The Personal Data and Empowerment Lab is a Human-Centered Computing research lab in the Kahlert School of Computing at the University of Utah. When designing technologies, many developers fail to fully represent their users, creating technology that is not equally accessible for all members of society. Our research focuses on addressing this issue by analyzing ways to ensure that technology is more inclusive and equally accessible for all. The majority of our research explores the topics of healthcare, accessibility, and personal informatics with the end goal of empowering users.
Jason, Josh, Sinthia, John, Jens, Ashlyn, and Tamanna posing for a group picture on the University of Utah campus
End of semester lab froyo!
Isha, Tamanna, Jason, Josh, and Sinthia posing in front of the projector screen in the convention center at CHI 2022 in New Orleans
Lab photo at CHI 2022 in New Orleans!

Recent Publications


Hospital Employee Experiences Caring for Patients in Smart Patient Rooms


Joshua Dawson, Eden Fisher, Jason Wiese

CHI '24, Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2024


Investigating Technology Adoption Soon After Sustaining a Spinal Cord Injury


Tamanna Motahar, Jason Wiese

Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, vol. 8(1), 2024, pp. 1-24


"It Made Me Feel So Much More at Home Here:" Patient Perspectives on Smart Home Technology Deployed at Scale in a Rehabilitation Hospital


Joshua Dawson, Thomas Kauffman, Jason Wiese

CHI '23: ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 23--28, 2023, Hamburg, DEU, 2023


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News


Mar 28, 2024

Hannah presented at the culminating Year of Open Science conference, discussing a policy proposal for grant supplements for open science infrastructure: https://fas.org/publication/open-sci-infrastructure-secure/


Mar 12, 2024

Josh successfully defended his PhD thesis! Congratulations Dr. Joshua Dawson.


Jan 18, 2024

Josh's paper titled "Hospital Employee Experiences Caring for Patients in Smart Patient Rooms" is accepted at CHI 2024! 


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Projects




Making Smart Hospitals Useful


Smart hospitals are arriving, driven by the vision to enhance the patient experience, reduce operational burden, and improve hospital workflow. We explore how the technology employed in patient rooms better supports patients' and employees' needs.




Designing Technology for Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury to Facilitate Self-care Adherence


Individuals with spinal cord injuries often have to perform numerous self-care activities. Performing pressure reliefs is one such behavior to prevent pressure ulcers. We investigate technological solutions to increase pressure relief adherence.




Usage Patterns of Cloudlab Users


By conducting user research on Cloudlab, we can design this scholarly infrastructure to be easier to learn and more useful for researchers.


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Contact


Personal Data and Empowerment Lab


pedel@cs.utah.edu


Kahlert School of Computing

University of Utah

50 Central Campus Drive Rm. 3190
Salt Lake City, UT 84112





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