First Full Paper Presentation (CHI '25)

🌸 ありがとうございます, Yokohama! I’m feeling deeply grateful and inspired after an incredible experience at CHI ‘25 in Japan this May, where I had the opportunity to present my first full paper, Designing Health Technologies for Immigrant Communities: Exploring Healthcare Providers’ Communication Strategies with Patients. This project is led by my advisor, Professor Ji Youn Shin, and it is a collaborative effort with my other amazing co-authors, Alisha Ghaju, May Hang, and Professor Juan Fernando Maestre. I’m very grateful for all the insightful feedback and heartwarming cheers from the CHI community.

By conducting semi-structured interviews with 15 providers working with patients from a resettled community with unique cultural characteristics, we identified providers’ effective communication strategies, including acknowledgment, community involvement, gradual care, and adaptive communication practices (i.e., adjusting the communication style). Based on our findings, we highlight cultural competence and discuss design implications for technologies to support health communication in resettled communities.

Prerecorded Video: Full Paper Presentation (10 min)

During the conference, I also had the chance to present the late-breaking work “Empowering Farming Communities Through Information Tracking: A Design Approach to Crop Planning and Management,” via a poster. A heartfelt thank you to my wonderful collaborators — Minghe Lu, Minzhu Zhao, Gaoxiang Luo, Benjamin Withey, Seraphina Yong, and Professor Ji Youn Shin — for your incredible contributions and teamwork throughout this project!

Drawing on interviews with 7 resettled farmers and hands-on prototyping, we delved into their everyday farming routines to better understand how they track crops, manage inputs, and plan for the season. Our findings highlight opportunities to support culturally grounded, practical record-keeping tools that align with farmers’ lived realities.

Prerecorded Video: Poster Presentation (3 min)

If you’re interested in our articles, please check the links below!

• 🔗 Full paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3706598.3713782 (opens in a new tab)
• 🔗 Poster: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3706599.3719713 (opens in a new tab)