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Hi! My name is Tawanna Dillahunt and I am a Ph.D. student at the Human Computer Interaction Institute in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA.  My research interests lie in using technology to motivate and encourage positive behaviors.  Currently, I am researching how to motivate environmentally sustainable behaviors via ubiquitous technologies and social computing.  I am also exploring energy use in low-income communities.  My advisor is Jennifer Mankoff.


I hold a M.S. in Computer Science from the Oregon Graduate Institute School of Science and Engineering at the Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, OR and a B.S. in Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University.  I was also a software engineer at Intel Corporation for 7 years.

 

Recent News


May ’11 - CHI

CHI Volunteer, Vancouver, BC


February 24 - 28, 2011

Academic Career Workshops for Underrepresented Participants, Los Angeles, CA


February 2011

Recipient of Richard Tapia Scholarship


Spring 2011

Recipient of IBM Graduate Fellowship


Fall 2010 (Aug - Dec)

Instructor for 05433/05633 User Interface Lab (Android Mobile Development


Summer 2010 (June - August)

Internship at IBM TJ Watson with the Social Computing Group in Hawthorne, NY


April ’10 - CHI Examining Appropriation, Re-use, and Maintenance Workshop

Paper accepted to the  Appropriation, Re-use, and Maintenance Workshop, April 2010, Atlanta, GA


April ’10 - CHIMe Workshop

Accepted to the Computer Human Interaction Mentoring (CHIMe) Workshop, April 2010, Atlanta, GA