Sean A. Munson

Dr. Sean Munson is a Professor at the University of Washington's Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering. Working on challenges of health, wellbeing, and exposure to diverse information, Sean designs and evaluates techniques for helping people make sense of data about themselves and the world around them. He focuses on the challenges of designing for collaboration and coordination, to bring together the different expertise necessary to understand and act on these data.

Sean also co-directs the UW ALACRITY Center. The ALACRITY Center uses human-centered design and implementation science to redesign evidence-based psychosocial interventions for mental health to be more usable and contextually appropriate, which should lead to greater uptake and sustained, high quality use.

Sean's research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality, the National Institutes of Health, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, and Google. He is the recipient of a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award and is a Distinguished Member of the ACM.

In addition to his research and teaching, Sean is HCDE's Associate Chair for Faculty & Research Development and is a member of the DUB group. He previously directed the HCDE PhD program and chaired the HCI+D Interdisciplinary Faculty Group.

Sean completed a BS in Engineering at Olin College in 2006 and his PhD at the University of Michigan School of Information in 2012. Previously, he was a political blogger and, while at Boeing, designed concepts for future passenger airplane interiors.

Keywords: Personal informatics, computer-supported cooperative work, health, mental health, human-computer interaction, human-centered design, social computing