Step by step, professor makes health tracking more inclusive
More than a third of Americans now use health-care apps and wearable devices, tracking everything from walking steps, heart rates, caloric intake and running speeds to daily moods, hourly medications and monthly fertility cycles. For users with disabilities — the blind person who cannot read a touchscreen at the gym or the older person whose slow gait is inaccurately recorded on a wearable device — the tracking tools can be a frustrating mismatch. This year’s UW iSchool Distinguished Alumni Award honoree, Eun Kyoung Choe (Ph.D. ’14), is taking on these challenges, helping to desig