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.

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 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.”