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St-Maurice J, Burns C, Wolting J, Applying Persuasive Design Techniques to Influence Data-Entry Behaviors in Primary Care: Repeated Measures Evaluation Using Statistical Process Control, JMIR Hum Factors 2018;5(4):e28
"Disrupting traditional models of health care," Helen Chen, Plinio Morita, Waterloo Magazine, Fall 2017
"Emotionally supportive virtual assistant could help people with Alzheimer's disease," Waterloo News, Jesse Hoey, August 14, 2017
"Waterloo software improves care for kindey patients," Waterloo Stories, Helen Chen, July 10, 2017
"ACT@Home: An emotionally intelligent cognitive assistant to help people with Alzheimer’s disease," Computer Science News, Jesse Hoey, June 29, 2017
"Researchers will transform health-care services for persons living with frailty," Waterloo News, Paul Stolee, June 9, 2017
"Artificial intelligence-driven imaging research makes diagnosing disease easier," Waterloo News, Alexander Wong, June 7, 2017
“Adding barcodes to medical images to enhance searchability,” SYDE News, Hamid Tizhoosh, January 16, 2017
"The opioid crisis: How phamacists can help save lives," Waterloo Stories, Kelly Grindrod, November 16, 2016
"Breakthrough tech helps doctors more accurately diagnose cancer," Waterloo Stories, Alexander Wong, May 20, 2016
"A civil engineer fights cancer one moving cell at a time," Engineer the Future, Wayne Brodland, September 23, 2015

"Reverse engineering embryogenesis and cancer," CBB Researcher Story, Wayne Brodland, July 25, 2015
"Tiny technology to prevent the risk of skipping a beat or worse," Waterloo Engineering, Patricia Nieva, April 2015
“Dementia patients may one day get assistance from robot helpers,” CBC News, Jennifer Boger, March 15, 2015
"Science fiction becomes fact with 3D printed bones," Engineer the Future, Ehsan Toyserkani, February 1, 2015
"Nutrition and aging: Why aren't older adults eating well?" Kinesiology Research Stories, Heather Keller, September 10, 2014
"Breaking the fall: Smart walker will help prevent injuries," Waterloo Stories, Pascal Poupart, April 12, 2013
"Making it harder for cancer to hide," Waterloo Stories, Hamid Tizhoosh, Alexander Wong, January 9, 2013
"A tiny machine to predict heart attacks," Waterloo Stories, Patricia Nieva, July 5, 2012

Press/Media

"Using VR to help seniors exercise," CTV News, Jennifer Boger, February 2, 2018
"Emotonal AI and Alzheimer's disease," Youtube, Jesse Hoey, September 8, 2017
“Current work to detect the early signs of Alzheimer’s disease,” Youtube, Jesse Hoey, September 8, 2017
“The complex issue of emotion," Youtube, Jesse Hoey, September 8, 2017
“Smart living: the DIY Smart Home project," Youtube, Jesse Hoey, September 8, 2017
"Paul Stolee, School of Public Health and Health Systems," Youtube, Paul Stolee, December 21, 2016
"Heather Keller, Kinesiology," Youtube, Heather Keller, November 11, 2016
"BIG data, medical imaging, and machine intelligence," YouTube Lecture, Hamid Tizhoosh, January 21, 2015
"Medical imaging: pixels, consensus, and learning," YouTube Lecture, Hamid Tizhoosh, October 1, 2014
"Interactive systems for biomedical imaging and analysis," YouTube Lecture, Alexander Wong, October 1, 2014

