Joshua Dawson


Ph.D. Student


An image of Joshua Dawson next to a helicopter.
I am a 3rd year Ph.D. Student and U.S. Army Aviation Officer working with  Prof. Jason Wiese in the Personal Data and Empowerment Lab (PeDEL) of the Kahlert School of Computing at the University of Utah.

My research interest lies at the intersection of Human-Centered Computing (HCC), Smart Home Technology/IoT, and Accessibility in a hospital setting. I am studying how smart home technology implemented in smart patient rooms can improve the patient and healthcare worker experience. As a researcher, my goal is to understand the patient and employee experiences of living and working in smart patient rooms. Based on this knowledge, I hope to explore design opportunities for future smart hospitals.

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


"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


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


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


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


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




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