Committee members include Profs. Joelle Ferron, Wesley Marrero, Gene Santos, and Liz Murnane.

Collaborator Karen Fortuna, lead of the RealVision project, was recently featured in a spread about our collaboration to develop smartphone-based diagnostics to identify early symptoms of dementia. The full story is here: https://alumni.dartmouth.edu/stories-news/researchers-harness-power-smartphones-identify-symptoms-early-dementia-110-127

Vafa attended CSCW 2024 in Costa Rica to student volunteer and to support her co-author Aishwarya Chandrashekar in presenting their paper: Chandrasekaran, A., Currano, R., Batool, V., Chen, K., Murnane, E. L., Sirkin, D., & Mauriello, M. L. (2024). Therapy for Therapists: Design Opportunities to Support the Psychological Well-being of Mental Health Workers. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 8(CSCW2), 1-34.

Allen Song has been awarded the Guarini Alumni Award to support his research on designing artificial intelligence technologies to support school psychologists in K-12 education. The award will enable Allen to establish groundwork for research by conducting large-scale surveys and interviews with school psychologists across the United States.

Roche and Genentech has been recognized by the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association (HBA) for elevating women’s healthcare worldwide with the 2024 ACE Aspire Award. This award honors innovative, early-stage programs built on solid strategies and metrics valuable to the healthcare ecosystem. Emma designed the campaign award video that is featured at the conference.

We have received a Catalyst Award from the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) for our proposal "Designing Music-Based Interventions for Aging-Related Pain: Sonifying Body Movement Using Interactive Mobile Technology to Improve Physical and Psychological Outcomes."

More info about the competition and other awardees is available here: https://nam.edu/2021-awardees-global-longevity-competition/

Prof. Murnane, Dylan, Emma, Pape, Shirin, Sid, and Vafa get together for team bonding activities in the local Upper Valley community.

Committee members include Profs. Michael Casey, Soroush Vasoughi, and Liz Murnane.

Committee members include Profs. Lynn Fiellin, Liz Murnane, James O'Malley, and Nick Jacobson.

You can read her paper on "Weight Bias in Design: Unpacking Implicit Researcher Beliefs for Building Empathy" here.

Dylan, Emma, Hannah, Shirin, Sid, Songyun, Vafa, Liz and Empower Lab collaborators attended the 2024 ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Honolulu, at the Hawaiʻi Convention Center on the island of Oʻahu. This is the premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction.

Lab members engaged in the conference in a variety of ways:

• Dylan had a full paper accepted: Moore, D. E., Moore, S. R. R., Ireen, B., Iskandar, W. P., Artazyan, G., & Murnane, E. L. (2024). Teaching artificial intelligence in extracurricular contexts through narrative-based learnersourcing. Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 1-28. ACM.
• Shirin was accepted to participate in the workshop on Conducting Research at the Intersection of HCI and Health: Building and Supporting Teams with Diverse Expertise to Increase Public Health Impact for her submission: Amouei, S. & Murnane, E. L. (2024). How can we notice cognitive traps when collaborating at the intersection of HCI and health?
• Emma’s was accepted to participate in the workshop PhysioCHI: Towards Best Practices for Integrating Physiological Signals in HCI for her submission: Ricci-De Lucca, E. & Murnane, E. L. (2024). Wearable Biosensors for Early Detection and Continuous Monitoring of Postpartum Depression: A Human-Centered Approach
• Vafa was accepted to participate in the EmpathiCH workshop on Empathy-Centric Design for her submission Batool, V. & Murnane, E. L. (2024). Weight Bias in Design: Unpacking Implicit Researcher Beliefs for Building Empathy.
• Sid was accepted to participate in the workshop on Designing Inclusive Future Augmented Realities
• Songyun was accepted as a student volunteer

Vafa was accepted to attend the 2024 Grad Cohort for Women in Minneapolis, hosted by the Computing Research Association's Committee on Widening Participation in Computing Research (CRA-WP). More about the event here.

The Centers Forum at Dartmouth funds proposals for creative programming that address the 2023-2024 theme: Uncommon Collaborations: Dialogue Across Difference.

Emma receives $1000 to attend CHI 2024 conference and participate in the PhysioCHI workshop. These grants, awarded to excellent and deserving proposals are available to students who will be presenting their research at conferences, workshops, or symposia.

Shout out to Sid for the graphic design!

