Scientific Advisory Board
The focus of the company's SAB is to define and oversee research initiatives already in process that are anticipated to confirm the powerful social impacts of CaringFamily's solution. Leading experts in computer science, human factors, aging, and other fields are in place, with candidates to further fill out the Board identified. Current members include:
- Cathy Bodine, Ph.D; Assistant Professor & Section Head, Assistive Technology, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. For 20 years, Dr. Bodine has specialized in the use of technology to help people with cognitive disabilities. Since 1996, she has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center (CU-HSC), and was recently named Director of the recently formed Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center for the Advancement of Cognitive Technologies at CU-HSC, the entity funded to study the CaringFamily system's effect on Alzheimer's patients and caregivers.
- John Seely Brown, Ph.D; visiting scholar at the Annenberg Center at USC. Dr. Brown was the Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation until April 2002 and also the director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) until June 2000-a position he held for twelve years. His personal research interests include digital culture and rich media (both of which he pursues at USC), ubiquitous computing, web service architectures and organizational and individual learning. He serves on the boards of directors for Corning, Varian Medical Systems and Polycom and on numerous advisory boards and boards of startups.
- Reid Hastie, Ph.D; Professor of Behavioral Science, Center for Decision Research, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago. Dr. Hastie is a recognized expert in decision-making, cognition and memory, and is guiding CaringFamily in the examination of the Company's system on small group decision-making in family settings. He has taught at Harvard University, Northwestern University, the University of Colorado (where he was Director of the Center for Research on Judgment and Policy), and is now a Professor of Behavioral Science on the faculty of the Graduate School at the University of Chicago.
- Clayton Lewis, Ph.D; Professor of Computer Science; Fellow, Institute of Cognitive Science; Scientist in Residence, Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities, University of Colorado. Dr. Lewis is well known as an expert in user interface design and evaluation, and is advising CaringFamily in the development of the Digital Mailbox service. Dr. Lewis is Professor and former Department Chair in Computer Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he has been based since 1984. Prior to joining the University of Colorado, he was Manager of Human Factors at IBM's Watson Research Center.
- Don Norman, Ph.D; cofounder, Nielsen Norman Group; Professor of Computer Science, Northwestern University. Dr. Norman's goal is to help companies make products that appeal to the emotions as well as to reason. Norman is cofounder of the Nielsen Norman Group, an executive consulting firm that helps companies produce human-centered products and services. Norman is Prof. of Computer Science and Psychology at Northwestern University and Prof. Emeritus of both Cognitive Science and Psychology at the University of California, San Diego, former Vice President of Apple Computer's Advanced Technology Group, and an executive at Hewlett Packard and at UNext, a distance education company. He is the author of "The Design of Everyday Things," "Things That Make Us Smart" and, "The Invisible Computer," a book that Business Week called "the bible of post PC thinking."