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I strive to design socially responsible technology. I enjoy finding design opportunities and innovating for technology that can empower everyone, especially for vulnerable populations, marginalized groups, and people with disabilities. I like to design through qualitative research methods, such as community based participatory design and co-creation. I believe in the power of inclusive design to advance health and technology equity.
Working at the Intersection of Race, Disability, and Accessibility. Christina N. Harrington, Aashaka Desai, Aaleyah Lewis, Sanika Moharana, Anne Spencer Ross, and Jennifer Mankoff. Proceedings of ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2023)
Inclusive Design of Conversational User Interfaces Sanika Moharana, Patrick Carrington, and Christina N. Harrington. ACM CHI 2023 Workshop. CUI@CHI: Inclusive Design of CUIs Across Modalities and Mobilities (CHI 2023)
Iris: A Low-Cost Telemedicine Robot to Support Healthcare Safety and Equity During a Pandemic
S. Matsumoto, S. Moharana, N. Devanagondi, and L. D. Riek . In Proceedings of the 15th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare. 2021
Taking an (Embodied) Cue From Community Health: Designing Dementia Caregiver Support Technology to Advance Health Equity
Guan, C., Bouzida, A., Oncy-Avila, R., Moharana, S., and Riek, L.D, Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI '21. pp. 1-24. [Acceptance rate: 26.3%] (2021).
Robots for Joy, Robots for Sorrow: Community Based Robot Design for Dementia Caregivers
Moharana, S., Panduro, A., Lee, H., Riek, L.D., Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI). [Acceptance rate: 24%]
Best Paper Award Nominee (2019).
I’ve conducted research across various areas —social computing, civic engagement, autonomous vehicles, healthcare, aging, cognitive impairments, and telemedicine most recently. Here are some cool things I’ve gotten a chance to work on and explore
