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