Human-Computer Interaction research from U of T Department of Computer Science is well represented at #CHI2024 with over 30 accepted papers, including a Best Paper Award and a few honourable mentions! uoft.me/au0

Congrats to Ken on delivering a successful demo of his work on cardiac monitoring with earbuds!

#CHI2024 Georgianna Lin will be presenting her work on menstrual health data exploration today at 11:45 AM in Room 319 programs.sigchi.org/chi/2024/progr…

#CHI2024 Alex Mariakakis also worked with Book Sadprasid to explore how idle games can be used to incentivize deep breathing exercises. Check out her presentation at 4:45 PM in Room 321 programs.sigchi.org/chi/2024/progr…

#CHI2024 At 9:45 AM in Room 316B, Xuefu Dong will be presenting work that he did with Ken Christofferson to enable silent speech interaction on commodity earbuds programs.sigchi.org/chi/2024/progr…

#CHI2024 At 2:45 PM in Room 313C, Brenna Li will be presenting what she learned from deploying a chatbot for clinical pre-consultation in a walk-in clinic programs.sigchi.org/chi/2024/progr…

🚨 JUST ANNOUNCED! • T-CAIREM Computing in Medicine Online Summer Course (June 5 to Aug. 7) 📣 APPLICATION DEADLINE: June 2 🕖 7pm to 9:30pm ET (Wednesdays for 10-weeks) 👨🏼‍🏫 Live online lectures with instructor Alex Mariakakis 🔗 tcairem.utoronto.ca/news/t-cairem-…

#CHI2024 Alex Mariakakis worked with Ananya Bhattacharjee to understand how LLMs can help people personalize interventions that combat procrastination. He will be presenting at 9:30 AM in Room 313C programs.sigchi.org/chi/2024/progr…

#CHI2024 Last but not least, Salaar Liaqat will be presenting what he learned from examining messages exchanged between clinicians and patients through a remote patient monitoring system for COVID-19. He will be presenting at 4:30 PM in Room 311 programs.sigchi.org/chi/2024/progr…

📅 Mark your calendars for Oct. 17 for the #PSISymposium2024! This in-person CME accredited event will feature topics such as #AI in Health Care, #SexAndGender in Medicine, and #KnowledgeTranslation. For more info and to register: mailchi.mp/psifoundation/… 📧

HCI researcher Alex Mariakakis outlined how ubiquitous technologies like smartphones and wearables can augment traditional health care workflows by increasing the access people have to health-monitoring tools in areas of cardiac, respiratory and menstrual health.

All three #CHI2025 submissions from CHAI made it over the first finish line with a few hours to spare. Time to sleep! 💤😴💤

As the CHAI lab gets underway for #Ubicomp2024, congrats are in order because Ken Christofferson received the Best Paper Award from this year's EarComp 2025 workshop! His paper takes us one step closer to understanding why we can hear heart sounds in our ears dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.114…

Greetings from Melbourne for #Ubicomp2024. During the first session, Dhruv Verma will be talking about his exciting ChromaFlash work, which demonstrates snapshot hyperspectral imaging using strictly a smartphone and a few LEDs

Good morning Melbourne! Looking forward to seeing everyone at Georgianna Lin's talk on the study that has formed the basis of her thesis on multimodal menstrual tracking #Ubicomp2024 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…

For the first time in a couple of years, the lab is looking to recruit MSc and/or PhD students! If you are interested in the lab's mission, particularly in creating novel uses of ubiquitous sensing for health applications, please reach out to Alex Mariakakis via email

With the help of Temerty Centre for AI in Medicine (T-CAIREM), I'm offering three standalone 5-week professional development courses for anyone who’d like to learn more about the fascinating intersection of #datascience and #medicine. Click on the link below for details: eventbrite.ca/e/2025-t-caire…

So excited for #CHI2025! I'll be presenting our poster on AI scribe use in the Future of Interactive Health Workshop and our paper on LLM-chatbot's information gathering capabilities in the LLM for Health session. Looking forward to meeting new and old friends :D

Hi #CHI2025 Yokohama! Excited to share our work on how LLM chatbots converse with patients and gather pre-consultation information paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/37… w/ CHAI Lab, University of Toronto, Saba Tauseef, Khai Truong, Alex Mariakakis

Dr. Alex Mariakakis Alex Mariakakis U of T Department of Computer Science is our next KITE Research Rounds speaker. Title: Embracing Ubiquitous Technology to Complement, Scale, and Extend Traditional Healthcare June 30, 2025, 12-1 pm KITE Research Institute KITE Trainees AGE-WELL