Coverage in (mostly local) Media

• Dec 22, 2023. Titans of Tech 2023 Award Recipients Announced. Santa Cruz Works.
• Sept 23, 2022 Three UC Santa Cruz alums are revolutionizing telehealth with their virtual reality physical therapy platform. UCSC News
• Dec 15, 2021 2021 CITRIS Seed Awards support research at Baskin School of Engineering. UCSC News
• Mar 2021. Tech Support. UCSC Magazine
• July 14, 2020. CITRIS UCSC funds new pandemic-related research projects. UCSC News
• Sept 2019. UC Santa Cruz Professor Sri Kurniawan discusses games as therapy. UCSC Media
• Sept 2019. The robots of our future are coming—but they may not be what we think. UCSC Media
• Aug 14 2019 CITRIS News: Using Virtual Reality for physical rehabilitation
• Feb 19, 2019 UC Santa Cruz launches the country’s first graduate program in serious games. UCSC News
• Sept 30, 2015. Picture this: An app for blind photographers. UCSC News.
• May 6 2015 ‘CAVE Lab’ offers immersive virtual reality tools for research and teaching. UCSC News.
• 2015 Science Notes: Just Within Reach.
• Dec 10 2014 Santa Cruz Sentinel: UCSC duo designs children’s speech therapy game.
• Aug 18 2014 Grad student unites personal passion and programming skills to help others. UCSC News.
• 2013 Science Notes: Palatable Speech.
• May 27 2008 Turning cell phones into tools of medicine. San Jose Mercury News.
• Feb 14 2008 A Talking Head Lends a Helping Hand. Speech Technology Magazine.
• Feb 13 2008 UCSC project aims to provide a virtual speech therapist via cell phone. UCSC News.

Public Lecture or Forum Participation

• Apr 7 2021 Serious games panel organized by Center of Computational Experiences
• Aug 20 2015 Invited talk, IBM Accessibility Research Lab, Tokyo, Japan
• Aug 20 2015 Invited talk, AIST Tsukuba Lab, Tokyo, Japan
• May 27 2015 Invited talk, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA.
• Apr 28 2015 Invited talk, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
• Apr 6 2015 Invited talk, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
• Jul 8 2014 Invited talk, École nationale supérieure des télécommunications, Paris, France
• Feb 15 2014 Keynote speech, 2014 Society of Asian Scientists & Engineers (SASE) Western Regional Conference
• Oct 22 2013 HCC community talk, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO
• Oct 2 2013 Invited talk and roundtable discussion, the 13th Coleman Annual Conference: The Rights of People with Cognitive Disabilities to Technology and Information Access, Broomfield, CO, 2013.
• Sep 25 2013 Rochester Institute of Technology and University of Rochester joint HCI seminar, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
• Sep 2 2013 Invited talk, University of Trento, Italy
• Jul 30 2012 Invited talk, IBM Tokyo Research Lab
• Jun 14 2012 Assisted Technologies Workshop – guest of honor speech. CRIM (Centre de recherche informatique de Montréal), Montreal, QC, Canada
• Aug 24 2011 CITRIS talk, UC Berkeley
• Mar 30 2011 Psychology colloquium
• Feb 22 2011 Invited talk, Northeastern University
• May 25 2010 Invited talk, Game Accessibility Day, 6th Games for Health Conference
• 2009 Psychology Colloquium, UCSC
• Sep 2 2008 Invited talk, AIST Tsukuba Lab
• Aug 26 2008 Invited talk, AIST Odaiba Lab
• Aug 22 2008 Invited seminar at IBM Tokyo Research Lab
• Aug 21 2008 Invited talk, Department of Computer Science, UC San Diego
• 2005 Invited talk, 6th annual recent Object Oriented trends conference, Bergen, Norway
• 2004 Invited closing plenary speaker, 5th annual recent Object Oriented trends conference, Bergen, Norway
• 2004 Invited talk, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
• 2003 Invited talk, the Centre for HCI Design, City University, London, UK.

