About me
Expertise:
Behavioral science and design of technology
Behavioral economics in the digital economy
Health technology (mHealth)
Human-centered computing
Experience:
Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell Tech and Northwell Health in NYC
PhD from the Technion - Israeli Institute of Technology
You can also find me on twitter, Linkedin and Scholar. Email me at michael [dot] sobolev [at] cornell [dot] edu.
The secret to happiness is low expectations and a good cup of coffee.
Recent News
Accepted workshop on Healthy Interfaces (HEALTHI), collocated with the 2021 ACM Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI). Submit you papers by Dec 23.
Two research talks on the Digital Marshmallow Test (DMT) and Headspace MRT were accepted to the Society of Behavioral Medicine's 2021 Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions, which will be held virtually April 12- April 16, 2021.
Research on digital nudging featured in OneZero's article "Will the Apple Watch’s Hand-Washing Reminders Actually Work?"
Presented in the MakeHealth course on digital health and behavioral science for Weill Cornell Medicine.
Presented on "Designing for Mental Health" in the Health Experience Design (HXD) conference
Presented on "Behavioral Science in the Digital Economy" in the Digital Life Initiative (DLI) seminar series
Behavioral technology
Ubiquitous computing | Behavior change technology
Planify: intelligent voice assistant for the habit of planning
Beehive: research platform developed for the study of human behavior by leveraging the power of ubiquitous mobile technology
Digital wellbeing
Digital distraction | Digital nudging
Good vibration: reducing digital consumption using digital nudging
Digital wellbeing clinic
Recommender systems
Human-centered design | Behavioral science
Design of recommender systems for good
Choice architecture in recommender systems
Health technology
Behavioral health | Personalization
Precision technology for behavioral health
Digital health clinic at Northwell Health
Digital Marshmallow Test (DMT)
Digital economy
Behavioral economics | Digital economy
Behavioral economics for tech (BEtech) course
Mental accounting in the digital economy