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I am so thrilled and grateful to the i3 Program for giving me the Mentor of the Year Award during the closing ceremony of the 2019 cohort on July 31st! It has been such a great experience to be a research advisor and to work with such an amazing team for the course of one…

I am so thrilled that our paper “Not Another Medication Adherence App: Critical Reflections on Addressing Public HIV-related Stigma Through Design” co-authored with Trisha Zdziarska, Aehong Min, Anna Baglione, Chia-Fang Chung, and Patrick C. Shih, got accepted to the CSCW 2020 Conference. I can’t wait to present and discuss or work (PDF forthcoming).

I am glad to have been invited to be part of the CSCW 2020 Doctoral Consortium to be hold remotely on Oct. 18. I look forward to sharing my work, getting feedback, as well as learning from other colleagues and researchers’ work.

I am so excited that the workshop “Decolonizing Learning Spaces for Sociotechnical Research and Design” got accepted to be part of the CSCW 2020 Conference. We invite participants to submit contributions to the workshop, which will take place online on Oct. 17 & 18. For more information and deadlines,  please visit the workshop website.

Excited to be part of the CHI 2020 Special Interest Group ‘Fostering HCI Research in, by, and for Latin America‘ this Thursday April 30th! Heloisa Candello and I will be moderating a discussion on research experiences with participatory design and technology adoption in Latin America!

Our #CHI2020 case study “Conducting HCI Research with People Living with HIV Remotely: Lessons Learned and Best Practices.” co-authored with Cassie Kresnye, Julia C. Dunbar, Ciabhan L. Connelly, Katie A. Siek, and Patrick C. Shih is now officially published!

I participated in the fourth online NORTHLab panel hosted by John Rooksby on how HCI researchers can help tackle the coronavirus crisis. I shared a glimpse of my research on remote co-design strategies. A brief summary of the panel can be found here (thank you Dr Marta E. Cecchinato!). So many interesting discussions taking place in the HCI…

My team presented their poster remotely today at virtual iConference2020! The use of Zoom + Padlet seemed a nice combination for presenting online. Here are photos of the Zoom remote presentation:

Our CHI paper “Evaluating the ‘Prefer not to say’ Option Around Sensitive Information Disclosures” led by Mark Warner with co-authors Aga Kitkowska, Jo Gibbs and Ann Blandford got an Honorable Mention award! I look forward to presenting our paper at #CHI2020 in April!

I have been selected to help out as a student volunteer for the CHI 2020 Conference that will take place in Honolulu, Hawaii in April 2020! So excited! 🙂