I am interested in how metadata can be used for lifelogging, in wellness and healthcare applications, and to help us understand our identity and our legacy.
My work seeks to provide interaction designs to engage users over the long term.
Health care is a system undergoing rapid change in the US. Our country is facing increasing costs, less healthcare coverage, and decreasing quality in health care. We have increasing numbers of elders needing assistance, and individuals struggling to p...
My research in this area ranges from designing robots to assist elders and caregivers in homes and institutions, to designing HRI for robots that can be touched and pushed, to designing interfaces and behaviors for medical robots and robot swarms.
I am interested in what design patterns make educational games more engaging and more effective. I am interested how the role of social play (such as scorekeeping and leaderboards) and the role of choice (such as order in the game and opponents) affect...
Our world is changing. In the past decade, many dire societal problems have arisen, including the global aging of our population and climate change due to increasing amounts of green house gases in the atmosphere. Society is fractioning as people fail ...
I am interested in all aspects of service design, from how it is best taught to extending the rudimentary research in the field. I have done studies on service recovery, adaptive service design, and how to personalize service delivery to help people me...