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Voida, Stephen A

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  • Dr. Voida directs the Too Much Information (TMI) research group at CU Boulder, where he and his multidisciplinary team of students conduct empirical, design, and systems research in personal informatics supporting physical, mental, and professional wellness. The primary focus of this research explores mental health informatics from a human-centered perspective, drawing on interdisciplinary research methods and theories from ubiquitous computing, computer-supported cooperative work, health informatics, and psychology/cognitive science. His research examines both the existing negative and potential positive influences of information technologies on people's mental health, based on the premise that technology is part of the mental health problem—and can also be part of the solution. Other research projects include the design and evaluation of context-aware technologies for managing type-1 and gestational diabetes as well as professional stress and burnout in the information workplace.

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  • human-computer interaction, personal informatics, personal health informatics, mental health informatics, mHealth, clinical informatics, artificial pancreas systems, hybrid closed-loop insulin delivery systems, mobile computing, ubiquitous computing, tangible computing, ambient displays, collaborative computing, social computing, user interface design, personal information management, time management, interaction metaphors

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  • INFO 1121 - Designing Interactions
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2022 / Spring 2024
    Provides an introduction to human-centered design and the universal requirements of interactions with data, information and technologies. Studio experiences challenge students to consider the impact that information and computing technology design choices have on a) enabling diverse audiences to access, manipulate and experience information, and b) how differences get encoded by data and technology, ultimately reflecting biases.
  • INFO 3509 - Personal Health Informatics
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2024
    Surveys the theoretical and practical foundations for the design of patient-centered health and wellness technologies. Students will conduct an in-depth exploration of the multidisciplinary research literature informing the design of these systems, participate in discussions about the practical information management and interaction design challenges that must be addressed in their implementation, and demonstrate their learning through a variety of research study- and system-design activities. Formerly offered as a special topics course. Degree credit not granted for this course and INFO 5509.
  • INFO 4611 - Ubiquitous Computing Experience Design
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2019 / Spring 2021
    Introduces the field of ubiquitous computing, including sensors, ambient displays, tangibles, mobility, location awareness and context awareness. These topics are explored from a user-centered design perspectives, focusing on how a situated models of computing affect requirements gathering, interaction design, prototyping and evaluation. Students gain mastery with contemporary "UbiComp" technologies and learn to incorporate them into a user-centered design process. Same as INFO 5611.
  • INFO 4747 - Defamiliarizing Data: The Ethnography and Design of Making Data Strange
    Primary Instructor - Summer 2024
    Introduces students to the design and use of data in an unfamiliar, international context. Develops students� ethnographic and design skills for defamiliarizing data�seeing, characterizing, and designing for data in ways that render it as unfamiliar and strange in order to gain new perspectives and insights about those data and the contexts in which they are produced and consumed. This course includes international travel. Degree credit not granted for this course and INFO 5747.
  • INFO 4871 - Special Topics
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2019 / Fall 2020 / Spring 2022
    Special topics.
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