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Research Projects

PhD Thesis (ongoing)

My PhD thesis examines the accessibility and inclusivity of mental health technologies, with a focus on how stigma and non-Western cultural perspectives shape engagement. I began with a remote interview study exploring how East Asian university students perceive and use these tools, revealing barriers related to literacy and communication. Building on this, I conducted participatory co-design sessions with international students, UBC counselors, and administrators, guided by an ecological model. Our most recent work (CSCW 2025) implemented one of the brainstormed designs: a prototype that gently scaffolds help-seeking and uses self-efficacy as an evaluative lens. My current project investigates how large language models can support the writing of personal mental health narratives.

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Cancer Care for Aging Adults (ongoing)

As the UX design lead on this research project at UBC’s School of Nursing, I am prototyping a mobile-assisted tool to help older adults with cancer and co-morbidities better manage their symptoms. Our multidisciplinary team includes researchers from Nursing and Computer Science, as well as patient partners. We are currently implementing a high-fidelity prototype in preparation for real-world deployment.

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Family Sleep

In this academic research project, I collaborated with a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Washington to qualitatively examine how families track health and sleep, activities typically designed for individual use. This multi-year collaboration began with a formative study and culminated in the design, implementation, deployment, and evaluation of a family-centered sleep tracking probe.

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