Projects

Towards Human-Centered AI

I am co-creating a Masters course for UC San Diego on Human-Centered AI with Dr. Nadir Weibel (details not public).


Publications


What I'm Writing Now

A communication-focused conceptual framework for XR collaboration, with Nadir Wiebel and Mark Billinghurst.


Full Papers

Janet G Johnson, Tommy Sharkey, Iramuali Cynthia Butarbutar, Danica Xiong, Ruijie Huang, Lauren Sy, and Nadir Weibel. UnMapped: Leveraging Experts' Situated Experiences to Ease Remote Guidance in Collaborative Mixed Reality. CHI '23, Hamburg, Germany [Quick Teaser Video].

M.D. Tadlock, E.J. Olson, D. Gasques, R. Champagne, M.J. Krzyzaniak, S.A. Belverud, V. Ravindra, J. Kerns, P. M Choi, J. Deveraux, J. Johnson, T. Sharkey, M. Yip, N. Weibel, K. Davis Mixed reality surgical mentoring of combat casualty care related procedures in a perfused cadaver model: Initial results of a randomized feasibility study. Surgery 2022.

Chen, Chen, Janet G. Johnson, Alice Charles, Kemeberly abd Lee, Ella T. Lifset, Michael Hogarth, Alison A. Moore, Emilia Farcas, and Nadir Weibel. Understanding Barriers and Design Opportunities to Improve Healthcare and QOL for Older Adults through Voice Assistants. ASSETS '21, Virtual Event, USA.

Janet G Johnson, Danilo Gasques, Tommy Sharkey, Evan Schmitz, and Nadir Weibel. Do You Really Need to Know Where “That” Is? Enhancing Support for Referencing in Collaborative Mixed Reality Environments. CHI '21, Yokohama, Japan. [Video]

Danilo Gasques, Janet G Johnson, Tommy Sharkey, Yuanyuan Feng, Ru Wang, Zhuoqun Robin Xu, Enrique Zavala, Yifei Zhang, Wanze Xie, Xinming Zhang, Konrad Davis, Michael Yip, and Nadir Weibel. ARTEMIS: A Collaborative Mixed-Reality System for Immersive Surgical Telementoring. CHI '21, Yokohama, Japan. [Video, Slides]

W. Xie, Y. Liang, J. Johnson, A. Mower, S. Burns, C. Chelini, P. D'Alessandro, N. Weibel, J.P. Schulze. Interactive Multi-User 3D Visual Analytics in Augmented Reality. IS&T The Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality '20, San Fracisco, CA, USA.

Janet G. Johnson, Evan Schmitz, Venktesh Ramnath, and Nadir Weibel. Nurture-Empower-Support: A Human-Centered Approach to Understand and Support ICU Families. PervasiveHealth '19, Trento, Italy. [Slides]

Janet G. Johnson, Danilo Gasques Rodrigues, Madhuri Gubbala, and Nadir Weibel. HoloCPR: Designing and Evaluating a Mixed Reality Interface for Time-Critical Emergencies. PervasiveHealth '18, New York, NY USA. [Slides]


Short Papers, Extended Abstracts, and Demos

Charles, K., Chen, C., Johnson, J., Lee, A., Lifset, E., Hogarth, M., Weibel, N., Farcas, E., Moore, A. How might an intelligent voice assistant address older adults' health-related needs?. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society '21, NJ, USA (abstract)

Chen, C., Mrini, K., Charles, K., Johnson, J., Lee, A., Lifset, E., Hogarth, M., Moore, A., Nakashole, N., Weibel, N., Farcas, E. VOLI: Voice Assistant for Quality of Life and Healthcare Improvement in Aging Populations. Smart Health in the AI and COVID Era, NSF Smart and Connected Health (SCH) '21, Virtual Workshop.

Nadir Weibel, Danilo Gasques Rodrigues, Janet G. Johnson, Thomas Sharkey, Zhuoqun Xu, Xinming Zhang, Michael Yip, and Konrad Davis. ARTEMIS: Mixed-Reality Environment for Immersive Surgial Telementoring. CHI '20 Extended Abstracts, Honolulu, HI, USA.

Janet G. Johnson, Khalil Mrini, Michael Hogarth, Alison Moore, Ndapa Nakashole, Nadir Weibel, and Emilia Farcas. Voice-Based Conversational Agents for Older Adults. Position Paper at Conversational Agents for Health and Wellbeing, CHI '20, Honolulu, HI, USA.

Farcas, E., Hogarth, M., Johnson, J., Moore, A., Mrini, K., Nakashole, N., Weibel, N. VOLI: Voice Assistant for Quality of Life and Healthcare Improvement in Aging Populations. Advancing Health Through Science Workshop, NSF Smart and Connected Health(SCH) '20, Alexandria, VA, USA.

K.L. Davis, D. Gasques, Y.Zhang, W. Xie, J. Johnson, Y. Feng, Z. Xu, J. Riback, T. Sharkey, M. Yip, N. Weibel. ARTEMIS, Augmented Reality Technology to Enable reMote Integrated Surgery: A Review of Technical Consideration and Study Design. MHSRS '19, Orlando, USA.

Danilo Gasques Rodrigues, Janet G. Johnson, Thomas Sharkey, and Nadir Weibel. PintAR: Sketching Spatial Experiences in Augmented Reality. DIS '19, San Diego, USA. (Demo)

Thomas Sharkey, Janet G. Johnson, Danilo Gasques, and Nadir Weibel. I Want to Be a Surgeon! Role Playing for Remote Surgery in Mixed Reality. Workshop on Interactive Systems for Healthcare, CHI '19, Glasgow, UK.

Janet G. Johnson, Evan Schmitz, Venktesh Ramnath, and Nadir Weibel. Designing Family-Centered Aids for the Intensive Care Unit. CHI '19 Extended Abstracts, Glasgow, UK. [Poster]

Danilo Gasques Rodrigues, Janet G. Johnson, Thomas Sharkey, and Nadir Weibel. What You Sketch Is What You Get: Quick and Easy Augmented Reality Prototyping with PintAR. CHI '19 Extended Abstracts, Glasgow, UK.

Danilo Gasques, Janet G. Johnson, and Nadir Weibel. Real-time guidance for cardiopulmonary resuscitation in Mixed Reality. PervasiveHealth '18, New York, NY USA. (Demo)


Academic Events and Service

Track Chair for Medical XR and Immersive Healthcare at the Metaverse Safety Week 2022.

Organized a hybrid Empathic Computing Workshop at IEEE VR 2022 with Dr. Mark Billinghurst and Dr. Arindam Dey.

Web co-chair for UbiComp and ISWC 2020.

Program Committee member for CHI 2023 Late-Breaking Work.

Reviewer for CHI, CSCW, IEEE VR, VRST, SUI, CHI Play, TEI, MobileHCI, and ISWC.


Teaching


Teaching Staff for Nadir Weibel's Human-Centered AI, 2022

Teaching Assistant for Nadir Weibel's Towards Human-Centered AI, Fall 2021

Teaching Assistant for Nadir Weibel's Ubiquitous Computing, Fall 2017, 2018, and 2019

Teaching Assistant for Nadir Weibel's Human-Computer Interaction for Health (HCI4H), Winter 2019, Spring 2021 and 2022

Teaching Staff on Scott Klemmer's Interaction Design Specialization on Coursera, Aug 2017 - Aug 2019

Teaching Assistant for Scott Klemmer's Advanced Interaction Design, Spring 2017



Get In Touch

[ janetjohnson@ucsd.edu ]