Organizers

Neelma Bhatti is a PhD candidate in the department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech, where she investigates parents' use of technology as a care-giving tool, and the use of screen and voice based interfaces to facilitate young children's language learning.

Dr. Aisling Kelliher is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Virginia Tech. Her work combines interaction design, HCI, and critical feminist theory across multiple areas of inquiry including healthcare, parenthood, and design education.

Dr. Alexis Hiniker is an Assistant Professor in the Information School at the University of Washington and director of the User Empowerment Lab. Through her work in Human-Computer Interaction and ubiquitous computing, she investigates the ways in which everyday technologies make life worse for their users.

Dr. Koeun Choi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Science at Virginia Tech. Her research group conducts research to understand how children learn in a complex and dynamic digital media environment.

Dr. Jenny Radesky is a Developmental Behavioral Pediatrician and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Michigan Medical School. Her research interests include use of mobile technology by parents and young children and how this relates to child self-regulation and parent-child interaction.

Dr. Suleman Shahid is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). His research interests include assistive technologies, child-computer interaction, affective computing and HCI for development (HCI4D).

Dr. Tawfiq Ammari is an Assistant Professor at the Rutgers University School of Communication and Information. His work focuses on the interplay between technological and social role change, and how the mass adoption of technologies like social media and emerging technologies like voice assistants affects social roles in the domestic sphere.

Dr. Ying Xu is a postdoctoral scholar in the Digital Learning Lab at the University of California, Irvine. She is committed to use her research to empower children, families, and communities and bring about actionable changes in the children’s media industry.

Christine Murad is a PhD candidate at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, where she researches the usability and design of intuitive and user-friendly conversational voice interfaces.

Rebecca Esther Michelson is a PhD student at the University of Washington in the Human-Centered Design and Engineering Department. Her research interests include technologies that support care-giving and family well-being, with a focus on equity and participatory design.