Navigation auf uzh.ch
Navigation auf uzh.ch
Clara-Maria Barth, Alexander Lill, and Federica Zavattaro organized the DSI Health Innovathon, a two-day interdisciplinary event funded by a grant from the DSI Health Community. The Innovathon brought together students, researchers, industry professionals, and innovators from a wide range of disciplines to collaboratively generate and test innovative solutions for the digitalization of healthcare. Participants worked on real-world health challenges, guided by experts in the field. The organizers invited three keynote speakers Prof. Dr. Jürgen Bernard, Prof. Dr. Viktor von Wyl, and Andreia Fernandes that explored topics such as data visualization, digital health, and entrepreneurship.
Haben Sie Typ-1-Diabetes und sind interessiert, die Entwicklung neuer Technologien zu beeinflussen oder mit anderen Typ-1-Diabetiker/Innen zu diskutieren? Dann suchen wir genau Sie!
Clara-Maria Barth and Maryam Rabie Yeganeh attended the Workshop on Designing Tangible AI Interactions at the UBI Summer School UBISS 2024. Maryam Rabie Yeganeh presented "Squishy" an embodied AI companion for frustrating AI interactions. Clara-Maria Barth presented "CheersMate" an AI powered beer mug for enhancing social experiences.
Clara-Maria Barth presents her full paper "It's like a glimpse into the future": Exploring the Role of Blood Glucose Prediction Technologies for Type 1 Diabetes Self-Management at the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI2024, in Honolulu, Hawaii. This work was conducted together with Prof. Elaine Huang and Prof. Jürgen Bernard.
The ZPAC team attended CHI24 in Honolulu, Hawaii in various Roles. Nimra Ahmed presented her poster on cultural dimensions and mental health technology, Tim Schluchter participated in the student competition with his poster on user perceptions of mental health content on TikTok, and Clara-Maria Barth presented her full paper on how blood glucose predictions affect the lived experience of individuals with type 1 diabetes together with Elaine M. Huang.
Clara-Maria Barth gave a talk at the Campus Oerlikon Lecture Series: “Friend or Foe: Artificial Intelligence as a Challenge for Society”, about challenges and opportunities of AI-based personalization of technologies for people with chronic conditions. Using the example of Type 1 Diabetes management, she discussed how AI could alleviate the cognitive burden of managing chronic conditions by providing tailored insights, such as personalized blood glucose predictions and similarity search in VA to help users learn from their experiences. She further reflected on challenges like ensuring user agency, balancing automation with users feeling like they are still in control, and the downsides of personalization in sensitive contexts. Her ongoing work aims to use AI-based personalization approaches, investigating when and how personalization using AI might be useful and how to avoid unintended harm.
For her project 'Supporting People Affected by Forced Marriage in Switzerland through Digital Transformation', Nimra has received funding from the DIZH. In this interdisciplinary project, she will be working with the Federal Competence Center against Forced Marriages and partnering with the ZHAW.
Nimra has received the newly launched SDG Impact Award for her thesis «Designing Technology for People Affected by Forced Marriage in Switzerland». With her thesis, she contributed to the UN SDG Goal 5, «Gender Equality».
Anton has co-organized a workshop on "Challenges of transferring UX designs and insights across products and services" at ECSCW'21
Anton has received a UZH Postdoc Forschungskredit grant to conduct research on local sharing economy communities in Zurich
Anton is co-organizing a workshop on "Spatial tensions in CSCW: The political and ethical challenges of scale" at ECSCW'23 in Trondheim, Norway
Prof. Özge Subaşı from Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey visited ZPAC during her STSM
Anton Fedosov joined COST Action "Platform Work Inclusion Living Lab"
Anton Fedosov participated in the Sharing and Caring podcast series with Susanne Bødker.
Anton Fedosov co-organized the GoodBrother International Conference on Privacy-friendly and Trustworthy Technology for Society.
