Published inTech Critique·PinnedMember-onlyHistory shapes Situated and Cultural Technologies.I want to tell you about my friend’s new best friend: Rotimatic. I mean it when I say that it is her new best friend since my recent hour and half long visit to her house revolved around our mutual fascination with this device. If you’ve grown up in India…Technology And Design7 min readTechnology And Design7 min read
Published inMusings and Reflections·PinnedRemember what you are capable of!Holding on to your hope and optimism in the midst of short term setbacks The decision to move to the other side of the world wasn’t a difficult one for me and my husband. He felt that he had achieved what he would have liked to achieve in his career…Hopes And Fears7 min readHopes And Fears7 min read
Published inMusings and Reflections·Jan 26Member-only‘Will you now or in the future require sponsorship for employment visa status?’The job anxieties of an immigrant As I see tons of layoffs going on currently, I feel especially blue for the pain experienced by immigrant workers, some might have just begun their journeys, some might have just started settling in and others might suddenly feel uprooted. For immigrants, losing a…4 min read4 min read
Published inTech Critique·Feb 14, 2022Member-onlyHauntalogies of TechnologyThe Spooky Tech Note: These writings are some of the things that I have been thinking and writing about while taking a course at Carnegie Mellon University called Responsive Mobile Environments. The Naturehood of Traveling Data Today our reliance on technology and the actions they afford has increased so much that these seem innocuous. We…IoT5 min readIoT5 min read
Published inMusings and Reflections·Jan 2, 2022Member-onlyHow did I get here, in a nice way!Wait, I’m working on itCareer Paths1 min readCareer Paths1 min read
Nov 22, 2021Member-onlyPenumbra of PrivacyAlternative Approaches to Privacy for IoT from Socio-Technical Perspective Research Through Design | Pilot Study | Carnegie Mellon School of Design Introduction Privacy is not a new concept born in the digital era, but one that is exacerbated by it. The inherent tradeoff between the value proposition of using data and…Privacy12 min readPrivacy12 min read
Published inIndex Project Challenge·Apr 20, 2020Week 15: Designing the Experience and InteractionsApril 20 — April 26, 2020 <04/20 In class discussion> The card sorting exercise for information architecture gave us a good productive start to this week. When we discussed it with Peter and Aadya in class, it helped us explain our vision with more clarity and brought up an important point about contextualizing our…6 min read6 min read
Published inTeam Synergy 2020·Apr 8, 2020Multi Level Perspective for Obesity in PittsburghTeam Synergy: Silvana Juri, Eustina Daniluk, Isha Hans, Catherine Yochum I. Obesity from the Multi-Level Perspective Model In order to understand how obesity has come to affect 35.6% percent of adults in the Pittsburgh region, our team was tasked to frame the wicked problem of obesity within the perspective of socio-technical systems. …23 min read23 min read
Published inIndex Project Challenge·Apr 2, 2020Week 6: Presenting Exploratory ResearchFebruary 16 — February 22, 2020 <02/17 Presentation of Exploratory Research> There were two major points of feedback on our presentation: This is a very important question and there is a “tsunami of literature on this topic” from Shabana Zuboff, to the Private Eye, to Jaron Lanier to a bunch of others who advocate erasing…4 min read4 min read
Published inIndex Project Challenge·Apr 2, 2020Week 11_Presenting Generative Research followed by sense makingMarch 22 — March 29, 2020 <03/22 Working for the presentation> Since this was the first presentation after going virtual in the aftermath of COVID-19, we struggled to come together as a team, with all our different schedules still falling in place. …5 min read5 min read
