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Our HCI Across Borders (HCIxB) workshop will take place on May 15th at CHI 2021 Conference. I am helping organize the workshop with a group of awesome researchers: Vikram Kamath Cannanure, Dilrukshi Gamage, Christian Sturm, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Naveena Karusala, Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar, and Neha Kumar. The topic of the workshop will be “Decolonizing HCI”.

I will be presenting our CHI paper “Examining mobility among people living with HIV in rural areas” co-authored with Dr. Tawanna Dillahunt (University of Michigan), Alec Theisz (Indiana University), Megan Furness (Indiana University), Vaishnav Kameswaran (University of Michigan), Dr. Tiffany Veinot (University of Michigan), and Dr. Patrick Shih (Indiana University). The Q&A will take place on May 9th (7-9pm Est) and on May…

I have been selected as the President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Minnesota‘s Computer Science Department! I am so thrilled about this! The official news release has been posted here.

I will be the instructor of record for the Informatics course I310 Multimedia, Arts, and Technology during the Spring 2021 semester. The course is being imparted online and asynchronously to almost 120 students with a team of four Associate Instructors. During the course, students will work on individual projects where they will integrate multimedia content…

Glad to share that our paper “Decolonial Pathways: Our Manifesto for a Decolonizing Agenda in HCI Research and Design” has been accepted for presentation as part of the alt.CHI program at CHI 2021.

Our paper “Understanding the Technological Practices and Needs of Music Therapists” has been accepted to be presented at CSCW 2021. The paper was led by first author Anna Baglione with co-authors Michael Paul Clemens, Juan F. Maestre, Aehong Min, Luke Dahl, and Patrick C. Shih.

Our paper “Examining Mobility Among People Living with HIV in Rural Areas” has been conditionally accepted at CHI 2021. The paper was co-authored by researchers from Indiana University: Alec Theisz, Megan Furness, and Patrick C. Shih; and researchers from the University of Michigan: Tawanna Dillahunt, Vaishnav Kameswaran, and Tiffany Veinot.

I am excited to be helping with the organization of the HCI Across Borders (HCIxB) workshop this year at CHI 2021. The topic of the workshop will be “Decolonizing HCI”. For more information on the workshop and call for participation, please visit: https://hcixb.org/

I attended WISH 2020 virtually via Zoom on November 14th, 2020 as part of the AMIA 2020 Symposium. It was great to learn about the new research colleagues are working on! I presented our work on transportation practices of people living with HIV in rural areas. The work-in-progress paper was co-authored by Alec Theisz, Megan…

I had a great time during the workshop on “Decolonizing Learning Spaces for Sociotechnical Research and Design” co-organized with Marisol Wong-Villacres, Adriana Alvarado Garcia, Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar, Marilyn Iriarte, Heloisa Candello, and Carl DiSalvo. Here’s a video of the panel and link to the workshop website. We are currently working on producing a Medium article to summarize…