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Seattle, Washington, United States

Seattle, Washington, United States

Researching implicit bias in patient-provider communication during interactions with patients who are Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and/or have a marginalized gender identity or sexual orientation (LGBTQ+). Responsibilities include qualitatively analyzing generative user interviews with patients and primary care providers, creating evaluative concept testing session protocols, and synthesizing results into manuscripts and presentations.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Assisted the instruction of over 150 students over three intro-level and two upper-level informatics classes, with topics including health and clinical informatics, data reasoning, and R programming and version control. Responsibilities include facilitating class discussions, instructing course content, tutoring students, assisting with the creation of class assignments and project deliverables, and grading student assignments.Courses:- INFO 270: Data Reasoning in a Digital World under Dr. Jevin West and D. Carl Bergstrom- INFO 201: Technical Foundations of Informatics under Instructor Mike Freeman- INFO 465: Designing for Health and Wellness under Ph.C. Erin Beneteau- BIME 435: Informatics in Healthcare under Dr. Andrea Hartzler

Seattle, Washington, United States

Researching the tensions that pediatric kidney transplant patients face before, during, and after they receive their transplant to create a benchmarking tool to assist patients and their families better gauge their recovery progress. Responsibilities include qualitatively analyzing patient and caregiver generative user interviews, creating participatory design session protocols, developing surveys, and synthesizing results into manuscripts and presentations.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Explored users’ perceptions of audio data collection on smart devices, such as smart phones and smart speakers, to inform interface design recommendations for developers.Responsibilities included qualitatively analyzing over 30 generative interviews and focus groups, creating and facilitating co-design sessions, synthesizing results into a manuscript, and giving an invited talk at an international computing conference.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Explored the impact of a nature-based app geared toward connecting tweens and parents with nature and each other through guided exploration. Responsibilities included transcribing and qualitatively analyzing over 300 audio files collected in real-time from the NatureGo app and synthesizing results in a manuscript that was published in an international computing conference.Citation: Kawas, S., Kuhn, N., Sorstokke, K., Bascom, E., Hiniker, A. and Davis, K. 2021. “When Screen Time Isn’t Screen Time: Tensions and Needs Among Tweens and Their Parents During Nature-Based Exploration” Proceedings of the 39th annual ACM conference on human factors in computing systems (CHI ’21). Acceptance rate: 26%.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Research centered around exploring the impact of utilizing a new design toolkit called “Muse cards” to elicit innovative design ideas from patients to reimagine patient-facing technologies to support patient and caregiver needs in hospitals. Responsibilities included conducting a qualitative analysis of participatory design session transcripts. Results were synthesized into a co-authored manuscript that was submitted to the SIGCHI 2021 conference.

Bachelor'S Degree, Informatics - Human Computer Interaction & Entrepreneurship

Activities and Societies: Husky Ski Team Accommodations and Nutrition Director

Master Of Science - Ms, Human Centered Design & Engineering