11 September 2024: I presented and passed my dissertation proposal, I am officially ABD now!
2 August 2024: Wrapped up a 2-month user experience internship at CSBS where I helped set up design research processes and created journey maps for their technical learning and development team. Much thanks and gratitude to Amber Brace, for supporting me during this summer internship!
19 January 2024: Our paper, “Understanding fraudulence in online qualitative studies: From the researcher’s perspective” has been accepted to CHI 2024
1 December 2023: Very happy to share that our workshop proposal on forms of fraudulence in HCI Research was accepted to CHI 2024!
1 December 2023: I passed my qualifying examinations, and am now a PhD candidate 🎉
14 June 2023: Participated in the Shadow PC Program for the INTERACT 2023 Conference
20 December 2022: Selected to participate in the 2023 CRA-WP Grad Cohort for Women in San Francisco, CA
28 October and 17 November 2022: Gave a talk on my research and a few upcoming projects for the Science Alliance’s “Anthrobytes” program (for middle school age children) at the American Museum of Natural History
June – August 2022: Completed my internship with Meta in Menlo Park, CA. I was hosted by Nitya Verma and once again part of the Business Integrity team
19 – 23 June 2022: Attended the HCIC 2022 conference on “The Future of Health and Wellness Technologies” in Delavan, Wisconsin
April 2022: Our work-in-progress project, “Cooking Stories” (led by Colin LeFevre and Forum Modi) was accepted as a poster at ECSCW in Portugal
February 2022: Selected as a student volunteer for CHI 2022 in New Orleans, LA
June – August 2021: Wrapped up my internship at Facebook, where I was part of the Business Integrity team and under the mentorship of the amazing Rachel LeRoy. Very fortunate to have been invited to intern again in their Menlo Park campus for Summer 2022!
2 July 2021: Awarded a student scholarship to attend the Virtual Grace Hopper Celebration 2021 (vGHC 21)
May 2021: Served as a graduate mentor to students Colin LeFevre and Forum Modi as part of our lab’s Summer REU program
6 March 2021: Received acceptance to participate in the Future of Human-Food Interaction workshop as part of ACM CHI Conference, 2021
3 March 2021: Accepted the offer to be a UX Researcher intern at Facebook for the upcoming summer
27 January 2021: Selected to participate in the 2021 CRA-WP Grad Cohort for Women
December 18-19 2020: Presented research at CSCW Asia Winter School 2020
20 October 2020: Presentation and Q&A of our work at the virtual CSCW conference in the Family, Children & Youth session
10 October 2020: Paper & Case Study reviewer for CHI 2021
16 October 2020: Posted a medium article summarizing our CSCW research paper
12 October 2020: Excited to have received acceptance to CSCW’s Asia Winter School 2020
8 May 2020: Graduated with a Masters in Human Computer Interaction Design from IU Bloomington
10 March 2020: First publication! Paper on supporting food sharing experiences between remote, inter-generational family members accepted at CSCW 2020
Caleo (April 2019)
Caleo is a learning management system (LMS) to help graduate students develop active learning while reading academic literature. This design’s key feature is being able to set custom meanings to highlighters during the annotation process. The goal being, to help students build the habit of looking for what is relevant or meaningful to them, thus becoming active readers and carrying that skill forward.
This was an individual project. The research methods used were literature review, survey design & deployment and interviews.
UberDonate (October 2018 – December 2018)
UberDonate is a service design that leverages Uber’s network of apps to transport non-perishable food across charitable organizations. This concept was designed to simplify the process of donation and also to ensure that donations go to organizations that are in immediate need of what is being donated.
This project was done in collaboration with IxDA Indy and my teammates — Naomi Lacy, Christina Lu and Yuhao Shi. The research methods used were interviews, diary study, observation study, affinity mapping, paper prototyping and usability testing.
