July 2025: Our paper on understanding personal protective equipment use in interdisciplinary medical settings to inform just-in-time interactive compliance alerts was accepted to ACM DIS 2025. Dr. Sarcevic led and presented this work at the conference in Funchal, Madeira, in July 2025. 

June 2025: We are so proud of Dr. Katie Zellner, who successfully defended and completed her PhD Dissertation research this spring! Thank you also to her committee members - Drs. Jina Huh-Yoo, Michelle Rogers, John Seberger and Katie Pine - for invaluable support! Katie will be starting her postdoc position in the Department of Technology Management and Innovation at NYU - best of luck and we can't wait to see all the big things you will achieve next!

May 2025: IS4H PhD students presented their work at the ninth annual Drexel Emerging Graduate Scholars (DEGS) Conference, a University-wide conference featuring graduate and professional student research. Katie Zellner participated in Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) Competition, highlighting her dissertation work and winning the President's Award for Best Three Minute Thesis (3MT®)! Christine Ikponmwonba presented a poster on the research she's been doing on computerized hand hygiene monitoring in healthcare settings. Congrats to both!!

March 2025: Our lab will present two papers at the ACM CSCW 2025 conference in Bergen, Norway, October 18-22, 2025. Both papers were led by Dr. Angela Mastrianni, currently a postdoctoral fellow at NYU Langone Health. The first paper describes the design and evaluation of an AI-enabled decision-support system to aid healthcare providers in treating patients with traumatic injuries, while the second paper used Actor-Network Theory approach to analyze collaboration and agency within fast-response teams and identify implications for designing decision-support systems that not only aid decision making, but also facilitate collaboration and agency.

November 2024: Shout out to Kathryn Chang, a second year medical student in our lab, who successfully presented her research poster at this year's Drexel University College of Medicine Discovery Day. The poster was based on her summer project funded through a College of Medicine Medical Student Summer Research Fellowship. The project focused on identifying factors contributing to personal protective equipment (PPE) noncompliance in critical care settings.

October 2024: Our paper on using activity theory to study teamwork delays during time-critical medical interventions was accepted to ACM Group 2025. Congrats to Katie Zellner, who led the study, and the rest of the team! Katie will be presenting the paper at the upcoming conference in January 2025!

In related news, Katie was also accepted to the ACM Group 2025 Doctoral Consortium! Yay, congratulations!

September 2024: We are so proud of Dr. Angela Mastrianni, who successfully defended and completed her PhD Dissertation research this summer! Thank you also to her committee members - Drs. Afsaneh Razi, Jina Huh-Yoo, Christopher MacLellan, and Krzysztof Gajos - for invaluable support! Angela is starting her postdoc position with the HiBRID Lab at NYU Langone Health - best of luck and we can't wait to see all the big things you will achieve next! 

August 2024: Two of our undergraduate research assistants presented their work at the 2024 STAR Scholars Showcase at Drexel University. Jonathan Stein worked with the researchers from DUCoM's Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy on new therapeutic approaches for spinal cord injury and Emily Ernst worked with our lab on eliciting requirements for designing new dynamic features on the digital checklist for trauma resuscitation.

May 2024: We have several papers and presentations at CHI 2024! Katie Zellner will present her case study on the challenges in designing visual alerts that represent delays and complex concepts in time-critical medical events. Angela Mastrianni will present her 2023 ToCHI Journal paper on transitioning cognitive aids into decision support platforms. Angela will also present her MSR internship work from last summer at the CHI 2024 Sensemaking Workshop.

September 2023: Our team just received a new R01 award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering!! This award will allow us to continue our work on using AI to detect PPE noncompliance among the healthcare workers in resuscitation settings and remind them to correct their PPE. Check out this nice write-up about the research on Drexel News Blog!

May 2023: Shout out to Vidhi Shah, our undergraduate research assistant, for her placement in the Quick Pitch Competition finals during the 2023 Annual Week of Undergraduate Excellence at Drexel University.

