About
Elizabeth Murnane directs the EMPOWER Lab at Dartmouth, where her work spans human-computer interaction, user-centered design, and socio-technical systems for health and wellbeing. She is also an adjunct assistant professor of Computer Science.
She received her BS from MIT in 2007 and her PhD in Information Science from Cornell in 2017, followed by a postdoc in Computer Science at Stanford. Her group works closely with communities to design, build, and study technologies that support people's health in everyday life.
Selected publications
Sprout: Using a Visual Metaphor to Support Customizable and Collaborative Health Tracking
2026
Integrating Sustainability into a Large Manufacturer's Product Development with Co-Creation
IASDR · 2025
CareInsights: AI-Enabled Infrastructure for Person-Centered Dementia Care in Resource-Constrained Facilities
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT) · 2025