Alisha Pradhan

Assistant Professor, Informatics

Guttenberg Information Technologies Center (GITC)

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/

2025 Spring Courses

IS 247 - DESIGNING THE USER EXPERIENCE

IS 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I

IS 488 - INDEPENDENT STUDY IN INFO

IS 776 - IS RESEARCH STUDY

IS 701B - MASTER'S THESIS

IS 489 - INFO UNDERGRAD THESIS RESEARCH

IS 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II

CS 488 - INDEPENDENT STUDY IN CS

IS 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT

IS 792 - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH

IS 790A - DOCT DISSERTATION & RES

Past Courses

IS 247: DESIGNING THE USER EXPERIENCE

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.

Alisha Pradhan, BBVL Deepak. 2016. “Design of intangible interface for mouseless computer handling using hand gestures.” Procedia Computer Science, vol. 79, pp. 287--292.

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.

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.