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Tawanna Dillahunt
Born
North Carolina, United States
EducationNorth Carolina State University (BS])
Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology (MS)
Carnegie Mellon University. (MS), (PhD)
Known forCommunity design
Scientific career
FieldsHuman-computer interaction
Information science
Computer Science
InstitutionsUniversity of Michigan
ThesisUsing social technologies to increase sharing and communication around household energy consumption in low-income and rental communities (2012)
Doctoral advisorJennifer Mankoff
Websitehttp://www.tawannadillahunt.com/

Tawanna Dillahunt is an American computer scientist and information scientist based at the University of Michigan School of Information. She runs the Social Innovations Group, a research group that designs, builds, and enhances technologies to solve real-world problems.[1] Her research has been cited over 4,600 times according to Google Scholar.[2]

Education

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Tawanna Dillahunt was born in North Carolina and received her B.S. in Computer Engineering Magna at North Carolina State University in 2000. She received her MS from the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology in 2005. She received an MS from Carnegie Mellon University in 2011 and her PhD from there in 2012. She joined the School of Information faculty at the University of Michigan in 2013.

Career and research

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Dillahunt has worked in the areas of human-computer interaction, pervasive and ubiquitous computing, and computer supported collaborative work and social computing. She has received the Inaugural Skip Ellis Early Career Award from the Computing Research Association.[3] She is the recipient of The Fran Allen IBM PhD Fellowship, the Richard Tapia Scholarship, and the IBM PhD Fellowship. She is a Kavli Fellow[4] with the National Academy of Sciences.

She is best known for her work designing and evaluating technologies related to unemployment, environmental sustainability, and technical literacy. She has received multiple grants from the National Science Foundation to support her work.[5][6][7][8] Most recently, she received a grant to study transportation barriers in underserved urban and rural communities in Michigan.[9] She has created numerous technology tools[10][11][12] that lead to strategies[13][14][15] to better recruit marginalize populations to career opportunities. Additionally, she is a faculty affiliate of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP) program at the University of Michigan Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.[16]

Selected works

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  • Froehlich, J., Dillahunt, T., Klasnja, P., Mankoff, J., Consolvo, S., Harrison, B., & Landay, J. A. (2009, April). UbiGreen: investigating a mobile tool for tracking and supporting green transportation habits. In Proceedings of the sigchi conference on human factors in computing systems (pp. 1043–1052). (Cited 815 times, according to Google Scholar.[17])
  • Dillahunt, T. R., & Malone, A. R. (2015, April). The promise of the sharing economy among disadvantaged communities. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 2285–2294). (Cited 470 times, according to Google Scholar [17])
  • Dillahunt, T. R. (2014, April). Fostering social capital in economically distressed communities. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 531–540).
  • Dillahunt, T., Wang, Z., & Teasley, S. D. (2014). Democratizing higher education: Exploring MOOC use among those who cannot afford a formal education. International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 15(5), 177–196.

References

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  1. ^ Social Innovations Group
  2. ^ "Tawanna Dillahunt – Google Scholar Citations". Retrieved 2020-06-19.
  3. ^ "CRA-WP Presents the Inaugural Skip Ellis Early Career Award and the 2020 Anita Borg Early Career Award - CRA-WP".
  4. ^ "2015 Kavli Fellows - News Release". www.nasonline.org.
  5. ^ "NSF Award Search: Award#1901171 - CHS: Medium: Collaborative Research: Regional Experiments for the Future of Work in America". www.nsf.gov.
  6. ^ "NSF Award Search: Award#1717186 - CHS: Small: Designing Next Generation Digital Employment and Recruitment Intervention Tools: Identifying Technical Features to Support Underserved Job Seekers in the U.S." www.nsf.gov.
  7. ^ "NSF Award Search: Award#1910281 - CHS: Small: Collaborative Research: Shared Mobility Systems to Address Transportation Barriers of Underserved Urban and Rural Communities". www.nsf.gov.
  8. ^ "NSF Award Search: Award#2031662 - RAPID COVID-19: Sociotechnical Systems and Complexity Reduction: Enhancing Access to Digital Essential Services for Low-Income Communities during a Public Health Crisis". www.nsf.gov.
  9. ^ National Science Foundation. "CHS: Small: Collaborative Research: Shared Mobility Systems to Address Transportation Barriers of Underserved Urban and Rural Communities".
  10. ^ Ogbonnaya-Ogburu, Ihudiya Finda; Toyama, Kentaro; Dillahunt, Tawanna R. (2019-05-02). "Towards an Effective Digital Literacy Intervention to Assist Returning Citizens with Job Search". Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI '19. Glasgow, Scotland Uk: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 1–12. doi:10.1145/3290605.3300315. ISBN 978-1-4503-5970-2. S2CID 140224822.
  11. ^ Dillahunt, Tawanna R.; Lu, Alex (2019-05-02). "DreamGigs". Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI '19. Glasgow, Scotland Uk: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 1–14. doi:10.1145/3290605.3300808. ISBN 978-1-4503-5970-2. S2CID 92990382.
  12. ^ Dillahunt, Tawanna R.; Lam, Jason; Lu, Alex; Wheeler, Earnest (2018-06-08). "Designing Future Employment Applications for Underserved Job Seekers". Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference. DIS '18. Hong Kong, China: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 33–44. doi:10.1145/3196709.3196770. ISBN 978-1-4503-5198-0. S2CID 47017473.
  13. ^ Dillahunt, Tawanna. "THE PROMISES AND PERILS OF TECHNOLOGY FOR MARGINALIZED JOB SEEKERS" (PDF).
  14. ^ Dillahunt, Tawanna R.; Hsiao, Joey Chiao-Yin (2020-04-21). "Positive Feedback and Self-Reflection: Features to Support Self-efficacy among Underrepresented Job Seekers". Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI '20. Honolulu, HI, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 1–13. doi:10.1145/3313831.3376717. ISBN 978-1-4503-6708-0. S2CID 218482551.
  15. ^ Ogbonnaya-Ogburu, Ihudiya Finda; Toyama, Kentaro; Dillahunt, Tawanna (2018-10-30). "Returning Citizens' Job Search and Technology Use". Companion of the 2018 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. CSCW '18. Jersey City, NJ, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 365–368. doi:10.1145/3272973.3274098. ISBN 978-1-4503-6018-0. S2CID 53217966.
  16. ^ "Faculty Affiliates".
  17. ^ a b [1] Google Scholar Author page, Accessed Dec. 22. 2021
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