News
2025
Our paper “Predicting the Severity of Anxiety in Adolescents Through Passively Sensed Behaviors” by Elaine Zhang, Matt Clark, and Afsaneh Doryab has been accepted as a regular paper to the 2025 IEEE/ACM Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems, and Engineering Technologies (IEEE/ACM CHASE ‘25).
Congratulations to Andrew Balch for being named as a finalist for the Computing Research Association’s Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher award! Just 24 students nationwide received this level of recognition for their contributions to computing research. You can learn more about the award at the CRA website.
2024
PhD student Maria Cardei has been reelected for another term as the Social Chair in UVA’s Computer Science Graduate Student Group.
Undergraduate Student Andrew Balch presented a demo of a smartphone-based spectrophotometer for micronutrient assessment at MobiCom 2024 in Washington D.C.! His presentation was awarded 3rd place in the undergraduate category of MobiCom’s Student Research Competition. Check out this page to learn more about the nutrition project!
Our paper Practical Heuristics for Victim Tagging During a Mass Casualty Incident Emergency Medical Response authored by PhD student Maria Cardei and Afsaneh Doryab, has been published in the 2024 IEEE 20th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE). Maria traveled to Bari, Italy to present our work!
PhD Student Matt Clark presented two Melodies papers at UbiComp 2024 in Melbourne, Australia! He also served as a student volunteer for the conference, winning an award for exemplory service!
Andrew Balch was featured in a piece by UVA Today on the Dean’s Undergraduate Research Fellowship program! You can check it out here.
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.
Our abtract “Multi-Agent System for Optimizing Victim Tagging in Human/Autonomous Responder Teams” by PhD student Maria Cardei and Afsaneh Doryab, has been published in the 2024 ACM/IEEE 15th International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS).
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).
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!
Andrew Balch presented his poster on a smartphone-based spectrophotometer for Vitamin B12 quantification at the 2024 Commonwealth Cyber Initiative Symposium in Richmond, Virginia!
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
Congratulations to Matt Clark for presenting the paper “Sounds of Health: Using Personalized Sonification Models to Communicate Health Information” at UbiComp 2023!
Congratulations to Matt Clark for being selected as one of the Link Lab student flashtalk speakers for his work on Melodies!
We welcome Maria Cardei and Sabit Ahmed, two new computer science PhD student’s joining the HAI Lab.
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).
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).
PhD student Matt Clark has been reelected for another term as the Social Chair in UVA’s Computer Science Graduate Student Group.
2022
PhD student Matt Clark has been elected to serve as the Social Chair in UVA’s Computer Science Graduate Student Group.
2021
We welcome Matt Clark and Matt Landers, two new computer science PhD student’s joining the HAI Lab.