About me...
I am a researcher, experimenter, and experience designer interested in the relationship between how we think and the technology we use. I am passionate about designing and evaluating technologies that help people share and reflect upon experience particularly to improve daily life and well-being.
I have an interdisciplinary background and broad research and product design experience. I began my research life in cognitive psychology and graphic design at Columbia studying human memory and how it selectively degrades over time. During my masters at the MIT Media Lab, I studied cognition and learning and built educational technology. Specifically, I quickly focused on how patients learn and handle self-care. I built tools to support patient engagement and participation in health care using media including photography and data visualization. For my dissertation, I entered a new behavioral domain; I studied online dating and impression formation. I documented the psychological trajectory of online dating and applied the results of my study to create playful, social experiments on what online dating could be. For my postdoc, I returned to health care to do a conduct research in the area of behavioral informatics.
Until this winter, I have been a Senior Research Scientist and Experience Designer at PatientsLikeMe. I conducted the design research for the site and helped to manage design processes - I collaborated with graphic designers and engineering team to get the product built with the patient voice in mind. In addition, I conducted research on patient engagement, learning, and the social use of medical information.
In January, 2010, I relocated to Amsterdam. I am now lead designer at Mediamatic Lab.
Take a look through my work and feel free to send me any comments or questions at:
jeana at jeanafrost.com
