Jason Wiese


Lab Director


Headshot of Professor Jason Wiese
Assistant Professor
Kahlert School of Computing 
University of Utah
My research expands the boundaries of who technology is designed for. The gap between who technology is designed for and the long tail of heterogeneous contexts people face in their everyday lives is a serious problem, especially because it often affects individuals who could disproportionately benefit from technological interventions and they disproportionately lack agency to develop those tools. I apply this perspective to work in personal informatics and instrumented spaces (e.g. smart homes), focusing on diverse contexts: accessibility for people with motor disabilities, wellbeing, and personal data analysis. This work furthers our understanding of how technology is used across diverse user contexts so we can create experiences that better fit their needs. I also make related methodological contributions, such as: identifying the ways that HCI research systematically excludes some people with spinal cord injuries (SCI) and ways to make our research methods more inclusive; developing methods for engaging users in analyzing their personal data; and exploring opportunities to better translate HCI findings into contextually appropriate behavior change support tools. 

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


Reenvisioning Patient Education with Smart Hospital Patient Rooms


Joshua Dawson, K. Jens Phanich, Jason Wiese

Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol., vol. 7(4), 2023, pp. 1-23


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


Cultivating Altruism Around Computing Resources: Anticipation Work in a Scholarly Community


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

Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, vol. 7(CSCW2), 2023


Building “Design Empathy” for People with Disabilities: An Unsolved Challenge in HCI Education


Tamanna Motahar, Noelle Brown, Eliane Stampfer Wiese, Jason Wiese

EduCHI '23, Proceedings of the 5th Annual Symposium on HCI Education, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2023, pp. 68–71


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


Patient Perspectives on SmartHome Technology Deployed at Scale in a Rehabilitation Hospital


Joshua Dawson, James Gardner, Jason Wiese

ASCIP '23, Proceedings of the 2023 {ASCIP} Academy of Spinal Cord Injury Professionals, Academy of Spinal Cord Injury Professionals, Inc., Springfield, IL, USA, 2023 Sep


A Meta-Synthesis of the Barriers and Facilitators for Personal Informatics Systems


Kazi Sinthia Kabir, Jason Wiese

Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), vol. 7(3), ACM, 2023 Sep, p. 35


Finding Time through User Research


J. Cohoon, K.S. Kabir, T. Motahar, J. Wiese

M. Heroux, Code Complete and More: Emerging Efforts to Improve Software Quality [Symposium], PASC'23: Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing Conference, Davos, Switzerland, 2023 Jun 26


The Impact of Spinal Cord Injury on Participation in Human-Centered Research


Kazi Sinthia Kabir, Ahmad Alsaleem, Jason Wiese

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


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


Building “Design Empathy” for People with Disabilities: an Unsolved Challenge in HCI Education


Tamanna Motahar, Noelle Brown, Eliane Stampfer Wiese, Jason Wiese

Proceedings of the 5th Annual Symposium on HCI Education, ACM, 2023 , pp. 68-71


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


Opportunities to Support Mechanical Ventilation Weaning


Joshua Dawson, Kazi Sinthia Kabir, Thomas Kauffman, Stephen K. Trapp, Jason Wiese

2022 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2022, p. 4


“We’re Not Meant to Deal with Crisis for a Year”: Supporting Frontline Healthcare Providers’ Wellness During a Pandemic


Kazi Sinthia Kabir, Alexandra Flis, Melody Mickens, Stephen K. Trapp, Jason Wiese

Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, Springer International Publishing, Virtual, 2022, pp. 147-163


The Challenge for Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions: Incomplete or Missing Data


Kazi Sinthia Kabir, Jason Wiese

CHI ’22 Workshop: Grand Challenges for Personal Informatics and AI, 2022


Ask the Users: A Case Study of Leveraging User-Centered Design for Designing Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions (JITAIs)


Kazi Sinthia Kabir, Stacey A. Kenfield, Erin L. Van Blarigan, June M. Chan, Jason Wiese

Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), vol. 6(2), 2022, p. 21


Mi Casa es Su Casa (“MiSu”): A Mobile App for Sharing Smart Home Devices with People Outside The Home


Leena Alghamdi, Mamtaj Akter, Cristobal Sepulveda Cardenas, Diego A. Cruces, Jason Wiese, Jessica Kropczynski, H. Lipford, P. Wisniewski

CSCW Companion, 2022


Expanding Disability Justice in HCI : Considerations of Holistic “Lived Experience


Tamanna Motahar, Jason Wiese

CHI '2022 Workshop: Dreaming Disability Justice in HCI, 2022


A Review of Personal Informatics Research for People with Motor Disabilities


Tamanna Motahar, Jason Wiese

Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), vol. 6(2), 2022, pp. 1-31


Designing Technology for Complex Self-care: Considerations for People with Spinal Cord Injury


Tamanna Motahar, Jason Wiese

CHI '22 Workshop: Challenges, Tensions, and Opportunities in Designing Ecosystems to Support the Management of Complex Health Needs, 2022, 2022


