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Greater Cleveland LGBTQ+ Community Needs Assessment
About the Dashboard
The Interactive Self-Reported Health Demographic Dashboard illustrates survey findings from the LGBTQ+ Community Needs Assessments conducted across Greater Akron (2023) and Greater Cleveland (2024), to inform on the needs and...
Project · 1d
Association of Ohio Health Commissioners (AOHC) Inc., Columbus, OH
• Collaborating with AOHC to plan, disseminate, and evaluate a public health messaging campaign using Framing theory.
• Created high-quality graphics to disseminate on AOHC and constituents' social media platforms.
Sample Graphics from Campaign
Project · 1d
Design and Evaluation of a "Chairable" Personal Informatics System for People with Severe Motor Disabilities
The use of Personal Informatics (PI) in consumer need space is growing in popularity because it allows people to interact with their data, foster self-awareness, and achieve life goals. While PI is well explored in the Human-Centered Computing (HC...
Project · 1d
Building Design Empathy Among Novice Designers while Designing for People with Motor Disabilities
Design empathy is a core HCI concept for understanding user perspectives in design processes. Although researchers advocate for leveraging design empathy in the design of assistive technology, educating novice designers about this is challenging; ...
Project · 2d
Technology Adoption Soon After Sustaining a Severe Spinal Cord Injury
A spinal cord injury (SCI) typically results in a sudden change to an individual’s motor function. People’s adoption of technology soon after a severe SCI is crucial, since they must relearn most technology interactions to adjust to their new phys...
Project · 2d
Personal Informatics for People with Motor Disabilities
Personal informatics (PI) supports people from many backgrounds and life contexts in collecting and finding value in their personal data. This project aims to understand how to design Personal informatics tools for people with Motor Disabilities (...
Project · 2d
Designing Technology for Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury to Facilitate Self-care Adherence
In this project, we collaborated with the Spinal Cord Injury experts of Craig H. Neilsen Rehabilitation Hospital - University of Utah.
Individuals who sustain severe spinal cord injuries (SCI) undergo dramatic changes in their lives and develop v...
Project · 2d
Children’s Early Spontaneous Comparisons Predict Later Analogical Reasoning Skills: An Investigation of Parental Influence
Abstract
Abstract Laboratory studies have demonstrated beneficial effects of making comparisons on children’s analogical reasoning skills. We extend this finding to an observational dataset comprising 42 children. The prevalence of specific comp...
Publication · 2d
Testing the Psychological Reality of a Representation Model
Abstract
A r e s e a r c h program is desc r ibed i n which a p a r t i c u l a r r e p r e s e n t a t t o n a l format f o r meaning is t e s t e d as broad ly as p o s s i b l e . I n t h i s format, developed by t h e LNR r e s e a r c h gro...
Publication · 2d