(David Gustafson, Robert Hawkins, Suzanne Pingree, Patricia Brennan)
[11th and 5th floors, WARF Building]

These laboratories have gone through an exciting period of change. The major focus of the research is the design and testing of expert systems, computer mediated communication and database systems to help people who have problems in areas such as breast cancer, AIDS, heart disease, alcoholism, aging and abuse. The lab includes nearly 200 microcomputers linked through a network to a central server. It sounds like a lot of computers. However, most are out in the homes of people with these problems in Wisconsin, Massachusetts, Connecticut, British Columbia, Michigan and Minnesota. This is allowing us to carry lots of exciting research on how these technologies can be developed, disseminated and used to make a difference in people's lives. This lab makes extensive use of tools from Quality engineering such as Quality Function Deployment and Quality Planning. Decision science is also essential for the expert systems.

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