influences Disclosures in Online Social Networks, is available here as a PDF and online in the ACM Digital Library.

Invited to speak to STEMworks Scholars

Today, Dr. Caine spoke to the STEMworks STEM Schoalrs in Indianapolis, IN.

From http://www.stemworksindiana.org:
The STEMworks Scholars program strives to capture the imagination of college bound high school students. Driven by their ambition, combined with innovative programing, students gain a higher level of education in their chosen field of science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM).

Elected to the I3P Executive Committee

Dr. Caine has been elected to the Executive Council of the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection (www.thei3p.org) for the 2011 – 2012 year.

Awarded grant to help patients gain more control over health information

A team of researchers from Regenstrief Institute, IU School of Medicine and the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University, Bloomington have been awarded a grant from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT to to develop approaches to implement greater patient choice in health information sharing.

Dr. Caine will lead the human factors portion of the research.

Invited to speak on panel at Berkeley Center for Law and Technology

Dr. Caine has been invited to speak on a panel discussing the ways technology is affecting regulation “by design” in the privacy context at the “Technology: Transforming the Regulatory Endeavor” conference.  The conference is hosted by the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, is organized by Deirdre Mulligan, Kenneth Bamberger and Dan Farber, and will be held on March 3rd, 2011 in the Booth Auditorium at Boalt Hall School of Law in Berkeley, California.

Invited to speak on panel for women in STEM

From left to right: Debi Erick, Melissa Stump, Kelly Caine, Victoria Hall

Today, Dr. Caine served as an invited panelist for the “Women in Science, Engineering, Technology, and Mathematics (STEM) Careers” event at Ivy Tech Community College in Indianapolis. The event was designed to encourage undergraduate women to consider STEM disciplines and career paths, as well as introduce them to women who are successful in STEM fields.

Other panelists were:

• Katerine Armstrong, Global R & D Leader, Dow
• Theresa Conroy-Roth, Director of Technology, Kforce
• Debi Erick, Professor of Nursing, Ivy Tech
• Victoria Hall, Program Director, Central Indiana Small Business Development Center
• Teisha Meyer, Professor of Math, Ivy Tech
• Melissa Stump, Structural Engineer and Project Manager, Fink, Roberts & Petrie

Awarded grant to develop new frameworks to understand privacy

Dr. Caine has been named a PI on an NSF grant titled, “Developing Frameworks to Address Issues in Privacy”.

The project is organized by the I3P with the goal of understanding elements of privacy from a multi-disciplinary perspective to generate frameworks to permit new ways of assessing privacy in context.

Other members of the project team include Sy Goodman (Georgia Tech), Denise Anthony (Dartmouth), Alessandro Acquisti (CMU), Deirdre Mulligan (Berkeley), and Apu Kapadia & Minaxi Gupta (IU).

Invited to attend workshop on Protecting Privacy in Health Research

Last week Dr. Caine attended a workshop on Protecting Privacy in Health Research in Washington, DC.

The goal of this workshop was to address critical issues in protecting privacy in health research.

Results from the workshop may be found on the PPHR website.

Invited to attend National Academies Human-Systems Integration Event

Dr. Caine was invited to attend the National Research Council (NRC)’s Committee on Human-Systems Integration event, Human-Systems Integration at the National Academies: A Celebration of 30 Years (1980-2010) at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.

The event included talks by Donald Norman, as well as all of the past chairs of COHSI.

DigiSwitch named best Security & Privacy paper at ACM IHI

The paper DigiSwitch: Design and Evaluation of a Device for OlderAdults to Preserve Privacy While Monitoring Health at Home was named as the best data management, privacy, security, and confidentiality paper at ACM IHI and was also nominated for the best overall paper.

Featured on “Security Matters”

Dr. Caine is featured on the latest episode of Security Matters (http://www.securitymatters.iu.edu/), a joint venture between the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research at Indiana University and WFIU.

Security Matters features video segments that provide tips and tutorials for keeping people safe online. Kelly’s video  provides information on how to use public computers safely.

Poster presentation to VIPs at mHealth

Dr. Caine presented a poster titled: Case Study on Privacy Issues Surrounding the Remote Monitoring of Older Adults at Home at the 2010 mHealth summit in Washington, DC.

The goal of the mHealth summit is to explore ways mobile technology can increase the access, quality and efficiency of healthcare to millions of families in communities in the U.S. and around the globe.

Kelly presented the poster, co-authored by  L. Jean Camp, Kay Connelly, Lesa Lorenzen-Huber and Kalpana Shankar, to members of the mHealth community including a special session with VIP attendees including Bill Gates.

Presentation at ACM IHI

Dr. Caine will give a presentation on DigiSwitch: Design and Evaluation of a Device for OlderAdults to Preserve Privacy While Monitoring Health at Home at the ACM conference on Health Informatics this Friday, November 12th at 8am.

The talk will be part of a session on “Data Management, Privacy, Security, and Confidentiality“. For those attending the conference, the talk will be held in Rappahanock/Roanoke.

