Talie Massachi

I'm currently on the job market for academic positions with a strong focus on teaching, starting Summer or Fall 2025. Please feel free to reach out :)

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About me

I'm a final year PhD candidate in computer science at Brown University. I work in the Brown HCI Lab, advised by Prof. Jeff Huang. I research how we build and maintain social support networks over social media and other online communication. Previously, I worked as a software engineer at constructor.io. I graduated from Brandeis University in 2018, where I majored in in Computer Science and Psychology.

Research Projects

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Chirp
a social support system and sandbox space. Provides anonymous, emoji-only, social mood tracking for safe evaluation of socio-emotional impacts of online communication spaces. Evaluated in 90-person user study (CSCW 2024). Website
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Sochiatrist
a social data extractor used to predict signals of mental health from social messaging data while preserving anonimity. Active since 2019, has extracted data from over 350 individuals from patient populations with clinical collaborators. Website

Teaching

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CSCI 1300: User Interface and User Experience
Brown University, Spring 2024, 100 students.
Co-taught with Vanessa Cho.
Website Syllabus
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CSCI 0130: User Interface and User Experience Workshop
Brown University, Spring 2023, 21 students.
Intro to UI/UX for non-majors.
Website Syllabus

Publications

* Denotes equal contribution
Chirp: The Impact of Private Online Self-Disclosure on Perceived Social Support
Talie Massachi, John Roy, Lauren Choi, Gabriela Hoefer, Shaun Wallace, Jeff Huang (to appear in CSCW 2024) PDF
Towards Inclusive Futures for Worker Wellbeing
Sachin R. Pendse, Talie Massachi, Jaleh Mahdavimoghaddam, Jenna Butler, Jina Suh, and Mary Czerwinski (to appear in CSCW 2024)
Pearl: A Technology Probe for Machine-Assisted Reflection on Personal Data
Matthew Jörke, Yasaman S Sefidgar, Talie Massachi, Jina Suh, Gonzalo Ramos (IUI 2023) PDF
Understanding the Needs of Enterprise Users in Collaborative Python Notebooks
Catherine Li, Talie Massachi, Jordan Eschler, Jeff Huang (CHI Case Studies 2023) PDF
Bridging the Social Distance: Offline to Online Social Support during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Gabriela Hoefer*, Talie Massachi*, Neil G Xu, Nicole Nugent, Jeff Huang (CSCW 2022) PDF
Leveraging Mobile-Based Sensors for Clinical Research to Obtain Activity and Health Measures for Disease Monitoring, Prevention, and Treatment
Hari Dandapani, Natalie Davoodi, Lucie Joerg, Melinda Li, Daniel Strauss, Kelly Fan, Talie Massachi, Elizabeth Goldberg (Frontiers in Digital Health 2022) PDF
Sochiatrist: Signals of Affect in Messaging Data
Talie Massachi*, Grant Fong*, Varun Mathur*, Sachin Pendse*, Gabriela Hoefer, Jessica Fu, Chong Wang, Nikita Ramoji, Nicole Nugent, Megan Ranney, Daniel Dickstein, Michael Armey, Ellie Pavlick, Jeff Huang (CSCW 2020) PDF Video
Racing Heart and Sweaty Palms
Mathieu Chollet, Talie Massachi, Stefan Scherer (IVA 2017) PDF