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

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

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/

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

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