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Data Literacies in Informal Settings
As data becomes an integral part of our daily lives, the general public increasingly needs to actively engage with it to understand everyday lives, support personal goals, and engage with social issues. Formal data science ... -
Design and Implementation of Conversational User Interfaces for Health
Conversational user interfaces (CUIs) have the potential to support users across varied health domain areas. Yet barriers remain to the implementation and adoption of CUIs, such as lack of trustworthiness and consideration ... -
Designing Engaging Conversational Interactions for Health & Behavior Change
The recent popularity of chat and voice-based conversational interactions fueled by advances in natural language processing (NLP) has opened up opportunities for re-imagining user interactions in health & behavior change ... -
Designing for Human Supported Evidence-Based Planning
Behavior planning is a technique that can help people bridge goals with the actions that will help them accomplish those goals. Although more than half of all Americans set goals for changing behavior every year, people ... -
Designing for Temporal Motivation
Time is an inseparable factor in human behavior, affecting how people think and what they value. The temporal dynamics of human perception has been a long-standing topic of interest in a broad range of disciplines including, ... -
Designing for ‘Seeing Across Projects’ Based Learning
Design thinking is an important skill in engineering practice, but it is difficult to teach and learn. The primary means of teaching design is by engaging students in project-based design experiences. In addition to ... -
Designing Guided Asynchronous Remote Communities to Support Teen Mental Health
The majority of teens experience challenges with stress and depression in the United States. However, they lack the resources to access traditional face-to-face mental health care and participate in Human Computer Interaction ... -
Designing Playful Technology for Young Children's Mealtime
This dissertation examines the role technology plays in various relationships between parents and young children at family mealtimes, which constitutes a recurring routine in family lives. Mealtimes are important for young ... -
Designing Technology for Inclusive Play
Inclusion is an approach, commonly known within education, in which individuals with and without disabilities meaningfully and equitably participate in the same setting. For children, inclusive programs support the development ... -
Designing to Account for Patients’ Personal Values in Collaborative Care for Multiple Chronic Conditions
In this dissertation I reexamine the nature of human values and the relationship between values and design by reporting on the VITAL project—Valuing Important Things in Active Lives. This project aimed to improve health ... -
Designing to Support Sense of Agency for Time Spent on Digital Interfaces
App designers often exploit psychological vulnerabilities to maximize clicks, views, and time on site. When people attempt to resist such media use, their failure rate is higher than for any other temptation in everyday ... -
The Effect of Visual Design and Information Content on Readers’ Assessments of API Reference Topics
Software developers must learn and use an increasing number of application-programming interfaces (APIs) to create applications and web sites. To apply these APIs in the increasingly short development time that modern ... -
Engineering Student Development: Supporting Self-Authoring Engineers
(2013-07-23)In this study, engineering undergraduate students constructed a preparedness portfolio in a portfolio studio--the pedagogy at the center of this study. To explore and understand this pedagogy, the construct of self-authorship ... -
Exploring How the Exercise of Power Contributes to Creating More Inclusive Spaces in Engineering Education
Engineering Education in the United States has been trying to address its problem with underrepresentation of minoritized student groups for decades. In recent years, the engineering community has shifted its focus from ... -
Exploring Sustainable Materials through Interaction Design Practice
Responding to concerns about the environmental impacts of human-computer interaction, this dissertation explores what it means to pursue design activities focused on ecological limits: what designers’ tools and skills might ... -
"Greater than the Sum of its Parts:" Coordinating Centers as Facilitators of Network-Level Work in Cancer Epidemiology Coordinating Center Enabled Networks
(2013-07-23)As collaborative research has increased in size and scope, the overhead of managing such large endeavors has also increased. In cancer epidemiology, one tool used to address the challenges of working on multi-institutional ... -
Human Centered Tools for Analyzing Online Social Data
In the social sciences, researchers are increasingly turning to datasets collected from social media, online chat, forums, and email to address questions about human communication and behavior. However, these datasets are ... -
Knowledge Workers and Associative Activity: An Examination of Knowledge Work Systems and Settings
The US has experienced broad reaching economic changes as work has moved from the farm, to the factory, to the office, and now beyond. The long-term, high-level shift toward information work in the US is accompanied by ... -
Learning from and Designing for Digitally-Mediated Aspects of the Transition to Adulthood out of the Foster Care System
While historically overlooked in the HCI community, the difficult transition to adulthood that many individuals experience when exiting the US child welfare system has often been the focus of traditional social work research. ... -
Maintaining the Menstruating Body: Feminist Interventions on Care Resources
This dissertation examines recent industry and policy initiatives aimed at extending menstrual resources, as well as participatory grassroots programs operating alongside these efforts. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork ...