Dadong Wan

Accenture
161 North Clark St.
Chicago IL 60601
USA

Research Interests

My research focuses on ubiquitous commerce, situated computing, and computer augmentation to human intelligence. More specifically, I'm keen on exploring means for bridging the gap between the physical world and the virtual world, and on inventing new ways for bridging the gaps between people's intention, commitment, and action. My passion lies in creating new ways of doing things through technology rather than in devising incremental solutions.

Recent Projects

Intelligent Kitchen Services (project leader): Integrate cameras, sensors, and broadband media to support intelligent meal planning, just-in-time kitchen aid, and virtual family dinner.

Online Health Services (project leader): Provides continuous care for chronic patients by using wireless health devices and advanced analytics and collaboration tools.

Intelligent Sales Suite (project leader): A just-in-time learning and sales support tool that is built on top of Tablet PCs, Bluetooth, 802.11, and speech recognition technology.

Workplace Awareness Tools (project leader): Supports decision making by giving managers a real-time, “big picture” view of their assets, employees and marketplace.

Virtual Security Services (project leader): Employs Web services, wireless devices and surveillance cameras to provide security services to individuals and business.

Virtual Home Improvement Services (project leader): Uses wireless cameras, speech, and Web Services to create a new class of services called “micro services on tap.”

Online Wardrobe (project leader): A situated fashion advisor that knows what you have in your wardrobe and suggests what to buy or wear.

Real-World Showroom (project leader): A handheld application that allows you find out, in real time. everything about a product while you see such a product in its real usage context.

Online Medicine Cabinet (project leader): A situated health portal that provides medication reminders, vital sign monitoring and personalized health information.

Avalanche: A demonstration of how new technologies transform automobiles from a means of transportation to an interactive channel for delivering services.

Selected Publications

Pervasive Computing in Healthcare
Edited by Jakob. E. Bardram, Alex Mihailidis, and Dadong Wan
CRC Press
November 2006

The Business of Pervasive Healthcare
Dadong Wan and Luis E. Taveras
To be published as a chapter in Pervasive Computing in Healthcare. CRC Press
November 2006.
[Paper (PDF)]

Caring Plant: Delivering Intelligent Elderly Care Using Ambient Objects
D. Wan
CHI 2005 Workshop on HCI Challenges in Health Assessment
April 4, 2005
Portland, Oregon
[Abstract for Caring Plant: Delivering Intelligent Elderly Care Using Ambient Objects] [Paper (PDF)]

Protecting People on the Move through Virtual Personal Security
D. Wan and A. Gershman
International Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing (IWUC 20'04), held in conjunction with the 6th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS)
April 13-14, 2004
Porto, Portugal
[Abstract for Protecting People on the Move through Virtual personal Security] [Paper (PDF)]

Personalized Ubiquitous Commerce: An Application Perspective
D. Wan
To appear as a chapter in Designing Personalized User Experiences for e-Commerce, edited by Clare-Marie Karat, Jan Blom, and John Karat, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004
[Abstract for Personalized Ubiquitou Commerce: An Application Perspective] [Paper (PDF)]

Virtual Handyman: Supporting Micro Services on Tap through Situated Sensing and Web Services
D. Wan
Appeared in the Supplemental Proceedings of ACM 2002 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2002)
November 16-20, 2002
New Orleans, Louisiana
[Abstract for Virtual Handyman: Supporting Micro Services on Tap through Situated Sensing and Web Services] [Paper (PDF)]

Supporting People on the Move Through Virtual Personal Security
D. Wan
Submitted to the Fifth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing
October 12-15, 2003
Seattle, Washington
[Abstract for Supporting People on the Move Through Virtual Personal Security] [Paper (PDF)]

Magic Wardrobe: Situated Shopping from Your Own Bedroom
D.Wan
Second International Symposium on Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing (HUC 2000)
25-27 September 2000
Bristol, UK
[Abstract for Magic Wardrobe: Situated Shopping from Your Own Bedroom] [Paper (PDF) ]

Magic Home: Exploiting the Duality between the Physical and the Virtual Worlds
D. Wan
2000 Conference on Human Factors in Computer Systems (CHI 2000) Extended Abstracts
April 1-6, 2000
The Hague
[Abstract for Magic Home: Exploiting the Duality between the Physical and the Virtual Worlds] [Paper (PDF)]

Magic Medicine Cabinet: A Situated Portal for Consumer Healthcare
D. Wan
First International Symposium on Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing (HUC '99)September 27-29, 1999
Karlsruhe, Germany
[Abstract for Magic Medicine Cabinet: A Situated Portal for Consumer Healthcare] [Paper (PDF)(ZIP)]

(A more extensive selection of publications by Dadong Wan can be found here.)

Education

• Ph.D., Communications and Information Science, University of Hawaii
• M.S., Information and Library Sciences, Brigham Young University
• B.A., Library Science, Wuhan University, China

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