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- research-articleJuly 2024Honorable Mention
Toward Building Design Empathy for People with Disabilities Using Social Media Data: A New Approach for Novice Designers
DIS '24: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems ConferenceJuly 2024, Pages 3145–3160https://doi.org/10.1145/3643834.3660687Design empathy is a core HCI concept for understanding user perspectives in design processes. Although researchers advocate for leveraging design empathy in the design of assistive technology, educating novice designers about this is challenging; this is ...
- research-articleJune 2024
Unpacking Task Management Tools, Values, and Worker Dynamics
CHIWORK '24: Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for WorkJune 2024, Article No.: 13, Pages 1–16https://doi.org/10.1145/3663384.3663402As the complexity of daily tasks grows, knowledge workers experience challenges in managing tasks and risk skipping over some. Fortunately, various task management tools have become available, ranging from traditional tools, such as sticky notes, to ...
- research-articleMay 2024
Hospital Employee Experiences Caring for Patients in Smart Patient Rooms
CHI '24: Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsMay 2024, Article No.: 454, Pages 1–16https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642201Smart hospital patient rooms integrate smart devices for digital control of both entertainment (e.g., television and sound system) and the environment (e.g., lights, blinds, and temperature). While primarily designed to enhance the patient experience, ...
- research-articleMarch 2024
Investigating Technology Adoption Soon After Sustaining a Spinal Cord Injury
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), Volume 8, Issue 1Article No.: 14, Pages 1–24https://doi.org/10.1145/3643507A spinal cord injury (SCI) typically results in a sudden change to an individual's motor function. People's adoption of technology soon after a severe SCI is crucial, since they must relearn most technology interactions to adjust to their new physical ...
- research-articleJanuary 2024
Reenvisioning Patient Education with Smart Hospital Patient Rooms
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), Volume 7, Issue 4Article No.: 155, Pages 1–23https://doi.org/10.1145/3631419Smart hospital patient rooms incorporate various smart devices to allow digital control of the entertainment --- such as TV and soundbar --- and the environment --- including lights, blinds, and thermostat. This technology can benefit patients by ...
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- short-paperOctober 2023
A11yFutures: Envisioning the Future of Accessibility Research
ASSETS '23: Proceedings of the 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and AccessibilityOctober 2023, Article No.: 107, Pages 1–4https://doi.org/10.1145/3597638.3615652The future of accessibility research is a topic we take up every day as researchers; yet it is important also to step back and ask ourselves about the most important, and overlooked, areas for inquiry in our field. With the rapid pace of change in both ...
- research-articleOctober 2023
Cultivating Altruism Around Computing Resources: Anticipation Work in a Scholarly Community
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (PACMHCI), Volume 7, Issue CSCW2Article No.: 336, Pages 1–22https://doi.org/10.1145/3610185User research for scientific software can inform design and account for the unique concerns of academic researchers. In this study, we explored the user experience on a testbed for cloud computing research, CloudLab. Through 15 semi-structured interviews ...
- research-articleSeptember 2023
A Meta-Synthesis of the Barriers and Facilitators for Personal Informatics Systems
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), Volume 7, Issue 3Article No.: 103, Pages 1–35https://doi.org/10.1145/3610893Personal informatics (PI) systems are designed for diverse users in the real world. Even when these systems are usable, people encounter barriers while engaging with them in ways designers cannot anticipate, which impacts the system's effectiveness. ...
- extended-abstractSeptember 2023
The Future of Cognitive Personal Informatics
MobileHCI '23 Companion: Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer InteractionSeptember 2023, Article No.: 35, Pages 1–5https://doi.org/10.1145/3565066.3609790While Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) has contributed to demonstrating that physiological measures can be used to detect cognitive changes, engineering and machine learning will bring these to application in consumer wearable technology. For HCI, many ...
- surveySeptember 2023
Interactive Privacy Management: Toward Enhancing Privacy Awareness and Control in the Internet of Things
ACM Transactions on Internet of Things (TIOT), Volume 4, Issue 3Article No.: 18, Pages 1–34https://doi.org/10.1145/3600096The balance between protecting user privacy while providing cost-effective devices that are functional and usable is a key challenge in the burgeoning Internet of Things (IoT). In traditional desktop and mobile contexts, the primary user interface is a ...
- posterApril 2023
Building “Design Empathy” for People with Disabilities: an Unsolved Challenge in HCI Education
EduCHI '23: Proceedings of the 5th Annual Symposium on HCI EducationApril 2023, Pages 68–71https://doi.org/10.1145/3587399.3587409Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) education research strives to integrate inclusion and diversity in classroom teaching. We focus on a key demographic that has been historically underrepresented in design: people with multiple disabilities and/or severe ...
