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Matin Yarmand, PhD 

Assistant Professor at UNC Charlotte

  • College of Computing and Informatics

  • Dept of Software and Information systems

  • Member of: Human-Centered Computing (HCC) Lab & Center for Humane AI Studies (CHAIS)

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My broad research interest lies at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction, Education, and Healthcare.


My research complements the traditional learning systems by leveraging human coaching techniques to enable lightweight and attention-cueing feedback, especially in ill-defined learning domains. In short, I help learners help themselves. 


I received my PhD from UC San Diego (advised by Nadir Weibel). I was a member of the Human-centered eXtended Intelligence (HXI) and the Design Lab.

I completed my B.Sc. degree from the University of British Columbia (UBC), and I was advised by Dongwook Yoon and Sid Fels and affiliated with ViDeX and DFP.


Select Publications

  1. Towards Dialogic and On-Demand Metaphors for Interdisciplinary Reading

Matin Yarmand, Haowei Li, Nadir Weibel

CHI 2025. Full Paper PDF


  1. Interactions Beyond the Pandemic: Lessons Learned from Large-scale Emergency Remote Teaching in Higher Education

Matin Yarmand, Haowei Li, Nadir Weibel

CHI 2025. Full Paper PDF


  1. "I'd be watching him contour till 10 o'clock at night": Understanding Tensions between Teaching Methods and Learning Needs in Healthcare Apprenticeship

Matin Yarmand, Chen Chen, Kexin Cheng, James D. Murphy, Nadir Weibel

CHI 2024. Full Paper PDF Best of CHI: Honourable Mention Award (Top 4%)


  1. Format Matters: Comparing the Inclusiveness and Effectiveness of Hybrid and Remote Meetings

Matin Yarmand, Liana Kreamer, Siddharth Suri, Sonia Jaffe

CSCW 2024. Full Paper PDF


  1. Enhancing Accuracy, Time Spent, and Ubiquity in Critical Healthcare Delineation via Cross‐Device Contouring

Matin Yarmand, Chen Chen, Michael V Sherer, Yash Shah, Peter Liu, Borui Wang, Larry Hernandez, James D. Murphy, Nadir Weibel

DIS 2024. Full Paper PDF


  1. Evaluating Video Conferencing and Desktop Virtual Platforms for Remote Classroom Activities

Matin Yarmand, Ru Wang, Haowei Li, Nadir Weibel

CSCL 2024. Short Paper PDF


  1. Design and Development of a Training and Immediate Feedback Tool to Support Healthcare Apprenticeship

Matin Yarmand, Borui Wang, Chen Chen, Michael V Sherer, Larry Hernandez, James D. Murphy, Nadir Weibel

CHI 2023. Short Paper PDF


  1. Evaluating Accuracy, Completion Time, and Usability of Everyday Touch Devices for Contouring

Matin Yarmand, Michael V Sherer, Chen Chen, Larry Hernandez, Nadir Weibel, James D Murphy

ASTRO 2022. Abstract PDF Oral Scientific Session (Top 9%)


  1. "It Feels Like I am Talking into a Void'': Understanding Interaction Gaps in Synchronous Online Classrooms 

Matin Yarmand, Jaemarie Solyst, Scott Klemmer, Nadir Weibel

CHI 2021. Full Paper PDF


  1. Facilitating Remote Design Thinking Workshops in Healthcare: the Case of Contouring in Radiation Oncology

Matin Yarmand, Chen Chen, Danilo Gasques, James D. Murphy, Nadir Weibel

CHI 2021. Case Study PDF


  1. Adjacent Display of Relevant Discussion Helps Resolve Confusion

Matin Yarmand, Srishti Palani, Scott Klemmer

CSCW 2021. Full Paper PDF


  1. "Can you believe [1:21]?!'': Content and Time-Based Reference Patterns in Video Comments

Matin Yarmand, Dongwook Yoon, Samuel Dodson, Ido Roll, Sidney Fels

CHI 2019. Full Paper PDF Best of CHI: Honourable Mention Award (Top 4%)

Patents

Previewing video content referenced by typed hyperlinks in comments

Sol Sidney Fels, Dongwook Yoon, Matin Yarmand

U.S. Patent (issued 2021). Patent PDF


Auto-completion for content expressed in video data

Sol Sidney Fels, Dongwook Yoon, Matin Yarmand

U.S. Patent (issued 2021). Patent PDF


Authoring comments including typed hyperlinks that reference video content

Sol Sidney Fels, Dongwook Yoon, Matin Yarmand

U.S. Patent (filed 2020). Patent PDF


Contextually-aware control of a user interface displaying a video and related user text

Sol Sidney Fels, Dongwook Yoon, Matin Yarmand

U.S. Patent (filed 2020). Patent PDF

Teaching Apprenticeship

COGS 123 (Social Computing) - Spring 2022

UCSD, Professor Steven Dow


CSE 119/219 (Human-centered Computing for Health) - Spring 2021

UCSD, Professor Nadir Weibel


CPSC 213 (Introduction to Computer Systems) - Spring 2018

UBC, Professor Mike Feeley

Media Coverage

The Ongoing Pandemic Challenge: CSE Faculty Respond - (09/29/2021)

CSE Alumni Magazine


Student Research Aims to Improve Nonverbal Communication in Virtual Classrooms - (07/05/2021)

Engineering.com


'It feels like I'm Talking into a Void': How Do We Improve the Virtual Classroom? - (06/10/2021) 

UC San Diego News Center, ACM TechNews

Invited Talks

Keynote speaker and Panelist

Artificial Intelligence for Video-based Learning at Scale - Learning@Scale 2020. Workshop Webpage

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