Publications

2026

• Crafting Remembrance Beyond the Self: Older Adults’ Digital and Material Legacies. Ramprabu Thangaraj, Jed R Brubaker, Emma Dixon, Alisha Pradhan. Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026). Best Paper Award

• Exploring The Role of Generative AI in Dementia Resilience Building Activities: Uncovering Opportunities and Challenges. Sushant Kot, Margi Engineer, Elizabeth Gilman, Christopher Flathmann, Alisha Pradhan, Emma Dixon. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI). 2026.

• Digital Colourism? Understanding Emoji Skin Tone Preferences Among Indian-Origin Users. Ramprabu Thangaraj, Jinan Hussain, Tongxin Li, Sayan Sarcar, Alisha Pradhan. 38th International BCS Human-Computer Interaction Conference.

2025

• Examining Age-Bias and Stereotypes of Aging in LLMs. Sherwin Dewan, Ismail Shaikh, Connie Shaw, Abhilash Sahoo, Akshita Jha, Alisha Pradhan. Proceedings of the 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS). 2025. 

• "Was there Bias in your Response?": LLM Anthropomorphic Traits in Context of Ability Bias Questioning. Neel Iyer, Alisha Pradhan. Companion Publication of the 2025 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW). 2025.

• "That's something that as a senior person you have to consider now": Unpacking Older Adults' Preferences for End-of-Life Data Planning. Ramprabu Thangaraj, Jed R Brubaker, Nathan Malkin, Alisha Pradhan. Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS). 2025.

• Towards Accounting for Nonhuman Agency in Technology Design for Aging. Alisha Pradhan, Shaan Chopra, Pooja Upadhyay, Robin Brewer, Amanda Lazar. Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA). 2025.

• 'No, not that voice again!': Engaging Older Adults in Design of Anthropomorphic Voice Assistants. Alisha Pradhan, Sheena Erete, Shaan Chopra, Pooja Upadhyay, Oluwaseun Sule, Amanda Lazar. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW). Vol 9, Issue 2. 2025

• Examining and Mitigating Ability-bias in LLMs via Self-Reflection. Neel Iyer, Akshita Jha, Alisha Pradhan. Proceedings of the 22nd International Web for All Conference. 2025.

• Understanding Older Adults'(Dis) Engagement with Design Materials. Alisha Pradhan, Ben Jelen, Ramprabu Thangaraj, Katie A Siek, Shannon Jette, Amanda Lazar. Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). 2025.

• Understanding entangled human-technology-world relations: use of intelligent voice assistants by older adults. Alisha Pradhan, Shaan Chopra, Pooja Upadhyay, Robin Brewer, Amanda Lazar. Information research. Vol 30. 2025.

• Digital Colourism? Understanding Emoji Skin Tone Preferences Among Indian-Origin Users.  Ramprabu Thangaraj, Jinan Hussain, Tongxin Li, Sayan Sarcar, Alisha Pradhan. 38th International BCS Human-Computer Interaction Conference.  2025.

2024

• Sustaining the usefulness and appeal of an older adult-led makerspace through developing and adapting resources. Ruipu Hu, Alisha Pradhan, Elizabeth Bonsignore, Amanda Lazar. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-computer Interaction. CSCW1. Vol 8. 2024.

2023

• Towards a System Architecture for Connected Physical and Digital Reminders Using Embodied Objects for People with Dementia. Alisha Pradhan, James Gallier, Raymond Domjan, Emma Dixon, Robert Bao, Hanuma Teja Maddali, Amanda Lazar. Proceedings of the 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS). 2023

• Speaking from experience: co-designing e-textile projects with older adult fiber crafters. Ben Jelen, Amanda Lazar, Christina Harrington, Alisha Pradhan, Katie A Siek. Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI). 2023.

• Investigating the potential of artificial intelligence powered interfaces to support different types of memory for people with dementia. Hanuma Teja Maddali, Emma Dixon, Alisha Pradhan, Amanda Lazar. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI'EA). 2023.

2021

• An entanglement perspective on how older adults use and design emerging ubiquitous technologies. Alisha Pradhan. Companion Publication of the 2021 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW). 2021.

• Adopting diffractive reading to advance hci research: A case study on technology for aging. Amanda Lazar, Ben Jelen, Alisha Pradhan, Katie A Siek. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI). 2021.

• Hey Google, do you have a personality? Designing personality and personas for conversational agents. Alisha Pradhan, Amanda Lazar. Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Conversational User Interfaces. 2021. Honorable Mention Award.

• Designing for and with people with dementia using a human rights-based approach. Shaan Chopra, Emma Dixon, Kausalya Ganesh, Alisha Pradhan, Mary L. Radnofsky, Amanda Lazar. Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI Case Study track). 2021.

• Studying the formation of an older adult-led makerspace. Amanda Lazar, Alisha Pradhan, Ben Jelen, Katie A. Siek, Alex Leitch. Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). 2021.

• Taking stock of the present and future of smart technologies for older adults and caregivers. Christina N Harrington, Ben Jelen, Amanda Lazar, Aqueasha Martin-Hammond, Alisha Pradhan, Blaine Reeder, Katie Siek.  Technical report, Computing Community Consortium (CCC): A computing Community Consortium (CCC) Transition Paper. 2021.

2020

• Supporting remote participation when designing with people with dementia. Hanuma Teja Maddali, Emma Dixon, Alisha Pradhan, Amanda Lazar. Companion Publication of the 2020 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. 2020.

• Use of intelligent voice assistants by older adults with low technology use. Alisha Pradhan, Amanda Lazar, Leah Findlater. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI). 2020. Best Paper Award

• Understanding older adults' participation in design workshops. Alisha Pradhan, Ben Jelen, Katie A Siek, Joel Chan, Amanda Lazar. Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2020.

2019

• "Phantom Friend" or" Just a Box with Information" Personification and Ontological Categorization of Smart Speaker-based Voice Assistants by Older Adults. Alisha Pradhan, Leah Findlater, Amanda Lazar. Proceedings of the ACM on human-computer interaction (CSCW). 2019.

• Using modules to teach accessibility in a user-centered design course. Amanda Lazar, Jonathan Lazar, Alisha Pradhan. Proceedings of the 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS). 2019.

2018

• "Accessibility Came by Accident" Use of Voice-Controlled Intelligent Personal Assistants by People with Disabilities. Alisha Pradhan, Kanika Mehta, Leah Findlater. Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on human factors in computing systems. 2018.

2017

• Evaluating wrist-based haptic feedback for non-visual target finding and path tracing on a 2d surface. Jonggi Hong, Alisha Pradhan, Jon E Froehlich, Leah Findlater. Proceedings of the 19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. 2017.

• Investigating microinteractions for people with visual impairments and the potential role of on-body interaction. Uran Oh, Lee Stearns, Alisha Pradhan, Jon E Froehlich, Leah Findlater. Proceedings of the 19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. 2017.