Fateme Rajabiyazdi

PhD, PEng

Affiliate Investigator

Assistant Professor

Carleton University

About:

Fateme Rajabiyazdi, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, cross-appointed with the School of Information Technology at Carleton University and an Affiliate Investigator at the Bruyère Health Research Institute. In 2023, she was awarded the Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Society (CMBES) Early Career Researcher Award. Before joining Carleton, she was a postdoctoral researcher at McGill University, where she received the FRQS Postdoctoral Scholarship Award. She received her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Calgary in 2018.

Her research is at the intersection of information visualization and human-computer interaction. In particular, her research aims to develop innovative technologies and data visualization tools to empower patients to self-manage their care and establish data-driven communication with their caregivers and healthcare providers.

Research Interests:

Patient-centered care, e-health.

Select Publications:

Rajabiyazdi F, Alam R, Pal A, Montanez J, Law S, Pecorelli N, Watanabe Y, Chiavegato LD, Falconi M, Hirano S, Mayo NE, Lee L, Feldman LS, Fiore JF Jr. (2021). Understanding the Meaning of Recovery to Patients Undergoing Abdominal Surgery. JAMA Surgery.

Rajabiyazdi F, Walny J, Mah C, Brosz J, Carpendale S. (2015). Understanding Researchers' Use of a Large, High-Resolution Display Across Disciplines. In Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Interactive Tabletops & Surfaces (ITS '15).

Rajabiyazdi F, Perin C, Vermeulen J, MacLeod H, Gromala D, Carpendale S. (2017). Differences that matter: in-clinic communication challenges. In Proceedings of the 11th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth '17).

Rajabiyazdi F, Perin C, Oehlberg L, Carpendale S. (2021). Communicating Patient Health Data: A Wicked Problem. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications.

Contact:

fateme.rajabiyazdi@carleton.ca

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