I recently completed PhD in Human-Centered Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. I have a BS degree in Computer Science from the Ukrainian State Maritime Technical University and MS degree in Human Computer Interaction from Georgia Tech. In my research I investigate how computing technologies, in particular ubiquitous and pervasive computing, can help individuals with chronic dieseases, such as diabetes, become more thoughtful and reflective, learn from personal experience and from experience of others, and translate their knowledge into action.

News & Events Starting in Fall 2009, I will be joining the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University as a National Library of Medicine Postdoctoral Research Fellow. July 2009: Next year I will be workshops co-chair at the 4th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (Pervasive Health 2010). The conference will be held in Munich, Gemany, March 22-25, 2010. Look for a call for workshop proposals in the coming weeks. May 2009: I have presented a poster titled “Designing Pervasive Health Monitoring Applications for Communities of Users“ at the Pervasive Computing conference (Pervasive 2009) in Nara, Japan. April 2009: CHI’09: This year at CHI I had a couple of activities. I have co-organized a workshop titled “Evaluating new interactions in healthcare: challenges and approaches”. My fellow co-organizers included: Rebecca Randell (City University London, London, United Kingdom) Geraldine Fitzpatrick (University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom) Stephanie Wilson (City University London, London, United Kingdom) Charlotte Tang (University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada) I also participated in a panel titled “Interacting with eHealth: towards grand challenges for HCI”. Here is the list of other panelists (although not all of them were present at the panel): mc schraefel (University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom) Paul André (University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom) Ryen White (Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA) Desney Tan (Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA) Tim Berners-Lee (MIT, Cambridge, USA) Sunny Consolvo (Intel Research, Seattle, WA, USA) Robert Jacobs (CS, Tufts, Boston, MA, USA) Issac Kohane (Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, USA) Christopher A. Le Dantec (HCC Program, Georgia Tech, USA) Gary Marsden (CS, Univesity of Cape Town, SA) Ben Shneiderman (HCIL, UMaryland, College Park, MD, USA) Peter Szolovits (CSAIL, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA) Daniel Weitzner (W3C MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA) November 2009: On November 21st I successfully defended my dissertation, titled “Designing Ubiquitous Computing For Learning And Reflection”. Many thanks to my dissertation committee for their encouragement and guidance: Elizabeth Mynatt (Georgia Tech, Advisor) Gregory Abowd (Georgia Tech) Amy Bruckman (Georgia Tech) Nancy Nersessian (Georgia Tech) Paul Dourish (University Of California, Irvine)