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 aging. I also examine approaches that encourage and improve older adults’ engagement with technology.
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!