Work · Selected Projects

Selected Projects

A snapshot of research collaborations across UVA where MAP Lab helps design, build, and deploy mobile, sensing, and AI-enabled research systems.

Mind in Motion app interface shown with the Oura Ring
Wearables · Digital Intervention

Mind in Motion

Mindfulness and movement after ACL reconstruction

Mind in Motion combines mindfulness with personalized movement goals informed by Oura Ring data to reduce injury-related fear and support recovery after ACL reconstruction. MAP Lab is designing and building the mobile intervention and integrating wearable data to enable personalization.

Project Lead: Christopher Kuenze, Associate Professor of Kinesiology
Seed Award Recipient
MindTrails-Movement app screenshot
Mobile Health · Digital Mental Health

MindTrails-Movement

Reducing anxiety in movement disorders

MindTrails-Movement is a tailored, mobile cognitive bias modification intervention designed to reduce anxiety in people with neurodegenerative movement disorders, including Huntington’s and Parkinson’s disease. MAP Lab is developing the intervention and supporting its deployment and evaluation in a pilot clinical trial.

Project Lead: Jessie Gibson, Assistant Professor of Nursing
Sponsor: NIH K01 Mentored Research Scientist Development Award
Seed Award Recipient
Lumilink app screenshot
Human-Centered Design · Social Connection

Lumilink

Designing technology to support adolescent social connection

A digital intervention designed to promote face-to-face social connection among adolescents through shared activities and experiences. The platform was co-designed and developed by a UVA student team and adolescents from the Youth Advisory Board (YAB) collaborating with MAP Lab.

Student Team: UVA Psychology & Systems & Information Engineering Senior Capstone
Sponsor: Thriving Youth in a Digital Environment (TYDE)
Publication: The Friendship Garden: A Co-Designed Digital Intervention to Promote Healthier Social Connections Among Youth
DecisionKEYS screenshot
Digital Health · Shared Decision-Making

DecisionKEYS

Supporting breast cancer treatment decisions

An interactive decision aid designed to help patients considering breast cancer surgery understand treatment options, compare evidence, and clarify their values and preferences. MAP Lab is designing and developing the digital platform to translate evidence-based decision-making tools into an interactive, patient-facing experience.

Project Lead: Crystal Chu, Assistant Professor of Nursing
Medication Adherence study app shown with the Fitbit Sense, the Wisepill RT3000 dispenser, and a breast cancer survivor
Multimodal AI · Mobile Health · Personalized Intervention

Medication Adherence for Breast Cancer Survivors

Using multimodal AI to understand adherence and personalize support

This mobile health study combines real-time medication adherence data, behavioral and physiological data from Fitbit smartwatch, and self-report data collected through a smartphone app. MAP Lab developed the platform and infrastructure to integrate these data streams, use multimodal AI to model and predict medication adherence, and deliver personalized interventions targeted to periods of non-adherence.

Project Lead: Laura Barnes, Professor of Systems & Information Engineering
Sponsor: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
A study participant reviewing and selecting data from Instagram, Snapchat, ChatGPT, and Gemini before securely donating it to protected research cloud infrastructure
Digital Mental Health · Research Platform

The Campus AI Connect Study

Fostering informed, consensual data collection processes in social media research

The Campus AI Connect Study platform supports research using social media and chatbot data. Participants can visualize, inspect, and redact their information in the browser before donating it. MAP Lab forked the open-source software developed by D3I (Digital Data Donation Infrastructure) and built on it to create a customizable, reusable system for research teams across disciplines.

Project Lead: Subigya Nepal, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Sponsor: Thriving Youth in a Digital Environment (TYDE)

The kinds of work we support

MAP Lab collaborates with research teams across a range of disciplines and stages of research, from early prototypes and pilot studies to large-scale and longitudinal deployments. Our work includes:

  • Mobile and wearable research — Studies using smartphones, smartwatches, wearable sensors, and connected devices to measure behavior, health, and context.
  • Multimodal sensing — Research combining data from multiple sensors, devices, self-report, and other sources to understand people and behavior over time.
  • Human-centered AI — AI-enabled interventions, conversational systems, personalized technologies, and other applications designed to work with and for people.
  • AI-enabled research — Generative and agentic AI systems that support research activities and scientific workflows.
  • Digital interventions — Mobile and AI-enabled systems that deliver personalized content, feedback, and behavioral interventions.
  • Research platforms and infrastructure — Secure, scalable systems for collecting, integrating, managing, and using data in research studies.

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