During the 2023 FemTechnology Summit at Roche in Basel, Switzerland, a band of innovators (i.e., femtech founders, researchers, clinicians) assembled to consider emerging evidence of women's care gaps and the actions required to create a vision of women-centric cancer care approach to bridge healthcare gaps. Emma contributed to the report and designed the three-part series executive summaries.

EvocativeVR is a Virtual Reality (VR) platform designed to support creative, emotionally therapeutic practices. It empowers users to dynamically externalize and process emotions within a psychologically safe and healing virtual environment. This project's research strives to develop this innovative platform equipped with tools for participants to express emotions in the immersive medium. The project will host an exhibition where participants can craft artwork releasing their sentiments, share it with the community and appreciate others' creations to build shared empathy. See more here

Led by Sid Patil, the Empower Lab will host a game day on December 5, 2023. More details about this event other Winterim activities are available here: https://engineering.dartmouth.edu/events/thayer-winterim-2023

Dyan completed his Masters of Engineering Management (MEM) degree at Dartmouth, specializing in Human-AI Interaction.

To help shape a vision for making digital therapeutics accessible to all, the Clinically-Validated Digital Therapeutics: Innovations in Scientific Discovery, Clinical Applications, and Global Deployment event gathered experts from diverse sectors of the health care industry—researchers, providers, regulators, payers, and investors, as well as representatives from global pharma.

Hannah, Songyun, Vafa, and Liz all attended; and Shirin and Dylan presented posters:

• “Can we rethink psychiatric medication withdrawal through a patient’s eyes?” presented by Shirin Amouei
• “Revealing Moments of Lucidity: Computer Vision in Memory Care for Older Adults” presented by Dylan Moore

More details about other posters are here: https://www.c4tbh.org/summitposters2023/

Emma collaborates to publish landscape, pharmacoeconomics, and patient journey report on endometriosis and fertility, “The Labyrinth Unwound: A New Paradigm in Endometriosis and Fertility”. Hera Biotech’s mission is to advance the standard of care in women's health by developing the first non-surgical method of diagnosing, and staging, endometriosis.

Shirin is traveling to Boston to attend the 7th annual Patient Experience Symposium. The conference brings together leading stakeholders from across healthcare, all to improve patient experience.

Dartmouth’s PhD Innovation Program Fellows met for a reception to welcome the new Fellows. These grad students learn entrepreneurial and business skills while also doing world-class research. There are about 50 Fellows in the program across Thayer School of Engineering and Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies

The Empower Lab's Weight & Wellness team has been awarded a Prouty Pilot grant for their proposal “Inclusive patient education materials and medical provider/staff training to improve cervical and breast cancer screening among patients with obesity.”

Committee members include Profs. Petra Bonfert-Taylor, Lorie Loeb, Vikrant Vaze, and Liz Murnane.

Professors Liz Murnane, Vikrant Vaze, and Wesley Marrero are lead faculty on a team selected as one of 34 semifinalists for the inaugural NSF Regional Innovation Engines competition—spanning nearly all key technology areas and societal and economic challenges highlighted in the "CHIPS and Science Act." A partnership with UMass Lowell, their proposed engine is titled, "Advancing Health Equity Through Digital Technologies, Data Infrastructure, and Artificial Intelligence." Each Engine could receive up to $160 million over 10 years; NSF anticipates announcing the final list of awards this fall.

https://avagallery.org/event/pop-up-exhibition-dartmouth-computer-science-graduate-students/

Daniel has successfully defended his senior thesis, "The Dilemma of Disclosure: Designing Interpersonal Informatics Tools for Mood Tracking."

Dom helped to run a workshop at the Montshire Museum to help children learn forensic science as part of a pretend jewel heist.

Full story here: https://www.wcax.com/2023/05/11/student-sleuths-tackle-forensic-science-mystery/

A big shout-out to Pape for his successful thesis defense on using metaphors to visualize and support customizable and collaborative health tracking!

Committee members included Profs. Lorie Loeb, Tim Tregubov, and Liz Murnane.

Congratulations to Dom for successfully completing his MS thesis, "A Political Theory of Engineered Systems and A Study of Engineering and Justice Workshops."

Committee members included Profs. Klaus Keller, Russell Muirhead, Benoit Roisin-Cushman, and Liz Murnane.

https://engineering.dartmouth.edu/events/ms-thesis-defense-dominic-carrese

Kudos to Teja for passing her thesis on integrating sustainable design frameworks and life cycle assessment tools in product development!

