Research
The HCI Lab
Research Team.
Master Student
Master Student
Alumni Master Student
Undergraduate Student
Adam Orland
Undergraduate Student
Alumni Undergraduate Student
Research Areas:
HCI, Health Informatics, Recommender Systems, Explainable AI, Mobile and Wearables Devices, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning (ML)
Current Projects.
ProHealth Initiative
ProHealth Initiative aims to examine how health applications can be designed to support individuals in their pursuit of a healthy lifestyle as well as their desire to collaboratively promote healthy living within close relationships.
ProHealth Initiative is composed by 3 projects:
PhamilyHealth Project: An online social-based system for intergenerational family collaboration on health over distance
FreeMind Project: A mobile application to help students to focus on self-care and wellness, and increase their awareness of behaviors and healthy practices
OurHealth Project: Developing technology solutions that promote engagement in healthy living and reduce health disparities in rural communities
Remote monitoring of Patient-Caregiver Dyadic Interactions in the Hospital Environment: Neonatal Care Case Study
The remote monitoring system project aims to provide a model of HIPPA-compliant, non-intrusive patient's monitoring system for health-related research regarding patient-caregiver dyadic interactions. For the NICU case, we expect to increase favorable attitudes toward and time spent on attachment promoting behaviors among nurses and parents.
Prior Projects.
Intergenerational Sharing of Health Data among Family Members Project : Exploring opportunities to support tracking and sharing of health information between elderly parents and their adult children.
PaperClickers Project: An affordable technological solution for classroom response systems.
Community Animator Project: A mobile app to inspire connections within communities.
International Spouses Project: Investigating design solutions to help international spouses in community orientation and access to local social services.
What is HCI?
Introduction.
(Check the HCI Infographic )
What is HCI?
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is a multidisciplinary field of study focusing on the design of computer technology and, in particular, the interaction between humans (the users) and computers.
HCI consists of three components: the user, the computer, and how these two work together.
HCI focuses on interfaces between people and computers and how to design, evaluate, and implement interactive computer systems that satisfy the user.
How does HCI fit in CS?
In computer science, researchers design, scale, and evaluate better computing systems for particular tasks. HCI naturally extends this research tradition by incorporating a human (or a group of humans) into the loop as part of the computing system.
What is the HCI Lab?
The HCI Lab focuses on research in Health and Community Informatics. We work on developing systems to promote health & wellness and to empower members of various communities to be healthier. We develop applications using human-centered methods and applying computing techniques.
Other.
Industry Experience.
Developer Engineering Junior, at Samsung Institute of P&D of Amazon – Brazil
(January 2012 – August 2013)
Developed mobile phone applications in Android. For instance, the Perfil game project for mobile phones.
System Analyst Junior, at inTera Technology – Brazil
(September 2008 – December 2011)
Worked on projects involving analysis and design of industrial automation systems, software development desktop and web database modelling, analysis supporting the production line (HD and Signs).
Research Experience.
Research Assistant, College of Information Science Technology (Penn State)
(August 2015-December 2017; May 2018 – August 2018, Summer 2019 - May 2020)
Served as an RA to Dr. John Carroll conducting qualitative data collection and analysis, design and prototyping of mobile applications;
Leading in-situ research study;
Collaborated as author and co-authors on research papers.