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Bambang Parmanto, PhD
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- Office Location
- 6026 Forbes Tower
- Office phone
- 412-383-6649
- E-mail address
- parmanto@pitt.edu
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Academic Appointment
Associate Professor
Education
PhD, Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
MS, Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
BS, Computer Sciences, Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia
Research Interests
Data mining
Web accessibility
Personal health record
Recent Publications
Scotch, M. and Parmanto, B. (2007). Usability evaluatin of the spatial OLAP visualization and analytical tools. Journal of Usability Studies. Vol. 2, No. 2, 76-95.
Saptono, A., Schein, R., Parmanto, B., and Brienza, D. (2006). Remote wheelchair prescription: Initial system evaluation. Proceedings of the RESNA Conference.
Saptono, A. and Parmanto, B. (2006). Personal health record system in telerehabiitation. Proceedings of the American Telemedicine Association.
Scotch, M., Parmanto, B., Gadd, C., and Sharma, R. (2006). Exploring the role of GIS during community health assessment problem solving: Experiences of public health professionals. International Journal of Health Geographic, Vol 5, No. 39.
Parmanto, B. and Hackett, S. Z (2006). Usability study of a viral guide dog in AcceSS transcoding gateway. Journal of visual Impairment and Blindness, Vol. 100, No. 13, 173-181.
Hackett, S. and Parmanto, B. (2006). A case study of the impact of lawsuits on web accessibility. Proceedings of the 21st Annual International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference.
Parmanto, B., Saptono, A., Sugiantara, W., Brienza, D., and Nnaji, B. (2006). Information technology infrastructure for supporting telerehabilitation. Proceedings of the RESNA Conference.
Brisben, A., Parmanto, B., Cohn E., Yaruss, J., and Lathan, C. (2006). Development of telemonitoring architecture for children’s communication skills. Proceedings of the RESNA Conference.
Parmanto, B., Saptono, A., and Song, L. (2005). Development and usability study of information summarization transcoder for mobile handheld. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Advances in Mobile Multimedia
Parmanto, B., Scotch, M. and Ahmad, S. (2005). A framework for designing a healthcare outcome data warehouse. Perspectives in HIM, Vol. 2, No. 3, 1-8.
Hackett, S., Parmanto, B., and Zeng X. (2005). A retrospective look at website accessibility over time. Behavior and Information Technology. Vol. 24, No. 6, 407 – 417.
Parmanto, B. and Zeng, X. (2005). Metric for web accessibility evaluation. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Vol. 56, No. 13, 1394-1404.
Parmanto, B., Ferrydiansyah, R., Saptono, A., Song, L., Sugiantara, I., and Hackett, S., (2005). AceSS: Accessibility through simplification and summarization. Proceedings of the International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility.
Parmanto, B., Ferrydiansyah, R., Zeng, X., Saptono, A., and Sugiantara, I., (2005). Accessibility transformation gateway. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS’05).
Parmanto, B., Saptono, A., Ferrydiansyah, R., and Sugiantara I. (2005). Transcoding biomedical information resources for mobile handhelds. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii Internal Conference on System Sciences (HICSS’05), Track 6, Vol. 6, 158-151.
Scotch, M., and Parmanto, B., (2005) SOVAT: Spatial OLAP visualization and analysis tool. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS’05), 2005.
Scotch, M., Parmanto, B., Sharma, R., and Meit, M., (2004). Combining OLAP and GIS for community health assessments. Proceedings of the Internal Medical Informatics Association (IMIA), 1851.
Zeng, X., and Parmanto, B., (2004). Web content accessibility of consumer health information websites for people with disabilities. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 6(2):e19.
Hackett, S., Parmanto, B., and Zeng, X., (2004). Accessibility of internet websites through time. ACM SIGACESS Accessibility and Computing, 32-39.
Courses Recently Taught
HRS-2422 Object-Oriented and Web Programming
HRS-2423 Information Technology in Healthcare
HRS-2424 Database Systems in Healthcare
Biographical Profile
Bambang Parmanto, PhD, is an assistant professor of health information management and biomedical informatics at the University of Pittsburgh. His research interests are in the areas of mining, visualizing, and managing complex data sets, and in the areas of Internet technologies.
He is the principal investigator for a project that develops technologies to mitigate barriers to computer and Internet use by people with disabilities. The aim of the project is to develop an “electronic curb cut” that will eventually make the Web accessible to people with different disabilities and to people without disabilities in a variety of contexts, including mobile phone and palmtop usage. One lesson learned from the curb cuts that make sidewalk curbs accessible to the wheelchair user is that curb cuts are useful to a variety of people with and without disabilities to accomplish a range of tasks, such as pushing baby carriages or hand trolleys. This project is funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) and by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA).
Parmanto is currently leading the development of project MyHealthBits, funded by Microsoft Research. The project takes on the challenges of managing and recording every bits of daily information related to our health: from heart beat to X-day to phone conversation and videoconferencing. The historical root is of this work can be traced back to Vannevar Bush’s visionary paper titled “As we May Think” published in 1945 in The Atlantic Monthly, where he described a device called Memex that stored all information related to our life, including textual, visual, and voice data, all hyperlinked together
Parmanto has been leading the development of SOVAT (Spatial OLAP Visualization and Analytical Tools) during the past few years. SOVAT is a novel decision support system that combines advanced data warehouse capability (OLAP) with spatial analysis and spatial display (Geospatial Information System or GIS). SOVAT can be used on any type of information for numerical-spatial problem solving. SOVAT project was inspired by the work of John Snow, the father of epidemiology who famously stopped the London’s cholera outbreak in 1854 by using numerical-spatial technique to find the cause of the outbreak.
He has been collaborating with the Center for Clinical Pharmacology in developing DataSpan, a data mining system for drug prescription optimization. He is also the task principal investigator and co-investigator of the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center (RERC) on Telerehabilitation at the University of Pittsburgh.
Awards and Honors
Distinguished Poster Award, American Medical Informatics Association 2006 Spring Congress, MyHealthBits: Advanced Personal Health Records.
Best paper award, World Wide Web Conference, Web for Accessibility. Chiba, Japan, May, 2005
Jan 2006–Dec 2006; MyHealthBits: Advanced Personal Health Record, Microsoft Research, $50,000 + software + equipment. Role: Principal Investigator.
Dec 2004–Nov 2008: Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center (RERC) on Telerehabilitaton; National Institute for Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) # , $4.3 Million. Roles: Task Principal Investigator for one of the six tasks, and Co-investigator in another task.
Jan 2003–Dec 2007: Information Technology for Independence, National Institute for Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) # H133A021916, $1.5 Million. Role: Principal Investigator.
Sept 2002–Sept 2006; Transcoding Gateway to the Internet for Visually Impaired and Mobile Users, National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) #42-60-02013, $490.000. Role: Principal Investigator.
External Service and Assignments
Appointed as Faculty Associate to the Pennsylvania House of Representative’s Legislative Office for Research Liaison, 2005–present.