People, Faith, Digital Life
The first strand of my research is concerned with value pluralism in HCI: what it means to design technologies that engage seriously with religious and culturally grounded ways of knowing. I am interested in how faith, lived experience, and social values shape the relationship between people and digital systems, and how systems built around secular, dominant assumptions often fail to account for that relationship at all.
The second strand concerns feminist HCI and the relationship between technology and power. I am interested in how digital systems can quietly reinforce, and sometimes intensify, the structural conditions that constrain women's lives. My work sits with the harder design question: not only how harm happens through technology, but what it would mean to build systems genuinely oriented toward safety, agency, and justice.
The third strand begins with a question that access discourse rarely asks: what does it mean when the barrier is not the user's literacy, but the system's assumptions about what a user is? I am interested in communities where digital technologies arrive with assumptions that do not match local languages, literacies, and social contexts. My work examines how those misalignments produce exclusion, and what genuinely context-sensitive, culturally grounded design might look like in their place.