Details of my research group, including current students and publications, can be found at the Authentic User Experience Lab website.

As PhD Dissertation Chair

• Rosemary Steup, Datafication and Attunement in Farming and Dementia Care, 2023, Committee Members: Nathan Ensmenger (Co-chair), Lynn Dombrowski, Elizabeth Kaziunas, Phoebe Sengers, and Annie Shattuck, now an Advancing Future Faculty Diversity Postdoctoral Scholar of Computer Science & Engineering at Lehigh University
• Stephen Tsung-Han Sher, Expanding Livestream Experience and Interaction Design through Examining the Videogame Speedrunning Subculture, 2023, Committee Members: Erik Stolterman Bergqvist, Nathan Ensmenger, and Christina Chung, now Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Software Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
• Majdah Alshehri, The Photo-Making Practices of a Subculture: Moving the Inclusiveness Agenda Forward in HCI, 2021, Committee Members: Jeffrey Bardzell, Shaowen Bardzell, and Erik Stolterman, now faculty in the College of Computer and Information Sciences at King Saud University
• EunJeong Cheon, Making Values Explicit in the Design of Emerging Technologies, 2020, Committee Members: Selma Šabanović, Erik Stolterman, Jessica Lester, and Mark Ackerman, now Assistant Professor in the School of Information Studies at Syrcause University

As PhD Dissertation Committee Member

• Sam Goree, Towards a Theory of Evaluation for Aesthetic Phenomenon Problems in Computer Vision, Chair: David Crandall, now assistant professor of computer science at Stonehill College
• Veronica Rivera, Safety and Harm in Social Computing Systems that Support Matching Markets, Chair: David Lee, now Embedded Ethics Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University
• Erica Kleinman, Designing Process-Oriented Computational Assistance to Support Self-Regulated Learning in Complex Games, Chair: Magy Seif El-Nasr, now postdoc at Northeastern
• Anne Clara Tally, Negotiating Privacy Through Deception and Trust: A Study of Usernames in Gaming, Phishing in the Workplace, and Boundaries in Online Dating, Chair: Christena Nippert-Eng, now civilian scientist at Naval Station Newport
• Swapna Joshi, Community-Robot Interaction (CRI): A Community Perspective to Use of Robots, Chair: Selma Šabanović, now joint postdoc at UMass Amherst, Cornell Tech, and Northeastern University.
• Taslima Ankter, Reducing Privacy Risks of Visually Impaired People with Camera Based Assistive Technologies, Chair: Apu Kapadia, now postdoc at UC Irvine
• Oscar Lemus, Rest in Peace
• Ben Jelen, Designing a Craft-based Electronic Toolkit for Older Adult Crafters, Chair: Katie Siek, now faculty at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
• Lindah Kotut, Amplifying the Griot: Technology for Preserving, Retelling, and Supporting Underrepresented Stories, Chair: D. Scott McCrickard, now faculty in School of Information, University of Washington
• Yasmeen Rashidi, How Young Adults Manage Privacy and Maintain Social Norms in the Era of Pervasive Photography and Social Media, Chair: Apu Kapadia, now Assistant Professor of Informatics, Umm Al Qura University
• Bardia Doosti, Hand Pose Estimation from Single RGB Images, Chair: David Crandall, now Software Engineer at Google
• Su-Wei Wong, Perceptions and Gateway Effect OF E-Cigarette use Among U.S. Adults, Chair: Hsien-Chang Lin, now postdoc in School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
• Tousif (Eshan) Ahmed, Towards the Design of Wearable Assistive Technologies to Address the Privacy and Security Concerns of People with Visual Impairments, Chair: Apu Kapadia, now Senior Research Engineer at Samsung
• Haodan Tan, Designing Lifelikeness in Robotic and Interactive Artifact and Sustainable HCI, Chairs: Eli Blevis & Selma Šabanović, now at Amazon
• Qatrunnada Ismail, Crowdsourcing Permission Settings for Mobile Apps to Help Users Balance Privacy and Usability, Chair: Apu Kapadia, now Assistant Professor in College of Computer and Information Science at King Saud University
• Haley MacLeod, Rare World: Investigating Social Support in Rare Disease and Common Chronic Illness Communities, Chair: Kay Connelly & Katie Siek, now UX Researcher at Facebook, Menlo Park, CA
• Omar Sosa-Tzec, Interaction Delight: A Rhetorical Approach to the Analysis of Delight in Interactive Artifacts, Chair: Erik Stolterman, now Assistant Professor in the School of Design at San Francisco State University
• Dahee Chung, Health Information Infrastructures: Flows and Frictions, Chair: Hamid Ekbia
• Roberto Hoyle, Privacy Considerations in the Context of Wearable Cameras, Chair: Apu Kapadia, now Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Oberlin College

Courses

Current & Future

• I regularly teach HCI 200 - Introduction to HCI and the HCI MS Capstone Series at UCSC

Past

• Spring 2021: I543, Interaction Design Methods; I590, Designing from Data (IU)
• Spring 2020: I694, Thesis/Project for Human Computer Interaction - Capstone (IU)
• Spring Semesters (2018-2019): I590, Designing from Data (IU)
• Fall Semesters (2014-2019): I549, Advanced Prototyping (IU)
• Spring Semesters (2014-2017): I310, Media, Arts, & Technology (IU)
• Semester 1 (2012, 2013): IS40500, Systems Analysis & Design (UCD)
• Semester 2 (2011, 2012, 2013): IS40510, Research Methods II (UCD)

Teacher’s Assistant (TA)

• Fall 2004: ICSH21, Intro to Computer Science I: Honors (UCI)
• Spring 2004: ICS135, Project in Organizational Information Systems (UCI)
• Winter 2004: ICS105, Project in HCI & UI (UCI)
• Spring 1999: CS61A, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (UC Berkeley)