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Wearable systems play an important role in continuous health monitoring and can contribute to early detection of abnormal health-related events and facilitate the advancement of personalized healthcare. The neck is a unique sensing location because it provides access to a set of health-related data that other wearable devices simply cannot obtain. Activities including breathing, chewing, clearing the throat, coughing, swallowing, speech and even heartbeat can be recorded from around the neck.

Data Journalists often report visualizations or statistics of data as part of the stories they tell. However, this data often comes in formats that are hard to use. This project aims to build tools to help journalists extract data from documents so that it can be easily visualized and analyzed.

As the COVID-19 pandemic causes models of healthcare to rapidly shift and as it introduces widespread economic and social stressors, there is a vital need for innovations that help expecting women and new mothers manage their mental health. We take a mixed methods approach to examining pregnant and postpartum Black women in the US focused on understanding how technology can support their mental health concerns during the pandemic.