Julie A. Jacko, PhD Professor, School of Nursing Professor, School of Public Health/Env Health Director, Institute for Health Informatics Telephone Number: 612-625-4912 E-mail Address: jacko011@umn.edu Office Location: 6-138B Weaver-Densford Hall

Mailing Address:

School of Nursing
University of Minnesota
5-140 Weaver-Densford Hall
308 Harvard Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Co-operative Membership:
Leadership, Systems, Informatics & Policy

Educational Background:

BS, 1990, Industrial Engineering, Purdue University
MS, 1991, Industrial Engineering, Purdue University
PhD, 1993, Industrial Engineering, Purdue University

Areas of Research

Dr. Jacko's research activities focus on human-computer interaction, universal access to electronic information technologies, and technological aspects of health care delivery. She is the author or co-author of over 120 research publications including journal articles, books, book chapters and conference proceedings. Dr. Jacko is internationally recognized for her contributions to applications and theory development related to human aspects of personal, mobile, and networked computing, and particularly her landmark contributions advancing technology access for people with visual impairments. Her externally funded research has been supported by the Intel Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, the National Science Foundation, The Coulter Foundation, NASA, the NIH Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ), and the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR). Dr. Jacko received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for her research titled, "Universal Access to the Graphical User Interface: Design For The Partially Sighted," and the National Science Foundation's Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), which is the highest honor bestowed on young scientists and engineers by the United States government.

Dr. Jacko is Co-Editor of the Human-Computer Interaction Handbook: Fundamentals, Evolving Technologies, and Emerging Applications, published by Lawrence Erlbaum & Associates in 2003, with the second edition published by Taylor & Francis in 2008. She is Editor-In-Chief of the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction (IJHCI) and she is Associate Editor for the International Journal of Human Computer Studies (IJHCS). In 2001 she served as Conference and Technical Program Chair for the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2001). She also served as Program Chair for the Fifth ACM SIGCAPH Conference on Assistive Technologies (ASSETS 2002), and as General Conference Chair of the Sixth ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2004). In 2006, Dr. Jacko was elected to serve a three-year term as President of ACM SIGCHI.

Dr. Jacko routinely provides expert consultancy for organizations and corporations on systems usability and accessibility, emphasizing human aspects of interactive systems design.

Selected Awards

• 2006, Elected to the Office of President, The Association of Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI)
• 2003, Elected to the Office of Vice President for Membership and Communications of ACM SIGCHI
• 2004, Hesburgh Award Teaching Fellow
• 2004, SIGACCESS Service Award, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• 2002, SIGCAPH Service Award, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• 2001, SIGCHI Service Award, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• 1999, Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), National Science Foundation
• 1998, SIGCHI Service Award, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• 1998, CAREER Award, National Science Foundation

Selected Research Publications

• Moloney, K. P., Shi, B., Leonard, V. K., Jacko, J. A., Vidakovic, B., & Sainfort, F., "Leveraging data complexity: Pupillary behavior of older adults with visual impairment during HCI," Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), in-press, 2007.
  
  
• Barnard, L., Yi, J. S., Jacko, J. A., & Sears, A., "An empirical comparison of use-in-motion evaluation scenarios for mobile computing devices," International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 62 (4), 487-520, 2004.
  
  
• Alonso, M., Barreto, A. B., Cremades, J. G., & Jacko, J. A., & Adjouadi, M., "Image pre-compensation to facilitate computer access for users with refractive errors," Behaviour & Information Technology, 24(3), 161-173, 2005.
  
  
• Edwards, P. J., Barnard, L., Leonard, V. K., Yi, J.S., Moloney, K. P., Kongnakorn, T., Jacko, J. A. & Sainfort, F., "Understanding users with Diabetic Retinopathy: Factors that affect performance in a menu selection task," Behaviour & Information Technology, 24(3), 175-186, 2005.
  
  
• Lu, Y. C., Xiao, Y., Sears, A., & Jacko, J. A., "A review and a framework of handheld computer adoption in healthcare," International Journal of Medical Informatics, 74, 409-422, 2005.
  
  
• Jacko, J. A., Moloney, K. P., Kongnakorn, T., Barnard, L., Edwards, P. J., Leonard, V. K., Sainfort, F., & Scott, I. U., "Multimodal feedback as a solution to ocular disease-based user performance decrements in the absence of functional vision loss," International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 18(2), 183-218, 2005.
  
  
• Jacko, J. A., Emery, V. K., Edwards, P. J., Ashok, M., Barnard, L., Kongnakorn, T., Moloney, K. P., & Sainfort, F., "The effects of multimodal feedback on older adults? task performance given varying levels of computer experience," Behaviour & Information Technology, 23(4), 247-264, 2004.