Presenter: Armen Arevian, UCLA (Telemedicine specialist, among other things)
Personal note: Chorus looks a bit like IFTTT to me
Disparities in Technology Development
- Technical sophistication
- Financial Resources
- Creating tech that’s actually used and has impact
- Sustainability of projects/maintenance
…results in several limitations
- Created by a select few
- Smaller subset sustains them
- Limited types of people that can be directly involved in creating technologies
- Time delays to create technologies
- Limited customization/tailoring of technologies that can be created
Traditional Development
- Development process = Expert + IT + User feedback
“Participatory Technology Development”
- Stakeholders as equal co-partners
- Community-based participatory research
Chorus
- Visually create apps yourself in real-time
- HIPAA compliant
- Vetted by UCLA OIT security & Semel IT
- Approved for use in research
- Provides basic interaction building blocks, but users create their own story about what makes sense
- Reads & writes to the web app
Armen then gave a demonstration of Chorus…very impressive!