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Computing, Health, Business & the Future

Gregory D. Abowd Regents’ and Distinguished Professor School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Tech

Outline

• Who am I, and how did I get here?
• Balancing health and computing research
• The future of computing and what it might mean for

health

• Musings on technology transition from a parallel

academic entrepreneur

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WHO AM I AND HOW DID I GET HERE?

My Journey

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Enter Georgia Tech, 1994…

I know who I am now

A researcher in Applied Computer Science with a passion to create a difference in my part of the world in whatever way makes sense.

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BALANCING HEALTH AND COMPUTING RESEARCH

Balancing research agendas

Computing contribution Domain contribution Domain impressed Nobody impressed Everybody impressed Technologists impressed Low High High

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Relevance to NSF SCH?

Computing contribution Domain contribution Domain cares

(but NSF won’t)

Nobody cares

(resist temptation to comment ☺ )

Everybody cares

(the SCH “sweet spot”)

Technologists care

(but NIH won’t)

Low High High

The more likely trajectory

Computing contribution Domain contribution Domain cares

(“clinician”)

Technologists care

(“digithead”)

Low High High

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Warning!

Computing contribution Domain contribution Domain cares Technologists care Low High High

2014 2017

Example: Merging health and technology

Asthma

common “chronic” disease among children

Mobile phone

common device owned by children

Rosa Arriaga Tae-Jung Yun

Everyone's asthma is the same. F=False T=True

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Balancing research agendas

Computing contribution Health contribution Low High High

Where next? Improving self-report

Computing contribution Health contribution

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Autism work

Computing contribution Autism contribution

THE FUTURE OF COMPUTING

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Generation 1: The Dawning

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Generation 2: The PC revolution

A personal relationship with our computer

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Generation 3: Ubicomp

Blurring physical / digital boundary

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Generation 4: What is it?

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Generation 4: When will it start?

It’s already started!

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Generation 4: Lots of People and Devices

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Generation 4: Breakthrough technologies

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Ahem, CMU. Close but no cigar. ☺

Generation 4: Name it

Complementary Computing: Combining the computing and human experience in such a way as to enhance the qualities of each other.

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Generation 4: Brand it

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CompComp (Comp2) : Blurring the human / computing boundary

Generation 4: How will it take hold?

What is/are/will be the killer app(s)?

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Simple example: Navigation and entertainment

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What does this mean for health?

(Bol Bold) predictions

– In < 5 years, the majority of clinically relevant data will be collected outside of clinical settings. – Health will be more consumer driven and you will get real, actionable advice from more than your network of health professionals. – Health research will be more “n of 1” versus RCT.

With Comp2, we become our own doctors.

Or so we will think.

MUSINGS ON TECHNOLOGY TRANSITION

(Dis)organized thoughts of a parallel academic/entrepreneur

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Learning from my experience

• 6 commercialization efforts

– Each time I have learned what I did wrong and what not to repeat.

• Also started a nonprofit

Different worlds?

• Academia
• For-profit private industry

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Financial…selling and sustaining

• Academia

– write grants to agencies, publish papers, do demos/ presentations, network

• For-profit private industry

– Write white papers to investors, secure IP, build MVPs, network

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Let’s end with a game! Taking on a new PhD student

Is like doing a start-up, because…

– you need sustainable funding, else valley of death – you must get out of the building! – you need to know your exit strategy and revisit regularly. – you need skin in the game to succeed (equity).

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Thank you!

Acknowledgements

– National Science Foundation – NIMH SBIR program – Intel Science and Technology Center on Pervasive Computing