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  • 2020 - ACM Distinguished Member

Overview

Julie A. Kientz is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Social Sciences and Computer Science, with a focus on Human-Computer Interaction, Education, General Health Professions, Applied Psychology, and Sociology and Political Science.

The main topics of their scholarly work include:

  • Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions
  • Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Impact of Technology on Adolescents
  • ICT in Developing Communities

Their frequent co-authors are:

  • Gillian R. Hayes
  • Mirko Gelsomini
  • Gregory D. Abowd
  • Matthew S. Goodwin
  • Jason Yip

Kientz's work has been published repeatedly in key venues, which include:

  • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
  • JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting
  • Designing Interactive Systems Conference
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Significant recent papers include:

  • "Embracing Four Tensions in Human-Computer Interaction Research with Marginalized People" (2021), published in ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
  • "Designing the Future of Children's Mental Health Services" (2020), published in Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research
  • "DreamCatcher: Exploring How Parents and School-Age Children can Track and Review Sleep Information Together" (2020), published in Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • "Co-Design with Older Adults: Examining and Reflecting on Collaboration with Aging Communities" (2021), published in Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • "Assumptions Checked" (2020), published in Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies

Kientz is also an author of a book titled Interactive Technologies and Autism, Second Edition (2020), published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers.

In 2020, Kientz was awarded the ACM Distinguished Member honor.

Best Publications

  • Understanding quantified-selfers' practices in collecting and exploring personal data

    Eun Kyoung Choe;Nicole B. Lee;Bongshin Lee;Wanda Pratt

  • Heuristic evaluation of ambient displays

    Jennifer Mankoff;Anind K. Dey;Gary Hsieh;Julie Kientz

  • At the Flick of a Switch: Detecting and Classifying Unique Electrical Events on the Residential Power Line (Nominated for the Best Paper Award)

    Shwetak N. Patel;Thomas Robertson;Julie A. Kientz;Matthew S. Reynolds

  • At the flick of a switch: detecting and classifying unique electrical events on the residential power line

    Shwetak N. Patel;Thomas Robertson;Julie A. Kientz;Matthew S. Reynolds

  • Research contributions in human-computer interaction

    Jacob O. Wobbrock;Julie A. Kientz

  • Examining Menstrual Tracking to Inform the Design of Personal Informatics Tools

    Daniel A. Epstein;Nicole B. Lee;Jennifer H. Kang;Elena Agapie

  • Not at the Dinner Table: Parents' and Children's Perspectives on Family Technology Rules

    Alexis Hiniker;Sarita Y. Schoenebeck;Julie A. Kientz

  • Personality and persuasive technology: an exploratory study on health-promoting mobile applications

    Sajanee Halko;Julie A. Kientz

  • The Georgia Tech aware home

    Julie A. Kientz;Shwetak N. Patel;Brian Jones;Ed Price

  • Communication Breakdowns Between Families and Alexa

    Erin Beneteau;Olivia K. Richards;Mingrui Zhang;Julie A. Kientz

  • Lullaby: a capture & access system for understanding the sleep environment

    Matthew Kay;Eun Kyoung Choe;Jesse Shepherd;Benjamin Greenstein

  • Consumer Sleep Technologies: A Review of the Landscape.

    Ping Ru T Ko;Julie A. Kientz;Eun Kyoung Choe;Matthew Kay

  • Boundary Negotiating Artifacts in Personal Informatics: Patient-Provider Collaboration with Patient-Generated Data

    Chia-Fang Chung;Kristin Dew;Allison Cole;Jasmine Zia

  • Texting while Parenting: How Adults Use Mobile Phones while Caring for Children at the Playground

    Alexis Hiniker;Kiley Sobel;Hyewon Suh;Yi-Chen Sung

  • From Personal Informatics to Family Informatics: Understanding Family Practices around Health Monitoring

    Laura R. Pina;Sang-Wha Sien;Teresa Ward;Jason C. Yip

  • DoppleSleep: a contactless unobtrusive sleep sensing system using short-range Doppler radar

    Tauhidur Rahman;Alexander T. Adams;Ruth Vinisha Ravichandran;Mi Zhang

  • SleepTight: low-burden, self-monitoring technology for capturing and reflecting on sleep behaviors

    Eun Kyoung Choe;Bongshin Lee;Matthew Kay;Wanda Pratt

  • What Makes Smartphone Use Meaningful or Meaningless

    Kai Lukoff;Cissy Yu;Julie Kientz;Alexis Hiniker

  • Farther than you may think: an empirical investigation of the proximity of users to their mobile phones

    Shwetak N. Patel;Julie A. Kientz;Gillian R. Hayes;Sooraj Bhat

  • Embracing Four Tensions in Human-Computer Interaction Research with Marginalized People

    Calvin A. Liang;Sean A. Munson;Julie A. Kientz

  • Pervasive Computing and Autism: Assisting Caregivers of Children with Special Needs

    J.A. Kientz;G.R. Hayes;T.L. Westeyn;T. Starner

  • ShutEye: encouraging awareness of healthy sleep recommendations with a mobile, peripheral display

    Jared S. Bauer;Sunny Consolvo;Benjamin Greenstein;Jonathan Schooler

Frequent Co-Authors

Gregory D. Abowd
Gregory D. Abowd Northeastern University
Shwetak N. Patel
Shwetak N. Patel University of Washington
Gillian R. Hayes
Gillian R. Hayes University of California, Irvine
Sean A. Munson
Sean A. Munson University of Washington
James Fogarty
James Fogarty University of Washington
Bongshin Lee
Bongshin Lee Microsoft (United States)
Tanzeem Choudhury
Tanzeem Choudhury Cornell University
Khai N. Truong
Khai N. Truong University of Toronto
Sunny Consolvo
Sunny Consolvo Google (United States)
Wanda Pratt
Wanda Pratt University of Washington

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