I study how people share context and coordinate in high-stakes work, and how augmented reality and interactive systems can support them. Full CV, talks & service My work spans clinical teamwork, accessible XR, and cognitive engineering.

5 projects & publications

2026

  • Role-based interface concepts in the desktop emergency department co-design probe.

    ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI '26)

    Code Black

    Jonathan Segal, Jalynn Nicoly, Francisco Ortega, Angelique Taylor

    ✦ Best Paper (Honorable Mention)

    A speculative, desktop-mediated co-design study with 12 healthcare workers using an editable 3D design probe to shape AR-HMD microinteractions for emergency department teamwork.

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  • Illustrated handoff concepts, a virtual care environment, and a healthcare simulation session.

    ACM Interactive Health Conference (IH '26)

    Cross-Team Communication

    Jonathan Isaac Segal

    A dissertation abstract on designing multimodal, workflow-aware AR-HMD interfaces that reduce information loss during EMS-to-ED emergency handoffs.

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  • A prototype virtual intensive care unit with hospital beds and clinicians in protective equipment.

    Journal of Medical Extended Reality

    Practitioner-Centered Design

    Jonathan I. Segal, Michael L. Turman, Mariel Emrich, S. Isabelle McLeod Daphnis, Samuel Rodriguez, JoAnn Difede, Andrea Stevenson Won

    A case study of how HCI and clinical teams collaborated to build prototype VR environments for PTSD and moral injury treatment among health care workers.

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2025

2024

  • SocialCueSwitch demo representing eye contact through an alternative sensory cue.

    CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Extended Abstracts (CHI EA '24)

    SocialCueSwitch

    Jonathan Isaac Segal, Samuel Rodriguez, Akshaya Raghavan, Heysil Baez, Crescentia Jung, Jazmin Collins, Shiri Azenkot, Andrea Stevenson Won

    A toolkit and design principle — "social cue switching" — that lets blind/low-vision and d/Deaf/hard-of-hearing users choose how social VR cues like gaze, gesture, and proximity are rendered.

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