Professional development in fields where interactions with people are critical for professional success is often impersonal and infrequent. In this project, we collaborate with researchers, professionals, faculty, and K-12 teachers to design tools to scale human obervation and provide automated multimodal analytics through ubiquitous sensing systems in the classroom and workplace. My work aims to understand perceptions and impact around these systems, particularly with regards to ethical AI, privacy, and social dynamics.
CHI '24, DIS '23 (Honorable Mention), CHI '22 (Workshop paper)
Teachers in low-infrastructure contexts face challenges related to technology, economic, and environmental infrastructure. In this project, we designed a social media-based chatbot to help teachers in rural Côte d'Ivoire get quick, automated guidance and facilitate communication within their communities of practice.
In any creative domain, novices have difficulty exploring the potential space of possibilities because they don't yet have the domain knowledge to know what to explore nor the procedural knowledge to know how to explore. For my PhD dissertation, I studied strategies to help scaffold novices in exploratory thinking and implemented these strategies within creativity support tools.
Dissertation, DIS '21, C&C '19 (Extended abstract), C&C '19 (Graduate Symposium), CHI '19 (Honorable Mention), CHI'19 (Doctoral Consortium), CHI '18 (Honorable Mention), UIST '17 (Demo)
Throughout my career, I am fortunate to have collaborated on several projects related to creativity, patterning in children, and math cognition.
CogSci '22 (Abstract), C&C '19 (Extended abstract), CSCW '16 (Demo), L@S '16 (Extended abstract), NPJ '18, Journal of Neuroscience '15
TeachFX
CMU Human-Computer Interaction Institute
Humane Animal Rescue of Pittsburgh