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Welcome, IN-LSAMP Summer 2022 Students Zachary Harris (Computer and Information Science) and Djamel Almabouada (Computer Science – Ivy Tech)!
Congratulations to Pegah Karimi on the acceptance of a paper to Web4All 2021!!
Pegah Karimi’s paper entitled “Scribe: Improving Older Adults’ Access to Medical Instructions from Patient-Physician Conversations” was accepted to the Web4All Conference 2021.
Congratulations to Pegah Karimi on the acceptance of an abstract to UbiComp 2020!!
Pegah Karimi had an abstract entitled “Understanding Barriers to Medical Instruction Access for Older Adults: Implications for AI-Assisted Tools” to the Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2020).
Congratulations Karen Bonilla for 2020 SOUPS Diversity Grant!!
Congratulations to Karen Bonilla, Informatics Undergraduate Student, for receiving a SOUPS 2020 Diversity Grant
Congratulations to Karen Bonilla, Informatics Undergraduate Student, on the acceptance of her poster abstract to USENIX Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) 2020 !!
Bonilla, K. and Martin-Hammond, A. Older Adults’ Perceptions of Intelligent Voice Assistant Privacy, Transparency, and Online Privacy Guidelines, Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) 2020.
Welcome, IN-LSAMP Summer Students Chiko Nwachukwu (Informatics) and Kalista Ballard (Computer and Information Technology)!
Congratulations to HCI graduate students, Szu Yang and Swaroop John, for placing as a finalist in the ACM CHI Student Game Competition!
They will present their work designing a hybrid game – Team Bingo – in collaboration with one of our lab’s senior partners.
Szu-Yu Yang and Swaroop John. 2020. Team Bingo: A Game that Increases Physical Activity and Social Interaction for Seniors in a Community Setting. In Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1145/3334480.3381653
New Paper at CHI 2020 – Older Adults Reasons for Using, Limiting, and Abandoning Echo
Milka Trajkova and Aqueasha Martin-Hammond. “Alexa is a Toy”: Exploring Older Adults’ Reasons for Using, Limiting, and Abandoning Echo”. In Proceedings of the 2020 annual conferences on Human factors in computing systems (CHI ’20). ACM, New York, NY, USA. Acceptance Rate: 24.31% ( To appear in April 2020)
Congratulations to our undergraduate lab member and alumni, Jamie Sanders, and our collaborators for receiving a Best Poster award at the 2020 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work for our work – A Circle of Friends: Persuasive Tools to Improve Heart Health!
Sanders, Jamie, Tanjala S. Purnell, Jeanne Charleston, Ina Glenn-Smith, and Aqueasha Martin-Hammond. “A Circle of Friends: Persuasive Tools to Improve Heart Health.” In Companion of the 2020 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work, 107–110. GROUP ’20. Sanibel Island, Florida, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1145/3323994.3369885. (Best Poster Award)