AI-driven Personal Informatics for Individuals with Severe Spinal Cord Injury


Tamanna Motahar, Jason Wiese

CHI '22 Workshop: Grand Challenges for Personal Informatics and AI, 2022, 2022


Using Online Social Spaces for Information Seeking and Identity Construction for People with Spinal Cord Injuries


Tamanna Motahar, Marina Kogan, Jason Wiese

CSCW '22 Workshop: Information-Seeking, Finding Identity: Exploring the Role of Online Health Information in Illness Experience , 2022


Lightweight Methods for Developing Pedagogical Content Knowledge for HCI


Eliane S Wiese, Jason Wiese, Marina Kogan, Joshua Dawson

4th Annual Symposium on HCI Education, 2022


Identifying Factors That Inhibit Self-care Behavior among Individuals with Severe Spinal Cord Injury


Tamanna Motahar, Isha Ghosh, Jason Wiese

CHI '22: ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Association for Computing Machinery, 2022 Apr 27, pp. 1-16


The Impact of Spinal Cord Injury on Participation in Human-Centered Research


Kazi Sinthia Kabir, Ahmad Alsaleem, Jason Wiese

Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2021, pp. 1902–1914


Less is More: Exploring Support for Time Management Planning


John R. Lund, Jason Wiese

DIS '21, Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2021, pp. 392–405


Exploring the Personal Informatics Analysis Gap: 'There's a Lot of Bacon'


Jimmy Moore, Pascal Goffin, Jason Wiese, Miriah Meyer

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (VIS), IEEE, 2021, pp. 95-105


Personal Context from Mobile Phones—Case Study 5


Jason Wiese

Intelligent Computing for Interactive System Design: Statistics, Digital Signal Processing, and Machine Learning in Practice, 2021, pp. 341--376


Older adults’ perceptions of community-based telehealth wellness programs: a qualitative study


Zhan Zhang, Tiffany Henley, Melody Schiaffino, Jason Wiese, David Sachs, John Migliaccio, Jina Huh-Yoo

Informatics for Health and Social Care, vol. 0, Taylor & Francis, 2021, pp. 1-12


An Interview Method for Engaging Personal Data


Jimmy Moore, Pascal Goffin, Jason Wiese, Miriah Meyer

Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol., vol. 5(4), Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2021 Dec, pp. 1–28


Applying Ability-Based Design Principles to Adaptive Outdoor Activities


Ahmad Alsaleem, Ross Imburgia, Andrew Merryweather, Jeffrey Rosenbluth, Stephen K Trapp, Jason Wiese

Proceedings of the 2020 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’20), Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2020


Experience is not Required: Designing a Sailing Experience for Individuals with Tetraplegia


Ahmad Alsaleem, Ross Imburgia, Andrew Merryweather, Roger Altizer, Jeffrey Rosenbluth, Stephen K Trapp, Jason Wiese

Proceedings of the 2020 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’20), Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2020


Supporting Mechanical Ventilation Weaning with Virtual Reality: A Feasibility Study


Laura Waller, Thomas Cayias, Andrea Moss, NiCassia Gabiola, Jason Wiese, Katherine Partin, James Gardner, Jeffrey Rosenbluth, Stephen Trapp

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, vol. 100(12), 2019 Oct 30


Leveraging Shared Control to Empower People with Tetraplegia to Participate in Extreme Sports


Ahmad Alsaleem, Ross Imburgia, Mateo Godinez, Andrew Merryweather, Roger Altizer, Tamara Denning, Jeffery Rosenbluth, Stephen Trapp, Jason Wiese

assets, Conference on Computers and Accessibility, 2019 Sep 23, pp. 470-481


"I'm Done with Cancer. What am I Trying to Improve?": Understanding the Perspective of Prostate Cancer Patients to Support Multiple Health Behavior Change


Kazi Sinthia Kabir, Erin L. Van Blarigan, June M. Chan, Stacey A. Kenfield, Jason Wiese

PervasiveHealth, International Conference on Pervasive Computing, 2019 Apr 19, pp. 81-90


Managing In-home Environments through Sensing, Annotating, and Visualizing Air Quality Data


Jimmy Moore, Pascal Goffin, Miriah Meyer, Philip Lundrigan, Neal Patwari, Katherine A. Sward, Jason Wiese

Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies archive, vol. 2(3), 2018 Aug 17


Participatory Design for Exposomic Studies Involving Sensors.


