Informatics 490PI - Personal Health Informatics

This course will cover the design of personal health and wellness technologies. Using the personal health informatics model, we will learn various challenges in designing technologies for personal health data collection (e.g., step count, heart rate, or food intake etc.), integration, self-reflection, and behavior change. Going further, students will understand design issues in sharing personal health data and discuss design guidelines for collaborative data collection, reflection, and care. It is difficult to create health technologies that can successfully be integrated into people's daily life due to many obstacles in individuals' data collection, integration, self-reflection, and sharing practices. Understanding these challenges is an important part of designing Health Technologies. Therefore, this course will cover HCI and design thinking methods that students can leverage to understand the adoption and use of Health Technologies and to design effective Health Technologies. Moreover, visualizations facilitate people to gain insights from their data, so we will cover common visualization approaches used in the personal data contexts. Students will apply the design issues taught during lecture to a team-based semester-long personal health application design project. This course satisfies the IE requirement for Informatics majors and also counts as an elective for all concentrations of the Informatics major.

Open to junior and senior Computer Science and Informatics majors. INFO 490PI req NO PASS/FAIL OPTION. SATISFIES INTEGRATIVE EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENT FOR CS AND INFORM MAJORS. ALSO SATISFIES A CS400 ELECTIVE FOR CS MAJORS. BEGINNING SPRING 2024, GRADES OF C OR BETTER ARE REQUIRED IN PREREQUISITES. WILL OPEN TO JUNIOR AND SENIOR CS MAJORS AFTER JUNIOR AND SENIOR INFORM MAJORS ARE GIVEN OPPORTUNITY TO ENROLL. ELIGIBLE CS MAJORS SHOULD NOT REQUEST AN OVERRIDE, BUT WAIT FOR ELIGIBILITY TO OPEN TO SELF-ENROLL. STUDENTS NEEDING SPECIAL PERMISSION MUST REQUEST OVERRIDES VIA THE ON-LINE FORM: https://www.cics.umass.edu/academics/course-overrides