Alisha Pradhan

Assistant Professor, Informatics
Education
Ph.D.; University of Maryland-College Park; Information Studies; 2022
M.S.; University of Maryland-College Park; Human-computer Interaction; 2018
B.Tech.; National Institute of Technology; Industrial Design; 2015
Website
https://www.alishapradhan.net/
2026 Fall Courses
IS 247 - DESIGNING THE USER EXPERIENCE
IS 491 - SENIOR PROJECT - IS
IS 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I
CS 489 - COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCH PROJ
CS 790A - DOCT DISSERTATION & RES
CS 792 - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH
IS 488 - INDEPENDENT STUDY IN INFO
IS 776 - IS RESEARCH STUDY
IS 701B - MASTER'S THESIS
CS 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I
IS 489 - INFO UNDERGRAD THESIS RESEARCH
IS 247 - DESIGNING THE USER EXPERIENCE - HONORS
CS 488 - INDEPENDENT STUDY IN CS
IS 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II
CS 701B - MASTER'S THESIS
CS 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II
IS 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT
IS 792 - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH
CS 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT
IS 790A - DOCT DISSERTATION & RES
IT 488 - INDEPENDENT STUDY
Past Courses
IS 247: DESIGNING THE USER EXPERIENCE
IS 247: DESIGNING THE USER EXPERIENCE - HONORS
IS 485: ST: DESIGN FOR ACCESSIBILITY
IS 661: USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN
Research Interests
Human-computer Interaction (HCI), aging, and accessibility.
Journal Article
Ruipu Hu, Alisha Pradhan, Elizabeth Bonsignore, Amanda Lazar. 2024. "Sustaining the Usefulness and Appeal of an Older Adult-led Makerspace through Developing and Adapting Resources." Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, vol. 8, no. CSCW1.
Christina N Harrington, Ben Jelen, Amanda Lazar, Aqueasha Martin-Hammond, Alisha Pradhan, Blaine Reeder, Katie Siek. 2021. "Taking stock of the present and future of smart technologies for older adults and caregivers." https://cra.org/ccc/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/CCC-TransitionPaperOlderAdults.pdf.
Amanda Lazar, Ben Jelen, Alisha Pradhan, Katie A. Siek. 2021. "Adopting Diffractive Reading to Advance HCI Research: A Case Study on Technology for Aging." ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, vol. 28, no. 5.
Alisha Pradhan, Amanda Lazar. 2020. "Voice technologies to support aging in place: opportunities and challenges." Innovation in Aging, vol. 4, no. Suppl 1, pp. 317.
Alisha Pradhan, Amanda Lazar, Leah Findlater. 2020. "Use of intelligent voice assistants by older adults with low technology use." ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, vol. 27, no. 4.
Alisha Pradhan, Leah Findlater, Amanda Lazar. 2019. "“Phantom friend” or “just a box with information”: personification and ontological categorization of smart speaker-based voice assistants by older adults." Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, vol. 3, no. CSCW.
Conference Proceeding
"Towards a System Architecture for Connected Physical and Digital Reminders Using Embodied Objects for People with Dementia"
October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2023.
"Speaking from Experience: Co-designing E-textile Projects with Older Adult Fiber Crafters"
February, 2023.
"Investigating the Potential of Artificial Intelligence Powered Interfaces to Support Different Types of Memory for People with Dementia"
April (2nd Quarter/Spring), 2022.
"An Entanglement Perspective on How Older Adults Use and Design Emerging Ubiquitous Technologies"
October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2021.
"Wild by Design: Workshop on Designing Ubiquitous Health Monitoring Technologies for Challenging Environments"
September, 2021.
"Hey Google, Do You Have a Personality? Designing Personality and Personas for Conversational Agents"
July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2021.
Other
"A More-Than-Human Perspective on Older Adults’ Use of and Participation in Design of Emerging Technologies"
University of Maryland, College Park, 2022.
"Exploring the accessibility of home-based, voice-controlled intelligent personal assistants"
University of Maryland, College Park, 2018.
"How well do my results generalize? Comparing security and privacy survey results from MTurk and web panels to the US"
UM Computer Science Department; CS-TR-5054, 2017.