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Gabriela Marcu

Assistant Professor of Information, School of Information Email: [email protected] Phone: 734/000-0000
Office: School of Information/105 S. State St. Faculty Role: Faculty Potential PhD Faculty Advisor: Yes Personal website News About Gabriela Marcu

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Biography

Gabriela Marcu studies the role of mobile and collaborative technologies in behavioral interventions and care coordination. She designs and evaluates apps and other technologies to understand how they fit their context of use, through community-based approaches, participatory design, and user experience methods.

Areas of interest

Human-centered design; participatory research and design; behavioral and mental health; ubiquitous computing

Honors and awards

Siebel Scholar; Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award, National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT); Early Career Mentor Award, Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR), Math and Computer Science Division

Education

PhD in Human-Computer Interaction, Carnegie Mellon University

BS in Informatics, University of California, Irvine

News about Gabriela Marcu

Gabriela Marcu gestures on stage with two other people beside her
Assistant professor brings improv to UMSI

With Gabriela Marcu leading the charge, UMSI faculty are going on stage in the name of democracy. “The world is on fire. We all work very hard. What I wanted to create was an opportunity to share in something fun.”

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Extra Credit. hear!say brewing and theater. First Sundays of the month at 6:30pm.
Research meets improv comedy at Gabriela Marcu’s newest initiative

Blending academic research and improv comedy, Extra Credit will explore complex subjects through humor and play. 

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