Gaetano Borriello | TEDxSeattle
Gaetano Borriello – Personalizing Public Health
Gaetano Borriello is the Noe Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. He is adjunct faculty in the Information School and the Department of Human-Centered Design and Engineering.
He is an expert in mobile systems and ubiquitous computing and founded Intel Research Seattle, a premier research laboratory in that space. His research has focused on the application of technology to problems in personal health management, navigation for the cognitively impaired, and more recently, to public health in the developing world.
He currently leads the Open Data Kit project (http://opendatakit.org) that seeks to develop a suite of mobile tools for community health workers in East Africa to use in both clinic and home-visit settings. His students work with several NGOs in the area to get their tools into practical use. The objective is to develop a open-source toolkit of software and hardware platforms that can be easily customized for the different contexts faced by these organizations and be simple enough that they can make these adaptations themselves.
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