ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Chairs

Andrea G. Parker, PhD Andrea Grimes Parker is an Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. Dr. Parker holds a Ph.D. in Human-Centered Computing from Georgia Tech and a B.S. in Computer Science from Northeastern University. From 2018-2019, she was a Northeastern University Institute for Health Equity and Social Justice Research Faculty Scholar. Dr. Parker is the founder and director of the Wellness Technology Research Lab at Georgia Tech. Her interdisciplinary research spans the domains of human-computer interaction (HCI) and public health, as she examines how social and interactive computing systems can be designed to address health disparities. Dr. Parker’s research has been funded through grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Aetna Foundation, and Google. She has served as a steering committee member for the NSF Smart & Connected Health Visioning Workshop, Co-chair for the Technical Program Committee of the EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, and received several best paper nominations for her research on health equity.

Tiffany Veinot, PhD Tiffany C. Veinot, MLS, PhD is Associate Dean for Faculty at the School of Information, and Professor at the Schools of Information and Public Health at the University of Michigan. She is also a founding faculty member and former Director of the Master of Health Informatics Program at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on “community health informatics,” or the use of information systems and services to improve the health of marginalized populations and reduce health disparities. She has over 70 published, peer-reviewed papers, and her published research has garnered eight “best paper” awards in the fields of health informatics, human-computer interaction, and information science. She has held over $9.8 million in research funding as Principal Investigator. Dr. Veinot is on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), Journal of the Association of Information Science and Technology (JASIST), and International Journal of Medical Informatics (IJMI). She co-chaired a national Computing Community Consortium workshop on “Sociotechnical Interventions for Health Disparity reduction,” and was guest editor on a special focus issue of JAMIA entitled, “Health Informatics and Health Equity: Improving Our Reach and Impact,” and is on the Guest Editorial Committee for a special issue of Transactions on Computer Human Interaction on rural computing.

Original Research Submissions Chairs

	Jina Huh-Yoo, PhD Jina Huh-Yoo is an Assistant Professor at Drexel University in the College of Computing and Informatics. Research areas include human-centered computing, computer supported collaborative work, and health informatics. Current research projects include using conversational agent and other mobile and web-based technologies to improve health in everyday settings. She has been PI of NSF and NIH funded projects. She serves as Steering Committee for ACM CSCW (2019-), Committee on Human Research at American Psychological Association (2020-2022), Best Paper Nomination Committee for CHI, and program committee for ACM CHI, AMIA, and IEEE Pervasive Health conferences.
	Kim Unertl, PhD
	Karen Wang, MD, MHS

Christina Harrington, PhD Christina Harrington is a designer and qualitative researcher who works at the intersection of design and human-computer interaction to address health and social inequities. Much of her research focuses on the design and evaluation of technologies to support health, wellness, and social inclusion among marginalized populations. She employs a community-based participatory approach to working with individuals marginalized along identities of race, class, and age. Her ongoing work with the Equity and Health Innovations Design Research Lab explores health information seeking among Black elders and suggests newer approaches to deal with barriers of health literacy and technology proficiency. Christina is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Design within the College of Computing and Digital Media at DePaul University and holds a PhD in Design from Georgia Tech.

Tiffany Veinot, PhD Tiffany C. Veinot, MLS, PhD is Associate Dean for Faculty at the School of Information, and Professor at the Schools of Information and Public Health at the University of Michigan. She is also a founding faculty member and former Director of the Master of Health Informatics Program at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on “community health informatics,” or the use of information systems and services to improve the health of marginalized populations and reduce health disparities. She has over 70 published, peer-reviewed papers, and her published research has garnered eight “best paper” awards in the fields of health informatics, human-computer interaction, and information science. She has held over $9.8 million in research funding as Principal Investigator. Dr. Veinot is on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), Journal of the Association of Information Science and Technology (JASIST), and International Journal of Medical Informatics (IJMI). She co-chaired a national Computing Community Consortium workshop on “Sociotechnical Interventions for Health Disparity reduction,” and was guest editor on a special focus issue of JAMIA entitled, “Health Informatics and Health Equity: Improving Our Reach and Impact,” and is on the Guest Editorial Committee for a special issue of Transactions on Computer Human Interaction on rural computing.

Andrea G. Parker, PhD Andrea Grimes Parker is an Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. Dr. Parker holds a Ph.D. in Human-Centered Computing from Georgia Tech and a B.S. in Computer Science from Northeastern University. From 2018-2019, she was a Northeastern University Institute for Health Equity and Social Justice Research Faculty Scholar. Dr. Parker is the founder and director of the Wellness Technology Research Lab at Georgia Tech. Her interdisciplinary research spans the domains of human-computer interaction (HCI) and public health, as she examines how social and interactive computing systems can be designed to address health disparities. Dr. Parker’s research has been funded through grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Aetna Foundation, and Google. She has served as a steering committee member for the NSF Smart & Connected Health Visioning Workshop, Co-chair for the Technical Program Committee of the EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, and received several best paper nominations for her research on health equity.