Conferences and Meetings

• 2020 – Present Award committee, International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility (ASSETS)
• 2020 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility, virtual (Program Committee)
• 2018 20th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility, Galway, Ireland (Program Committee)
• 2017 19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility, Baltimore, MD (Program Committee)
• 2016 18th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility, Reno, NV (Program Committee)
• 2015 8th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, Los Angeles, CA, 2015 (Program Board member).
• 2015 17th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility, Lisbon, Portugal (Program Committee)
• 2014 16th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility, Rochester, NY (General Chair)
• 2012 14th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility, Boulder, CO (Program Committee)
• 2012 14th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility, Boulder, CO (Program Chair)
• 2011 6th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, Orlando, FL (Program Board member)
• 2011 13th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility, Dundee, Scotland, UK (Program Committee)
• 2010 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility, Orlando, FL, USA, 2010 (Mentor Chair)
• 2010 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility, Orlando, FL, USA, 2010 (Doctoral Consortium Faculty Panel)
• 2010 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility, Orlando, FL, USA, 2010 (Program Committee)
• 2009 5th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, San Diego, CA, USA(Program Board member)
• 2009 11th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility (ASSETS), (Treasurer).
• 2008 PC member, The IASTED International Conference on Assistive Technologies, Baltimore, MD, USA,
• 2008 PC member, 11th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, Linz, Austria
• 2007 9th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility, Tempe, Arizona, USA(Doctoral Consortium Chair).
• 2006 PC member, 9th ERCIM (European Research Consortium in Informatics and Mathematics) Workshop ‘User Interfaces for All’, Bonn, Germany
• 2004 PC member, ACM DIS (Designing Interactive Systems) Cambridge, MA, USA
• 2004 PC member, 8th ERCIM (European Research Consortium in Informatics and Mathematics) Workshop ‘User Interfaces for All’, Vienna, Austria
• 2004 PC member, 2nd Cambridge Workshop on Universal Access and Assistive Technology, Cambridge, UK,
• 2003 PC member, 7th ERCIM (European Research Consortium in Informatics and Mathematics) Workshop ‘User Interfaces for All’, Paris, France

 

Memberships or Activities in Professional Associations

• 2006 – Present ACM SIGACCESS (Special Interest Group in Accessible Computing) professional member
• 2000 – Present ACM Member
• 2011 Workshop Chair: 1st Workshop on Game Accessibility: Xtreme Interaction Design, Foundations for Digital Games conference PEER REVIEWED
• 2010 CHI special interest group organizer: Accessible Games PEER REVIEWED
• 2009 Workshop Chair: Age matters: Bridging the generation gap through technology-mediated interaction. ACM CHI, Boston PEER REVIEWED
• 2008 Special Interest Group on “Vocal interaction”, ACM CHI, Florence, Italy
• 2007 Workshop Chair: Striking a c[h]ord: vocal interaction in assistive technologies, games, and more, ACM CHI, San Jose, CA, USA PEER REVIEWED
• 2004 Panel: Technology as a means for enhancing the independence and connectivity of older people, ACM CHI, Vienna, Austria
• 2003 Conference chairs of 2 sessions, HCII’03 (International Conference on Human Computer Interaction), Crete, Greece
• 2003 Workshop Chair: HCII’03 (International Conference on Human Computer Interaction), Crete, Greece, PEER REVIEWED
• 2001 Panel: Special Topics of Web Usability. WebNet 2001 Conference, Orlando, FL, USA

Editorial Services

• 2009 – 2020 Member of the Editorial Board, ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS)
• 2007 – 2016 Member of the Editorial Board of Universal Access in the Information Society (UAIS) International Journal
• 2014 Guest Editor, Special Issue of ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS) journal ASSETS 2012.
• 2012 Guest editor, Special Issue of UAIS 11(1): The Intergenerational Context as an Emphasis for Design
• Jan 2008 – Jun 2010 Editor, SIGACCESS Newsletter
• 2008 Guest Editor, Special Issue of UAIS (Universal Access in the Information Society) 8(2): Vocal Interaction: Beyond Traditional Automatic Speech Recognition.
• 2005 Guest Editor, Special Issue of UAIS (Universal Access in the Information Society) 4(1), 2005: Web and Aging: Challenges and Opportunities
• 2004 Member of the Editorial Review Board for AACE/SITE (Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education/Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education) Journal

 

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

 

      Academic Senate Service

• Sep 2018 – Aug 2020 Committee on International Education
• Sep 2014 – Aug 2016 Committee on Commitees
• Sep 2011 – Aug 2013 Committee on Research
• Sep 2008 – Aug 2010 Committee on Affirmative Action and Diversity

 

      Service to the Division

• 2011 – Present Core Faculty, Center for Computational Experiences (previously Center for Games and Playable Media)
• 2022 – 2023 Member of Dean’s cabinet
• 2018 Lab tours, STEM Transfer Day, Alumni Weekend and BSOE’s Graduation Celebration Open House
• 2018 Divisional Committee on Academic Personnel
• 2013 External search committee member, Applied Maths and Statistics faculty search
• 2013 External search committee member and diversity liaison, Computer Science faculty search
• 2009 Invited talk, Biomolecular Engineering Department
• Jan – May 2008 External Search Committee member and Diversity Liaison, Computer Science faculty search

