Raina Langevin

PhD candidate

rlangevi at uw dot edu

About me

Hi! I am a fourth year PhD candidate in the department of Human Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington. I am advised by Dr. Gary Hsieh. My research area includes human-computer interaction and conversational user interface design. I'm interested in studying how conversational interfaces can improve health and well-being. Recently, I interned at Facebook in the summer of 2021.

Previously, I received my bachelor's degrees in Computer Science and Studio Arts from the University of Rochester. I conducted research in the ROC HCI Lab where I was supervised by Dr. Ehsan Hoque. During my time there, I worked to design and implement an application to remotely collect and analyze motor symptoms of individuals living with Parkinson's disease.

Publications

Kocielnik, R., Langevin, R., George, J. S., Akenaga, S., Wang, A., Jones, D., Argyle, A., Fockele, C., Anderson, L., Hsieh, D., Yadav, K., Duber, H., Hsieh, G., and Hartzler, A. "Can I Talk to You about Your Social Needs? Understanding Preference for Conversational User Interface in Health." In 3rd Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI), p. 1-10, 2021. [Paper] Best Paper Honorable Mention

Ali, M. R., Sen, T., Li, Q., Langevin, R., Myers, T., Dorsey, R., Sharma, S., and Hoque, M. E. “Analyzing Head Pose in Remotely-Collected Videos of People with Parkinson's Disease.” In ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare (HEALTH), 2021. [Paper]

Langevin, R., Lordon, R., Avrahami, T., Cowan, B., Hirsch, T., and Hsieh, G. “Heuristic Evaluation of Conversational Agents.” In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), p. 1-15, 2021. [Paper] Best Paper Award

Ali, M.R., Razavi, S., Langevin, R., Al Mamun, A., Kane, B., Rawassizadeh, R., Schubert, L., and Hoque, M.E. “A Virtual Conversational Agent for Teens with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Experimental Results and Design Lessons,” In Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA), p. 1-8, October 2020. [Paper]

Langevin, R., Ali, M. R., Sen, T., Snyder, C., Myers, T., Dorsey, R., and Hoque, M. E. “The PARK Framework for Automated Analysis of Parkinson's Disease Characteristics.” In Proceedings of ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable, and Ubiquitous Computing (IMWUT), vol. 3, no. 2, June 2019. [Paper]

Workshops and Posters

Langevin, R., Lordon, R., Avrahami, T., Cowan, B., Hirsch, T., and Hsieh, G. “Heuristic Evaluation of Conversational Agents,” Let's Talk about CUIs: Putting Conversational User Interface Design Into Practice Workshop at CHI, 2021. [Workshop Paper]

Langevin, R. PARK: Accessible Diagnostics for Parkinson's Symptoms. Poster session presented at: IEEE MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference, Boston, MA, Nov. 3-5, 2017.