Cornell: Information at Work – Heuristics for Failing Technologies
Dr. Gina Neff gives a Colloquium Talk at Cornell University’s School of Information Science in November 2013 on Vimeo. This talk is about the nature of technological failure, especially in the workplaces where software solutions have been introduced to help overcome differences in organizational culture.
In the Battle Over Personal Health Data, 23andMe and the FDA Are Both Wrong
Just wrote for Slate’s Future Tense on the current regulator battles over personal health data. Last month, the FDA told 23andMe to stop marketing direct-to-consumer genetic testing kits. The FDA wants assurance that the company has “analytically or clinically validated” the genetic data that they provide their customers. The company has claimed that it provides […]
Smartphones vs. Doctors: Who Knows More about Your Health?
Here is a nice write up at the Intel Blog about my collaborations with their research team on health data. Intel Labs has supported my work on a project called “Organizational Adoption of and Adaptation to Patient Biosensor Data.” As more people use smartphones, laptops and wearable computers to track their daily wellness, the resulting deluge […]