Chat Wacharamanotham is appointed as an assistant professor in interaction design
ZPAC members will present research on smart home, IFTTT, fabrics input, and vibrating vest at CHI 2016
Two projects are opening for master thesis or master projects
Chat Wacharamanotham is appointed as an assistant professor in interaction design
We're happy to announce that ZPAC members have two full papers at CHI 2015, as well as a workshop ("Smart for Life: Designing Smart Home Technologies that Evolve with Users") and an entry in the doctoral consortium!
Nemanja's paper "Capture the Moment: “In the Wild” Longitudinal Case Study of Situated Snapshots Captured Through an Urban Screen in a Community Setting" got accepted to the Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2015) Conference. It will be presented at the conference in Vancouver, BC, Canada in March 2015.
Sarah's paper "From Today's Augmented Houses to Tomorrow's Smart Homes: New Directions for Home Automation Research" got accepted to Ubicomp 2014. It will be presented at the conference in Seattle, WA, USA in September 2014.
Christian's book chapter "Addressing the obsolescence of end-user devices: Approaches from the field of sustainable HCI" has been accepted and will be published in the upcoming book ICT Innovations for Sustainability. The book chapter also has been accepted for presentation at the ICT4S 2014 conference in Stockholm, Sweden.
Helen's paper "A Qualitative Study of Workplace Intercultural Communication Tensions in Dyadic Face-to-Face and Computer-Mediated Interactions" got accepted to the Designing Interactive Systems (DIS 2014) conference. The paper will be presented at the conference in Vancouver, BC, Canada in June 2014.
We are happy to announce that the paper Supporting Voice Content Sharing among Underprivileged People in Urban Indiawas accepted into the INTERACT 2013conference program.
Three of our PhD students successfully defended their thesis proposals this week. Gunnar Harboe defended his proposal on "Understanding and augmenting a paper arrangement-based process," Sarah Mennicken on "Improving the smart home experience by integrating routines and technologies," and Christian Remy on the "Sustainable design of consumer electronics."
Have you ever sat in front of your phone or tablet on a rainy Sunday afternoon wanting to find a new, cool app and been frustrated with searching through the Play store? Did you ever search through many different categories, having a general idea of the app you would want to install, but never quite finding the right app that fulfills this notion? AppDJ is a ZPAC Bachelor Thesis project that tries to address these issues. The AppDJ app is the result of looking into alternative ways to explore and discover apps.
Prof. Elaine M. Huang will hold her Antrittsvorlesung (Inaugural Lecture), "Practices and perceptions: Environmental sustainability in ubiquitous computing," on Monday, 12. December at 19:30 in the University Aula. The talk is open to the public. (Edit: Previous announcement said it would be at 19:00. 19:30 is the correct time.)
We're happy to announce that a ZPAC short paper, Computer Support for Collaborative Data Analysis: Augmenting Paper Affinity Diagrams(Harboe, Minke, Ilea and Huang), has been accepted as a note for CSCW 2012.
A Master student job position is available. The work involves helping to create a new application for tablets, smart phones and PCs.
Sign up for the Summer School at UZH! It will take place from July 4 to 8, 2011 at our institute.
ZPAC will host a talk by David Dearman of the University of Toronto entitled, “Identifying and applying place-based activities derived from community authored content” on Wednesday, June 1, 2011 at 13:30 in the HCI Lab (BIN 1.B.18).
On May 26, 2011 Prof. Geraldine Fitzpatrick will give a talk in the course of the IFI colloquium.
The paper "Designing Shared Public Display Networks – Implications from Today’s Paper-Based Notice Areas" will be presented at the Pervasive 2011 conference.
We will present the note "Rendering Physical Effects in Tabletop Controls" at the SIGCHI 2011 conference.
Leila Takayama of Willow Garage is visiting ZPAC on March 10, 2011.
Nadir Weibel is visiting ZPAC on December 10, 2010 to present his current research.
James Scott visits ZPAC on November 5, 2011 to present his research.
