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The Wellness Technology Lab

A research group examining how technology can be used to achieve health equity

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The Wellness Technology Lab

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Our research group examines how novel interactive computing systems can help people to achieve a state of wellness, as defined by the World Health Organization: “Wellness is the realization of the fullest potential of an individual physically, psychologically, socially, spiritually and economically.”

“our research explores how social, mobile, and ubiquitous software systems can support health literacy, healthy behaviors, and health advocacy in low-socioeconomic and racial/ ethnic minority groups”

We are particularly interested in issues of health equity, designing innovative software tools for populations who disproportionately experience barriers to wellness. To this end, our research explores how social, mobile, and ubiquitous software systems can support health literacy, healthy behaviors, and health advocacy in low-socioeconomic and racial/ethnic minority groups. The Wellness Technology Lab utilizes user-centered, participatory design methods to design and build engaging and motivating software systems, and conducts in-depth field studies to evaluate user experience with and impact of these tools. Our work contributes to the fields of human-computer interaction (HCI), computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW), social computing, ubiquitous computing (Ubicomp), and personal/consumer health informatics.

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Recent News

  • Yixuan (Janice) Zhang recognized as a 2022 Foley Scholar November 2, 2022
  • Dr. Parker receives College of Computing Award May 2, 2022
  • 4 papers accepted to CHI 2022 February 25, 2022
  • COVID InfoSeeking Website Launched December 15, 2021
  • Fitbit Award October 13, 2021
  • NIH R34 Award September 14, 2021
  • NIH R01 Award April 30, 2021
  • IUI Keynote April 16, 2021
  • Frank prize finalist April 4, 2021
  • CHI 2021 Honorable Mention Award April 4, 2021
  • 3 Papers Accepted to CHI 2021 February 4, 2021
  • Spring 2021 Invited Talks January 4, 2021
  • Dr. Parker is an invited panelist at event hosted by the UN & IEEE December 18, 2020
  • Dr. Parker gives invited talk at Northwestern University December 2, 2020
  • Invited talk on “Social Dimensions of the Pandemic” panel October 26, 2020

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