Megan Hofmann
Assistant Professor
Research interests
- Human–computer interaction
- Personal health informatics
- Accessibility
- Digital fabrication
Education
- PhD in Human–Computer Interaction, Carnegie Mellon University
- MS in Human–Computer Interaction, Carnegie Mellon University
- BS in Computer Science, Colorado State University
Biography
Megan Hofmann is an assistant professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, based in Boston.
Hofmann teaches accessibility for people with disabilities, human–computer interaction, digital fabrication, and rapid prototyping methods. Her research areas include human–computer interaction and personal health informatics.
Hofmann has published in and presented at CHI, UIST, ASSETS, and CSCW and has received multiple awards, including MIT EECS Rising Star, Siebel Fellow, CMLH Fellow, NSF GRFP Fellow, ACM SIGCHI CHI Conference best paper awards and honorable Mentions, and an ACM SIGACCESS Assets Conference best paper award.
Labs and groups
Recent publications
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Maptimizer: Using Optimization to Tailor Tactile Maps to Users Needs
Citation: Megan Hofmann, Kelly Mack, Jessica Birchfield, Jerry Cao, Autumn G Hughes, Shriya Kurpad, Kathryn J Lum, Emily Warnock, Anat Caspi, Scott E Hudson, and Jennifer Mankoff. (2022). "Maptimizer: Using Optimization to Tailor Tactile Maps to Users Needs". In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 592, 1–15. DOI: 10.1145/3491102.3517436 -
Making a Medical Maker’s Playbook: An Ethnographic Study of Safety-Critical Collective Design by Makers in Response to COVID-19
Citation: Megan Hofmann, Udaya Lakshmi, Kelly Mack, Rosa I. Arriaga, Scott E. Hudson, and Jennifer Mankoff. (2022). "Making a Medical Maker's Playbook: An Ethnographic Study of Safety-Critical Collective Design by Makers in Response to COVID-19". Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 6, CSCW1, Article 101 (April 2022), 26 pages. DOI: 10.1145/3512948 -
The Right to Help and the Right Help: Fostering and Regulating Collective Action in a Medical Making Reaction to COVID-19
Citation: Megan Hofmann, Udaya Lakshmi, Kelly Mack, Scott E Hudson, Rosa I. Arriaga, and Jennifer Mankoff. (2021). "The Right to Help and the Right Help: Fostering and Regulating Collective Action in a Medical Making Reaction to COVID-19". In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 654, 1–13. DOI: 10.1145/3411764.3445707
