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Leah Zhang-Kennedy
Leah Zhang-Kennedy is an Assistant Professor in interaction design and user experience research at the Stratford School of Interaction Design and Business, University of Waterloo. Her research focuses on understanding and improving privacy experiences and practices for various user segments using multidisciplinary methods in HCI and user experience design.
She is cross-appointed with the Department of Systems Design Engineering at the U of W and an Adjunct Research Professor in the School of Computer Science at Carleton University. She is a faculty member of the Waterloo Games Institute and Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute, and a member of Waterloo HCI.
Hilda Hadan
Projects: Deceptive Design in Extended Reality; Gamified Learning about Cryptocurrency
Jen (JaeEun) Shin
Research interests: human-robot interaction; Inclusive design; ethical issues in Artificial Intelligence (AI); educational technology
Chen (Bella) An
Research interests: virtual reality for telehealth and vulnerable groups, user experience, HCI
Shanza Shanza
Research interests: Inclusive technology; cybersecurity and privacy
Michaela Valiquette
Research interests: User-centered design; accessibility; usable privacy
Research Assistants & Associates
Michaela Valiquette, Research Associate | Studio Q Designs, Research & Strategy Lead
Collaborators
We work closely with other researchers within and outside of U of Waterloo.
Waterloo
Lennart Nacke, Professor, and members of the HCI Games group
Ville Mäkelä, Assistant Professor, Stratford School
Yue Hu, Assistant Professor, and members of the A.I.R. Lab
Carleton University
Elizabeth Stobert, Assistant Professor, and members of the SPIRL lab
Hala Assal, Assistant Professor, and her research group in Systems and Computer Engineering
Sonia Chiasson, Professor, and members of the CHORUS Lab
Other
Sangho Suh, postdoctoral researcher, University of California, San Diego
Alumni
Graduate Students:
- (2023) Christos Karanassios, Master of Applied Science in Human-Computer Interaction, Carleton University. Co-supervised with Hala Assal Stobert. Thesis: Towards Security-Focused Developer Personas
- (2022) Joy McLeod, Master of Arts in Human-Computer Interaction, Carleton University. Co-supervised with Elizabeth Stobert. Thesis: Educators' Perspectives on Cybersecurity Educational Resources
Undergraduate Research Assistants:
- (2023) Arya Dixit (Systems Design Engineering), Children and Parents’ Mental Models of Security and Privacy in Humanoid Robots, Research Assistant.
- (2022) Amanda Tianyue Du (Global Business And Digital Arts), Privacy Storytelling in IoT, Research Assistant
- (2021) Esha Kulkarni (Global Business and Digital Arts), Canadian Guidelines for Safe Wandering, User Interface designer
- (2021) Kouthar Waled (Computer Science), Concept-driven Storytelling with Creativity Support for Privacy Concepts, Research Assistant
Interns:
- (2024) Chetna Sharma, summer research intern
- (2023) An Chen, Mitacs Globalink Undergraduate Intern
- (2022) Asmita Mehta, summer research intern
Co-op Students:
- (2022) Anthony Wu (Computer Science)
- (2021) Winston So (Computer Engineering)
Research Associates:
Rogers Research Partnerships
- (2022) Sydney Lamorea, Project Manager
- (2022) Saira Aziz, User Experience (UX) Researcher
- (2022) Oluwafunminitemi (Temi) Oluwadare, Research Analyst
- (2022) Yizhou (Lydon) Pan, User Interface Designer
- (2022) Soda Li, User Interface Designer
- (2022) Zhongze (Michael) Sun, Front-End Software Developer