Publications

I have several papers in top HCI conferences and other venues: https://dblp.org/pid/194/9653.html

Kersten Smith, Sang-Wha Sien, Jiamin Dai, and Joanna McGrenere. 2025. Touching Experiences: How Older Adults Envision Ambient and Tangible Social Technology Through the Lens of Time. In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 568, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3714302

Sang-Wha Sien, Joanna McGrenere. 2025. A Gentle Introduction to Mental Health Through Storytelling: Design and Evaluation of Digital Human Library. Conditionally accepted at CSCW 2025.

Sien SW, Kobekyaa FK, Puts M, Currie L, Tompson M, Hedges P, McGrenere J, Mariano C, Haase KR. Tailored Self-Management App to Support Older Adults With Cancer and Multimorbidity: Development and Usability Testing. JMIR Aging. 2024 May 8;7:e53163. doi: 10.2196/53163. PMID: 38717806; PMCID: PMC11112470.

Sang-Wha Sien, Jessica Y. Ahn, and Joanna McGrenere. 2023. Co-designing Mental Health Technologies with International University Students in Canada. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 7, CSCW2, Article 258 (October 2023), 25 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3610049

Sang-Wha Sien. 2023. Designing for Inclusivity and Accessibility of Mental Health Technologies. In Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 492, 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3577038

Sang-Wha Sien, Shalini Mohan, and Joanna McGrenere. 2022. Exploring Design Opportunities for Supporting Mental Wellbeing Among East Asian University Students in Canada. CHI '22. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3517710

Laura Pina, Sang-Wha Sien, Clarissa Song, Teresa M. Ward, James Fogarty, Sean A. Munson, and Julie A. Kientz. 2020. DreamCatcher: Exploring How Parents and School-Age Children can Track and Review Sleep Information Together. CSCW '20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3392882

Sungsoo (Ray) Hong, Minhyang (Mia) Suh, Tae Soo Kim, Irina Smoke, Sang-Wha Sien, Janet Ng, Mark Zachry, and Juho Kim. 2019. Design for Collaborative Information-Seeking: Understanding User Challenges and Deploying Collaborative Dynamic Queries. CSCW '19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3359208

Ruth Ravichandran, Sang-Wha Sien, Shwetak N. Patel, Julie A. Kientz, and Laura R. Pina. 2017. Making Sense of Sleep Sensors: How Sleep Sensing Technologies Support and Undermine Sleep Health. CHI '17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025557

Laura R. Pina, Sang-Wha Sien, Teresa Ward, Jason C. Yip, Sean A. Munson, James Fogarty, and Julie A. Kientz. 2017. From Personal Informatics to Family Informatics: Understanding Family Practices around Health Monitoring. CSCW '17. https://doi.org/10.1145/2998181.2998362