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

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/

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

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

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Pepper Plush / Smart Toys project

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.