How can we create technologies to help us reflect on and potentially change our behavior, as well as improve our mental health and overall wellbeing both at work and at home? In this talk, I will briefly describe the last several years of the work our research team has been doing in this area. We have developed AI-assisted wearable technology to help families manage tense situations with ADHD children, mobile phone-based AI applications for handling stress and depression, as well as automatic , AI-enabled stress sensing systems plus interventions to help users just in time. The overarching goal in all of this research is to develop intelligent systems that work with and adapt to the user so that they can maximize their personal health goals and improve their wellbeing.
| 11:45am - 12:15pm: | Bring your own lunch and community socializing. |
| 12:15pm - 1:15pm: | Presentation with Q&A. Available hybrid via Zoom. |
| 1:30pm - 2:15pm: | Student meeting with speaker, held in CSE2/Gates 371. Students will walk to this from the seminar. |
Dr. Mary Czerwinski is a recently retired Partner Research Manager of the Human Understanding and Empathy (HUE) Research Group at Microsoft Research. She is now an adjunct professor at the University of Washington. Mary’s latest research focuses primarily on behavior change and intervention design, health and wellness for individuals and productivity at work. Her research background is in visual attention and multitasking. She holds a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Indiana University in Bloomington. Mary received the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award, was inducted into the CHI Academy and received the Distinguished Alumni award from Indiana University’s College of Arts and Sciences. Mary is a Fellow of the ACM and the American Psychological Science Association. Mary was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in 2022. More information about Dr. Czerwinski can be found at her website: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/marycz/.