Meeting with an Expert

Class 17

Agenda• 3:00-3:05 Announcements

• 3:05-3:25 Meeting with an Expert

• 3:25-3:50 Final Project Group Meetings

Announcements

• Friday’s class– Laptops

• Grad presentations• Long shot

– Windows CE Thread.Sleep…• If PDA is inactive, it doesn’t work• Is there a service?

Where are we?

Topics in Medical Informatics

Techniques for MI Research

Synthesis Paper

Final Project

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How to find an expert to work with?

How to find an expert to work with?• Dry calling/emailing

• Introduce yourself

• Your interests

• How your interests relate to their interests (Make it personal)

• How to contact you for further meetings

• Networking

• Go to a medical conference/workshop/meeting

• Use your technical contacts for ideas

• Meeting through your own community• Ask medical professionals you go to for ideas

• Listen to people and their gripes about your areas of interest

What should you prep for when going into a meeting with an expert?

What should you prep for when going into a meeting with an expert?

• Know about the expert• Their interests

• Recent papers

• Recent grants

• Know where you are going

• Don’t be late!

• Be prepared!

• Bring a portfolio/recent papers

• Presentation with handouts about your research interests

• Don’t assume they know what you know - you will have to define terms

• Answer the questions you know … don’t bluff anything

• Ask questions

Be Prepared!What would you ask?

Be Prepared!What would you ask? •Please tell me more about this area.

•What are the main goals you are trying to address with this?

•Who would use this?•Where would they use it?•How often is this used?

Be Prepared!What would you recommend?

Be Prepared!What would you recommend?

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Check area size

What blocks are most important?

Are there any med conflicts here?

Are these metrics/labs within range?

How to market yourself (and get your research goals across)

• Common Misperception• You are a programmer

• Programming is research enough…

• You don’t have to meet with the target population

• What you have to get across• Yes, you do program…

• You do research

• You cannot create efficient/useful/pleasing applications without talking to the target population

• How do you get this across?

• What do you need to know from them?

• Evaluate how technology affects medical interventions

• Design systems for underserved populations

• Evaluate technologies in the users’ natural settings

• Mobile Devices

• Mobile phones

• PDAs

• Touch screen Technology

• Tablets

• Some web applications

Technology

Looking forward

• This week• Friday: Portfolio• Final Project Topic Report due Friday, October 10

• Next week• Synthesis paper presentations• Synthesis paper due Friday, October 17