Jessica Pater, PhD

Byron M. Lowens, MS Byron M. Lowens is a Ph.D. candidate in the Human-Centered Computing Division of the School of Computing at Clemson University. He holds a B.S. in Electronics Engineering from Southern University and A&M College, and M.S. in Computer Science from Virginia State University. Prior to pursuing his doctorate, Byron worked as a Full-Time Instructor at Virginia State University in the College of Engineering and Computer Science. His main research interests are in Health Informatics, Pervasive Health Technologies, Wearable Health Technologies Human-Computer Interaction, and Usable Security and Privacy.

Robin Brewer, PhD Robin Brewer is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. She holds a courtesy appointment in Computer Science and Engineering and affiliation with the Digital Studies Institute. Her research lies at the intersection of human-computer interaction, accessibility, and computer science. Robin’s recent work focuses on how voice-based interfaces can improve information access for older adults and people with disabilities, as well as the design and study of technology for social well-being. Robin received her Ph.D. in Technology and Social Behavior, a joint doctoral degree in Computer Science and Communication Studies, from Northwestern University, M.S. in Human-Centered Computing from University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and B.S. in Computer Science from University of Maryland, College Park.

Tammy Toscos, PhD Dr. Tammy Toscos holds a PhD in Informatics from Indiana University, Bloomington where she focused on Human Computer Interaction and Computer Science. She then leveraged her prior experience as a health care provider to complete a Postdoctoral Health Services Research Fellowship at the Regenstrief Institute, Indianapolis. As the founder and Director of the Health Services and Informatics Research lab at the Mirro Center for Research and Innovation at Parkview Health, she leads an interdisciplinary team focused on optimizing the use of technology in healthcare for improved patient outcomes and reduced cost of care. Dr. Toscos’ research has been acknowledged with several awards and funded by PCORI, AHRQ, SAMHSA, HRSA, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and various industry sponsors. She is also an adjunct faculty member for the department of Health Management and Policy at the University of Michigan and has hosted many graduate students for internships and collaborative research projects over the past 6 years since founding her research lab at Parkview Health.

Gabriela Marcu, PhD Gabriela Marcu is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information. She studies coordination of care for children’s behavioral health, and other behavioral and mental health services. Her expertise is in designing and evaluating digital health interventions from a user experience perspective, with a focus on marginalized and vulnerable populations. She holds a PhD in Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University, and a BS in Informatics from the University of California, Irvine.

Vanessa Oguamanam, MS Vanessa is a fourth year PhD student in computer science at Georgia Institute of Technology, where she is being advised by Dr. Andrea Parker in the Wellness Technology lab. Her research explores the design and evaluation of mobile health tools that support the promotion of Black women’s health. She holds both a B.S. in Computer Science and an M.S. in Human-Computer Interaction from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Herman Saksono, PhD Herman Saksono is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center of Research in Computation and Society, Harvard University. He completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Northeastern University. Broadly, his research aim is to investigate how to design technologies that help address health disparities. More specifically, he examines how health technologies can catalyze social interactions that help individuals and communities to manage their health and wellbeing. In his research, he has been conducting the entire human-centered design process by designing, building, and evaluating novel health technologies in collaboration with local community partners.

Megh Marathe, MS Megh Marathe is a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan. Their dissertation examines how people with epilepsy and healthcare professionals adopt, leverage, work around, and contest medical technologies. Situated at the intersection of computer-supported cooperative work, disability studies, and medical anthropology, Marathe’s research contributes to a clearer understanding of the effects of medical technologies on the practice and organization of healthcare, and on societal understandings of health conditions. Their work has been recognized through a best paper award at CHI 2018, a dissertation grant from Microsoft Research, and publications in CHI, CSCW, ICTD, and Time & Society. Marathe received a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Toronto and worked as a software engineer for five years.

STEERING COMMITTEE

• Julie Kientz, University of Washington
• Lena Mamykina, Columbia University
• Jessica Ancker, Weill Cornell Medical College
• Suzanne Bakken, Columbia University
• Susanne Boll, University of Oldenburg
• Yunan Chen, University of California Irvine
• Gavin Doherty, Trinity College Dublin
• Andrea Grimes Parker, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Jina Huh-Yoo, Drexel University
• Gabriela Marcu, University of Michigan
• Jochen Meyer, Offis.de
• Andrew Miller, Indiana University
• Elizabeth Mynatt, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Philip Payne, Washington University in St. Louis
• Wanda Pratt, University of Washington
• Madhu Reddy, Northwestern University
• Katie Siek, Indiana University
• Donna Spruijt-Metz, University of Southern California
• Tammy Toscos, Parkview Health
• Kim Unertl, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
• Tiffany Veinot, University of Michigan
• Nadir Weibel, University of California, San Diego
• Lauren Wilcox, Georgia Institute of Technology / Google
• Danny Wu, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
• Sun Young Park, University of Michigan
• Kai Zheng, University of California Irvine