Faculty
Harry Hochheiser, PhD
Research Interests
My research interests lie at the intersection of biomedical informatics and human-computer interaction (HCI). Ongoing research efforts involve the application of contextual inquiry, human-centered design, information visualization, and other HCI techniques to challenges in collaborative bioinformatics and Clinical informatics.
Appointments and Positions
Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics
Biomedical Informatics Training Program Core Faculty
Assistant Professor in the Intelligent Systems Program
Current Research Projects and Collaborations
FaceBase Management and Coordination Hub
(NIH) University of Iowa 1 U01 DE020057-01
PI: Marazita 2009-2014
The FaceBase hub (www.facebase.org) is a data portal for craniofacial development. When complete, the hub will support research involving heterogeneous data including genetics, genomics, and multiple imaging modalities. Challenges include integrating diverse data sets and developing highly interactive data exploration environments that will help researchers find non-obvious connections between disparate data items.
Ontology-based integration of human studies data
(NIH) 3U01DE020050-03S1
PI: L. Shapiro 2011-2014
The goal of the Ontology of Craniofacial Development and Malformation (OCDM) is to provide detailed anatomic, developmental, and phenotypic descriptions of craniofacial anatomy. Development of this ontology will be driven by defined use cases describing researcher needs. In collaboration with OCDM and FaceBase partners, we will be developing and evaluating interactive tools that will leverage the models contained in this ontology to help users annotate, explore, query, and interpret diverse data sets describing craniofacial development.
Interactive Search and Review of Clinical Records with Multi-layered Semantic Annotation
(NIH) 1R01LM010964
PI: W. Chapman 2011-2014
The use of retrospective review of free-text medical reports to identify potential participants in research studies is a known limiting factor in many clinical studies. By combining natural language processing approaches with information visualization techniques, we will build interactive tools that will visually display information extracted from clinical records, allowing users to both explore results to identify potential participants and to provide feedback to fine-tune information extraction.
Recent Publications
Kohle-Ersher A, Chatterjee P, Osmanbeyoglu HU, Hochheiser H, Bartos CE. Evaluating the Barriers to Point-of-Care Documentation for Nursing Staff. Comput Inform Nurs. 2011 Oct 21. PubMed PMID: 22024972
Ligons FM, Romagnoli KM, Browell S, Hochheiser H, Handler SM. Assessing the Usability of a Telemedicine-based Medication Delivery Unit for Older Adults through Inspection Methods. AMIA 2011. PubMed PMID: 22195137
Harry Hochheiser, Bruce J. Aronow, Kristin Artinger, Terri H.Beaty, James F. Brinkley, Yang Chai, David Clouthier, Michael L. Cunningham, Michael Dixon, Leah Rae Donahue, Scott E. Fraser, Junichi Iwata, Mary L. Marazita11, Jeffrey C. Murray, Stephen Murray, John Postlethwait, Steven Potter, Linda Shapiro, Richard Spritz, Axel Visel, Seth M. Weinberg and Paul A. Trainor, for the FaceBase Consortium. The FaceBase Consortium: A Comprehensive Program to Facilitate Craniofacial Research.
Hochheiser H, Shneiderman B. From Bowling Alone to Tweeting Together: Technology- Mediated Social Participation. interactions. 2010; 17(2):64-67. (Invited)
Lazar J, Feng J,Hochheiser H. Research Methods in Human-Computer Interaction. London: Wiley; 2010.
Hochheiser H, Lazar J. Revisiting breadth vs. depth in menu structures for blind users of screen readers. Interacting with Computers Epub doi:10.1016/j.intcom.2010.02.003. 2010. (in press)