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I investigate how technology mediates shared cognition, communication, and coordination within and across specialized teams operating under pressure. My work examines these sociotechnical dynamics to design systems that enhance team resilience and performance in high-stakes environments.

Education

Seal of Cornell University
PhD in Information Science, 2022 - 2028
Thesis: Ubiquitous Interfaces to Empower Emergency Medical Teams
Advisors: A. Taylor, A. Stevenson Won, S. Kalantari, A. Davis, J. St. George
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Lab
Research Assistant · Jan 2024 - Present · Lead: Taylor, A.
Virtual Embodiment Lab
Research Assistant · Aug 2022 - Jan 2024 · Lead: Stevenson Won, A.
Seal of University of New South Wales
Study Abroad, 2020
Seal of Iowa State University
BS in Software Engineering, 2018 - 2022
Advisors: M. Dorneich, S. Gilbert
Virtual Reality Applications Center
Undergraduate Research Assistant · Sep 2020 - May 2022 · Lead: Dorneich, M.

Refereed Conference Papers and Journals

Segal, J., Nicoly, J., Ortega, F., Taylor, A. Code Black: Desktop-Mediated Co-Design of AR-HMD Microinteractions for Emergency Department Teamwork. SUI '26, ACM, 2026.
Best Paper (Honorable Mention)
Segal, J., Turman, M., Emrich, M., McLeod Daphnis, S., Rodriguez, S., Difede, J., Stevenson Won, A. Practitioner-centered design: A case study of a human–computer interaction–clinician collaboration on the development of prototype virtual reality environments for the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder and moral injury in healthcare workers. J. Med. XR, 2026.
Segal, J., Hu, W., Fuoss, P., Ritter, F., Shrager, J. A multi-scale cognitive interaction model of instrument operations at the Linac Coherent Light Source. Rev. Sci. Instrum., 2025.
Jung, C., Collins, J., Gonzalez Penuela, R., Segal, J., Stevenson Won, A., Azenkot, S. Accessible Nonverbal Cues to Support Conversations in VR for Blind and Low Vision People. ASSETS, 2024.
Francis, R., Segal, J., Farah, Y., Rozell, J., Dorneich, M., Gilbert, S. MazeWorld: A Game-Based Environment Developed to Assess Teaming Behaviors. HFES, 2022.
Finseth, T., Dorneich, M., Keren, N., Franke, W., Vardeman, S., Segal, J., Deick, A., Cavanah, E., Thompson, K. The effectiveness of adaptive training for stress inoculation in a simulated astronaut task. HFES, 2021.

Extended Abstracts and Workshops

Segal, J. Understanding Cross-Team Communication Through Shared Cognition in EMS to ED Handoffs. IH DC '26, ACM, 2026.
Shaveet, E., Segal, J., Mitchell, H., Choudhury, T. Towards Gaze Tracking on Short Form Videos for Body Image Disturbance-Driven Condition Detection and Self-Monitoring. CHI Workshop, 2025.
Segal, J., Rodriguez, S., Raghavan, A., Baez, H., Jung, C., Collins, J., Azenkot, S., Stevenson Won, A. SocialCueSwitch: Towards Customizable Accessibility by Representing Social Cues in Multiple Senses. CHI EA, 2024.
Yoo, Y.*, Segal, J.*, Hayes, A., Stevenson Won, A. Just Look at Them! Encouraging Self-Reflection on Teacher Gaze Behavior through Data Visualizations in Virtual Reality. CHI EA, 2024.
* Authors contributed to this work equally

