Organizers

Dilisha Patel

Dilisha is Post-doctoral Researcher in Human-Computer Interaction and Digital Health at UCL Interaction Centre. Her research uses qualitative methods to understand how users make sense of and find meaning in online information for their health and well-being. She has a particular interest in exploring how to make digital health information resources accessible and equitable for all. Her PhD thesis focused on the online information-seeking behaviours of men who experience fertility difficulties.

Sachin Pendse

He is a PhD student in Human-Centered Computing at Georgia Tech. His work is centered around the role of technology in how people come to understand, express, and seek care for their mental health. In particular, he focuses on how current methods in technology-mediated care might propagate patterns of oppression from offline spaces, and exclude people with marginalized identities from finding effective care.

Sarah Dsane

Sarah is a lecturer at the Computer Science Department at Koforidua Technical University, Ghana. She is pursuing a PhD in Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Cape Town. Her research interest is understanding the information-seeking behaviour of bandwidth-constrained parents in South Africa and Ghana during the first thousand days of their child’s life.

Neha Kumar

is an Associate Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is jointly appointed at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and the School of Interactive Computing. She works at the intersection of human-centered computing and global development, engaging participatory, assets-based approaches towards technology design for/with communities that have historically been underserved.

Munmun De Choudhury

Is an Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She works at the intersection of computer science and social science, with a particular focus on computational methods and artifacts to make sense of human behavior and psychological state. Her work broadly contributes to understanding how advances in machine learning and grounding in human-centered approaches can help us answer fundamental questions relating to our social lives.

Mark Warner

Is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of Computer Science at UCL, UK. He is a social computing researcher with interests in online privacy and disclosure, as well as online information-seeking and sense-making. Mark has been involved in research on various different health conditions, including HIV, infertility, and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). He has a particular interest in understanding how people utilise online resources to help them make sense of life changes (including health diagnoses), and how people navigate issues of privacy and trust through sense-making processes.

Kaylee Kruzan

is a Research Assistant Professor in the Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies at North- western University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. Kruzan’s research focuses on the design and evaluation of scalable digital mental health interventions for adolescents and young adults who are not engaged in formal treatment. She has a particular interest in using human-centered design methodologies to develop digital tools that fit within, and can facilitate, the help-seeking process. She earned her doctorate in Communication from Cornell University, an MSW from The Ohio State University, and an MA from University of Illinois at Chicago.


Aneesha Singh

is an Associate Professor of Human Computer Interaction at the UCL Interaction Centre, UK. She is interested in the design, adoption and use of personal health and wellbeing technologies in everyday contexts. Her research focuses on digital health, ubiquitous computing, multisensory feedback and wearable technology, especially in sensitive and stigmatized populatio