Mike Massimi

Ph.D. Candidate
Health Care, Technology, and Place Doctoral Fellow
Department of Computer Science
Dynamic Graphics Project
University of Toronto
Supervisor: Dr. Ron Baecker
mikem [at] dgp [dot] toronto [dot] edu

Brief Bio

I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto (where I also received my Master's degree in 2007). I received my Bachelor of Science in computer science from The College of New Jersey where I worked with Dr. Ursula Wolz, and also worked with Dr. Jack Carroll at Penn State and Virginia Tech.

My work is, generally speaking, in human-computer interaction and ubiquitous computing. In my Ph.D. work, I am studying if, and how, ambient displays can be used as interventions for psychosocial rehabilitation in institutionalized and clinically diagnosed populations.

Publications

Full Conference Papers

  • Cao, X., Massimi, M., & Balakrishnan, R. (2008 - to appear). Flashlight jigsaw: An exploratory study of an ad-hoc multi-player game on public displays. To appear in CSCW 2008.
  • Wu, M., Birnholtz, J., Richards, B., Baecker, R., & Massimi, M. (2008). Collaborating to remember: A distributed cognition account of families coping with memory impairments. Proc. CHI 2008, 825-834.
  • Massimi, M., Baecker, R., & Wu, M. (2007). Using participatory activities with seniors to critique, build, and evaluate mobile phones. Proc. ASSETS, 2007, 155-162. [PDF]
  • Massimi, M. (2007). Mobile phones as memory aid vehicles for seniors. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Technology and Aging. [PDF]
  • Wolz, U., Massimi, M., & Tarn, E. (2004). rMUSIC - A collaborative music DJ for ad hoc networks. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Web Delivering of Music (Wedelmusic '04), Barcelona, Spain, 144-150. [PDF]

Journal Articles

  • Massimi, M., Berry, E., Browne, G., Smyth, G., Watson, P., & Baecker, R.M. (2008). An exploratory case study of the impact of ambient biographical displays on identity in a patient with Alzheimer's disease. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, in press.
  • Massimi, M., Ganoe, C., & Carroll, J. M. (2007). Scavenger hunt - An empirical tool for collaborative mobile problem-solving. IEEE Pervasive Computing, 6(1), 81-87. [PDF]

Book Articles & Chapters

  • Massimi, M. and Baecker, R. (2008). An empirical study of seniors' perceptions of mobile phones as memory aids. In Mihailidis, A., Boger, J., Kautz, H., and Normie, L. (Eds.), Technology and Aging (pp. 59-66). Amsterdam: IOS Press. [PDF]
  • Massimi, M., Ganoe, C., & Carroll, J. M. (2007). A game-based methodology for prototype evaluation of collaborative mobile applications. In Tarniar, D. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Mobile Computing and Commerce (pp. 291-295). Hershey, PA: Idea Group. [PDF]

Theses

  • Massimi, M. (2007). Participatory design of mobile phone software for seniors. Unpublished Master's thesis, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. [PDF]

Refereed Posters

  • Chiu, T. & Massimi, M. (2006). A digital support device designed to help family caregivers coordinate, communicate and plan the care of people with brain injury. American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 2006 Annual Symposium Proceedings, Washington, DC, 884. [PDF]
  • Chiu, T. & Massimi, M. (2006). User-centred design of a digital knowledge medium to support family caregivers of brain injury survivors. Abstracts Book, 11th World Conference on Internet in Medicine, Toronto, Ontario, 32. [PDF]
  • Massimi, M. & Wolz, U. (2003). Peer to peer policy management system for wearable mobile devices. Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Wearable Computing (ISWC '03), White Plains, New York, 246-247. [PDF]

Workshop Papers

  • Massimi, M. (2006). A context-aware mobile phone for remembering names and faces. Position paper for CHI 2006 Workshop on Designing Technology for People with Cognitive Impairments. [PDF]
  • Massimi, M. & Baecker, R. (2006). Participatory design process with older users. Position paper for Ubicomp 2006 Workshop on future networked interactive media systems and services for the new-senior communities. [PDF]

Student Posters

  • Massimi, M. & Tarn, E. (2004). Mathematical models governing dynamic user-driven resource allocation. Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, 19(5), 300-301.

Invited Talks

  • Wolz, U., Massimi, M., Tarn, E., Weinman, S., & Babinski, P. (2004). rMUSIC: A System for Collaborative Construction of a Media Event/Collaborative Decision Making through Database Annotation. New Media Center Online Conference on Social Computing, November, 2004.