GlucoMaker: Enabling Collaborative Customization of Glucose Monitors

IALH Research Fellows Charles Perin and Sowmya Somanath have co-authored a new conference paper entitled GlucoMaker: Enabling Collaborative Customization of Glucose Monitors. Collaborating authors include Sabrina Lakhdhir, Chehak Nayar, Fraser Anderson, Helene Fournier, Liisa Holsti, and Irina Kondratova. The paper was presented at the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems held in May 2024 …

Wearing Awareness: Designing Pedestrian-Wearables for Interactions with Autonomous Vehicles

IALH Research Fellow Sowmya Somanath has co-authored a conference paper entitled Wearing Awareness: Designing Pedestrian-Wearables for Interactions with Autonomous Vehicles. Other authors include Sabrina Lakdhir and Ehud Sharlin. The paper was presented at the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Hamburg, Germany in April of 2023. Abstract: Fully autonomous vehicles (AVs) are said to …

Exploring the Composite Intentionality of 3D Printers and Makers in Digital Fabrication

IALH Research Fellow Sowmya Somanath has co-authored a new research article entitled Exploring the Composite Intentionality of 3D Printers and Makers in Digital Fabrication. Collaborating authors include Ron Wakkary, Omid Ettehadi, Henry Lin, Armi Behzad, Jordan Eshpeter, and Doenja Oogjes. The article was published in International Journal of Design (Volume 16, Issue 3, Pages 77 …

Towards Designing Audio Interactions with Autonomous Vehicles: A Hearing-Enhanced Pedestrian Story

IALH Research Fellow Sowmya Somanath has co-authored a conference paper entitled Towards Designing Audio Interactions with Autonomous Vehicles: A Hearing-Enhanced Pedestrian Story. Other authors include Ashratuz Zavin Asha, Owen Brierley, Patrick Finn, and Ehud Sharlin. The paper was presented at  the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2022), New Orleans, LA, USA, …