Organizers

Naveena Karusala is a PhD student at the University of Washington. Her work focuses on why and how technologies to support caregiving in the home are being used to shape the gendered division of labor around maternal and newborn health in rural India.

Azra Ismail is a PhD student at Georgia Tech. Her research focuses on women frontline health workers in urban India who operate on the margins of the government healthcare system, and examines how technology might recognize and legitimize (rather than exploit) their knowledges and underpaid care work.

Karthik Bhat is a PhD student at Georgia Tech. He works on designing technologies that facilitate constructive, and socioculturally situated engagement with health data in resource- and infrastructure-constrained contexts.

Aakash Gautam is a PhD student at Virginia Tech. A part of his research examines the complexities surrounding care practices in anti-trafficking organizations in Nepal.

Sachin Pendse is a PhD student in Human-Centered Computing at Georgia Tech. His work is centered around better understanding how our identities influence how we express and experience our mental health, towards designing safer and more inclusive (technology-mediated) mental health spaces.

Neha Kumar is an associate professor at Georgia Tech. She conducts research at the intersection of human-centered computing and global development; matters of care are central to much of this research.

Richard Anderson is a professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. He works in computing and global development, focusing on healthcare and previously, education.

Madeline Balaam is an Associate Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. Madeline designs novel interactions and interaction techniques that invoke new forms of care for the body and bodily processes. Her work is grounded in feminist theories and perspectives.

Shaowen Bardzell is a professor at the Pennsylvania State University’s College of Information Sciences and Technology. Her research explores the contributions of design, feminism, and social science to support technology’s role in social change. She is co-author of Humanistic HCI (Morgan Claypool, 2015) and co-editor of Critical Theory and Interaction Design (MIT Press, 2018).

Nicola Bidwell has worked with rural dwellers and indigenous people for nearly 20 years, particularly in Africa. Recent work studies the social and gender impacts of community networks, and predictive logics in the Kalahari for purposes of AI design. She is an adjunct professor at the International University of Management, Namibia.

Melissa Densmore is an associate professor at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Her research explores community-based innovation with bandwidth-constrained users. Her work in maternal and child health seeks to empower mothers, fathers, and other caregivers as co-designers of appropriate digital interventions.

Elizabeth Kaziunas is the Research Lead of the Algorithmic Care Project at AI Now, where she investigates the social impacts of AI in healthcare. Her research examines the social and organizational contexts of health information systems and lived experiences of health datafication.

Anne Marie Piper is an associate professor at the University of California, Irvine. Her work aims to create more equitable and inclusive digital experiences for people of all ages and abilities.

Noopur Raval is a postdoctoral researcher at New York University. She studies the histories and current implications of emergent technologies with a focus on the Global South.

Pushpendra Singh is a professor at IIIT-Delhi. His research is at the intersection of mobile computing and HCI with a focus on technologies for low-resource settings, especially in the context of public health.

Austin Toombs is an Assistant Professor at Purdue University. He studies the impact that digital technologies have on how communities develop, are maintained, and foster (or not) strong interpersonal relationships between community participants.

Nervo Verdezoto is a Lecturer at Cardiff University. His work has investigated invisible care work in the home, hospital, and community health. His recent work explores how care infrastructures and sociotechnical and cultural practices influence maternal and child health in the Global South.

Ding Wang is a senior HCI researcher from Google AI India and People AI Research team. Her research focuses on the practices, processes and organisations of work (e.g. the collection, annotation and documentation) on data that is essential to ML and AI systems.