2026 Sunny Consolvo: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	56	3978	3866	1893	1826	106	18432

Overview

Sunny Consolvo is affiliated with Google in the United States and has contributed to research at the intersection of social sciences and computer science. Their work spans multiple disciplines, including psychology, applied psychology, sociology, political science, education, information systems, and artificial intelligence.

Consolvo's research covers a range of main topics:

Digital Mental Health Interventions
Child Development and Digital Technology
Impact of Technology on Adolescents
Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
Gender, Feminism, and Media
Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
Advanced Malware Detection Techniques

The scientist has published in various venues, with frequent publications in:

arXiv (Cornell University)
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
Social Sciences
CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PLoS ONE

Recent papers authored by Consolvo include:

"It's common and a part of being a content creator": Understanding How Creators Experience and Cope with Hate and Harassment Online, 2022, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
College from home during COVID-19: A mixed-methods study of heterogeneous experiences, 2021, PLoS ONE
Designing Toxic Content Classification for a Diversity of Perspectives, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
Practicing Information Sensibility: How Gen Z Engages with Online Information, 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)
Supporting the Digital Safety of At-Risk Users: Lessons Learned from 9+ Years of Research and Training, 2025, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Consolvo frequently collaborates with other researchers, including:

Patrick Gage Kelley
Kurt Thomas
Tara Matthews
Elie Bursztein
Margaret E. Morris

Best Publications

Place lab: device positioning using radio beacons in the wild

Anthony LaMarca;Yatin Chawathe;Sunny Consolvo;Jeffrey Hightower

1636
Citations
Activity sensing in the wild: a field trial of ubifit garden

Sunny Consolvo;David W. McDonald;Tammy Toscos;Mike Y. Chen

1539
Citations
Design requirements for technologies that encourage physical activity

Sunny Consolvo;Katherine Everitt;Ian Smith;James A. Landay

1116
Citations
Theory-driven design strategies for technologies that support behavior change in everyday life

Sunny Consolvo;David W. McDonald;James A. Landay

813
Citations
The Mobile Sensing Platform: An Embedded Activity Recognition System

T. Choudhury;S. Consolvo;B. Harrison;J. Hightower

811
Citations
UbiGreen: investigating a mobile tool for tracking and supporting green transportation habits

Jon Froehlich;Tawanna Dillahunt;Predrag Klasnja;Jennifer Mankoff

805
Citations
Location disclosure to social relations: why, when, & what people want to share

Sunny Consolvo;Ian E. Smith;Tara Matthews;Anthony LaMarca

775
Citations
MyExperience: a system for in situ tracing and capturing of user feedback on mobile phones

Jon Froehlich;Mike Y. Chen;Sunny Consolvo;Beverly Harrison

719
Citations
Flowers or a robot army?: encouraging awareness & activity with personal, mobile displays

Sunny Consolvo;Predrag Klasnja;David W. McDonald;Daniel Avrahami

556
Citations
How to evaluate technologies for health behavior change in HCI research

Predrag Klasnja;Sunny Consolvo;Wanda Pratt

512
Citations
Using the experience sampling method to evaluate ubicomp applications

S. Consolvo;M. Walker

492
Citations
Exploring goal-setting, rewards, self-monitoring, and sharing to motivate physical activity

Sean A. Munson;Sunny Consolvo

479
Citations
A conundrum of permissions: installing applications on an android smartphone

Patrick Gage Kelley;Sunny Consolvo;Lorrie Faith Cranor;Jaeyeon Jung

473
Citations
Mobility detection using everyday GSM traces

Timothy Sohn;Alex Varshavsky;Anthony LaMarca;Mike Y. Chen

413
Citations
Learning and recognizing the places we go

Jeffrey Hightower;Sunny Consolvo;Anthony LaMarca;Ian Smith

373
Citations
The CareNet Display: Lessons learned from an in-home evaluation of an ambient display

Sunny Consolvo;Peter Roessler;Brett E. Shelton

342
Citations
Goal-setting considerations for persuasive technologies that encourage physical activity

Sunny Consolvo;Predrag Klasnja;David W. McDonald;James A. Landay

318
Citations
Technology for care networks of elders

S. Consolvo;P. Roessler;B.E. Shelton;A. LaMarca

295
Citations
Toward a framework for evaluating ubiquitous computing applications

J. Scholtz;S. Consolvo

288
Citations
Lullaby: a capture & access system for understanding the sleep environment

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

279
Citations
“...No one Can Hack My Mind”: Comparing Expert and Non-Expert Security Practices

Iulia Ion;Rob Reeder;Sunny Consolvo

258
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

James A. Landay Stanford University

Anthony LaMarca Intel (United States)

Predrag Klasnja University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

David W. McDonald University of Washington

Beverly L. Harrison Microsoft (United States)

Julie A. Kientz University of Washington

Jon E. Froehlich University of Washington

Mike Y. Chen National Taiwan University

Tanzeem Choudhury Cornell University

Sean A. Munson University of Washington

External Links

Personal website of Sunny Consolvo Google Scholar page

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