Meet the team
Eric Hekler is an Associate Professor in the School of Nutrition and Health Promotion at Arizona State University and the director of the Designing Health Lab at Arizona State University. His research focuses on how to develop highly personalized and precise behavior change interventions developed both by scientists and scientific citizens. For example, he has been funded by the National Science Foundation to develop a personalized and perpetually adapting physical activity intervention that uses the methods used in the auto-pilot of planes to support individual behavior change. He has been funded by Google in the development of strategies to support individuals in finding their own solutions for living healthier lives via self-experimentation.
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Predrag "Pedja" Klasnja is a Scientific Investigator at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute and an Assistant Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. He works at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction and Health Informatics, and he studies how mobile technologies can help individuals manage their health in a daily life and make lifestyel changes needed to improve their health. He is particularly interested in the design and evaluation of just-in-time adaptive interventions, technologies that continuously adapt to provide optimal support to individuals as their needs and circumstances change. Pedja holds a PhD in Information Science from the University of Washington.
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John Harlow is a postdoctoral scholar in the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Opening Governance in the Arizona State University (ASU) School for the Future of Innovation in Society. His research focuses on stakeholder engagement and strategic intervention points for process innovations in governance. John has worked extensively on stakeholder engagement around transportation in Phoenix, AZ, and his other work includes co-development and instruction of the Sustainability Science for Teachers hybrid course in the ASU Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, which received the 2015 ASU President's Award for Sustainability. |
Sonu Mishra is a phd student at the University of Washington Information School, working with Dr. Predrag Klasnja (University of Michigan) and Dr. Wanda Pratt (University of Washington). Her research interests center around harnessing intrinsic motivators to encourage healthy behaviors, whether in terms of promoting physical activity or in terms of promoting engagement with care among hospitalized patients. Sonu has a master's degree in HCI from the University of Michigan School of Information and worked as a User Experience designer before beginning her phd studies. |
Sayali Phatak is a Doctoral Student and Research Associate at the Designing Health Lab in the School of Nutrition and Health Promotion at Arizona State University. Her work focuses on developing and testing individualized, contextually relevant and adaptive mHealth interventions, particularly targeting physical activity-related behaviors. She is also interested in exploring ways to make self-tracking of health-related data more engaging, valuable and less burdensome for users. At the Designing Health Lab, she’s a part of the Just Walk Study, Agile Science and also mentors undergraduate students with their projects. |
Elizabeth Korinek is a postdoctoral fellow in the College of Nursing and Health Innovation at ASU. Elizabeth’s research interests include exploring how technology can be used to help individuals be more physically active and lead a healthier lifestyle. Her current concentrations include: wearable devices, personalized and adaptive behavior change techniques, the development of agile science theory, and longitudinal modeling methods. |
Bob Evans is a software engineer and computer scientist at Google. His work is dedicated to augmenting human intelligence and quality of life by providing tools that support collection, analysis and exploration of daily experience. Bob is the creator of PACO, an open-source, mobile, behavioral science research platform that has helped over a thousand researchers around the world create behavioral studies. He previously worked at Fujitsu, Borland Software, and Agitar Software developing software analysis tools to improve the correctness of software systems.
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