Personal health infrastructure in diabetes management

I am interested in understanding how context-aware health technology can better support human-machine collaboration, aiding people’s seamless routines between health management and other everyday activities. Motivated by this interest, I examine contextualized health management from STS perspective and offer insights into context-aware technology design.

Context-aware technologies, such as hybrid closed-loop (HCL) insulin pumps, are important tools for diabetes self-management. From the perspective of infrastructure and infrastructuring, we found that young people leverage both technological and non-technological means to maintain situational awareness about their health condition. I served as a research assistant for this NIH-supported project.

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

• Tian Xu, Emily Jost, Laurel H. Messer, Paul F. Cook, Gregory P Forlenza, Sriram Sankaranarayanan, Casey Fiesler, and Stephen Voida. 2024. In Press. “Obviously, Nothing’s Gonna Happen in Five Minutes”: How Adolescents and Young Adults Infrastructure Resources to Learn Type 1 Diabetes Management. In Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24), May 11–16, 2024, Honolulu, Hawai’i. ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3613904.3642612
• Laurel H. Messer, Paul F. Cook, Stephen Voida, Casey Fiesler, Emily Fivekiller, Chinmay Agrawal, Tian Xu, Gregory P. Forlenza, and Sriram Sankaranarayanan. 2023. Situational Awareness and Proactive Engagement Predict Higher Time in Range in Adolescents and Young Adults Using Hybrid Closed-Loop. Pediatric Diabetes (May 2023). https://doi.org/10.1155/2023/1888738

WORKSHOPS/PRESENTATIONS/TALKS

• Technological and non-technological situational awareness cues used by adolescents and young adult diabetes self-management. 17th International Conference on Advanced Technologies & Treatments for Diabetes (ATTD), March 6–9, 2024, Florence, Italy.