May 2023: Pittsburgh, here we come!! Our lab will present three papers at the ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) in Pittsburgh, PA (July 10-14): (1) a full paper on supporting awareness of dynamic data within clinical checklists (lead author Angela), (2) a work-in-progress paper on supporting decisions about stopping life-saving interventions (lead author Angela), and (3) another work-in-progress paper on designing a computer-aided monitoring and alerting system to improve PPE compliance among healthcare workers (lead author Dr. Sarcevic).

Angela also got selected for participation in the DIS 2023 Doctoral Consortium!!

May 2023: Katie's paper, titled "Understanding Delay Awareness and Mitigation Mechanisms through an Iterative Design and Evaluation of a Prototype Alert System for Complex Teamwork," got accepted to PACM HCI - CSCW Track.  The paper will be presented at the upcoming ACM CSCW 2023 conference in Minneapolis, MN in October! It's been almost three years since we started this project and we are super excited to see it out soon! 

January 2023: Congrats to Angela for successfully presenting her paper at ACM Group 2022/23 and participating in the Doctoral Consortium. The paper, titled "Alerts as coordination mechanisms: Implications for designing alerts for multidisciplinary and shared decision making," was published in PACMHCI, Volume 6, Issue GROUP in January 2022.

November 2022: Angela's research was featured at PhillyCHI's World Usability Day. This year's theme was "Our Health" and Angela presented about her research on cognitive aids for dynamic medical settings.

August 2022: Shout out to our two STAR Scholars - Vidhi Shah and Channacy Un - who spent the summer in our lab, contributing great research ideas and insights! On August 25, they each gave a poster presentation at the STAR Scholars Summer Showcase.

April 2022: Congrats to Katie Zellner on winning the Provost’s Award for Best In-Person Oral Research Presentation at the the 2022 Drexel Emerging Graduate Scholars Conference! Congrats also to Hua Cui on winning the Third Place Virtual Research Poster Presentation at DEGS!

July 2021: Congrats to Katie Zellner and co-authors on the CSCW 2021 Poster acceptance! The poster will be virtually presented at the CSCW 2021 conference in October 2021.

June 2021: Congrats to our undergraduate research assistant Dolma Sherpa and her mentor Angela Mastrianni for getting this short paper accepted to MobileHCI 2021! Dolma's excellent 1-min teaser for the paper (titled "Exploring the Design of Streaming Data Interfaces for Emergency Medical Contexts") is starting at 13.11 mins in this video.

April 2021: Congrats to Angela Mastrianni and all co-authors on DIS 2021 paper acceptance! The paper is titled "Designing Interactive Alerts to Improve Recognition of Critical Events in Medical Emergencies."

December 2020: Congrats to Angela Mastrianni and Leah (Kulp) Hamlin on the CHI 2021 Case Study acceptance. In this case study, titled "Transitioning to Remote User-Centered Design Activities in the Emergency Medical Field During a Pandemic," we describe how we successfully transitioned all of our in-person, user-centered research activities to virtual environments when the Covid-19 pandemic started. 

December 2020: Congratulations to Dr. Swathi Jagannath for successfully defending her dissertation, titled "Perception, Communication, and Representation of Activity Delays in Dynamic Medical Teamwork!" Thank you also to committee Yunan Chen, Andrea Forte, Michelle Rogers, and Kenton O'Hara on their feedback! It's been a wonderful and fun "research" ride for the past 4.5 years!!

June 2020: Congratulations to Dr. Leah Kulp for successfully defending her dissertation research, titled "Towards an Adaptive, Context-aware Checklist for Concurrent Use in Dynamic Medical Settings." Thank you also to the committee members - Andrea Forte, Erin Solovey, Helena Mentis, and Nadir Weibel for their support! It was wonderful to see all the "guests" at this virtual defense!!

May 2019: Nice media coverage in PhillyVoice of our latest research on the effects of using digital checklist during pediatric trauma resuscitation.