People

Faculty
Postdocs
Students
Collaborators

Faculty

Julie Kientz

Julie Kientz, a white woman with medium-long brown hair and brown eyes. She is smiling, wearing a denim jacket with arms crossed, in front of a green hedge

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.

Kientz faculty page
jkientz@uw.edu@uw.edu
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Postdocs

Caroline Pitt

Postdoctoral Researcher, Human Centered Design & Engineering

Research Interests: digital youth, human-computer interaction, participatory design, design research

Pitt profile
pittc@uw.edu
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PhD Students

Aayushi Dangol

PhD Student, Human Centered Design & Engineering

Research Interests: AI & children, interaction design & children, AI Tools for speech language pathology, AI education

adango@uw.edu
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Nisha Devasia

Headshot of Nisha Devasia. She is wearing graduation robes and hat, wearing a red dress and lipstick and smiling.

PhD Student, Human Centered Design & Engineering

Research Interests: human centered gaming, narrative theory, educational games for misinformation and STEM

Website
ndevasia@uw.edu
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Meghna Gupta

PhD Student, Human Centered Design & Engineering

Research Interests: care, digital safety, labor, intimate relationships

Website
megupta@uw.edu
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Undergraduates

  • Trushaa Ramanan (University of Washington iSchool ’24), REU 2024
  • Jamie Espinosa-Briones (Carnegie Mellon University ’24), REU 2024
  • Arya Thiruvillakkat (George Mason University ’24), REU 2024
  • Nupur Gorkar (University of Washington ’24), REU 2024

Alumni