Publications by CBB Researchers

Exploring the role of teams and technology in patients’ medication decision making. Mercer, Kathryn et al. Journal of the American Pharmacists Association , Volume 59 , Issue 2 , S35 - S43.e1 [C. Burns and K. Grindrod]
Moradian S, Krzyzanowska MK, Maguire R, Morita PP, Kukreti V, Avery J, Liu G, Cafazzo J, Howell D. Usability Evaluation of a Mobile Phone–Based System for Remote Monitoring and Management of Chemotherapy-Related Side Effects in Cancer Patients: Mixed-Methods Study. JMIR Cancer 2018;4(2):e10932
M. L. Wilson, S. Sayed, S. Horton and K. A. Fleming, "Artificial intelligence can augment global pathology initiatives – Authors' reply," The Lancet, vol. 392, (10162), pp. 2352, 2018.
Giosa, J. L., Stolee, P., Byrne, K., Meyer, S., & Holyoke, P. (2018). Co-designing a framework for integrated home care planning with older adults, family caregivers and health care providers. International Journal of Integrated Care, 18(s2), 304.
Elliott, J., Stolee, P., Heckman, G., & Boscart, V. (2018). Improving Patient-Provider Partnerships across the Healthcare System. International Journal of Integrated Care, 18(s2), 346.
Baskerville NB, Struik LL, Guindon GE, Norman CD, Whittaker R, Burns C, Hammond D, Dash D, Brown KS, Effect of a Mobile Phone Intervention on Quitting Smoking in a Young Adult Population of Smokers: Randomized Controlled Trial, JMIR Mhealth Uhealth 2018;6(10):e10893
P. P. Morita, K. Huynh, A. Zakir, J. A. Cafazzo, R. F. McQuillan, J. M. Bargman and C. T. M. Chan, "Supporting the Establishment of New Home Dialysis Programs Through the Explore Home Dialysis Program," Kidney International Reports, 2018.
Haider, S. A., Tran, M. Y., & Wong, A. (2018, February). Computational circular dichroism estimation for point-of-care diagnostics via vortex half-wave retarders. Optical Diagnostics and Sensing XVIII: Toward Point-of-Care Diagnostics (Vol. 10501, p. 1050108). International Society for Optics and Photonics.
Dalgıç, Ö. O., Özaltın, O. Y., Ciccotelli, W. A., & Erenay, F. S. (2017). Deriving effective vaccine allocation strategies for pandemic influenza: Comparison of an agent-based simulation and a compartmental model. PloS one, 12(2), e0172261.
Haider, F., & Shaker, G. (2017, July). Wearable-free wireless fall detection system. In Antennas and Propagation & USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, 2017 IEEE International Symposium on (pp. 2457-2458). IEEE.
Babaie, M., Kalra, S., Sriram, A., Mitcheltree, C., Zhu, S., Khatami, A., ... & Tizhoosh, H. R. (2017, May). Classification and Retrieval of Digital Pathology Scans: A New Dataset. In CVMI Workshop@ CVPR.
Puri, A., Kim, B., Nguyen, O., Stolee, P., Tung, J., & Lee, J. (2017). User Acceptance of Wrist-Worn Activity Trackers Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Mixed Method Study. JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 5(11).
Boger, J., Jackson, P., Mulvenna, M., Sixsmith, J., Sixsmith, A., Mihailidis, A., ... & Martin, S. (2017). Principles for fostering the transdisciplinary development of assistive technologies. Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, 12(5), 480-490.
Grace, S. L., Taherzadeh, G., Chang, I. S. J., Boger, J., Arcelus, A., Mak, S., ... & Mihailidis, A. (2017). Perceptions of seniors with heart failure regarding autonomous zero-effort monitoring of physiological parameters in the smart-home environment. Heart & Lung: The Journal of Acute and Critical Care, 46(4), 313-319.
Chang, S. J. I., Boger, J., & Qiu, J. (2017). Pervasive Computing and Ambient Physiological Monitoring Devices. Smart Technologies in Healthcare, 26.
Morrissey, K., Lazar, A., Boger, J., & Toombs, A. (2017, May). HCIxDementia Workshop: The Role of Technology and Design in Dementia. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems(pp. 484-491). ACM.
Wang, D., & Hoey, J. (2017, November). Hierarchical Task Recognition and Planning in Smart Homes with Partial Observability. In International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence (pp. 439-452). Springer, Cham.
Robillard, J. M., Li, A. W., Jacob, S., Wang, D., Zou, X., & Hoey, J. (2017, September). Co-Creating Emotionally Aligned Smart Homes Using Social Psychological Modeling. In Proceedings of the 4th international Workshop on Sensor-based Activity Recognition and Interaction (p. 8). ACM.
Hoey, J. (2017, September). Smarter Smart Homes with Social and Emotional Intelligence. In Proceedings of the 4th international Workshop on Sensor-based Activity Recognition and Interaction (p. 1). ACM.
Robillard, J. M., Alhothali, A., Varma, S., & Hoey, J. (2017). Intelligent and affectively aligned evaluation of online health information for older adults. In AAAI Workshop on Health Intelligence, San Francisco, CA.
Tulsieram, K. L., Arocha, J. F., & Lee, J. (2018). Readability and coherence of Department/Ministry of health HPV information. Journal of Cancer Education, 33(1), 147-153.
Patel, V. L., Arocha, J. F., & Ancker, J. S. (Eds.). (2017). Cognitive Informatics in Health and Biomedicine: Understanding and Modeling Health Behaviors. Springer.
Arocha, J. F., & Hoffman-Goetz, L. (2017). Toward a Framework for Understanding Embodied Health Literacy. In Cognitive Informatics in Health and Biomedicine (pp. 65-87). Springer, Cham.