 

      Service to the Department

• Winter 2024 – Present Graduate Director
• Jul 1 2019 – Jun 30 2022 Department Chair
• 2021 Search committee, full time lecturer in games and playable media
• 2020 – 2021 Search committee, Vice Chair of Professional MS in HCI
• Fall 2017 – Summer 2019 Vice Chair
• 2019 Search committee, Admission Outreach Coordinator, Professional MS in GPM and SG programs
• 2019 Search committee, Center for Computational Experiences administrative assistant
• 2016 – 2019 Lead writer, proposal for Silicon Valley Professional MSc in Human-Computer Interaction
• 2018 Search committee chair, Serious Games faculty search
• Spring 2017 Undergraduate Director
• 2015 Search committee member and diversity liaison, Computer Engineering faculty search
• 2014 Search committee member and diversity liaison, Computational Media faculty search
• 2013 Search committee member and diversity liaison, Computer Engineering faculty search
• Jun – Dec 2008 Advising Honors Society on the nanomouse project’s user interface

 

      Service to the University

• 2023 – Present UCSC Faculty lead, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s Action Collaborative on the Trajectories of Women of Color in Tech
• 2023 – Present Advisory board member, Center for Reimagining Leadership
• 2022 – Present UCSC lead, NSF Engineering Research Center proposal, Hispanic Serving Research University
• 2020 – Present Executive Committee member, Global and Community Health initiative
• 2012 – Present Affiliated faculty, Data and Democracy Initiative, CITRIS
• 2022 – 2023 Steering Committee member, UCSC Strategic Planning
• 2022 – 2023 Inaugural Mentor, Asia Pacific Women in Leadership Program. Asia Pacific Research University.
• 2019 – 2022 Executive board member, UCSC Institute for Social Transformation
• 2019 – 2021 Local faculty planning committee member, UC Global Health Day
• 2018 – 2021 Group leader, Faculty Networking Group – Advancing Faculty Diversity (a UCOP funded initiative), Women in STEM group
• 2020 Selection committee member, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, 20/21 Moore Inventor Fellowship Program
• 2018 – 2020 Steering committee member, Thematic Academic Working Group on Learning Sciences for a New Generation
• 2018 – 2019 Associate Leader, Academic Priority Area, Justice in a Changing World
• 2018 – 2019 UCSC Extension Advisory Board for User Experience and Web Design
• 2017 – 2019 Lead in the HCI fundraising initiative organized by Senate Committee of Development and Fundraising and University Relations
• 2009 – 2019 Affiliate faculty, Digital Arts and New Media (DANM)
• 2018 EVC Writing Fellows Academy Selection Committee
• 2018 Lead writer, Themed Academic Working Group proposal, Human-Computer Interaction
• 2017 Koret Scholarship Review Committee
• 2015 UC Wide Bioengineering Symposium, UCSC, 2015. Session on Assistive Technology and Rehabilitation (Session Chair)
• 2014 External search committee member, Psychology faculty search
• Feb 2012 – Jan 2013 UC ADVANCE PAID (Meeting the California Challenge—Women and Under-represented Minority Faculty in STEM) Research Scholars Advisory Board

 

      Other Service to the Campus

• Oct 8 2019 Presentation at Learning Lunch on Global and Community Health with the Chancellor and EVC
• May 10 2017 Invited Research Talk for College Scholars Program
• May 14 2015 Invited talk, First-Year Honors Program faculty research colloquium
• Feb 24 2015 Invited talk, Cognitive Psychology colloquium
• Apr 19 2014 Invited talk, the 2014 UCSC Chancellor’s Reception for Newly Admitted High Achieving Students.
• Apr 2 2014 Videotaped presentation, UCSC Virtual Spring spotlight, 2014.
• 2008 Invited talk, CITRIS series
• 2008 Invited talk, Cognitive Psychology colloquium
• 2008 Affiliated Faculty, Department of Psychology

 

      Other Outreach

• Dec 3 2019 Hosting CAVE visit by Girls in Engineering
• Feb 2018 Hosting CAVE (room-sized Virtual Reality games) visit for UCSC MESA (Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement) Schools program
• Jul 2017 Hosting CAVE visit for Girls in Engineering
• Apr 2017 Hosting CAVE visit for CodeSpa Virtual Reality Programming Retreat, VR camp for young underrepresented girls
• Mar 2016 Hosting CAVE visit for CodeSpa Virtual Reality Programming Retreat, VR camp for young underrepresented girls
• 2008 – 2010 Mentor to women graduate students on MentorNet