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Gabriela Marcu

Assistant Professor of Information, School of Information Email: [email protected] Phone: 734/000-0000
Office: School of Information/5426 Leinweber Comp Sci & Info Bd Faculty Role: Faculty Potential PhD Faculty Advisor: Yes Personal website News About Gabriela Marcu

Research Areas

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

UMSI Research Roundup. Toxicity on Social Media. Affirmative Action. Collective Memory. Check out UMSI faculty and PhD student publications.
Toxicity on Social Media | Affirmative Action | Collective Memory: UMSI Research Roundup

Recent UMSI faculty and PhD student publications. 

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First Paper Friday. Yongjie Sha, PhD Student. Meeting People Where They Are: Building Community Centered Care with Smartphone Facilitated Response to Overdoses. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.
First Paper Friday: Yongjie Sha

Sha’s paper studies the impact of a community-driven effort to reverse overdoses through a smartphone app. 

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