Faculty
Julie Kientz
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Julie Kientz is a Professor and Chair of the department of Human Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington. She directs the Computing for Healthy Living and Learning Lab, is active in the Design, Use, Build (dub) alliance, and has adjunct appointments in The Information School and Computer Science & Engineering. Her research focuses on understanding and reducing the user burdens of interactive technologies for health, education, and families through the design of future applications.
Postdocs
Caroline Pitt
Postdoctoral Researcher, Human Centered Design & Engineering
Research Interests: digital youth, human-computer interaction, participatory design, design research
PhD Students
Aayushi Dangol
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PhD Student, Human Centered Design & Engineering
Research Interests: AI & children, interaction design & children, AI Tools for speech language pathology, AI education
Nisha Devasia
PhD Student, Human Centered Design & Engineering
Research Interests: human centered gaming, narrative theory, educational games for misinformation and STEM
Meghna Gupta
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PhD Student, Human Centered Design & Engineering
Research Interests: care, digital safety, labor, intimate relationships
Undergraduates
- Trushaa Ramanan (University of Washington iSchool ’24), REU 2024
Alumni
- Eun Kyoung Choe: Associate Professor of Information Studies, University of Maryland
- Jared Bauer: Staff User Researcher, GitHub
- Matthew Kay: Associate Professor of Computer Science & Communications, Northwestern University
- Kyle Rector: Assistant Professor, University of Iowa
- Alexis Hiniker: Associate Professor, University of Washington iSchool
- Laura Pina: Senior User Researcher, Microsoft
- Kiley Sobel: Staff User Researcher, Duolingo
- Sean Mikles: Lead of Clinical Informatics, MITRE
- Ruth Ravichandran: Research Scientist, Amazon
- Arpita B: Teaching Professor, University of Washington HCDE
- Dawn Sakaguchi-Tang: Principal UX Researcher, iHeartMedia
- Saba Kawas: Postdoc at University of Minnesota
- Calvin Liang: Postdoc at Northwestern University
- Jay Cunningham
- Akeiylah DeWitt
Collaborators
Shwetak Patel, University of Washington