Arocha, J. F., & Patel, V. L. (2017). Making Sense of Health Problems: Folk Cognition and Healthcare Decisions. In Cognitive Informatics in Health and Biomedicine (pp. 45-64). Springer, Cham.
Patel, V. L., Arocha, J. F., & Ancker, J. S. (2017). Cognitive Informatics and Behavior Change in the Health Care Domain. In Cognitive Informatics in Health and Biomedicine (pp. 3-11). Springer, Cham.
Gatobu, S., Hoffman-Goetz, L., & Arocha, J. F. (2017). Numeracy and Older Immigrants’ Health: Exploring the Role of Language. In Cognitive Informatics in Health and Biomedicine(pp. 195-216). Springer, Cham.
McMurray, J., Grindrod, K. A., & Burns, C. (2017). How Appropriate Is All This Data Sharing? Building Consensus Around What We Need to Know About Shared Electronic Health Records in Extended Circles of Care. Healthcare quarterly (Toronto, Ont.), 19(4), 28-36.
Grindrod, K., & Beazely, M. (2016). Fitting naloxone into community pharmacy practice. Canadian Pharmacists Journal/Revue des Pharmaciens du Canada, 149(6), 329-331.
Yang, M., Luensmann, D., Fonn, D., Woods, J., Jones, D., Gordon, K., & Jones, L. (2018). Myopia prevalence in Canadian school children: a pilot study. Eye, 1.
Doucet, M. (2017). The costs and benefits of a cigarette ban. Journal of medical ethics, 43(6), 411-412.
Perlman, C. M., Law, J., Luan, H., Rios, S., Seitz, D., & Stolee, P. (2018). Geographic Clustering of Admissions to Inpatient Psychiatry among Adults with Cognitive Disorders in Ontario, Canada: Does Distance to Hospital Matter?
Boscart, V. M., Heckman, G. A., Huson, K., Brohman, L., Harkness, K. I., Hirdes, J., ... & Stolee, P. (2017). Implementation of an interprofessional communication and collaboration intervention to improve care capacity for heart failure management in long-term care. Journal of interprofessional care, 31(5), 583-592.
Glenny, C., Kuspinar, A., Naglie, G., & Stolee, P. (2017). A qualitative study of healthcare provider perspectives on measuring functional outcomes in geriatric rehabilitation. Clinical rehabilitation, 0269215517733114.
Elliott, J., Stolee, P. T., Heckman, G., Boscart, V., & Giangregorio, L. (2017). Implementing a process of risk-stratified care coordination for older adults in primary care. Innovation in Aging, 1(suppl_1), 159-159.
Piraino, E., Byrne, K., Heckman, G. A., & Stolee, P. (2017). Caring in the information age: personal online networks to improve caregiver support. Canadian Geriatrics Journal, 20(2), 85.
Lafortune, C., Elliott, J., Egan, M. Y., & Stolee, P. (2017). The rest of the story: a qualitative study of complementing standardized assessment data with informal interviews with older patients and families. The Patient-Patient-Centered Outcomes Research, 10(2), 215-224.
Edick, C., Holland, N., Ashbourne, J., Elliott, J., & Stolee, P. (2017, January). A review of Canadian and international dementia strategies. In Healthcare management forum (Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 32-39). Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Publications.
Shier, A. P., Morita, P. P., Dickie, C., Islam, M., Burns, C., & Cafazzo, J. A. (2018). Design and Evaluation of a Safety-Centered User Interface for Radiation Therapy. Practical Radiation Oncology.
Kaufman, N., Salahi, A., Lyon, A. R., Koerner, K., Goyal, S., Morita, P., ... & Wilhide III, C. C. (2017). Using Digital Health Technology to Prevent and Treat Diabetes. Diabetes technology & therapeutics, 19(S1), S-59.
Gelband, H., Horton, S., Watkins, D., Jamison, D. T., Wu, D., Gospodarowicz, M., & Jha, P. (2018). Disease Control Priorities: cancer package principles and overview. The Lancet Global Health, 6, S7.
Fuentes‐Alabi, S., Bhakta, N., Vasquez, R. F., Gupta, S., & Horton, S. E. (2018). The cost and cost‐effectiveness of childhood cancer treatment in El Salvador, Central America: A report from the Childhood Cancer 2030 Network. Cancer.
Cheah, P. L., Looi, L. M., & Horton, S. (2017). Cost Analysis of Operating an Anatomic Pathology Laboratory in a Middle-Income Country. American journal of clinical pathology, 149(1), 1-7.
Gatobu, S., Horton, S., Kiflie Aleyamehu, Y., Abraham, G., Birhanu, N., & Greig, A. (2017). Delivering Vitamin A Supplements to Children Aged 6 to 59 Months: Comparing Delivery Through Mass Campaign and Through Routine Health Services in Ethiopia. Food and nutrition bulletin, 38(4), 564-573.
Bundy, D. A., de Silva, N., Horton, S., Patton, G. C., Schultz, L., & Jamison, D. T. (2017). Child and Adolescent Health and Development: Realizing Neglected Potential. Disease Control Priorities.
Bundy, D. A., & Horton, S. (2017). Impact of Interventions on Health and Development during Childhood and Adolescence: A Conceptual Framework. Disease Control Priorities, (Volume 8): Child and Adolescent Health and Development, 1781.
Bundy, D. A., de Silva, N., Horton, S., Patton, G. C., Schultz, L., & Jamison, D. T. (2017). Investment in child and adolescent health and development: key messages from Disease Control Priorities. The Lancet.
Cait, C. A., Skop, M., Booton, J., Stalker, C. A., Horton, S., & Riemer, M. (2017). Practice-based qualitative research: Participant experiences of walk-in counselling and traditional counselling. Qualitative Social Work, 16(5), 612-630.
Dong, W., Wan, J., Xu, Y., Chen, C., Bai, G., Fang, L., ... & Wang, Y. (2017). Determinants of self-rated health among shanghai elders: a cross-sectional study. BMC public health, 17(1), 807.

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