Ravi Karkar
University of Washington
16 Papers
2 Citations
Ravi Karkar is an academic researcher from University of Washington. The author has contributed to research in topics: Flicker fusion threshold & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 12 publications.
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Papers
TummyTrials: A Feasibility Study of Using Self-Experimentation to Detect Individualized Food Triggers
Ravi Karkar,Jessica Schroeder,Daniel A. Epstein,Laura R. Pina,Jeffrey Scofield,James Fogarty,Julie A. Kientz,Sean A. Munson,Roger Vilardaga,Jasmine Zia +9 more
- 02 May 2017
TL;DR: A mobile app that applies a self experimentation framework to support patients suffering from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) in identifying their personal food triggers and an underlying tension between scientific validity and the lived experience of self experimentation is discovered.
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A framework for self-experimentation in personalized health.
Ravi Karkar,Jasmine Zia,Roger Vilardaga,Sonali R. Mishra,James Fogarty,Sean A. Munson,Julie A. Kientz +6 more
TL;DR: Implementation of the self-experimentation framework in a mobile application appears to be feasible for people with IBS and can likely be applied to other health conditions.
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DigiTouch: Reconfigurable Thumb-to-Finger Input and Text Entry on Head-mounted Displays
Eric Whitmire,Mohit Jain,Divye Jain,Greg L. Nelson,Ravi Karkar,Shwetak N. Patel,Mayank Goel +6 more
- 11 Sep 2017
TL;DR: DigiTouch is presented, a reconfigurable glove-based input device that enables thumb-to-finger touch interaction by sensing continuous touch position and pressure and improves the reliability of continuous touch tracking and estimating pressure on resistive fabric interfaces.
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Examining Self-Tracking by People with Migraine: Goals, Needs, and Opportunities in a Chronic Health Condition
Jessica Schroeder,Chia-Fang Chung,Daniel A. Epstein,Ravi Karkar,Adele Parsons,Natalia Murinova,James Fogarty,Sean A. Munson +7 more
- 08 Jun 2018
TL;DR: Four distinct goals people bring to tracking and data suggest different needs for the design of tools to support migraine tracking, resulting from an individual's goals evolving over time, their varied personal experiences, and their communication and collaboration with providers.
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Examining Opportunities for Goal-Directed Self-Tracking to Support Chronic Condition Management
Jessica Schroeder,Ravi Karkar,Natalia Murinova,James Fogarty,Sean A. Munson +4 more
- 11 Dec 2019
TL;DR: This paper creates a paper prototype to explore whether and how goal-directed self-tracking could address current disconnects between the goals people have for data in their chronic condition management and the tools they use to support such goals.