Julie A. Kientz (pronounced like "Keentz") is a Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science at the College of Computing and GVU Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is advised by Dr. Gregory D. Abowd and is a member of the Ubiquitous Computing Research Group. Her research interests center primarily in the area of Human-Computer Interaction, especially Ubiquitous Computing and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. In particular, she is interested in determining how novel computing applications can address important social issues and evaluating those applications through long-term real world deployment studies using a balance of qualitative and quantitative methods. Her most recent research involves the design and evaluation of computing technologies to support decision-making for teams of caregivers, including therapy for children with autism and supporting parents tracking the developmental progress and health of their newborn children. The main contribution of her research has been defining a method for the embedding of computing technologies into existing work and life practices to enable better data collection and provide more opportunities for data review.