I am a postdoc researcher at the Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) in Biomedical Informatics working with Professor Lena Mamykina. My research focuses on delivering health and wellness content through persuasive, personalized, and playful human-centered interfaces.
Monster Appetite: Effects of Subversive Framing on Nutritional Choices in a Digital Game Environment -
Maria Hwang, Lena Mamykina -
SIGCHI (2017)
Game Based Teaching for Youth Health: Testing a Board Game, Monster Appetite, for Classroom Implementation - (Poster)
Maria Hwang -
AERA (2016)
Design Decisions and Educational Games: Insights for Acceptance -
Charles Kinzer, Maria Hwang, Pantiphar Chantes, Ahram Choi, and Shuyi Hsu -
GLS11 (2015)
Communalizing the Interfaces of Single Player Games - (Extended Abstract)
Mark Santolucito, Maria Hwang -
DiGRA (2014)
Raid the fridge!: Promoting Healthy Eating Habits through the Game Monster Appetite (Poster: Best of Show)
Maria Hwang, Pantiphar Chantes, Mark Santolucito -
GLS10 (2014)
Monster Appetite: Effects of Message Framing on Nutritional Choices in a Digital Game Environment
Maria Hwang, Lena Mamykina
Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM), 2017
Monster Appetite: To eat or not to eat, that is the question
Maria Hwang, Pantiphar Chantes, Grant Teldaldi, and Ann Lomboy
CUNY Games Festival, 2014
Monster Appetite: A board game targeting one nutritional aspect with one funky game mechanic
Maria Hwang, Pantiphar Chantes
Games for Health (G4H) conference, 2013
World Scholars, LLC
Maria Hwang, CEO
From years of teaching, years of being a student in different capacities, and years of observing my parents teach, I have witnessed the power of providing educational opportunities in any learning environment. Education has become an over-specified and over-defined term as we navigate through the failures and successes in history, defined by the accomplishments we have achieved in life. However, as John Dewey once mentioned, "education is not preparation for life; education is life itself." In any circumstance, we can find learning, we can find opportunities, and we can find growth. Alongside my fellow World Scholars, I have witnessed talent that utilizes every bit of our lives to find learning and meaning in them.