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Overview

Kay Connelly is affiliated with Indiana University in the United States and specializes in interdisciplinary research spanning Medicine, Social Sciences, and Computer Science. Their work particularly focuses on the intersection of technology and health, examining how innovative human-technology interactions can support various aspects of well-being.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Medicine
  • Social Sciences
  • Computer Science

Within these broader domains, Connelly's research engages with multiple subfields such as General Health Professions, Demography, Human-Computer Interaction, Clinical Psychology, and Applied Psychology.

The diverse topics covered in their work include:

  • Technology Use by Older Adults
  • Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
  • Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions
  • Aging and Gerontology Research
  • Physical Activity and Health

Kay Connelly has contributed to several scholarly articles, with recent publications including:

  • "I hope I never need one": Unpacking Stigma in Aging in Place Technology, 2022, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Hugging with a Shower Curtain: Older Adults' Social Support Realities During the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2021, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • Evaluation framework for selecting wearable activity monitors for research, 2021, mHealth
  • How do I compare to the other people?: Older Adults' Perspectives on Personal Smart Home Data for Self-Management, 2023, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • Challenges, Tensions, and Opportunities in Designing Ecosystems to Support the Management of Complex Health Needs, 2022, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts

The most frequent publication venues for Connelly's work include:

  • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • mHealth
  • CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts
  • Journal of Medical Internet Research

Frequent collaborative partnerships appear with the following coauthors:

  • Novia Nurain
  • Clara Caldeira
  • Chia-Fang Chung
  • Katie A. Siek
  • Tom Ongwere

Kay Connelly's research draws on themes of aging, health management, and the role of technology in facilitating better health outcomes. Their investigation into wearable activity monitors and smart home data represents an intersection of practical health monitoring with user experience design tailored for older adult populations.

Best Publications

  • Fat finger worries: how older and younger users physically interact with PDAs

    Katie A. Siek;Yvonne Rogers;Kay H. Connelly

  • Toward total quality of experience: A QoE model in a communication ecosystem

    Khalil Ur Rehman Laghari;Kay Connelly

  • Why it's worth the hassle: the value of in-situ studies when designing Ubicomp

    Yvonne Rogers;Kay Connelly;Lenore Tedesco;William Hazlewood

  • Enhancing learning: a study of how mobile devices can facilitate sensemaking

    Yvonne Rogers;Kay Connelly;William Hazlewood;Lenore Tedesco

  • Privacy, Technology, and Aging: A Proposed Framework

    Lesa Lorenzen-Huber;Mary Boutain;L. Jean Camp;Kalpana Shankar

  • Context-aware telephony: privacy preferences and sharing patterns

    Ashraf Khalil;Kay Connelly

  • Privacy Concerns and Behaviors of People with Visual Impairments

    Tousif Ahmed;Roberto Hoyle;Kay Connelly;David Crandall

  • Encouraging physical activity in teens Can technology help reduce barriers to physical activity in adolescent girls

    T. Toscos;A. Faber;K. Connelly;A.M. Upoma

  • Mobile interface design for low-literacy populations

    Beenish M. Chaudry;Kay H. Connelly;Katie A. Siek;Janet L. Welch

  • Why It’s Worth the Hassle: The Value of In-Situ Studies When Designing Ubicomp: (Nominated for the Best Paper Award)

    Yvonne Rogers;Kay Connelly;Lenore Tedesco;William Hazlewood

  • Best intentions: health monitoring technology and children

    Tammy Toscos;Kay Connelly;Yvonne Rogers

  • When Do We Eat? An Evaluation of Food Items Input into an Electronic Food Monitoring Application

    K.A. Siek;K.H. Connelly;Y. Rogers;P. Rohwer

  • A Guide to Using Asynchronous Remote Communities (ARC) for Researching Distributed Populations

    Haley MacLeod;Ben Jelen;Annu Prabhakar;Lora Oehlberg

  • Designing Health and Fitness Apps with Older Adults: Examining the Value of Experience-Based Co-Design

    Christina N. Harrington;Lauren Wilcox;Kay Connelly;Wendy Rogers

  • Issues in evaluating ambient displays in the wild: two case studies

    William R. Hazlewood;Erik Stolterman;Kay Connelly

  • An offline mobile nutrition monitoring intervention for varying-literacy patients receiving hemodialysis: a pilot study examining usage and usability.

    Kay Connelly;Katie A Siek;Beenish Chaudry;Josette Jones

  • Improving cell phone awareness by using calendar information

    Ashraf Khalil;Kay Connelly

  • How In-Home Technologies Mediate Caregiving Relationships in Later Life

    Lesa Lorenzen Huber;Kalpana Shankar;Kelly Caine;Kay Connelly

  • Evaluating Pervasive and Ubiquitous Systems

    K. Connelly;K.A. Siek;I. Mulder;G. Stevenson

  • Rare World: Towards Technology for Rare Diseases

    Haley MacLeod;Kim Oakes;Danika Geisler;Kay Connelly

  • Asynchronous remote communities (ARC) for researching distributed populations

    Haley MacLeod;Ben Jelen;Annu Prabhakar;Lora Oehlberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Yvonne Rogers
Yvonne Rogers University College London
David J. Crandall
David J. Crandall Indiana University
Apu Kapadia
Apu Kapadia Indiana University
Beth Plale
Beth Plale Indiana University
Daqing Zhang
Daqing Zhang Peking University
Andrew A. Chien
Andrew A. Chien University of Chicago
Jesus Favela
Jesus Favela Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada
Elizabeth D. Mynatt
Elizabeth D. Mynatt Northeastern University
Erik Stolterman
Erik Stolterman Indiana University
Wendy A. Rogers
Wendy A. Rogers University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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