DESIGN + ENGINEERING + BEHAVIORAL & AFFECTIVE SCIENCE + DATA + ETHICS
Behavior Change & Affective Computing for Wellbeing
Wellbeing encompasses all aspects of life: health, economy, productivity, safety, privacy, socialization. We design, engineer, research, and propose ethical principles to create interfaces & data-intensive systems to help people grow, be healthy, be prosperous, and perform at their best. We create personalized behavior change & affective sensors & interventions seamlessly embedded in daily life.
AREAS OF STUDY
SUBTLE INTERVENTIONS
Just-in-time interventions that balance efficacy and engagement for stress management to improve health and performance. We deliver cyber and physical subtle interventions with minimal to no distraction to the user.
"SENSORLESS" SENSING
Repurpose data streams generated daily by existing devices or data extracted from invisible sensors embedded in everyday objects for continuous and longitudinal monitoring of health and performance.
SHARED AUTONOMY FOR WELLBEING
Automated everyday devices and infrastructure to create novel ambient peripheral interventions such as non-volitional behavior change or implicit affect entrainment technologies operating at supra and subliminal levels.
AI-ENABLED MULTIMODAL STRESS SENSING
We led a group of researchers to win a prestigious NSF SenSE award with our proposal AI-enabled Multiimodal Stress Sensing for Precision Health combining biochemical, physiological, and biomechanical sensors.
