Technology-Mediated Health
TASC Lab
Recent Publications
- Ahumada, M. Schneider, and L. Riek. (2021) The power of robot-mediated play: Forming friendships and expressing identity. In review.
- Ahumada, T. Hwu, H. Kashyap, J. Krichmar, and J. Eccles. (2021) Evaluation of Toyota’s human service robot pan/tilt head, autonomous navigation, and arm/hand hardware for learning environments. in review.
- Ahumada-Newhart, J.M. Hernandez, and K. Badillo-Urquiola. (2021) A call for action: Conceptualizing assets-based inclusive design as a social movement to address systemic inequities. An assets-based inclusive design framework. In proc. of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI ’21 Extended Abstracts), May 08–13, 2021, Yokohama, Japan.
- Wolff, V. Ahumada-Newhart, J. Eccles, J. Moeller. (2021) Telepresence robots outperform traditional videoconferences in higher education: A longitudinal study. In proceedings of American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2021.
- Veronica Ahumada and Jacquelynne Eccles. (2020) A Theoretical and Qualitative Approach to Evaluating Children’s Robot-Mediated Levels of Presence. APA: Technology, Mind, and Behavior
- Veronica Ahumada-Newhart and Judith S. Olson. (2019) Going to School on a Robot: Robot and User Interface Design Features that Matter. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 26, 4, Article 25 (June 2019), 28 pages.
- Stephanie Reich, Wendy Ochoa, Amy Gaona, Yesenia Salcedo, Georgina Espino, Veronica Ahumada-Newhart, Joyce Lin, and Guadalupe Diaz. (2019) Disparities in Caregivers’ Experiences at the Dentist with their Young Child. Academic Pediatrics.
- Veronica Ahumada-Newhart and Judith S. Olson. (2017) My student is a robot: How schools manage telepresence experiences for students. Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 342–347.
- Ahumada-Newhart & M. Warschauer. (2017) How robots could help chronically ill kids attend school. The Conversation.
- Veronica Ahumada-Newhart, Mark Warschauer, and Leonard S. Sender. (2016) Virtual inclusion via telepresence robots in the classroom: An exploratory case study. International Journal of Learning Technologies 23,4: 9-25.
- Mark Warschauer and Veronica Ahumada-Newhart. (2015) Broadening our concepts of universal access. Universal Access in the Information Society 15,2: 183-188.
In the News
Robot researcher receives early career tech award
Verónica Ahumada, Ph.D., director of the Technology and Social Connectedness Lab at UC Davis, receives the Early Career Award at the 2022 EDGE in Tech Initiative Athena Awards.
Human-robot interaction expertise comes to UC Davis
Verónica Ahumada’s research projects explore robot-mediated learning for children with medical conditions, disabilities and increase health care worker safety.
Dream Machine
In a few classrooms, robots attend for children ailing at home. A researcher wants to know how to make the devices better. — Article in Science online, February 10, 2022.
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We are a collaborative, interdisciplinary team of researchers and welcome other researchers interested in technology-mediated health and human development, especially as it relates to the role of social connectedness for improved health and behavioral outcomes.
If you interested in this type of research, please feel free to reach our lab by email, sharing your research interests and expertise.
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