- research-articleApril 2023
Adding Domain-Specific Features to a Text-Editor to Support Diverse, Real-World Approaches to Time Management Planning
CHI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsApril 2023, Article No.: 856, Pages 1–13https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581536Many tools are designed to support users in maintaining or developing strong time management practices. Abandonment of these specialized tools is common, in favor of returning to a more general-purpose unstructured tool. How can designs leverage the ...
- research-articleApril 2023
It Made Me Feel So Much More at Home Here: Patient Perspectives on Smart Home Technology Deployed at Scale in a Rehabilitation Hospital
CHI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsApril 2023, Article No.: 344, Pages 1–15https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3580757Smart patient rooms are arriving; however, their value has yet to be explored. We interviewed 20 patients in a rehabilitation hospital, which has patient rooms equipped with off-the-shelf smart home technologies, so the entertainment and environment are ...
- extended-abstractNovember 2022
Mi Casa es Su Casa (“MiSu”): A Mobile App for Sharing Smart Home Devices with People Outside The Home
- Leena Alghamdi,
- Mamtaj Akter,
- Cristobal Sepulveda Cardenas,
- Diego A. Cruces,
- Jason Wiese,
- Jess Kropczynski,
- Heather Lipford,
- Pamela J. Wisniewski
CSCW'22 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2022 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social ComputingNovember 2022, Pages 184–187https://doi.org/10.1145/3500868.3559709As smart devices are becoming commonplace in the home, people have begun sharing access to these devices with people beyond the home. However, the "all-or-nothing" approach to access control taken by most smart home applications may be insufficient for ...
- short-paperOctober 2022
A Workshop on Disability Inclusive Remote Co-Design
- Maryam Bandukda,
- Giulia Barbareschi,
- Aneesha Singh,
- Dhruv Jain,
- Maitraye Das,
- Tamanna Motahar,
- Jason Wiese,
- Lynn Cockburn,
- Amit Prakash,
- David Frohlich,
- Catherine Holloway
ASSETS '22: Proceedings of the 24th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and AccessibilityOctober 2022, Article No.: 103, Pages 1–5https://doi.org/10.1145/3517428.3550403The COVID-19 pandemic forced researchers to find new ways to continue research, as universities and laboratories experienced closure due to nationwide lockdowns in many countries worldwide, including conducting experiments, workshops, and ethnographic ...
- posterApril 2023
Opportunities to Support Mechanical Ventilation Weaning
UbiComp/ISWC '22 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 2022 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and the 2022 ACM International Symposium on Wearable ComputersSeptember 2022, Pages 24–26https://doi.org/10.1145/3544793.3560344Individuals with spinal cord injury or disorder (SCI/D) may experience respiratory impairment and require mechanical ventilation. A key clinical goal is to withdraw ventilator support when possible to manage the risk of secondary complications. However,...
- research-articleJuly 2022
A Review of Personal Informatics Research for People with Motor Disabilities
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), Volume 6, Issue 2Article No.: 66, Pages 1–31https://doi.org/10.1145/3534614Personal informatics (PI) has become an area of significant research over the past decade, maturing into a sub-field that seeks to support people from many backgrounds and life contexts in collecting and finding value in their personal data. PI research ...
- research-articleJuly 2022
Ask the Users: A Case Study of Leveraging User-Centered Design for Designing Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions (JITAIs)
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), Volume 6, Issue 2Article No.: 59, Pages 1–21https://doi.org/10.1145/3534612Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions (JITAIs) are envisioned to harness rich data on users' contexts. However, many JITAIs fall short in leveraging the value of the data while sculpting the interventions. Investigating the literature reveals a lack of ...
- research-articleApril 2022
Identifying factors that inhibit self-care behavior among individuals with severe spinal cord injury
CHI '22: Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsApril 2022, Article No.: 3, Pages 1–16https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3517658Individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) need to perform numerous self-care behaviors, some very frequently. Pressure reliefs (PRs), which prevent life-threatening pressure ulcers (PUs), are one such behavior. We conducted a qualitative study with seven ...
- research-articleJanuary 2022
Exploring the Personal Informatics Analysis Gap: “There's a Lot of Bacon”
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (ITVC), Volume 28, Issue 1Jan. 2022, Pages 96–106https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2021.3114798Personal informatics research helps people track personal data for the purposes of self-reflection and gaining self-knowledge. This field, however, has predominantly focused on the data collection and insight-generation elements of self-tracking, with ...