- January 2024: Our work on avatar use motivations was accepted at ICA’s 74th Annual Conference.
- December 2023: Calling all XR researchers and industry professionals to participate in our Meaningful XR conference!
- November 2023: I’ll be speaking at vMed24 on avatar use for mental health applications.
- Sept-Oct 2023: Check out my research collaborations on avatars and teamwork (IJHCS) and the use of avatars in social science research (DIS’23).
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- July 2023: I participated in Caltech’s DataSAI summer school for computational methods.
- June 2023: New skill acquired! I can now run fMRI participants at the Caltech Brain Imaging Center.
- August 2022: I joined the Fear Lab at CalTech as a postdoctoral researcher studying the neuroscience of social media.
- June 2022: I successfully defended my thesis and taught Oral Communication (COMM 2010) this summer!
- May 2022: Our work on avatar customization and personalization was presented at ICA’s 72nd Annual Conference.
- January 2022: Our scoping review on avatar customization and personalization was accepted to ICA’s 72nd Annual Conference.
- November 2021: I received the CALS Alumni Association Award for my dissertation research.
- June 2021: Participated in the XR Access Research breakout session on mental health and XR. TA’ed for Ethics in New Media, Technology, and Communication (COMM 4300).
- May 2021: Presented my work on avatar customization and games for emotional well-being at ICA 2021.
- February 2021: Our systematic review on VR’s application for disaster-related mental healthcare was just accepted at Translational Issues in Psychological Science.
- January 2021: My work on avatar customization in VR was accepted to ICA’s 71st Annual Conference.
- October 2020: Qualified my A-exam!
- August 2020: Cat Lambert, Bharathy Premachandra, Angel Hwang, and I were awarded the Media Studies Working Group grant.
- March 2020: My book chapter on patient-centered care in VR with Dr. Won was published in Technology and Health!
- March 2020: I will be presenting my work on “Affective Embodiment” at IEEE VR’s Doctoral Consortium in Atlanta, GA.
- October 2019: Hosted a panel and workshop on beginning clinical VR research at Cornell’s Immersive Media in Medicine Symposium.
- June 2019: Taught Communication and Technology (COMM 2450) this summer, and presented at the annual CyberPsychology, CyberTherapy & Social Networking Conference in Norfolk, VA.
- May 2019: Attended ICA 2019 as a panelist on the “Practical Replication and Data Sharing” panel.
- April 2019: Attended the 2019 Grad Cohort for Women Workshop in Chicago, IL.
- February 2019: Our work on learning moon phases in VR was featured in the Cornell Chronicle.
- September 2018: Website up, and went to Oculus Connect 5 in San Jose, CA!
