Speakers : 

Erica Newcomb

Title:

Targeting User Experience for the Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE

Abstract:

The Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE is a $10 million global competition to develop mobile devices that puts healthcare in the palm of your hands. Finalist teams will build a consumer health device to be tested by consumer users, independent of a medical facility or healthcare worker. In Spring of 2014, XPRIZE was seeking a partnership with a User Experience organization to expose teams to a variety of practical, hands-on UX development philosophies and examples of UX. Erica W. Newcomb was selected as the UX Advisor and her company, PointClear Solutions, as the UX partner to the XPRIZE internal operations team or individual teams on issues relating to user experience throughout the competition. This presentation will provide a brief history of the Star Trek Tricorder, XPRIZE competition details, and the UX challenges with regard to the finalist teams' solutions.

Bio:

Erica Wingo Newcomb has over 17 years of user experience expertise, the last 12 of which have been spent in the healthcare and public health domains. As the Director of User Experience for PointClear Solutions, she leads a team of User Experience Experts, Visual Designers and Front-end Developers. Erica leads design/development teams on an array of healthcare projects, conducts UX workshops around the country, and teaches UX research principles for the Masters of Health Informatics at University of Alabama, Birmingham (UAB) as adjunct faculty. She was also appointed UX Advisor to the Qualcomm XPRIZE, a $10 million price competition designed to bring healthcare to the palm of the consumer’s hand. Prior to PointClear, she led projects for Centers for Disease Control (CDC), US Citizen and Immigration Services (USCIS) and various dotcoms, both living and deceased. Erica is also a Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and Business Analyst (CBA). She applies the tenants of Agile UX in her approach to projects in order to create unique and intuitive solutions. Erica holds a Masters of Human-Computer Interaction from Georgia Tech, and a Bachelor of Arts from Birmingham-Southern College.