The Personal Data and Empowerment Lab is a Human-Centered Computing research lab in the Kahlert School of Computing at the University of Utah. Our research focuses on empowering end users in their everyday lives with useful access to their personal data and other novel computing experiences.
Jason, Josh, Sinthia, John, Jens, Ashlyn, and Tamanna posing for a group picture on the University of Utah campus
End of semester lab froyo!
A photo of the PeDEL lab group in the mountains above Salt Lake City.
Lab photo at CHI 2022 in New Orleans!

Recent Publications


"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


Adding Domain-Specific Features to a Text-Editor to Support Diverse, Real-World Approaches to Time Management Planning


Jason Wiese, John R. Lund, Kazi Sinthia Kabir


ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2023


Closing the Gap: Aligning Developers’ Expectations and Users’ Practices in Cloud Computing Infrastructure


Tamanna Motahar, Johanna Cohoon, Kazi Sinthia Kabir, Jason Wiese


The Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC) Conference, 2023


HCI Research Challenges in Complex Healthcare Context


Tamanna Motahar, Kazi Sinthia Kabir, Joshua Dawson, Jason Wiese


The CHI Symposium for the Workgroup on Interactive Systems in Healthcare (WISH@CHI'23), 2023 Apr


A Workshop on Disability Inclusive Remote Co-Design


Maryam Bandukda, Giulia Barbareschi, Aneesha Singh, Dhruv Jain, Maitraye Das, Tamanna Motahar, Jason Wiese, Lynn Cockburn, Amit Prakash, David Frohlich, Catherine Holloway


ASSETS '22, Proceedings of the 24th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2022


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Projects




Advancing the Path for a More Human-centered Design of Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions (JITAIs)


This project focuses on advancing the path for designing more user-centered JITAIs. Specifically, this work will provide guidelines for designing JITAIs that account for the diverse ways users interact with technology for supporting health and well-being.




Supporting Remote and Hybrid Workers in Crafting Work and Family Boundaries


Remote work can offer benefits to workers and employers, but removing the physical boundary between work-life and home-life increases the likelihood of work encroaching on family life and family responsibilities interrupting work.




Improving Personal Informatics Tools for Planning


Motivation and Vision Planning is an important activity for people to accomplish many common goals, such as losing weight, saving money, or increasing productivity. Yet, planning out concrete actions to accomplish these goals can be feel burdensome, t...




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' 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.




Tetra-Sport: Collaborative Sport Experiences for Individuals with Tetraplegia


Adaptive skiing and adaptive sailing experiences for and with individuals with tetraplegia.


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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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