Shiroq B. Email & Phone Number

Cambridge, United States

• Designed and executed a multi-method (focus groups, interviews, diary studies, and social media qualitative assessment) design ethnography of the lived experiences and unmet needs of family caregivers in two cultural.
• Examined the bidirectional relationship between avatars and users in social media through two studies (30 and 124 participants) using interviews, observations, and surveys to examine the user experience of designing.
• Designed and conducted two design workshops with (33 and 46 participants) to explore the impact of simulating disability on design outcomes in different cultural contexts (Saudi Arabia and India).
• Mapped the design signature of 9 entrepreneurial teams developing assistive technologies to explore team dynamics and activities.
• Instructed 19 mechanical engineering students in the Introduction to Design (2.00) course in two user-centered design projects in 2019 and 2021; trained undergraduate research students in conducting interviews.
• Developed and presented two guest lectures on Interaction Design to graduate students at MIT’s Integrated Design Management (IDM) master's program.

• Characterized the landscape of assistive technology (AT) innovation in Saudi Arabia to identify useful and usable strategies and processes for the AT innovation space, which led to the development of the Humanistic.
• Founded a startup which focuses on the teaching of the Humanistic Co-Design Process and mentoring of assistive technology startups in Saudi Arabia in collaboration with local and international entities.
• Formulated the company’s vision, goal, and objectives; hired and trained 5 employees and 14 experience experts (people with disabilities and 18 mentors; recruited 183 participants (fellows and interns) in 28 AT projects.
• Created and presented 26 presentations and workshops on user research, patenting, design, and writing.
• Developed and facilitated 2 three-day workshops and 2 national conference experiences, including digital and print conference guides, using design thinking principles.
• Adapted the Humanistic Co-Design Process for Alfaisal University’s Software Practices and Society course (SE117); onboarded 9 students as interns for COOP training for summer 2021.

Riyadh

• Developed the curriculum for the ABET accredited Human-Computer Interaction and User Experience (IT443 - undergraduate) and the Usability and User Experience in Information Technology (IT543 - graduate) courses using.
• Designed and executed multi-method research projects exploring predictive modeling for smartwatches and smartphones for users who are blind; producing model extensions to accommodate changes.
• Trained and visualized nature-inspired models (honey bee foraging and bacteria foraging) for unmanned-vehicle task allocation in search and rescue missions.
• Collected and analyzed learning behaviors of children who are deaf or hard of hearing from the children themselves (observations), parents (surveys), and teachers (interviews), which led to the development of an.
• Developed and provided research mentorship in human-computer interaction for 12 undergraduates and 2 graduate students within the Information Technology department.
• Chaired workshop panels, co-authored, and presented academic papers at international conferences with the Smart Distributed Systems Lab @ KSU and the HCI Design Lab @ King Abdullah City for Science and Technology.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Computer Science

Master Of Science (Msc), Computer Science

Bsc, Information Technology