Exploratorium, San Francisco (2025-Present)
Investigating how AI-powered Object Classification Systems support museum visitors' observational inquiry with microscopes.
Rapid prototyping • Interaction Analysis • Design Implications
Understanding how museum visitors engage with interactive AI exhibits and what design features support diverse learning pathways.
Ethnographic Field Work • Naturalistic Recording and Abductive Coding
Georgia Institute of Technology (2021-2024)
Designed and validated interactive mapping toolkit enabling diverse publics to collectively investigate civic AI systems. Adopted by 3+ nonprofits for community engagement.
Mapping Workshops • Video Analysis and Inductive Coding
Understanding the AI explanation needs of diverse publics. Developed framework defining four essential qualities of effective public AI explanations.
Semi Structured Interviews • Inductive Coding • Framework Creation
Understanding the relationship between transparency, control features and safety in Google Ads.
Performed user research and redesigned the home page and on-boarding experience of the Striim platform.
Assessing the limitations of quantizing safety and its ability to exacerbate the gendered safety discourse prevalent in India
Critically examined the assumptions underlying the design of monitoring technologies for elderly care and suggested alternate directions.
Built a futuristic student monitoring tool to support critical thinking about possible negative implications
Using qualitative research methods, formulated a set of 12 design guidelines to help design socially sustainable Instant Messaging platforms.
