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Speaker: Sunyoung Kim, Harvard CRCS
Title: Sensing and Feedback for Healthy and Environmentally Sustainable Behaviors
Abstract:
There is often a profound disparity between the perceived and actual quality of our health, everyday life and environment. My research focuses on how technology can bridge these gaps, and in particular, how simple, novel technology can empower people to support rational decision-making to improve their quality of everyday life. My work is grounded in the assumption that people can make more effective choices to meet their concerns when they are better informed about the current state of concern. In this talk, I will present sensing and feedback technology that I have developed to enhance awareness and promote behaviors for health and environmental sustainability. I will discuss the design and evaluation of inAir, a system to measure, visualize, and share indoor air quality, which is the first persuasive indoor air quality monitoring system for personal reflection and behavioral modification. I will also talk about the design and deployment of mobile applications and their framework to support citizen science activities for environmental sustainability. Finally, I will talk about my ongoing project of designing a wearable sensor to help patients with congestive heart failure to easily monitor and manage their conditions in a daily basis. Throughout the talk, I will interweave my design approach to sensing and feedback technology derived from human-computer interaction methods and a user-centric perspective.
Biography:
I am a CRCS postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and a member of Intelligent Interactive Systems Group supervised by Krysztof Gajos and Barbara Grosz. I am interested in improving the quality of everyday life through the use of technology. Leveraging mobile and ubiquitous computing technologies, I explore novel technical solutions that empower people to better understand the world around them and make informed choices for quality of life. In pursuit of this goal, I design, build, and evaluate new technologies that address such high-impact social problems.
I received my Ph.D degree from the Human Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University advised by Eric Paulos and Jennifer Mankoff. Before, I received my MS degree in Human-computer interaction from the School of interactive Computing at Georgia Tech advised by Gregory Abowd, and a member of Aware Home Research Initiative and the Ubiquitous Computing Research Group at Georgia Institute of Technology.Before coming to Georgia Tech, I have been working as a user interaction designer and strategic planner in the field of Internet Media, user interface for mobile device and Ubiquitous Appliance for Apartment Complex. I am a recipient of IBM Graduate Ph.D. Fellowship 2011.