 My name is Susan McCroy. I'm a professor in computer science and biomedical and health informatics. My area of research involves creating and designing new software to help people, that is the general public, better manage their health. I particularly became interested in the area of public health because I can see that it's a real need. A lot of people focus on helping doctors and nurses and things like that, but there's very little work that is for the general public that is really well designed. So my students and I have been working on trying to use advanced methods for interacting with computers. So in Milwaukee the big problem is babies dying either before they're born or not soon after. It's a huge problem. It's one of the worst places in the country. The problem with the elderly is a lot of them, for example, come out of the hospital and they have multiple problems. They may have health problems that need to be monitored every day and it's confusing and stressful to families. And a lot of those people end up going back into the hospital within 30 days. And so by helping them better manage what's going on in a day-to-day basis and alerting them to when things might be going wrong before it becomes critical, you can save actually people from getting into really bad situations or perhaps dying. You learn a lot about what possible impact your work might have when you get out there in the community. When you take your software, even if it's very simple software, out in the community and you have people sit down and try it out and then talk to you afterward about what worked and what didn't, you really feel like you can see where this might go. It's about really helping people in a way that they will actually use it. I'm Susan McCroy and I'm a Milwaukee engineer.