Committee members included Profs. Jeremy Faludi, Geoff Parker, Rafe Steinhauer, and Liz Murnane.

https://engineering.dartmouth.edu/events/phd-thesis-defense-tejaswini-chatty

Xuedan Zou, Kyle Huang, and Ziang Ren were awarded an Arts Integration grant from the Hopkins Center for their project "Triple Helix: AI-Artist-Audience Collaboration in a Performative Art Experience."

More info here: https://home.dartmouth.edu/news/2023/03/arts-integration-initiative-supports-innovative-research

Leslie Center Student Research Fellowship offers students a unique opportunity to undertake creative projects at the intersection of humanities and other disciplines.

Dylan had the chance to visit our collaborators Prof. Clayton Lewis, Prof. Steve Voida, and members of Steve's lab.

https://www.c4tbh.org/accelerator/

https://www.c4tbh.org/center-highlight/diadhawards/

Pepper Plush / Smart Toys project

More info about the paper is here.

https://irving.dartmouth.edu/news/2023/01/recent-irving-institute-student-grant-awardees

Hats off to Andra for her achievement in passing her thesis, "Enhancing Product Development with Sustainable Design and Life Cycle Assessment."

For our research on music-based interventions for healthy aging, the Empower Lab has been named as one of five awardees in the National Academy of Medicine Healthy Longevity 2022 QuickFire Challenge sponsored by Johnson & Johnson!

Read the press release and more about the here.

Will Scheideler, Wesley Marrero, Liz Murnane, and Thayer Career Services are hosting a workshop about graduate fellowships on September 13, 2022. The workshop will cover how to prepare for and apply to federal fellowships that provide funding for doctoral study (NSF GRFP, NDSEG, etc.), including advice from Dartmouth NSF fellowship winners and discussion of winning fellowship essays. The session will include small group work for feedback on fellowship essay drafts.

Dinner and refreshments provided. This event is open to all undergraduates and graduates (Thayer + Guarini).

At this year's Digital Therapeutics Summit hosted by the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health (CTBH) and Dartmouth's Magnuson Center for Entrepreneurship, Liz presented a talk entitled "Designing interactive health technologies that promote equitable and inclusive care through a "Qualified Us" approach: A case study in music-based interventions"

Read more here: https://engineering.dartmouth.edu/news/digital-therapeutics-summit-held-at-dartmouth

Congratulations to Catherine for her successful defense of her senior thesis titled "Designing Narrative-Based Interfaces for Collective Action: A Case Study Using Amazon, Climate Change, and Consumer Behavior."

Our proposal "Building Children's AI Literacy through Play-based Educational Technologies" has received a Neukom CompX grant!

More info about our proposal and other awardees is available here: https://neukom.dartmouth.edu/research/compx-faculty-grant-program/past-recipients/2022-grant-recipients

https://irving.dartmouth.edu/research/funding-students/complete-list-student-grant-projects-and-activities

https://www.armenianprofessionalsociety.org/aps-scholarships-recipients.html

At the 2021 Investiture, Teja Chatty together with Amy Keeler received Thayer's inaugural Diversity and Inclusion Award. Congrats, Teja!

Watch Teja receive the award here.

Dartmouth News has a feature welcoming incoming faculty, including their reflections on how creativity drives their research and teaching. Article here.

Our paper with Stanford collaborators about voice-based interfaces that use storytelling as a vehicle to teach computational thinking concepts to young children will appear at CHI 2021 — and with an honorable mention!

Attention sophomore and junior women! The engineering department still has Luce fellowships available, which can sponsor your research with our lab. The fellowship covers 3 terms of support (total stipend of $7000) and a small amount in research supplies ($2000-$3000). To apply, you'd need to be a U.S. citizens or permanent resident (required by the foundation), have declared (or intend to declare) an engineering major, and commit to 3 terms of research: 2 "on" terms (while taking classes) and 1 "off" term (full time research). If interested, please research out to Liz who can help match you with a project and assist with preparing the application materials, which include a statement of research and a recent resume. To learn more about current openings, check the Recruiting page for current openings

Our paper with Stanford collaborators on people's experiences with physical self-tracking materials is now out in the IMWUT (Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies) December issue. Paper available here.

Teja is virtually headed to VERGE 2020, taking part in various online sessions such as roundtable discussions, networking opportunities, and En-ROADS: An Interactive Climate Workshop.

Dartmouth News has featured Liz and her endowed appointment to the Charles H. Gaut and Charles A. Norberg Assistant Professorship, which she's incredibly honored to receive. Article here.

The NAS Mobile Technology for Adaptive Aging report has been published! Liz contributed a chapter on mobile and sensor technology (available here).

