I am an Associate Professor in the Human-Centered Computing Department in the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). My research is in Human-Computer Interaction, Intelligent User Interface Design, Aging, and Health Informatics. I design, build, and evaluate persuasive and intelligent user interfaces that support older adults’ health and wellness.  I also explore how older adults’ beliefs about the benefits and challenges of using different computing technologies, and explore approaches that improve their use and satisfaction.

I completed my Postdoctoral Training with Amy Hurst in the Department of Information Systems at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science with a focus on HCI from Clemson University in 2014 under the advisement of Juan E. Gilbert. I received an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Alabama, Birmingham, and a B.S. in Computer Science with an emphasis in Mathematics from Tougaloo College.

My research is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Google. I received an NSF CAREER Award in 2022 and a Google Award for Inclusion in 2020.

RECENT NEWS & PUBLICATIONS

• Welcome, IN-LSAMP Summer 2023 Students Vanya Hill (Computer  Science – Ivy Tech) and Justine Mukashyaka (Computer  Science – Ivy Tech)!
• Welcome, IN-LSAMP Summer 2022 Students Zachary Harris (Computer and Information Science) and Djamel Almabouada (Computer  Science – Ivy Tech)!
• Congratulations to Pegah Karimi on the acceptance of a paper to Web4All 2021!!
• Congratulations to Pegah Karimi on the acceptance of an abstract to UbiComp 2020!!
• Congratulations Karen Bonilla for 2020 SOUPS Diversity Grant!!
• Congratulations to Karen Bonilla, Informatics Undergraduate Student, on the acceptance of her poster abstract to USENIX Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) 2020 !! 
• Welcome, IN-LSAMP Summer Students Chiko Nwachukwu (Informatics) and Kalista Ballard (Computer  and Information Technology)!
• Congratulations to HCI graduate students, Szu Yang and Swaroop John, for placing as a finalist in the ACM CHI Student Game Competition! 
• New Paper at CHI 2020 – Older Adults Reasons for Using, Limiting, and Abandoning Echo
• Congratulations to our undergraduate lab member and alumni, Jamie Sanders, and our collaborators for receiving a Best Poster award at the 2020 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work for our work – A Circle of Friends: Persuasive Tools to Improve Heart Health!