Clara-Maria Barth
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Clara-Maria Barth Ph.D. Student of the groups ZPAC and IVDA
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Research
My research focuses on the user-centered design and development of personalized digital health solutions for individuals with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D). Managing T1D requires constant attention to multiple factors, including insulin administration, physical activity, diet, alcohol consumption, and stress, to maintain blood glucose levels within target ranges. Living with T1D is a continuous balancing act, with individuals making about 180 more decisions per day than those without T1D.
In recent years, T1D management has seen remarkable technological advancements, from continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) to automated insulin delivery and closed-loop systems. But, the lived experience of managing T1D remains an intiensive, time-consuming, and emotionally demanding process. By working closely with individuals living with T1D, my research explores how emerging health technologies can be designed and personalized to better support the daily realities of managing such a complex condition.
If you are interested in working with health data, be it from a human-centered design or data-science perspective, please contact me.
Short Bio
I finished my Master's Degree in Informatics at the University of Zurich in August 2023. My major was People-Oriented Computing, and my minor was Informatics. I wrote my Master's thesis at the ZPAC group: "Well, it depends... Investigating the Needs and Expectations for Blood Glucose Predictions in People with Type 1 Diabetes".
I worked as a HiWi at theIVDA group from November 2021 until July 2023. Where my focus was time-stamped event sequences see publication here and human-centered ranking of multivariate items see publication here. From Mai until August 2023 I was working as a HiWi at theZPAC group, focussing on blood glucose prediction in people with type 1 diabetes.
August 1st 2023 I started my Ph.D. supervised by Prof. Dr. Elaine May Huang and Prof. Dr. Jürgen Bernard with a scholarship from the DSI.
Current Projects
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Publications
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Publications
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Incident Cards: A Tool for Documenting and Reviewing Experiences with Chronic Conditions. In: CHI EA '25: Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Yokohama Japan, 26 April 2025 - 1 May 2025. Association for Information Systems, 1-8.
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IVESA - Visual Analysis of Time-Stamped Event Sequences. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 31(4):2235-2256.
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"It's like a glimpse into the future": Exploring the Role of Blood Glucose Prediction Technologies for Type 1 Diabetes Self-Management. In: CHI '24: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Honolulu HI USA, 11 May 2024 - 16 May 2024. ACM Digital library, online.
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How applicable are attribute-based approaches for human-centered ranking creation?. Computers & Graphics, 114:45-58.
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A Data-Centric Methodology and Task Typology for Time-Stamped Event Sequences. In: VIS Workshop on Evaluation and Beyond -- Methodological Approaches for Visualization (BELIV), Oklahoma City, USA, 16 October 2022 - 21 October 2022. IEEE, 66-76.