Author: Kay Connelly

I was selected as an Indiana University Provost Professor! This honor is for faculty who have achieved distinction in both teaching and research. Read more from the news release.

Learn more about our NSF planning grant for an Artificial Intelligence Institute for Rural Health, Wellness, and Resilience.

The CRA, CCC and NSF put together a postdoc program to help keep graduating PhDs in technology from leaving academia because of the evaporation of the job market due to Covid. IU is getting two such fellows, and one, Clara Caldeira, will be working with me. I’m thrilled to have her join our team! Read more here.

I was recently profiled on IT Connections for IU. Check it out here!

I am honored that my dean, Raj Acharya, has selected me to be the associate dean for research for the School. I can’t wait to dig in! You can learn more from the press release.

August 2017 – Always excited to publish with my health researcher colleagues (nurses, doctors, etc…). I learn so much from these domain specialists who care so deeply for the populations they work with. It’s always fun to see how they present their work to their colleagues… disciplinary cultures and norms vary so much! My latest such publications:

Unhealthy weight control strategies: An outcome of body image and eating tensions in women of Mexican origin living in rural farming communities. KF Stein, N Trabold, K Connelly – Journal of Health Psychology, 2017

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Life-Space Predicts Health Care Utilization in Community-Dwelling Older Adults. Richard E Kennedy, Courtney P Williams, Patricia Sawyer, Alexander X Lo, Kay Connelly, Ariann Nassel, Cynthia J Brown. Journal of Aging and Health, 2017.

June 2017 – Thrilled to publish another paper with my data science colleague, Sriraam Natarajan. It is so powerful to combine our human-centered intervention approach with machine learning:

Boosting for Postpartum Depression Prediction. Sriraam Natarajan, Annu Prabhakar, Nandini Ramanan, Anna Bagilone, Katie Siek, and Kay Connelly. In CHASE 2017.

May 2017 – Thrilled to have two students with papers at CHI this year:

Haley MacLeod, Grace Bastin, Leslie S. Liu, Katie Siek, and Kay Connelly. 2017. “Be Grateful You Don’t Have a Real Disease”: Understanding Rare Disease Relationships. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1660-1673. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025796

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Annu Sible Prabhakar, Lucia Guerra-Reyes, Vanessa M. Kleinschmidt, Ben Jelen, Haley MacLeod, Kay Connelly, and Katie A. Siek. 2017. Investigating the Suitability of the Asynchronous, Remote, Community-based Method for Pregnant and New Mothers. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 4924-4934. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025546

August 2016 – The HomeSHARE initiative is a geographically distributed testbed to design, develop, and evaluate pervasive home-based technologies for aging-in-place.  IU is the lead institution, with partners at University of Colorado, University of Virginia, Clemson University and University of Washington.

July 2016 – The design paper for the LEAD mobile app was published in JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. Read about how we designed an ESM application for low-literacy, Mexican-American women in our paper titled: Development of an Ecological Momentary Assessment Mobile App for a Low-Literacy, Mexican American Population to Collect Disordered Eating Behaviors