Empower Research Lab

Empower Research Lab

Publications

2024

Wearable Biosensors for Early Detection and Continuous Monitoring of Postpartum Depression: A Human-Centered Approach

**Emma Ricci-De Lucca**, **Elizabeth L. Murnane**

wearable devices

maternal mental health

pregnant and postpartum

Therapy for Therapists: Design Opportunities to Support the Psychological Well-being of Mental Health Workers

Aishwarya Chandrasekaran, Rebecca Currano, **Vafa Batool**, Kaiping Chen, **Elizabeth L Murnane**, David Sirkin, Matthew Louis Mauriello

CSCW'24

mental health technologies

crisis line workers and therapists

Weight Bias in Design: Unpacking Implicit Researcher Beliefs for Building Empathy

**Vafa Batool, Elizabeth Murnane**

CHI'24

researcher bias

empathic design

2023

A Political Theory of Engineered Systems and A Study of Engineering and Justice Workshops

Dominic Carrese, Elizabeth Murnane

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

chronic pain

artificial intelligence

virtual reality

health

machine learning

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

physical activity

narrative

ambient displays

smartphones

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

health mindset

field study

wearables

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

remote work

built environment

surveys

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

physical activity

narrative

ambient displays

smartphones

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

health

smartphone

self-tracking

qualitative analysis

young adults

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)

built environment

surveys

The Dilemma of Disclosure: Designing Interpersonal Informatics Tools for Mood Tracking

**Daniel Westphal**, **Elizabeth Murnane**

Dartmouth College Dartmouth Digital Commons - Undergraduate Theses

health

mood tracking

smartphone

qualitative analysis

Enabling the Integration of Sustainable Design Methodological Frameworks and Computational Life Cycle Assessment Tools into Product Development Practice

Teja Chatty, Elizabeth Murnane

2022

Designing narrative-based interfaces for collective action: A case study using Amazon, climate change, and consumer behavior

Catherine Parnell, Elizabeth Murnane

sustainability

buying behavior

user study

narrative

browser plugin

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

built environment

lab study

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

sustainability

product design

designers

engineers

methodological framework

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

built 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

built environment

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

built environment

surveys

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

anxiety

childhood cancer

adolescents

young adults

EMA

field study

2021

StoryCoder: Teaching Computational Thinking Concepts Through Storytelling in a Voice-Guided App for Children

Griffin Dietz, Jimmy Le, Nadin Tamer, Jenny Han, Hyowon Gweon, **Elizabeth L. Murnane**, James A. Landay

Proceedings of the 39th Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) · (To appear) · ACM · 2021

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-SabaaElizabeth L Murnane

Proceedings of the Design Society

sustainability

product design

designers

engineers

analytics

visualization

2020

Inbodied interaction design example: chronobiology-friendly technology

Elizabeth L. Murnane

Interactions (IX) · 27(2) Pages 54–55 · ACM · 2020

circadian rhythms

sleep

Discomfort design

Mc schraefel, Aaron Tabor, Elizabeth L. Murnane

Interactions (IX) · 27(2) Pages 40–45 · ACM · 2020

health

inbodied interaction

Do Better. Sustainable Product Design

Tejaswini Chatty, Will Harrison, Lina Cowen, Martine Stillman

Pages 1–51 · Synapse Product Development Inc. · 2020

sustainability

product development

designers

engineers

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

mHealth

older adults

aging

longevity

Supporting children's math learning with feedback-augmented narrative technology

Sherry Ruan, Jiayu He, Rui Ying, Jonathan Burkle, Dunia Hakim, Anna Wang, Yufeng Yin, Lily Zhou, Qianyao Xu, Abdallah AbuHashem, Griffin Dietz, **Elizabeth L. Murnane**, Emma Brunskill, James A. Landay

Proceedings of the Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC) · Pages 567–580 · ACM · 2020

education

lab study

children

narrative

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

self-tracking

surveys

interviews

paper-based tools

Being (In) Visible: Privacy, Transparency, and Disclosure in the Self-Management of Bipolar Disorder

Justin Petelka, Lucy Van Kleunen, Liam Albright, Elizabeth L. Murnane, Stephen Voida, Jaime Snyder

Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) · Pages 1–14 · ACM · 2020

mental health

interviews

privacy

Perception of Sustainable Design Integration Benefits Among Industry Product Development Teams: A Case Study

**Tejaswini Chatty**, **Jeremy Faludi**

Proceedings of the Design Society (DESIGN) · Volume 1 · Pages 2475–2484 · Cambridge University Press · 2020

sustainability

product development

designers

engineers

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

physical activity

narrative

ambient displays

smartphones

2019

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

mental health

visual elicitation

visualization

2018

Keppi: A Tangible User Interface for Self-Reporting Pain

Alexander T. Adams, Elizabeth L. Murnane, Phil Adams, Mike Elfenbein, Pamara F. Chang, Shruti Sannon, Geri Gay, Tanzeem Choudhury

Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) · Pages 1–13 · ACM · 2018

pain

tangibles

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

mental health

interviews

focus groups

2017

Supporting the Self-Management of Chronic Pain Conditions with Tailored Momentary Self-Assessments

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Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) · Pages 1065–1077 · ACM · 2017

pain

smartphone

Quantifying the Changeable Self: The role of self-tracking in coming to terms with and managing bipolar disorder

Mark Matthews, **Elizabeth L. Murnane**, Jaime Snyder

Human-Computer Interaction · Pages 413–446 · Taylor & Francis · 2017

mental health

interviews

surveys

The Double-Edged Sword: A Mixed Methods Study of the Interplay Between Bipolar Disorder and Technology Use

Mark Matthews, **Elizabeth L. Murnane**, Jaime Snyder, Shion Guha, Pamara Chang, Gavin Doherty, Geri Gay

Computers in Human Behavior (CHB), 75 · Pages 288–300 · 2017

mental health

surveys

quantitative analysis

qualitative analysis

2016

Self-Monitoring Practices, Attitudes, and Needs of Individuals with Bipolar Disorder: Implications for the Design of Technologies to Manage Mental Health

**Elizabeth L. Murnane**, Dan Cosley, Pamara Chang, Shion Guha, Ellen Frank, Geri Gay, Mark Matthews

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) · 23(3) Pages 477–484 · Oxford · 2016

mental health

surveys

descriptive statistics

qualitative analysis

Development and evaluation of a smartphone-based measure of social rhythms for bipolar disorder

Mark Matthews, Saeed Abdullah, Elizabeth L. Murnane, Stephen Voida, Tanzeem Choudhury, Geri Gay, Ellen Fran

Assessment · 23(4) Pages 472–483 · Sage · 2016

mental health

mHealth

smartphones

D-Pine
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