I am happy to announce that my new paper got accepted in TOCHI; a top tier HCI journal. The paper proposes a novel framework called Attention Regulation Framework (ARF) to design mindfulness-based mobile applications.
I also got invited to present the paper at upcoming CHI2020 conference.
To read the paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3359593
I participated at Conference on Active and Healthy Ageing 2019 in DTU/Copenhagen.
Continue reading “AHA 2019”I was privileged to be a jury at Start Hack 2019 in St. Gallen University. Competitor students put tremendous effort for brain storming and implementation (48 hours of non-stop work without sleeping!) to develop start-up ideas.
I was reviewing car sharing ideas sponsored by Volvo.
Thanks to Prof. Pu introducing me this event!
I am moving to Lausanne to start my postdoc under supervision of Prof. Pearl Pu at Human-Computer Interaction group in EPFL. I will work under the REACH project developing Health Recommender Systems with a particular focus on physical activity recommenders for older adults. REACH is funded by Horizon 2020; the biggest EU Research and Innovation programme.
Our new paper “The relationship between flow proneness in everyday life and variations in the volume of gray matter in the dopaminergic system: A cross-sectional study” got accepted at Personality and Individual Differences, Elsevier.
The work was a great experience where I collaborated with a Japanese hospital to access a large number of participants (N~700)!
My doctoral defense scheduled to be done at 10:00, Aug 23, at Room A104 in Kochi University of Technology, Kami campus.
The title of the dissertation is “An Empirical Investigation of Human-Engaged Computing through Mindfulness-based Mobile applications”.
All colleagues are welcomed!
We had a great SIG meeting at CHI2018 in Montreal – Canada (https://chi2018.acm.org/). The SIG hosted over 30 distinguished HCI researcher. Here I would share the summary of the discussion which I believe it can be useful for HCI researchers who are interested in “Engagement”. Continue reading “Summary of a SIG Meeting on “Engagement””
We are going to have a SIG meeting at CHI 2018. Here is the link to the original SIG paper: https://doi.org/10.1145/3170427.3185364
I pasted the CFP! Everyone are welcomed. Continue reading “CFP SIG Meeting – CHI2018”
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