Mary Goldberg, PhD serves as the Education & Outreach Project Director at the Human Engineering Research Laboratories and is also an Assistant Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology at the University of Pittsburgh. She has a background in education with a concentration in rehabilitation science; psychology; and Spanish. She has served as Co-PI on several training programs in the field of assistive technology for undergraduates, veterans, and graduate students, with a particular emphasis on students with disabilities. Dr. Goldberg received her PhD in Administrative and Policy Studies of Education with a focus on online learning in assistive technology and her additional research interests include program evaluation, STEM education, and international capacity building in assistive technology.
Dr. Adam Arabian is an assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering at Seattle Pacific University where he conducts researcher in the development and evaluation of low-cost prosthetic devices with specific interests in international undeserved populations. Prior to this he spent fifteen years in industry, most of which was in the world of prosthetic devices. Prior positions include lead engineer for the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab DARPA Modular Prosthetic Limb and director of research and development for Orthocare Innovations. He earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Louisville (2008)
I am a Computer Science student at the University of Pittsburgh. I work on the backend of the EDIGS project, implemented in Flask and an SQL database under the mentorship of Jennifer Mankoff. I enjoy seeing how little details come together to form a working application.
Dimeji’s experience in design, research and consulting spans over a decade.
At CMU, his research in the field of social design focused on design’s impact on initializing maintaining and contributing to a commons by exploring how collaboration around tenancy as common property may amplify community strength in ways that contribute to societal transition to sustainable futures.
I am presently in my Junior year at DA-IICT, India and I work as a remote intern on project ‘eDigs’, mentored by Dr. Jennifer Mankoff at HCI. I was a programmer for building an application on Android and iOS SDK, and we successfully deployed it on both systems. Currently, I am mentored by Dr. Mankoff and am working independently as a researcher on a project called ‘SunScore’. I have found a method to give a lightweight estimate of the internal light level a room gets, compared to the external light level, just by looking at the Satellite and Street View of it provided by Google Earth.
Vikram Kamath as a Ph.D. candidate at the school of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon. I specialize in Human-Computer Interaction for Development (HCI4D). Prof. Amy Ogan and Prof. Tim Brown are his advisors. He works on building and evaluating low-cost technology to support teachers in low-resource contexts.
Previously, he was a web developer working at the Dean’s office at CMU. In his spare time, he worked as a Research Assistant and contributed to EDigs and the Prosthetics study.
Duncan McIsaac: I’m a Senior studying Information Systems with a minor in HCI, graduating in the spring. I’m interested in full stack development, music, and coffee. My year-long honors thesis is to improve web accessibility. I’m researching how I can map web content to keys on a keyboard to communicate website structure to the visually impaired.
I’m a fifth-year Ph.D. student in the Machine Learning Department, jointly advised by Jen Mankoff and Steve Fienberg. My research interests are, broadly, using computation to solve challenges in environmental sustainability and intelligently ordering questions in online surveys. I am currently working on utility (electricity and natural gas) prediction for EDigs, dynamic question ordering in online surveys like the American Community Survey from the Census, and analyzing the effects of gender and authorship in CS/HCI publications.
Outside of research, I’m also involved with Women@SCS at CMU and volunteer with TechNights, a weekly program to introduce middle-school girls to the excitement of computer science through hands-on lessons and activities. Examples of sessions I helped to design and lead include recommender systems, parallelism, and signalprocessing.
Nikola is an alumnus of the group, as of 2018 an assistant professor in Computer Science at the University of Michigan. He did his PhD work under Jennifer Mankoff and Anind Dey, working on developing new models of human routine behaviors that will inform the design and support smart agents that help people develop good routines. His projects included helping aggressive drivers improve their driving routine to become less aggressive, and helping students develop routines that help them balance their academic success and their health and wellbeing.
Nikola is an alumnus of the group, as of 2018 an assistant professor in Computer Science at the University of Michigan. He did his PhD work under Jennifer Mankoff and Anind Dey, working on developing new models of human routine behaviors that will inform the design and support smart agents that help people develop good routines. His projects included helping aggressive drivers improve their driving routine to become less aggressive, and helping students develop routines that help them balance their academic success and their health and wellbeing.