Featured in APA gradPSYCH Magazine on “Cross-Disciplinary” Fields

Dr. Caine was featured in the cover story from this month’s American Psychological Association’s gradPSYCH Magazine. The article titled, “Mixing it up: What are the pros and cons of aligning yourself with a hybrid field?“ discusses “hybrid” or “cross-disciplinary” fields at the forefront of cutting-edge science.

SPIMACS 2010

This week Dr. Caine attended the workshop on Security and Privacy in Medical and Home Care Settings.

The workshop sought to bring together researchers from multiple disciplines to understand the unique security and privacy risks associated with medical and home-care systems.

Dr. Caine also served on the program committee for SPIMACS 2010.

Elected Chair of HFES Technical Group on Aging

Dr. Caine has been elected “Program Chair” for the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Technical Group on Aging.

In this post, she will be responsible for overseeing the technical review of proposals submitted for the HFES Annual Meeting including recruiting and assigning reviewers and making final acceptance decisions.

HFES 2010

This week Dr. Caine was in San Francisco for the 54th annual meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting.

While at the conference, Dr. Caine chaired a session, served in the role as Secretary/Treasurer for the Aging Technical Group, and presented a paper titled, “Errors of Disclosure in Computer Mediated Systems”.

Invited to attend the workshop on Protecting Privacy in Health Research

Earlier this week Dr. Caine attended a workshop on Protecting Privacy in Health Research in Chicago, IL.

The goal of this workshop wass to address critical issues in protecting privacy in health research.

Results from the workshop may be found on the PPHR website.

Paper accepted at ACM IHI

Dr. Caine’s paper, “DigiSwitch: Design and Evaluation of a Device for Older Adults to Preserve Privacy While Monitoring Health at Home” has been accepted for publication at the ACM International Health Informatics Conference to be held in Washington, DC in November, 2010.

The acceptance rate for this conference was 17%.

Cited in New York Times

Dr. Caine was cited in the article Technologies Help Adult Children Monitor Aging Parents published in today’s issue of the New York Times.

The article, written by Hilary Stout, provides an overview of a variety of technologies designed to help adult children who have aging parents stay in touch and connected.

 

PETS 2010

This week Dr. Caine attended the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium in Berlin, Germany.

The goal of the conference was to bring together anonymity and privacy experts from around the world to discuss recent advances and new perspectives in privacy for the Internet and other communication networks.

Accepted position as Principal Research Scientist

Dr. Caine has accepted the position of Principal Research Scientist in the Center for Law, Ethics, and Applied Research (CLEAR) in Health Information (clearhealthinfo.iu.edu) and the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University.

In this position, Dr. Caine will continue her work on the human factors of privacy with a specific focus on privacy in health systems.

 

Invited to serve as DC Co-Chair for Pervasive Health 2011

Dr. Caine has been invited to serve as the Co-Chair for the Doctoral Consortium at Pervasive Health, 2011. Dr. Caine will serve as Co-Chair with Dr. Tom O’Kane of University College-Cork.

Pervasive Health will be held in Dublin, Ireland May 23rd – 26th.

Invited to attend workshop on Securing Information Technology in Healthcare (SITH)

Dr. Caine was invited to attend the workshop on Securing Information Technology in Healthcare at in Hanover, NH. The workshop was held May 16th – 17th at Dartmouth College.

Funding for the workshop was provided by the Department of Homeland Security’s National Cyber Security Division and the National Science Foundation.

Invited to write guest post for the Human Factors Blog

Dr. Caine was invited to write a guest post for the Human Factors Blog, a blog dedicated to engendering lively discussion of timely, newsworthy, and academic human factors issues.

The guest post written by Dr. Caine on Facebook and Privacy is available on the Human Factors Blog.

Presentation at CAC

Dr. Caine presented a poster titled, “Ethical Home-Based Technologies for Older Adults” at the Cognitive Aging Conference held in Atlanta, GA.

CHI 2010

This week Dr. Caine attended the ACM conference on Human-Computer Interaction (CHI) 2010 in Atlanta, GA.

 

Presentation at WISH

Dr. Caine presented a poster titled, “Why understanding the psychology of user privacy is critical to the success of interactive health systems” at the Workshop on Interactive Systems in Healthcare.

Invited to speak on “inspiration” panel for women in computing

Dr. Caine has been invited to speak at the Women in Informatics and Computing (WIC)’s Inspiration Panel. The panel will be held at the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN on March 2th.

Invited to speak at MIT

Dr. Caine has been invited to give a talk about her work on “Privacy Enhanced Technologies for the Health System” to the ESD Division at MIT.

Dr. Caine’s talk will be on April 6th in Cambridge, MA.

Invited to speak at Indiana University

Dr. Caine has been invited to give a talk on her work on “Privacy Enhanced Health Technologies to Support Aging in Place” to the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN.

Her talk will be on March 3rd at 3pm.