A Review of Personal Informatics Research for People with Motor Disabilities

T Motahar, J Wiese - Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Personal informatics (PI) has become an area of significant research over the past decade,
maturing into a sub-field that seeks to support people from many backgrounds and life …

Breaking the “Inescapable” Cycle of Pain: Supporting Wheelchair Users' Upper Extremity Health Awareness and Management with Tracking Technologies

Y Li, FM Li, P Carrington - Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Upper extremity (UE) health issues are a common concern among wheelchair users and
have a large impact on their independence, social participation, and quality of life. However …

Building “design empathy” for people with disabilities: an unsolved challenge in hci education

T Motahar, N Brown, ES Wiese, J Wiese - Proceedings of the 5th Annual …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) education research strives to integrate inclusion and
diversity in classroom teaching. We focus on a key demographic that has been historically …

Hospital Employee Experiences Caring for Patients in Smart Patient Rooms

J Dawson, E Fisher, J Wiese - Proceedings of the CHI Conference on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Smart hospital patient rooms integrate smart devices for digital control of both entertainment
(eg, television and sound system) and the environment (eg, lights, blinds, and temperature) …

Investigating Technology Adoption Soon After Sustaining a Spinal Cord Injury

T Motahar, J Wiese - Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
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 …

Understanding individuals with spinal cord injury's self-care practices: a technology probe study to promote pressure relief adherence

H Oh, S Pontis - Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Pressure reliefs (PRs) are self-care practices essential for individuals with spinal cord injury
(SCI) to prevent life-threatening pressure injuries (PIs). Despite the benefits, individuals …

WheelPoser: Sparse-IMU Based Body Pose Estimation for Wheelchair Users

Y Li, V Mollyn, K Yuan, P Carrington - arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.08494, 2024 - arxiv.org
Despite researchers having extensively studied various ways to track body pose on-the-go,
most prior work does not take into account wheelchair users, leading to poor tracking …

Exploring how People with Spinal Cord Injuries Seek Support on Social Media

T Motahar, S Nurollahian, YJ Kim, M Kogan… - The 26th International …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Individuals who have sustained a Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) undergo abrupt changes in their
functional abilities, impacting all aspects of their lives and imposing a life-long reliance on …

Prism-tracker: A framework for multimodal procedure tracking using wearable sensors and state transition information with user-driven handling of errors and …

R Arakawa, H Yakura, V Mollyn, S Nie… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
A user often needs training and guidance while performing several daily life procedures, eg,
cooking, setting up a new appliance, or doing a COVID test. Watch-based human activity …

Unified Framework for Procedural Task Assistants powered by Human Activity Recognition

R Arakawa, M Goel - Companion of the 2024 on ACM International Joint …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Context awareness is key to developing intelligent voice assistants that offer situated
support for users performing various daily tasks, like cooking and machine use. Human …