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Published · COMPASS '23
How low-income school teachers coped with stress during the shift to hybrid education post-COVID.
Best Paper Award · GHTC '23
Using teacher focus-group feedback to reimagine and redesign an environmental-education game.
Under Review · IJHCI '26
Identifying the Types of Feedback That Users Provide During the Design of Data-Driven Algorithmic Systems.
Peer-Reviewed · CSCW '26
Advocating for artful reconfiguration of existing technology, rather than always building something new.
ACM COMPASS '23 · Presented virtually, South Africa · with Dr. Nicola Dell, Cornell University
Published
Abstract
This study explores how low-income school teachers coped with increased isolation and stress during the shift to hybrid education post-COVID. (COMPASS '23)
Global Social Impact Fellowship 2023 · Supervised by Dr. Khanjan Mehta · Save Tuba project
Best Paper Award · GHTC '23
Abstract
Human-centered design is essential when developing technologies aimed at improving people’s lives. This paper details the use of teacher feedback from focus group discussions to enhance our approach to addressing environmental problems and building a better educational-gaming application. My coauthors are teammates from the Save Tuba project, who have continued building on the work from previous teammates. This paper was completed under the supervision of Dr. Khanjan Mehta, for the Global Social Impact Fellowship 2023.
Data, Algorithms and Society Lab, Lehigh University · with Dr. Eric Baumer · Peer-reviewed at CSCW '26
Peer-Reviewed
Abstract
Working as a research assistant, I synthesized qualitative findings into product recommendations that informed UX specifications for search, filtering, navigation, and information architecture across a repository of 3,800+ legal case files. I designed interview protocols and thematically coded 40+ semi-structured interviews and think-aloud usability sessions with stakeholders at all levels, translating those needs into a semantic search tool that shipped and was integrated with Dropbox.
Under review at ACM TOCHI '26
Under Review
Abstract
Instead of always chasing the creation of new tools, we should also focus on rethinking and reshaping the technologies people already use. The helpful contribution would be study and learn how people are using technology as it exists today and not necessarily inventing something new . It is important to consider aspects of human psychology and ogranization behaviour as a whole, towards computers and technology, because sometimes, the answers lie in the social and emotional contexts of using tech, not the bits and bolts of the system. This was a really inspiring project for me, because it encourages me to apply knowledge from the social sciences towards building more human-centred technologies.