Jason Wiese
Lab Director
Associate Professor
Kahlert School of Computing
University of Utah
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.
Sofia Vallejo-Riveros, Maria Jose Velasco-Burgos, Laura E.C. {Flores Hernandez}, Ricardo Quintana, Jason Wiese, Ana Sanchez-Birkhead, Jennifer Duffecy, Kelly G. Baron
Sleep Health, 2025
Design and Evaluation of a Power Wheelchair-based Self-tracking System to Prevent Pressure Ulcers
Tamanna Motahar, Brandon Rivera-Melo, Ross Imburgia, YeonJae Kim, James Gardner, Jeffrey Rosenbluth, Jason Wiese
Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol., vol. 9, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2025 Mar
Balancing Care Responsibilities with Remote Work
Kazi Sinthia Kabir, Johanna Cohoon, John R. Lund, Jacqueline M. Chen, A.J. Metz, Jason Wiese
Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact., vol. 9, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2025 Jan
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
Tamanna Motahar, Noelle Brown, Eliane S. Wiese, Jason Wiese
Proceedings of the 2024 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’24), Association for Computing Machinery, 2024
Exploring how People with Spinal Cord Injuries Seek Support on Social Media
Tamanna Motahar, Sara Nurollahian, YeonJae Kim, Marina Kogan, Jason Wiese
The 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS ’24), ACM, 2024
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
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
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
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
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
Leena Alghamdi, Mamtaj Akter, Cristobal Sepulveda Cardenas, Diego A. Cruces, Jason Wiese, Jessica Kropczynski, H. Lipford, P. Wisniewski
CSCW Companion, 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
Expanding Disability Justice in HCI : Considerations of Holistic “Lived Experience
Tamanna Motahar, Jason Wiese
CHI '2022 Workshop: Dreaming Disability Justice in HCI, 2022
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
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
Jennifer Marlow, Jason Wiese, Daniel Avrahami
c&t, Communities and Technologies, 2017 May 25, pp. 78-86
Sauvik Das, Jason Wiese, Jason I. Hong
mobilehci, Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, 2016 Aug 5, pp. 244-253
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
aaai, 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
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
Jason Wiese, Patrick Gage Kelley, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Laura Dabbish, Jason I. Hong, John Zimmerman
ubicomp, Ubiquitous Computing, 2011 Aug 16, pp. 197-206
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
Janne Lindqvist, Justin Cranshaw, Jason Wiese, Jason I. Hong, John Zimmerman
chi, Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2011 Apr 6, pp. 2409-2418
Jason Wiese, Jacob Biehl, Althea Turner
2011 6
Achieving Ubiquity: The New Third Wave
Chris Harrison, Jason Wiese, Anind K. Dey
IEEE MultiMedia, vol. 17(3), 2010 May 30, pp. 8-12