Hana has been selected as a Junior Research Scholar Junior Research Scholar to support her research with our group. Congrats Hana!

Thayer News has a feature on Liz joining the Engineering Faculty! Article here.

Catherine has been awarded a Luce Fellowship, which will support her research with our group through 3 terms of funding plus a research stipend. Congratulations Catherine.

A culmination of her efforts during her Synapse internship and beyond, Teja has co-authored an e-book on Sustainable Product Design! The e-book abstracts a sustainable design workflow into actionable steps and easy-to-use tools that can be applied to any product development process to reduce environmental impacts while improving the bottom line. Check it out here.

With CS professor XD Yang, Liz is helping put together a "DartmouthCHI" virtual event to showcase exciting research by members of our fast-growing HCI community at Dartmouth. At this 3-hour mini-conference, facdddulty and grad students from Thayer, CS, and collaborating universities will deliver presentations for their papers published at CHI 2020 the flagship conference in HCI, which was unfortunately cancelled due to the pandemic. Talks will cover a range of topics including sensing, wearables, smart things, education, and health. This is a great opportunity to learn about HCI. Feel welcome to share broadly — hope to see you there.

• Date and time: Friday, June 12, 2020 at 9:40 AM EDT","Full schedule and further details here
• Free registration here

Google's invitation-only Digital Health and Wellbeing Summit took place virtually June 9-11 and brought together academics and Googlers focused on how technology can support people’s health and wellbeing. The three day program included talks and shared discussion.

Last week Teja took her PhD Qualifying Exam, and now it's official: the committee (Jeremy Faludi, Petra Bonfert-Taylor, Vikrant Vaze, and Liz) was unanimous in recommending a pass decision. Congrats, Teja!

Our paper on designing narrative-based feedback to motivate behavior (available here has received a CHI 2020 Best Paper Award (less than top 1% of submissions). Extremely thankful for the recognition and appreciation of the hard work that involved a multi-year effort of an amazing team.

The multi-institution collaboration to create a special topic spread on Inbodied Interaction is now available in the March-April 2020 issue of ACM Interactions magazine! An interactive PDF of the full special topic is available here. Liz contributed to two pieces, one on deliberately exploring and using discomfort to support adaptation and recovery (available here and another on chronobiology-friendly technology (available here)

We have two papers accepted to CHI 2020! One article is with Stanford collaborators about the design of personalized, narrative-based interfaces to motivate physical activity available here, and the other is with colleagues at the University of Washington and the University of Colorado Boulder on the privacy practices of people managing bipolar disorder available here.

Teja is heading to her internship at Synapse Product Development in Seattle! She'll be a Sustainable Design Research Intern for the next 3 months, performing user research to discover what designers and engineers need from novel life cycle assessment tools. We hope her efforts will lay the groundwork for a longstanding collaboration with Synapse and that her insights will richly inform the LCA tool she plans to begin developing upon returning to Dartmouth.

Liz is traveling to Washington D.C. to present at an NIA-sponsored National Academies of Sciences workshop on mobile technology for adaptive aging. Publication and presentation available here.

Teja is taking part in another Dartmouth Entrepreneurs Forum opportunity, having been selected as a Runner for the West Coast Experience Program! The West Coast Experience is run by the Magnuson Center each year for a group of 10-12 undergraduate students, who will spend a week traveling to Seattle, San Francisco, and Palo Alto to visit Dartmouth alumni at startups, incubators, and VC firms. It'll also be a great opportunity for Teja to meet potential clients, pitch her research, and get feedback!

Teja is on her way to San Francisco to participate and volunteer at the Dartmouth Entrepreneurs Forum (DEF). The DEF is open to the full Dartmouth community and provides an amazing opportunity to connect with Dartmouth's thriving entrepreneurial network. Later in the week, she'll be heading over to visit Liz at Stanford :)

The Summer School for Engineering Design Research (SSEDR) is a 2-part summer program for PhD students taking place this year during May and July at locations in Croatia and Germany. The SSEDR aims to make PhD students working on design science topics better equipped for their research by enhancing their understanding of salient theories and methods, guiding development of an appropriate research approach, and fostering long-term connections through interactive discussions and exercises. Čestitamo and gute Reise, Teja!

Liz has accepted Thayer's offer to join the faculty as the Charles H. Gaut Charles H. Norberg Assistant Professor of Engineering! She'll be deferring the appointment for one year, to wrap up her postdoc at Stanford while ramping up the new Empower Lab at Dartmouth. Squee :)