Katherine A. Sward, Jimmy Moore, Jason Wiese, Miriah Meyer

AMIA, 2017 Nov 31


Evolving the Ecosystem of Personal Behavioral Data


Jason Wiese, Sauvik Das, Jason I. Hong, John Zimmerman

Human-Computer Interaction, vol. 32(5), 2017 Sep 31, pp. 447-510


Surveying User Reactions to Recommendations Based on Inferences Made by Face Detection Technology


Jennifer Marlow, Jason Wiese

recsys, Conference on Recommender Systems, 2017 Jul 26, pp. 269-273


Exploring the Effects of Audience Visibility on Presenters and Attendees in Online Educational Presentations


Jennifer Marlow, Jason Wiese, Daniel Avrahami

c&t, Communities and Technologies, 2017 May 25, pp. 78-86


Epistenet: facilitating programmatic access & processing of semantically related mobile personal data


Sauvik Das, Jason Wiese, Jason I. Hong

mobilehci, Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, 2016 Aug 5, pp. 244-253


GestureSeg: developing a gesture segmentation system using gesture execution phase labeling by crowd workers


Sven G. Kratz, Jason Wiese

eics, Engineering Interactive Computing System, 2016 May 20, pp. 61-72


Mailing Archived Emails as Postcards: Probing the Value of Virtual Collections


David B. Gerritsen, Dan Tasse, Jennifer K. Olsen, Tatiana A. Vlahovic, Rebecca Gulotta, William Odom, Jason Wiese, John Zimmerman

chi, Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2016 Apr 6, pp. 1187-1199


System and Method for Adaptive, Rapidly Deployable, Human-Intelligent Sensor Feeds


Gierad Laput, Christopher Harrison, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Walter S. Lasecki, Bo Robert Xiao, Jason Wiese

2016 Feb 24


Zensors: Adaptive, Rapidly Deployable, Human-Intelligent Sensor Feeds


Gierad Laput, Walter S. Lasecki, Jason Wiese, Robert Xiao, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Chris Harrison

chi, Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2015 Mar 17, pp. 1935-1944


"You Never Call, You Never Write": Call and SMS Logs Do Not Always Indicate Tie Strength


Jason Wiese, Jun-Ki Min, Jason I. Hong, John Zimmerman

cscw, Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2015 Jan 27, pp. 765-774


Challenges and opportunities in data mining contact lists for inferring relationships


Jason Wiese, Jason I. Hong, John Zimmerman

ubicomp, Ubiquitous Computing, 2014 Aug 12, pp. 643-647


Detection of behavior change in people with depression


Afsaneh Doryab, Jun Ki Min, Jason Wiese, John Zimmerman, Jason I. Hong

National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2014 May 17


Detection of Behavior Change in People with Depression


Afsaneh Doryab, Jun Ki Min, Jason Wiese, John Zimmerman, Jason I. Hong

aaai, National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2014 May 17


Toss 'n' turn: smartphone as sleep and sleep quality detector


Jun-Ki Min, Afsaneh Doryab, Jason Wiese, Shahriyar Amini, John Zimmerman, Jason I. Hong

chi, Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2014 Mar 25, pp. 477-486


Phoneprioception: enabling mobile phones to infer where they are kept


Jason Wiese, T. Scott Saponas, A.J. Bernheim Brush

chi, Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2013 Mar 26, pp. 2157-2166


ZoomBoard: a diminutive qwerty soft keyboard using iterative zooming for ultra-small devices


Stephen Oney, Chris Harrison, Amy Ogan, Jason Wiese

chi, Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2013 Mar 26, pp. 2799-2802


Inferring placement of mobile electronic devices


Alice Jane Bernheim Brush, T. Scott Saponas, Jason Wiese

2013 Feb 14


Mining smartphone data to classify life-facets of social relationships


Jun-Ki Min, Jason Wiese, Jason I. Hong, John Zimmerman

cscw, Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2013 Jan 22, pp. 285-294


The post that wasn't: exploring self-censorship on facebook


Manya Sleeper, Rebecca Balebako, Sauvik Das, Amber Lynn McConahy, Jason Wiese, Lorrie Faith Cranor

cscw, Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2013 Jan 22, pp. 793-802


Building a dynamic and computational understanding of personal social networks


Jason Wiese, Jason I. Hong, John Zimmerman

css, Computational Social Science, 2012 May 24, pp. 5-10


METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING SHARING OF CONTENT ON AN ONLINE SHARING PLATFORM


Jason Wiese, Elizabeth F. Churchill, Judd Antin

2012 Jan 19


Are you close with me? are you nearby?: investigating social groups, closeness, and willingness to share


Jason Wiese, Patrick Gage Kelley, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Laura Dabbish, Jason I. Hong, John Zimmerman

ubicomp, Ubiquitous Computing, 2011 Aug 16, pp. 197-206


Beyond 'yesterday's tomorrow': towards the design of awareness technologies for the contemporary worker


Jason Wiese, Jacob T. Biehl, Thea Turner, William van Melle, Andreas Girgensohn

mobilehci, Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, 2011 Jul 29, pp. 455-464


I'm the mayor of my house: examining why people use foursquare - a social-driven location sharing application


Janne Lindqvist, Justin Cranshaw, Jason Wiese, Jason I. Hong, John Zimmerman

chi, Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2011 Apr 6, pp. 2409-2418


Achieving Ubiquity: The New Third Wave


Chris Harrison, Jason Wiese, Anind K. Dey

IEEE MultiMedia, vol. 17(3), 2010 May 30, pp. 8-12




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