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Liz Murnane
Assistant professor, Engineering
Director, Empower Lab
Liz specializes in human-computer interaction, information science, and social computing, focusing on applications in healthcare, STEM education, and environmental sustainability. Her primary expertise is in the domain of digital health, working to develop health monitoring and behavioral intervention technologies that emphasize inclusive design, patient empowerment, and health equity.
Before joining the Dartmouth faculty, Liz was a postdoctoral scholar in Computer Science at Stanford University and received her PhD in Information Science from Cornell University. After completing her undergraduate degree in Mathematics and Computer Science at MIT, she also spent 4 years as the lead engineer and head of experimental features of a CSAIL startup that built interactive visualization tools to help software developers make sense of complex codebases. Liz’s work continues to promote translational approaches that seek opportunities to meaningfully engage with and positively shape industry practices, local communities, and policy-making.
Fun facts! Liz grew up on the beach 🏖, loves to play volleyball 🏐, and her favorite music is industrial metal 😈.
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News
Lab is winner in 2022 Healthy Longevity Challenge
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.
September 27, 2022
Applying for Graduate Fellowships Workshop
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).
September 13, 2022
Liz appears in spread on new Dartmouth faculty
Dartmouth News has a feature welcoming incoming faculty, including their reflections on how creativity drives their research and teaching. Article here.
March 24, 2021
Liz featured as one of 11 faculty named to endowed chairs
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.
October 5, 2020
National Academy of Sciences chapter now available
The NAS Mobile Technology for Adaptive Aging report has been published! Liz contributed a chapter on mobile and sensor technology (available here).
September 25, 2020
Liz featured in Thayer News as a new faculty member
Thayer News has a feature on Liz joining the Engineering Faculty! Article here.
August 12, 2020
Paper accepted at IDC 2020
Paper with Stanford collaborators on the development of interactive narratives for math learning (available here) as been accepted to Interaction Design and Children (IDC) 2020!
March 23, 2020
WhoIsZuki gets a Best Paper Award at CHI 2020!
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.
March 6, 2020
Interactions special issue on Inbodied Interaction is out
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)
February 25, 2020
Two papers appearing at CHI 2020
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.
January 16, 2020
Liz is joining Dartmouth!
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 :)
June 1, 2019
Publications
Narrative-Based Visual Feedback to Encourage Sustained Physical Activity: A Field Trial of the WhoIsZuki Mobile Health Platform
Elizabeth L Murnane, Yekaterina S Glazko, Jean Costa, Raymond Yao, Grace Zhao, Paula ML Moya, James A Landay
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
Leveraging Mobile Technology for Public Health Promotion: A Multidisciplinary Perspective
Jennifer L Hicks, Melissa A Boswell, Tim Althoff, Alia J Crum, Joy P Ku, James A Landay, Paula ML Moya, Elizabeth L Murnane, Michael P Snyder, Abby C King, Scott L Delp
Annual Review of Public Health
Effects of Wearable Fitness Trackers and Activity Adequacy Mindsets on Affect, Behavior, and Health: Longitudinal Randomized Controlled Trial
Octavia Hedwig Zahrt, Kristopher Evans, Elizabeth Murnane, Erik Santoro, Michael Baiocchi, James Landay, Scott Delp, Alia Crum
Journal of Medical Internet Research
A study of the role of indoor nature on solidarity and group identity during remote work
Eva Bianchi, Laura S.P. Bloomfield, Lucy Z. Bencharit, Basma Altaf, Nik A. Sawe , Elizabeth L. Murnane, James A. Landay, Sarah L. Billington
Building and Environment
A Political Theory of Engineered Systems and A Study of Engineering and Justice Workshops
Dominic Carrese, Elizabeth Murnane
Sprout: Using a Garden Metaphor to Visualize and Support Customizable and Collaborative Health Tracking
Pape Sow Traoré, Elizabeth L. Murnane
Dartmouth College Dartmouth Digital Commons - Master’s Theses
Time perception during the pandemic: A longitudinal study examining the role of indoor and outdoor nature exposure for remote workers
Altaf, B., Bloomfield, L. S., Karzai, D. N., Sawe, N. A., Murnane, E. L., Bencharit, L. Z., Landay, J. A., Billington, S. L.
