Human-AI Technology Lab at UVA

Matt Clark is a fourth year PhD Candidate in the Computer Science Department. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science from Skidmore College in May 2021, and his Masters of Computer Science from the University of Virginia in August 2023. His work focuses on designing systems that leverage personalized affective messaging to enable more meaningful communication.

Fun fact: I am an avid board game collector. I currently have over 50!

Projects

Melodies
Melodies Communicating wellness information through music.
Mood Ring
Mood Ring Detecting Changes in Adolescent Depression

Past Projects

Publications

2024

Changing Your Tune: Lessons for Using Music to Encourage Physical Activity
Changing Your Tune: Lessons for Using Music to Encourage Physical Activity
Matthew Clark, Afsaneh Doryab
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies  ·  13 May 2024  ·  doi:10.1145/3659611

2023

Personalization in Circadian Rhythm-Based Event Scheduling
Personalization in Circadian Rhythm-Based Event Scheduling
Prachi Sadekar, Jackson Baitinger, Sean Conway, Matthew Clark, Afsaneh Doryab
2023 Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS)  ·  27 Apr 2023  ·  doi:10.1109/SIEDS58326.2023.10137806

2022

Sounds of Health
Sounds of Health
Matthew Clark, Afsaneh Doryab
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies  ·  21 Dec 2022  ·  doi:10.1145/3570346

News

2024

UbiComp 2024 Presentations
UbiComp 2024 Presentations

PhD Student Matt Clark presented two Melodies papers at UbiComp 2024 in Melbourne, Austrailia! He also served as a student volunteer for the conference, winning an award for exemplory service!

Creating Emotion-Evoking Music to Communicate Wellness

Our workshop paper “Creating Emotion-Evoking Music to Communicate Wellness for Users with Diverse Musical Backgrounds” by Jason Chin, Matt Clark, and Afsaneh Doryab has been accepted to the WellComp 2024 workshop at UbiComp.

Changing Your Tune

Our paper “Changing Your Tune: Lessons for Using Music to Encourage Physical Activity” by Matt Clark and Afsaneh Doryab has been published in the Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable, and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT).

Congrats Matt Clark and Andrew Balch

PhD student Matt Clark recieved the computer science department’s Computer Science Gradaute Service Award, and Andrew Balch received an honorable mention for the undergradaute research award!

Matt Clark and Maria Cardei elected to Computer Science Graduate Student Group

PhD student Maria Cardei has been elected to serve as the Social Chair in UVA’s Computer Science Graduate Student Group. PhD student Matt Clark has been elected to serve as a co-general chair of the Computer Science Graduate Student Group.

2023

Presentation at UbiComp 2023

Congratulations to Matt Clark for presenting the paper “Sounds of Health: Using Personalized Sonification Models to Communicate Health Information” at UbiComp 2023!

Link Lab Student Flashtalks

Congratulations to Matt Clark for being selected as one of the Link Lab student flashtalk speakers for his work on Melodies!

Personalization in Circadian Rhythm-Based Event Scheduling

Our lab’s 4th year System’s Engineering Capstoene “Personalization in Circadian Rhythm-Based Event Scheduling” by Prachi Sadekar, Jackson Baitinger, Sean Conway, Matt Clark and Afsaneh Doryab has been published in the 2023 Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS).

Sounds of Health

Our paper “Sounds of Health: Using Personalized Sonification Models to Communicate Health Information” by Matt Clark and Afsaneh Doryab has been published in the Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable, and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT).

Matt Clark reelected to Computer Science Graduate Student Group

PhD student Matt Clark has been reelected for another term as the Social Chair in UVA’s Computer Science Graduate Student Group.

2022

Matt Clark joins the Computer Science Graduate Student Group

PhD student Matt Clark has been elected to serve as the Social Chair in UVA’s Computer Science Graduate Student Group.