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8/8/14 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 1

8/8/14 WHO AM I AND HOW DID I GET HERE? My Journey 2

8/8/14 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. 3

8/8/14 BALANCING HEALTH AND COMPUTING RESEARCH Balancing research agendas High Domain impressed Everybody impressed Domain contribution Nobody impressed Technologists impressed Low Computing contribution High 4

8/8/14 Relevance to NSF SCH? High Domain cares Everybody cares (but NSF won’t) (the SCH “sweet spot”) Domain contribution Nobody cares Technologists care (resist temptation to comment ☺ ) (but NIH won’t) Low Computing contribution High The more likely trajectory High Domain cares (“clinician”) Domain contribution Technologists care (“digithead”) Low Computing contribution High 5

8/8/14 Warning! High Domain cares Domain contribution 2017 2014 Technologists care Low Computing contribution High Example: Merging health and technology Asthma common “chronic” disease among children Mobile phone common device owned by children Everyone's asthma is the same. F=False T=True Rosa Arriaga Tae-Jung Yun 6

8/8/14 Balancing research agendas High Health contribution Low Computing contribution High Where next? Improving self-report Health contribution Computing contribution 7

8/8/14 Autism work Autism contribution Computing contribution THE FUTURE OF COMPUTING 8

8/8/14 Generation 1: The Dawning Ge Gene neration n Time meframe me P People le t to Cano noni nical l Kille ller a app De Device r ratio de device ce 1 Late ‘40’s Many – 1 Mainframe Scientific calculation Generation 2: The PC revolution A personal relationship with our computer Ge Gene neration n Time meframe me People le t to Cano noni nical l Kille ller a app De Device r ratio device de ce 1 Late ‘40’s Many – 1 Mainframe Scientific calculation 2 Late ’60’s 1 – 1 PC Spreadsheet 9

8/8/14 Generation 3: Ubicomp Blurring physical / digital boundary Ge Gene neration n Time meframe me People le t to Cano noni nical l Kille ller a app Device r De ratio de device ce 1 Late ‘40’s Many – 1 Mainframe Scientific calculation 2 Late ’60’s 1 – 1 PC Spreadsheet 3 Late ‘80’s 1 – Many Inch/foot/yard Human-human communication Generation 4: What is it? Ge Gene neration n Time meframe me People le t to Cano noni nical l Kille ller a app De Device r ratio device de ce 1 Late ‘40’s Many – 1 Mainframe Scientific calculation 2 Late ’60’s 1 – 1 PC Spreadsheet 3 Late ‘80’s 1 – Many Inch/foot/yard Human-human communication 4 ?? ?? ?? ?? 10

8/8/14 Generation 4: When will it start? It’s already started! Ge Gene neration n Time meframe me People le t to Cano noni nical l Kille ller a app De Device r ratio de device ce 1 Late ‘40’s Many – 1 Mainframe Scientific calculation 2 Late ’60’s 1 – 1 PC Spreadsheet 3 Late ‘80’s 1 – Many Inch/foot/yard Human-human communication 4 Late ‘00’s ?? ?? ?? Generation 4: Lots of People and Devices Ge Gene neration n Time meframe me People le t to Cano noni nical l Kille ller a app De Device r ratio device de ce 1 Late ‘40’s Many – 1 Mainframe Scientific calculation 2 Late ’60’s 1 – 1 PC Spreadsheet 3 Late ‘80’s 1 – Many Inch/foot/yard Human-human communication 4 Late ‘00’s Many – Many 11

8/8/14 Generation 4: Breakthrough technologies Ge Gene neration n Time meframe me People le t to Cano noni nical l Kille ller a app De Device r ratio de device ce 1 Late ‘40’s Many – 1 Mainframe Scientific calculation 2 Late ’60’s 1 – 1 PC Spreadsheet 3 Late ‘80’s 1 – Many Inch/foot/yard Human-human communication 4 Late ‘00’s Many – Many Cloud/Crowd/ Shroud 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. Ge Gene neration n Time meframe me People le t to Cano noni nical l Kille ller a app De Device r ratio device de ce 1 Late ‘40’s Many – 1 Mainframe Scientific calculation 2 Late ’60’s 1 – 1 PC Spreadsheet 3 Late ‘80’s 1 – Many Inch/foot/yard Human-human communication 4 Late ‘00’s Many – Many Cloud/Crowd/ Shroud 12

8/8/14 Generation 4: Brand it CompComp (Comp 2 ) : Blurring the human / computing boundary Ge Gene neration n Time meframe me People le t to Cano noni nical l Kille ller a app De Device r ratio de device ce 1 Late ‘40’s Many – 1 Mainframe Scientific calculation 2 Late ’60’s 1 – 1 PC Spreadsheet 3 Late ‘80’s 1 – Many Inch/foot/yard Human-human communication 4 Late ‘00’s Many – Many Cloud/Crowd/ Shroud Generation 4: How will it take hold? What is/are/will be the killer app(s)? Ge Gene neration n Time meframe me People le t to Cano noni nical l Kille ller a app Device r De ratio de device ce 1 Late ‘40’s Many – 1 Mainframe Scientific calculation 2 Late ’60’s 1 – 1 PC Spreadsheet 3 Late ‘80’s 1 – Many Inch/foot/yard Human-human communication 4 Late ‘00’s Many – Many Cloud/Crowd/ The self-sufficient genius Shroud Simple example: Navigation and entertainment 13

8/8/14 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 Comp 2 , we become our own doctors. Or so we will think. (Dis)organized thoughts of a parallel academic/entrepreneur MUSINGS ON TECHNOLOGY TRANSITION 14

8/8/14 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 15

8/8/14 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 16

8/8/14 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). 17

8/8/14 Thank you! Acknowledgements – National Science Foundation – NIMH SBIR program – Intel Science and Technology Center on Pervasive Computing 18