Tawanna Dillahunt is an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan’s School of Information (UMSI) and holds a courtesy appointment with the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) department. Before starting as an Assistant Professor, she was a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in UMSI from January 2013 – July 2014. She also leads the Social Innovations Group at UMSI and her research interests are in the areas of human-computer interaction, ubiquitous computing, and social computing. She is primarily interested in identifying needs and opportunities to further explore how theories from the social sciences can be used to design technologies that have a positive impact on group and individual behavior. With the narrowing of the digital divide, the ubiquity of smart devices and mobile hotspots in common places in the U.S. (e.g., libraries, community centers, and even McDonald’s) she sees an urgent need to explore the use of these technologies for those that stand the most to gain from these resources. Therefore, she designs, builds, enhances and deploys innovative technologies that solve real-world problems, particularly in underserved communities.
Tawanna holds a M.S. and Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University, a M.S. in Computer Science from the Oregon Graduate Institute School of Science and Engineering (now a part of the Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, OR), and a B.S. in Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University. She was also a software engineer at Intel Corporation for several years
Sunyoung Kim is interested in improving the quality of everyday life through the use of technology. Leveraging mobile and ubiquitous computing technologies, she explores novel technical solutions that empower people to better understand the world around them and make informed choices for quality of life. She is also an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Computer Science.
Sunyoung Kim, an HCI researcher, designs, builds, and evaluates ubiquitous computing technologies that can promote positive changes towards everyday health, wellbeing, and environmental sustainability. Before joining the Rutgers SC&I faculty, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS). She was a member of Aware Home Research Initiative and the Ubiquitous Computing Research Group at Georgia Institute of Technology. Previously, she worked as a user interaction designer and project manager in the field of internet media, user interface for mobile device and Ubiquitous Appliance for Apartment Complex.
Here thesis was titled “Democratizing Mobile Technology in Support of Volunteer Activities in Data Collection.”
Julia Schwarz builds software that leverages probabilistic modeling, signal processing, and machine learning to improve user interfaces.
She received a BS from University of Washington, and a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Jennifer Mankoff and Scott Hudson. Here thesis was titled: “Monte Carlo Methods for Managing Uncertain User Interfaces”
While at Carnegie Mellon she co-founded Qeexo, where she led the team that developed FingerSense, currently shipping on over 300 million Huawei devices.
In 2015 she moved back home to work on the HoloLens team at Microsoft. At Microsoft, she brings instinctual interactions to HoloLens 2, allowing users to directly interact with holograms using their hands.
For more information, please see her résumé and website.
Scott Carter has worked in industrial research for over a decade building and evaluating mobile and multimedia systems to support remote and collocated workers. He is currently a Staff Research Scientist at Toyota Research Institute as well as the Administrative Editor of the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Journal. Before that he was a Principal Scientist at FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Inc. He holds a PhD in CS (with an HCI focus) from UC Berkeley.
Tara Matthews is currently at Google Research, where her research focuses on privacy and security. Previously, she was a Research Staff Member in the USER group at IBM Almaden Research Center where she focused on how people collaborate at work and on designing better support tools. Her interests and expertise include awareness, visualization, evaluation, and CSCW. She has served on organizing and program committees for major HCI conferences. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley and is a BID alum.
Her thesis was titled “Evaluation of ambient displays”
Tawanna Dillahunt is an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan’s School of Information (UMSI) and holds a courtesy appointment with the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) department. Before starting as an Assistant Professor, she was a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in UMSI from January 2013 – July 2014. She also leads the Social Innovations Group at UMSI and her research interests are in the areas of human-computer interaction, ubiquitous computing, and social computing. She is primarily interested in identifying needs and opportunities to further explore how theories from the social sciences can be used to design technologies that have a positive impact on group and individual behavior. With the narrowing of the digital divide, the ubiquity of smart devices and mobile hotspots in common places in the U.S. (e.g., libraries, community centers, and even McDonald’s) she sees an urgent need to explore the use of these technologies for those that stand the most to gain from these resources. Therefore, she designs, builds, enhances and deploys innovative technologies that solve real-world problems, particularly in underserved communities.
