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Liz Murnane

Assistant professor, Engineering

Director, Empower Lab

News

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Liz appears in spread on new Dartmouth faculty

March 24, 2021

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Liz featured as one of 11 faculty named to endowed chairs

October 5, 2020

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National Academy of Sciences chapter now available

September 25, 2020

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Liz featured in Thayer News as a new faculty member

August 12, 2020

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Paper accepted at IDC 2020

March 23, 2020

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WhoIsZuki gets a Best Paper Award at CHI 2020!

March 6, 2020

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Interactions special issue on Inbodied Interaction is out

February 25, 2020

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Two papers appearing at CHI 2020

January 16, 2020

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Liz presenting to National Academies

December 9, 2019

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Liz is joining Dartmouth!

June 1, 2019

Publications

Narrative-Based Visual Feedback to Encourage Sustained Physical Activity: A Field Trial of the WhoIsZuki Mobile Health Platform

Elizabeth L Murnane, Yekaterina S Glazko, Jean Costa, Raymond Yao, Grace Zhao, Paula ML Moya, James A Landay

Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies

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Leveraging Mobile Technology for Public Health Promotion: A Multidisciplinary Perspective

Jennifer L Hicks, Melissa A Boswell, Tim Althoff, Alia J Crum, Joy P Ku, James A Landay, Paula ML Moya, Elizabeth L Murnane, Michael P Snyder, Abby C King, Scott L Delp

Annual Review of Public Health

physical activitynarrativeambient displayssmartphones

Effects of Wearable Fitness Trackers and Activity Adequacy Mindsets on Affect, Behavior, and Health: Longitudinal Randomized Controlled Trial

Octavia Hedwig Zahrt, Kristopher Evans, Elizabeth Murnane, Erik Santoro, Michael Baiocchi, James Landay, Scott Delp, Alia Crum

Journal of Medical Internet Research

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A study of the role of indoor nature on solidarity and group identity during remote work

Eva Bianchi, Laura S.P. Bloomfield, Lucy Z. Bencharit, Basma Altaf, Nik A. Sawe , Elizabeth L. Murnane, James A. Landay, Sarah L. Billington

Building and Environment

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A Political Theory of Engineered Systems and A Study of Engineering and Justice Workshops

Dominic Carrese, Elizabeth Murnane

Sprout: Using a Garden Metaphor to Visualize and Support Customizable and Collaborative Health Tracking

Pape Sow Traoré, Elizabeth L. Murnane

Dartmouth College Dartmouth Digital Commons - Master’s Theses

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Co-Creating a Framework to Integrate Sustainable Design into Product Development Practice: Case Study at an Engineering Consultancy Firm

Tejaswini Chatty, Will Harrison, Hana H Ba-Sabaa, Jeremy Faludi, Elizabeth L Murnane

Sustainability

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Smartphone‐based ecological momentary assessment to study “scanxiety” among adolescent and young adult survivors of childhood cancer: A feasibility study

Lauren C Heathcote, Sarah J Cunningham, Sarah N Webster, Vivek Tanna, Elia Mattke, Nele Loecher, Sheri L Spunt, Pamela Simon, Gary Dahl, Marta Walentynowicz, Elizabeth Murnane, Perri R Tutelman, Lidia Schapira, Laura E Simons, Claudia Mueller

Psycho‐Oncology

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Use of Crowdsourced Online Surveys to Study the Impact of Architectural and Design Choices on Well-being

Basma Altaf, Eva LS Bianchi, Isabella P Douglas, Kyle Douglas, Brandon Byers, Pablo E Parades, Nicole M Ardoin, Hazel R Markus, Elizabeth L Murnane, Lucy Z Bencharit, James A Landay, Sarah L Billington

Frontiers in Sustainable Cities

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Physical workplaces and human well-being: A mixed-methods study to quantify the effects of materials, windows, and representation on biobehavioral outcomes

Isabella P Douglas, Elizabeth L Murnane, Lucy Zhang Bencharit, Basma Altaf, Jean Marcel dos Reis Costa, Jackie Yang, Meg Ackerson, Charu Srivastava, Michael Cooper, Kyle Douglas, Jennifer King, Pablo E Paredes, Nicholas P Camp, Matthew Louis Mauriello, Nicole M Ardoin, Hazel Rose Markus, James A Landay, Sarah L Billington

Building and Environment

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Ten questions concerning human-building interaction research for improving the quality of life

Burçin Becerik-Gerber, Gale Lucas, Ashrant Aryal, Mohamad Awada, Mario Berges, Sarah L Billington, Olga Boric-Lubecke, Ali Ghahramani, Arsalan Heydarian, Farrokh Jazizadeh, Ruying Liu, Runhe Zhu, Frederick Marks, Shawn Roll, Mirmahdi Seyedrezaei, John E Taylor, Christoph Höelscher, Azam Khan, Jared Langevin, Matthew Louis Mauriello, Elizabeth Murnane, Haeyoung Noh, Marco Pritoni, Davide Schaumann, Jie Zhao

Building and Environment

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The field of human building interaction for convergent research and innovation for intelligent built environments

Burcin Becerik-Gerber, Gale Lucas, Ashrant Aryal, Mohamad Awada, Mario Bergés, Sarah Billington, Olga Boric-Lubecke, Ali Ghahramani, Arsalan Heydarian, Christoph Höelscher, Farrokh Jazizadeh, Azam Khan, Jared Langevin, Ruying Liu, Frederick Marks, Matthew Louis Mauriello, Elizabeth Murnane, Haeyoung Noh, Marco Pritoni, Shawn Roll, Davide Schaumann, Mirmahdi Seyedrezaei, John E Taylor, Jie Zhao, Runhe Zhu

Scientific Reports

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Designing narrative-based interfaces for collective action: A case study using Amazon, climate change, and consumer behavior

Catherine Parnell, Elizabeth Murnane

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Examining the User Experience of Life Cycle Assessment Tools and Their Ability to Cater to Ecodesign in Early-Stage Product Development Practice

Tejaswini Chatty, Yingkun Qu, Hana H Ba-Sabaa, Elizabeth L Murnane

Proceedings of the Design Society

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Discomfort design

mc schraefel, Aaron Tabor, Elizabeth L. Murnane

Interactions (IX) · 27(2) Pages 40–45 · ACM · 2020

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Inbodied interaction design example: chronobiology-friendly technology

Elizabeth L. Murnane

Interactions (IX) · 27(2) Pages 54–55 · ACM · 2020

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Designing Ambient Narrative-Based Interfaces to Reflect and Motivate Physical Activity

Elizabeth L. Murnane, Xin Jiang, Anna Kong, Michelle Park, Weili Shi, Connor Soohoo, Luke Vink, Iris Xia, Xin Yu, John Yang-Sammataro, Grace Young, Jenny Zhi, Paula Moya, James A. Landay

Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) · Pages 1–14 · ACM · 2020

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Mobile and Sensor Technology as a Tool for Health Measurement, Management, and Research with Aging Populations

Elizabeth L. Murnane, Tanzeem Choudhury

Mobile Technology for Adaptive Aging · Pages 41–65 · National Academies Press · 2020

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Understanding Physical Practices and the Role of Technology in Manual Self-Tracking

Parastoo Abtahi, Victoria Ding, Anna. C. Yang, Tommy Bruzzese, Alyssa B. Romanos, Elizabeth L. Murnane, Sean Follmer, James A. Landay

Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT) · 4(4), Pages 1–24 · 2020

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Projects

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Mood Tracking

2014 - 2020

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Weight & Wellness

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