Posters

Taylor, A., Kandikattu, S., Segal, J., Stegner, L. End-User Scenario Authoring for Autonomous Cross-Embodiment Robotic Training. NERC, 2026.
Segal, J. Toward Augmented Reality Guidance for High-Stakes Medical Care. vMed26, 2026.
Fieffer, S., Matsumuro, M., Newendorp, A., Sharma, S., Segal, J., Lovig, L., Abadi, G., Deal, A., Sabouni, H., Ranjbar, M., Lauharatanahirun, N., Dorneich, M., Stevenson Won, A., Gilbert, S. MazeWorld: A Multiplayer 3D Research Testbed for Human Teaming, AI Agent Integration, and Multiple XR Disciplines. HCII, 2025.
Segal, J., Pugh, C., Nicoly, J., Ortega, F., Taylor, A. Enhancing Emergency Room Response through Hands-Free Augmented Reality Assistance. Immersive Media in Medicine Symposium, 2024.
Segal, J., Pugh, C., Nicoly, J., Ortega, F., Taylor, A. AR application design for Healthcare Teams. XR Access, 2024.
Segal, J., Rodriguez, S., Raghavan, A., Baez, H., Jung, C., Stevenson Won, A. Guide to Distributing Tools for VR Accessibility Accommodations. XR Access, 2023.
Segal, J., Jang, Y., Kim, H., Yao Wang, C., Jung, M., Fussell, S., Stevenson Won, A. Improving collaboration in remote teams through tools to promote mutual understanding of nonverbal behavior. XR Retreat, 2022.
Jang, Y., Kim, H., Segal, J., Yao Wang, C., Hayes, A., Fussell, S., Stevenson Won, A. A Training Tool to Help Teachers Recognize and Reduce Bias in Their Classroom Behaviors and Increase Interpersonal Competence. XR Retreat, 2022.
Segal, J., Hu, W., Fuoss, P., Shrager, J. Multi-Scale Cognitive Simulation can Enhance the Efficiency of LCLS Experimental Operations. LCLS, 2022.
Segal, J., Rozell, J., Francis, R., Farah, Y., Dorneich, M., Gilbert, S. MazeWorld: A Game-Based Environment Developed to Assess Teaming Behaviors. ISU URS, 2022.
Rozell, J., Cavanah, E., Segal, J., Dorneich, M., Gilbert, S. Human-Agent Teams and MazeWorld. ISU URS, 2021.

Pre-prints

Segal, J., Nicoly, J., Cao, H., Kim, S., Tanjim, T., St. George, J., Ching, K., Ortega, F., Lee, H., Taylor, A. Alignment Under Pressure: AR-HMD Support Tools for Action Teams. arXiv, 2025.

Honors & Awards

Best Paper (Honorable Mention): Code Black: Desktop-Mediated Co-Design of AR-HMD Microinteractions for Emergency Department Teamwork, ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI 2026).
Co-authors: Nicoly, J., Ortega, F., Taylor, A.
Finalist, Cornell Graduate School Three Minute Thesis (3MT): When Seconds Count: Inter-Team Coordination in Emergency Care, Cornell University Graduate School, Mar 18, 2026.
CIS Dream Grant (2024), Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, $1,000.

Invited Talks & Guest Lectures

Keeping Teams Aligned Under Pressure, IE 5010 Seminar Series, Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Iowa State University, September 2026.
Toward Augmented Reality Guidance for High-Stakes Medical Care, CRA-WP Lightning Talk, March 2026.
Toward Augmented Reality Guidance for High-Stakes Medical Care
XR Live Scanning, Life History Lab, 2024.
Introduction to Communication, Guest Lecturer at Cornell University, October 2023.

Teaching

TECHIE 1121Ethical Vibe Coding
Co-Instructor, Summer 2026 at Cornell Tech · Instructors: Segal, J., Sandhaus, H.
INFO 5368Practical Applications in Machine Learning
Teaching Assistant, Spring 2025 at Cornell Tech · Instructor: Taylor, A.
INFO 5340/ CS 5650Virtual and Augmented Reality
Teaching Assistant, Fall 2024 at Cornell Tech · Instructor: Haraldsson, H.
INFO 4505/5505Computing and Global Development
Teaching Assistant, Spring 2024 at Cornell University · Instructor: Vashistha, A.

Mentorship & Advising

Juliette Dashe (Undergraduate Summer Intern) Jul 6 - Sep 9, 2026.
Fahmin Rahman (Undergraduate Summer Intern) Jun 26 - Aug 7, 2026.
Sunishka Sil (Master Student). AR Development 2025 - May 2026.
Sirui Wang (Master Student). AR Development 2025 - May 2026.
Weicong Hong (Master Student). ER In Lab Study 2025 - May 2026.
Michael Twersky (Master Student). ER In Lab Study 2025 - May 2026.
Ludovic Morin (Master Student). GenFlows Procedure Generation 2025 - May 2026.

