Ongoing
Wearable Life
This project focuses on developing a wrist-worn wearable application and a mobile app that serves as assistive technology to support adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities
This research project is funded by multiple agencies. From 2016 to 2023 we received financial support from the ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR grant number 90DPGE0009), and GMU through IDIA, OSCAR and FWS.
The research activities are conducted in collaboration with the School of Business, and Source America partners, and the Division of Special Education and DisAbility Research at GMU (MASON LIFE) [Video] [News]
This project runs in collaboration with Prof. Anna Evmenova, Dr. Heidi Graff, and Prof. Wittman
Amive: A Computational infrastructure for autonomous and real-time identification and intervention for users with possible depressive profile in online social network
This project investigates the analysis of unstructured data from the web (online posts on social media channels) and wearable sensor data to detect depressive states among college students. This project is funded by FAPESP. The project is in collaboration with UFSCar - Brazil
Participatory development of the APP Mental: an evidence-based, subject-centered digital intervention designed for self-care and mental health support for SUS primary care health workers
This project offers mental health support and monitoring features through a mobile app
This research is funded by FAPESP and a collaboration with Prof. Jair Barbosa e colleagues from UFSCar
Human-Centric Privacy-Preserving Controls for Smart Home Devices
This project focuses on understanding the users' behaviors and attitudes related to smart home devices to propose usable privacy solutions
This research project is funded by VRIF - CCI and 4-VA and conducted in collaboration with James Madison University - Prof. Ahmad Salman, Prof. Sammy El-Tawab and Virginia Commonwealth University - Prof. Changqing Luo and Concordia University - Prof. Carol Fung
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GMU GEST DC: Gestational ExpoSure to Traffic in the DC Metro Area
2017-2018 George Mason University Provost Award
This project explores the usage of a wearable monitor to detect the air pollution in pregnant women and developing a mhealth application and inform them about alternative routes
Collaborators: Jenna Krall, Anna Pollack, Yi-Ching Lee [Publication]
NSF Amulet
This project focuses on the development and user-centered design of a computational jewelry for healthcare applications, such as: behavior change, smoking cessation, obesity and stress management. [VSE News]
This research project is funded by NSF and conducted in collaboration with Clemson University - Prof. Kelly Caine and Prof. Jacob Sorber, and Dartmouth College - Prof. David Kotz and Prof. Sarah Lord
IARPA CREATE Co-Arg: Cogent Argumentation System with Crowd Elicitation
This multidisciplinary project focuses on crowdsourcing evidence, argumentation, thinking and evaluation, to support analytic reasoning with structured techniques
The project is funded by IARPA in an effort from GMU and collaborators
Robots engaging elderly in Joint Activities with Music (ReJAM) - during eNTERFACE 2016
The ReJAM project aims to develop Robots engaging elderly in Joint Activities to promote physical, cognitive, emotional and social wellbeing.
The research team includes TNO, Delft University of Technology, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, George Mason University
This project focused on context-aware adaptation of user interfaces, it was funded by the EU FP7 program (2010-2013)
The research was conducted in collaboration with UCL - Belgium, SAP - Germany, Telefonica - Spain, W3C - France, CTIC - Spain, ISTI - Italy and W4 - France
This project focused on web 2.0 tools (mashups) for healthcare applications (notifications on drug interactions) (2009)
The research was funded by IBBT - Belgium and conducted in collaboration between Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) - Belgium, Ghent University - Belgium among other partners
FAPESP Tidia-Ae & DiGAE
This project focused on e-Learning environments and ubiquitous computing applications for distributed meetings
The research was funded by FAPESP - Brazil and conducted in collaboration between USP - Brazil and Unicamp - Brazil