Vivian Genaro Motti

Mason IST assistant professor Vivian Motti
Titles and Organizations

Associate Professor/Tenured

Contact Information

Campus: Fairfax
Building: Nguyen Engineering Building
Room 3530

Personal Websites

Biography

Vivian Genaro Motti is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Sciences and Technology at George Mason University where she leads the Human-Centric Design Lab (HCD Lab). Her research focuses on Human-Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous Computing, Wearable Health, and Usable Privacy. She is the principal investigator for a NIDILRR-funded project on assistive smartwatches for young adults in inclusive postsecondary education. Her research has been funded by NSF, TeachAccess, CCI, 4-VA, and URSP, among others. Before joining Mason, Dr. Motti was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Human-Centered Computing Division in the School of Computing - at Clemson University.

During her postdoc, she contributed to the NSF-funded Amulet project, investigating human factors, usability, and privacy of wearable devices for healthcare. Dr. Motti received her PhD from Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium). During her PhD, she was a research assistant to the EU-funded FP7 Serenoa Project. Her PhD thesis concerns a multi-dimensional framework for user interfaces adapted to the context of use. She earned a BSc and a Master's degree from the University of São Paulo. In her Master's thesis, she investigated usability issues in a ubiquitous environment for learning. Her research was funded by CNPq and was conducted in ICMC (University of São Paulo) in São Carlos - SP. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Biomedical Informatics from the University of São Paulo.

Degrees

  • BSc, Biomedical Informatics, University of São Paulo
  • MS, Biomedical Informatics, University of São Paulo
  • PhD, Science Engineering, Catholic University of Louvain