Miriam Zisook

Ph.D. Student
Personal Health Informatics, Northeastern University

Email: mzisook@ccs.neu.edu
Website: http://www.miriamzisook.com/

Research Interests:

 • Social and emotional communication
 • Assistive communication devices
 • Community participation and inclusion of people with disabilities
 • Participatory design with people with disabilities

Background:

Miriam is an industrial designer, who earned her Bachelors of FIne Arts Degree in Industrial Design from The Rhode Island School of Design. Her undergraduate work focused on universal design and assistive technology. Before entering the personal health informatics program she worked at The MIT Media Lab Affective Computing Group helping to design data visualization tools for researchers studying autism. She also worked at the Wyss Institute for Bioinspired Research at Harvard University helping researchers include the needs and perspectives of end users of assistive technology and medical devices in the design process.