Understanding the prospects for adapting technologies, such as online labor markets, to build and exploit both personal and impersonal SocioTechnical Capital (e.g., particularly among those with limited social and human capital) requires an understanding of the barriers that will need to be overcome to make such tools beneficial. This project aims to investigate these barriers and seek for ways for technology to mitigate them. This project also investigates existing tools that may be useful to these communities, and we design and implement customized tools to mitigate these barriers as well.
People who relocate to new communities experience challenges such as social-network reconstruction and insufficient information for daily needs. When these challenges are not well addressed, newcomers face additional difficulties, such as mental health issues and limited employment resources. The research goal is to investigate how newcomers utilize information and communciation technologies (ICTs) to address challenges of relocation. This project also aims to identify barriers to their ICT use and propose technical solutions to address the barriers.
In general, we are seeking to understand whether there are correlations between socioeconomic status and individual search behavior. Given the personalization of search, we would like to understand whether and how individual search results could be impacted when searching for online-information related to more critical topics like health, education, loans and job opportunities.
In this project, we explore social aspects of environmental sustainability and specifically communication around eco-feedback technologies. Another aspect of this research investigates issues around energy consumption faced by low income and/or renter households.
In this project, we explore existing data from Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) at the University of Michigan to understand how individuals unable to afford a formal education perform in these courses as compared to those able to afford formal education.
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) provides comprehensive and affordable health insurance for many uninsured individuals and families in the United States. To take advantage of the new law, individuals will need to investigate and select insurance plans and enroll into the online Federal Health Insurance Exchange. For many vulnerable populations, this will be challenging as they may have never had insurance before, and may lack expertise in selecting the appropriate insurance provider.
Principal Investigator, Team Lead |
UMSI Associate Professor
UMSI Assistant Professor
Postdoctoral Computing Innovation Fellow
UM Undergrad
UMSI Ph.D. Student
UMSI Ph.D. Student
UMSI Ph.D. Student
UMSI Ph.D. Student
UMSI Ph.D. Student
UMSI MSI Student
UMSI MSI Student
UM Undergrad
UMSI MSI Student
UM Undergrad
UMSI Master Student
UM MSI Alum
NSF REU, Cornell University Student
NSF REU and Bowie State Alum
UM MSI Alum
UM MSI Alum
UM MSI Alum
UM CS/Design Undergrad
NSF REU and Bowie State Alum
UM CS Alum
NSF REU, Northeastern University Student
UM Alum
UM MSI Alum
Developer
UM MSI Alum
UROP Student, EECS
UMSI MSI Student
UM MSI Alum
UM MSI Alum
UMSI Ph.D. Student
UROP Student, LSA
UM MSI Alum
UM Dearborn Undergrad
High School Student/Visiting Research Assistant
UM MSI Alum
UM MSI Alum
UM Alum
UMSI Master Student
NSF REU Alum, University of Maryland Undergrad
UM MSI Alum
UROP Student, LSA
UMSI Alum
UMSI MSI Student
UMSI REMS, University of Washington
UMSI Master Student
UM Alum
UM MSI Alum
UM MSI Student/REMS
UM Alum
UMSI MSI Student
UMSI Alum
UM Alum
UM CS Alum
UM CS Alum