Concept Paper

The purpose of this assignment is to get you thinking critically about a particular personal health interface being proposed that would use Google Glass, how to justify the design, and how the device might be evaluated.

• Write a 4 page paper (CHI format) (including references). The paper should clearly describe the idea your team is pursuing for improving health or healthcare using personal health informatics. The paper should include references to relevant scientific literature and a description of the problem(s) the technology might solve, the technical innovation the project would demonstrate, and the technical implementation challenges that might be encountered with suggestions for how they could be overcome. The paper will be evaluated on how well the idea proposal shows evidence that a thorough background literature review has been done and the details of a particular idea thought through. This paper might ultimately become the base for another paper you might submit to a conference at a later date, once a solution has been built and evaluated.
• The paper should should show evidence of careful thought, a careful literature review, and strong writing in terms of clarity, grammar, spelling, and overall organization.
• Someone who reads your paper should feel like they fully understand...
  • The problem you propose to solve
  • Why the problem has not been solved
  • Why new opportunities created by innovative technology (e.g., Google Glass) will allow you to solve the problem
  • The idea you are actually proposing (i.e., how the technology might work)
  • How the idea could be evaluated
  • Anticipated challenges

PHI students SHOULD NOT be using text turned in in prior assignments in prior PHI courses.

References that you find that may be of interest to anyone in the course (generally interested in health innovation and Google Glass) should be entered in Mendeley.

Hand in the following:

• A copy of your paper as a Word document and PDF document. I will edit the Word document using track changes.
• References that others in the class may benefit from entered in the Mendeley group.

Send an email with your paper to ...@neu.edu. Name the file in this format: [your last name].conceptpaper.pdf.