Megan Hofmann

Assistant Professor, Jointly Appointed with College of Engineering

Megan Hofmann
  • Human–computer interaction
  • Personal health informatics
  • Accessibility
  • Digital fabrication
  • PhD in Human–Computer Interaction, Carnegie Mellon University
  • MS in Human–Computer Interaction, Carnegie Mellon University
  • BS in Computer Science, Colorado State University

Megan Hofmann is an assistant professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences and the College of Engineering at Northeastern University, based in Boston.

Hofmann teaches accessibility for people with disabilities, human–computer interaction, digital fabrication, and rapid prototyping methods. Her research areas include human–computer interaction and personal health informatics.

Hofmann has published in and presented at CHI, UIST, ASSETS, and CSCW and has received multiple awards, including MIT EECS Rising Star, Siebel Fellow, CMLH Fellow, NSF GRFP Fellow, ACM SIGCHI CHI Conference best paper awards and honorable Mentions, and an ACM SIGACCESS Assets Conference best paper award.

  • Maptimizer: Using Optimization to Tailor Tactile Maps to Users Needs

    Citation: Megan Hofmann, Kelly Mack, Jessica Birchfield, Jerry Cao, Autumn G Hughes, Shriya Kurpad, Kathryn J Lum, Emily Warnock, Anat Caspi, Scott E Hudson, and Jennifer Mankoff. (2022). "Maptimizer: Using Optimization to Tailor Tactile Maps to Users Needs". In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 592, 1–15. DOI: 10.1145/3491102.3517436

  • Making a Medical Maker’s Playbook: An Ethnographic Study of Safety-Critical Collective Design by Makers in Response to COVID-19

    Citation: Megan Hofmann, Udaya Lakshmi, Kelly Mack, Rosa I. Arriaga, Scott E. Hudson, and Jennifer Mankoff. (2022). "Making a Medical Maker's Playbook: An Ethnographic Study of Safety-Critical Collective Design by Makers in Response to COVID-19". Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 6, CSCW1, Article 101 (April 2022), 26 pages. DOI: 10.1145/3512948

  • The Right to Help and the Right Help: Fostering and Regulating Collective Action in a Medical Making Reaction to COVID-19

    Citation: Megan Hofmann, Udaya Lakshmi, Kelly Mack, Scott E Hudson, Rosa I. Arriaga, and Jennifer Mankoff. (2021). "The Right to Help and the Right Help: Fostering and Regulating Collective Action in a Medical Making Reaction to COVID-19". In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 654, 1–13. DOI: 10.1145/3411764.3445707

  • Living Disability Theory: Reflections on Access, Research, and Design

    Citation: Megan Hofmann, Devva Kasnitz, Jennifer Mankoff, and Cynthia L Bennett. (2020). "Living Disability Theory: Reflections on Access, Research, and Design". In The 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 4, 1–13. DOI: 10.1145/3373625.3416996

  • KnitGIST: A Programming Synthesis Toolkit for Generating Functional Machine-Knitting Textures

    Citation: Megan Hofmann, Jennifer Mankoff, and Scott E. Hudson. (2020). "KnitGIST: A Programming Synthesis Toolkit for Generating Functional Machine-Knitting Textures". In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1234–1247. DOI: 10.1145/3379337.3415590

  • KnitPicking Textures: Programming and Modifying Complex Knitted Textures for Machine and Hand Knitting

    Citation: Megan Hofmann, Lea Albaugh, Ticha Sethapakadi, Jessica Hodgins, Scott E. Hudson, James McCann, and Jennifer Mankoff. (2019). "KnitPicking Textures: Programming and Modifying Complex Knitted Textures for Machine and Hand Knitting". In Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 5–16. DOI: 10.1145/3332165.3347886

  • “Occupational Therapy is Making”: Clinical Rapid Prototyping and Digital Fabrication

    Citation: Megan Hofmann, Kristin Williams, Toni Kaplan, Stephanie Valencia, Gabriella Hann, Scott E. Hudson, Jennifer Mankoff, and Patrick Carrington. (2019). "'Occupational Therapy is Making': Clinical Rapid Prototyping and Digital Fabrication". In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Paper 314, 1–13. DOI: 10.1145/3290605.3300544

  • Greater than the Sum of its PARTs: Expressing and Reusing Design Intent in 3D Models

    Citation: Megan Hofmann, Gabriella Hann, Scott E. Hudson, and Jennifer Mankoff. (2018). "Greater than the Sum of its PARTs: Expressing and Reusing Design Intent in 3D Models". In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Paper 301, 1–12. DOI: 10.1145/3173574.3173875

  • Helping Hands: Requirements for a Prototyping Methodology for Upper-limb Prosthetics Users

    Citation: Megan Hofmann, Jeffrey Harris, Scott E. Hudson, and Jennifer Mankoff. (2016). "Helping Hands: Requirements for a Prototyping Methodology for Upper-limb Prosthetics Users". In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '16). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1769–1780. DOI: 10.1145/2858036.2858340

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