Professional Service

Reviewer
ACM HRI 2024 and 2025
ACM CHI 2024
IS Student-Applicant Reading Program (SARP) 2024 and 2025
IT Chair: XR Access 2024
Student Volunteer
AWE 2024 and 2025
Immersive Media in Medicine Symposium 2024
SIGGRAPH 2024
Organizing Committee: Information Science Research Retreat 2023
K-12 Volunteering
Cornell Tech - PS 32 Field Trip 2025
Cornell Tech - HS Programming Contest 2025
Cornell Tech - WiCC HS Workshop 2024
Cornell Tech - PS/IS 78Q Field Trip 2024
Student Leader: IS PhD Visit Days (Cornell Tech) 2024
Volunteer Mentor: WiCC HS Programming Workshop 2025
AirLab Ambassador: Queens Tech Fair 2025
Judge: State Science and Technology Fair of Iowa 2022

Leadership

Outreach Chair, Future Civilizations Conference, United States, Apr 2026. Communicated with professors to build engaging panels for each talk.
Research Track Chair, Augmented World Expo, Dec 2025 - Jun 2026. Created the research track at AWE consisting of a poster session, networking events, and talks.
PhD's at Cornell Tech (PACT), United States
Co-President, Feb - May 2026. Led organizational strategy and operations for PhD student coordination.
Co-Strategic Officer, Mar 2025 - Jan 2026. Maintained website and calendar for PhD student coordination.
Treasurer, Information Science Graduate Student Association, United States, Aug 2022 - May 2024. Managed departmental budgets for research/social events.
Student Engagement Co-chair, Iowa State Engineers' Week, United States, Aug 2021 - May 2022. Organized 5 events for 500+ students.
Chair Member, Iowa State Software Engineering Student Council, United States, Aug 2021 - May 2022. Ran town halls bridging students and faculty.
Co-Founder & President, Hackathon Club, United States, Sep 2019 - Jan 2020. Organized 7 hackathon trips; led 70+ members.

Industry

Research Intern, SLAC (GISMo), CA, Jun - Aug 2022. Cognitive modeling of teams using the linac
Grid Integration Systems and Mobility
Research Intern · May 2022 - Aug 2022 · Lead: Hu, W.
Summer Analyst, BlackRock, NY, May - Aug 2021. Built analytics dashboards for product metrics
SE Intern, Dwolla, IA, May - Aug 2020. Optimized internal admin systems for API management
SE Intern, Corteva Agriscience, IA, May - Aug 2019. Built lab management systems in Angular and .NET

Code

Fokos. A clean timer app for iOS. Features countdowns, haptics, and optional calendar logging.Released
Study Scheduler. Coordinate scheduling for multi participant user studies.Released
MazeWorld, v3.0.0, Sep 2024. A multiplayer 3D research testbed for human teaming studies. Used in [IEEE VR 2025].ReleasedCodeDocs
Multi-Scale Cognitive Interaction Model of Instrument Operations at the Linac Coherent Light Source, v1.0.0, Oct 2023. Cognitive interaction model used to simulate instrument operations at SLAC.ReleasedCodeDocs
Unity Tutorial, v1.0.0, Oct 2023. Guide/resources for Unity VR research.ReleasedCode
Social Sensory Sub, v1.0.0, Oct 2023. Unity package for representing nonverbal social cues. Released for [CHI EA 2024].ReleasedCodeDocs
GridAI: Iowa State Capstone Project, v1.0.0, May 2022. Power Grid Analytics.ReleasedCodeDocs
Map Tab, v0.3.0, Jul 2020. Chrome extension showing cool places in new tabs.ReleasedCodeDocs
CryptoBonds, v1.0.0, Feb 2019. Blockchain stable coin app using Hyperledger Sawtooth.ReleasedCode
Spring Home, Jan 2019. HTML5 platformer. Built for Global Game Jam 2019ReleasedCode

Organizations

ACM SIGCHI, Association for Computing Machinery, Student Member, Jun 1, 2025
IEEE VR, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
AMXRA, American Medical Extended Reality Association, Jul 22, 2024

Certifications

Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) — Basic, NYS Bureau of EMS, New York, USA
ID: 524169Expires: Jun 30, 2027