Author: Juan Maestre

I am really excited to serve as a primary instructor for the Intro to HCI Design course this fall semester. This will certainly constitute a great teaching experience for me!

I had such a great time serving as an AI in the Introduction to HCI Design course taught by my colleague and friend Patrycja Zdziarska (aka Trisha) this summer. Students learned about the foundations of HCI design and experienced first hand what entails to carry a project from initial phases of research and inquiry all…

After an exciting visit to the University of Pittsburgh this summer, I am so happy to start research work on stigma with a group of such talented undergraduate students! Via the i3 Program, I will serve as a team member and mentor for a year. The team will present the outcomes of the research next…

First author Mark Warner will be talking about our latest research study looking into privacy perceptions around HIV status disclosure online. The talk will table place on July 15th., during the 2019 Privacy, Usability, and Transparency (PUT) Workshop in Stockholm, Sweden. More information can be found here.

I gave a talk about my research to students of the iSchool Inclusion Institute (i3) Program at the University of Pittsburgh. We discussed potential research projects that we could work on during the following year. I was certainly excited to meet and talk to such a smart and interesting group of people!

An article covering the use of participatory design in research with diverse populations has been published in the 2019 spring issue of IEEE Xplore! The article highlights the main takeaways and insights derived from the Design4Diversity workshop that we organized during the PervasiveHealth 2018 Conference with Prof. Gabi Marcu (University of Michigan), Prof. Kay Connelly…

I am excited about the news that I will get to collaborate with the iSchool Inclusion Institute (i3) program as a research advisor for their 2019 cohort! The i3 program is hosted by the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Computing and Information. More information about the program can be found here.

Here’s a Medium article covering our latest research on sex-social app design around HIV status disclosure tensions! It was such a great experience to collaborate with first author Mark Warner and co-authors Jo Gibbs, Ann Blandford from University College London, and Christina Chung from Indiana University Bloomington.