Building and Environment (243)
Mapping the Design Space of Technology-based Solutions for Better Chronic Pain Care: Introducing the Pain Tech Landscape
Mary R Janevic, Elizabeth Murnane, Roger B Fillingim, Robert D Kerns, M Cary Reid
Psychosomatic Medicine 85(7):p 612-618
Co-Creating a Framework to Integrate Sustainable Design into Product Development Practice: Case Study at an Engineering Consultancy Firm
Tejaswini Chatty, Will Harrison, Hana H Ba-Sabaa, Jeremy Faludi, Elizabeth L Murnane
Sustainability
Smartphone‐based ecological momentary assessment to study “scanxiety” among adolescent and young adult survivors of childhood cancer: A feasibility study
Lauren C Heathcote, Sarah J Cunningham, Sarah N Webster, Vivek Tanna, Elia Mattke, Nele Loecher, Sheri L Spunt, Pamela Simon, Gary Dahl, Marta Walentynowicz, Elizabeth Murnane, Perri R Tutelman, Lidia Schapira, Laura E Simons, Claudia Mueller
Psycho‐Oncology
Use of Crowdsourced Online Surveys to Study the Impact of Architectural and Design Choices on Well-being
Basma Altaf, Eva LS Bianchi, Isabella P Douglas, Kyle Douglas, Brandon Byers, Pablo E Parades, Nicole M Ardoin, Hazel R Markus, Elizabeth L Murnane, Lucy Z Bencharit, James A Landay, Sarah L Billington
Frontiers in Sustainable Cities
Physical workplaces and human well-being: A mixed-methods study to quantify the effects of materials, windows, and representation on biobehavioral outcomes
Isabella P Douglas, Elizabeth L Murnane, Lucy Zhang Bencharit, Basma Altaf, Jean Marcel dos Reis Costa, Jackie Yang, Meg Ackerson, Charu Srivastava, Michael Cooper, Kyle Douglas, Jennifer King, Pablo E Paredes, Nicholas P Camp, Matthew Louis Mauriello, Nicole M Ardoin, Hazel Rose Markus, James A Landay, Sarah L Billington
Building and Environment
Ten questions concerning human-building interaction research for improving the quality of life
Burçin Becerik-Gerber, Gale Lucas, Ashrant Aryal, Mohamad Awada, Mario Berges, Sarah L Billington, Olga Boric-Lubecke, Ali Ghahramani, Arsalan Heydarian, Farrokh Jazizadeh, Ruying Liu, Runhe Zhu, Frederick Marks, Shawn Roll, Mirmahdi Seyedrezaei, John E Taylor, Christoph Höelscher, Azam Khan, Jared Langevin, Matthew Louis Mauriello, Elizabeth Murnane, Haeyoung Noh, Marco Pritoni, Davide Schaumann, Jie Zhao
Building and Environment
The field of human building interaction for convergent research and innovation for intelligent built environments
Burcin Becerik-Gerber, Gale Lucas, Ashrant Aryal, Mohamad Awada, Mario Bergés, Sarah Billington, Olga Boric-Lubecke, Ali Ghahramani, Arsalan Heydarian, Christoph Höelscher, Farrokh Jazizadeh, Azam Khan, Jared Langevin, Ruying Liu, Frederick Marks, Matthew Louis Mauriello, Elizabeth Murnane, Haeyoung Noh, Marco Pritoni, Shawn Roll, Davide Schaumann, Mirmahdi Seyedrezaei, John E Taylor, Jie Zhao, Runhe Zhu
Scientific Reports
Designing narrative-based interfaces for collective action: A case study using Amazon, climate change, and consumer behavior
Catherine Parnell, Elizabeth Murnane
Examining the User Experience of Life Cycle Assessment Tools and Their Ability to Cater to Ecodesign in Early-Stage Product Development Practice
Tejaswini Chatty, Yingkun Qu, Hana H Ba-Sabaa, Elizabeth L Murnane
Proceedings of the Design Society
Discomfort design
Mc schraefel, Aaron Tabor, Elizabeth L. Murnane
Interactions (IX) · 27(2) Pages 40–45 · ACM · 2020
Inbodied interaction design example: chronobiology-friendly technology
Elizabeth L. Murnane
Interactions (IX) · 27(2) Pages 54–55 · ACM · 2020
Designing Ambient Narrative-Based Interfaces to Reflect and Motivate Physical Activity
Elizabeth L. Murnane, Xin Jiang, Anna Kong, Michelle Park, Weili Shi, Connor Soohoo, Luke Vink, Iris Xia, Xin Yu, John Yang-Sammataro, Grace Young, Jenny Zhi, Paula Moya, James A. Landay
Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) · Pages 1–14 · ACM · 2020
Best Paper Award
Mobile and Sensor Technology as a Tool for Health Measurement, Management, and Research with Aging Populations
Elizabeth L. Murnane, Tanzeem Choudhury
Mobile Technology for Adaptive Aging · Pages 41–65 · National Academies Press · 2020
Understanding Physical Practices and the Role of Technology in Manual Self-Tracking
Parastoo Abtahi, Victoria Ding, Anna. C. Yang, Tommy Bruzzese, Alyssa B. Romanos, Elizabeth L. Murnane, Sean Follmer, James A. Landay
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT) · 4(4), Pages 1–24 · 2020
Visually Encoding the Lived Experience of Bipolar Disorder
Jaime Snyder, Elizabeth Murnane, Caitie Lustig, Stephen Voida
Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) · Pages 1–14 · ACM · 2019
Personal Informatics in Interpersonal Contexts: Towards the Design of Technology that Supports the Social Ecologies of Long-Term Mental Health Management
Elizabeth L. Murnane, Tara G. Walker, Beck Tench, Stephen Voida, Jaime Snyder
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 2(CSCW) · Pages 1–27 · ACM · 2018
Honorable Mention Award
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