Peer-Reviewed Papers

Architecting Utopias: How AI in Healthcare Envisions Societal Ideals and Human Flourishing

Catherine Wieczorek, Heidi Biggs, Kamala Payyapilly Thiruvenkatanathan, and Shaowen Bardzell. 2025. Architecting Utopias: How AI in Healthcare Envisions Societal Ideals and Human Flourishing. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’25), April 26-May 1, 2025, Yokohama, Japan. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 15 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713118

Exploring the Design Space of Technological Interventions for Menopause: A Systematic Review

Kamala Payyapilly Thiruvenkatanathan, Shaowen Bardzell, and Jeffrey Bardzell. Exploring the Design Space of Technological Interventions for Menopause: A Systematic Review. Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare. A. Tsanas and A. Triantafyllidis, eds. Springer Nature Switzerland. 584–599. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34586-9_39

Peer-Reviewed Extended Abstracts

Caring for Reproductive Justice: Design in Response to Adversity

Benedetta Lusi, Adrian K. Petterson, Kamala Payyapilly Thiruvenkatanathan, Michaela Krawczyk, Emily Tseng, Lara Reime, Madeline Balaam, Katie A. Siek, and Cristina Zaga. 2024. Caring for Reproductive Justice: Design in Response to Adversity. In Companion Publication of the 2024 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW Companion '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 693–696. https://doi.org/10.1145/3678884.3681832

Position Papers & Posters

Navigating Trauma and Healing: From Pregnancy Loss to Motherhood

Kamala Payyapilly Thiruvenkatanathan. Navigating Trauma and Healing: From Pregnancy Loss to Motherhood. Position paper that will be presented at the Collective Healing to Support Design Futures workshop, CHI ‘23. April 2023.

Re-imagining FemTech: A Design Research Approach to Women’s Health Informatics

Kamala Payyapilly Thiruvenkatanathan. Re-imagining FemTech: A Design Research Approach to Women’s Health Informatics. Poster presented at Human-Computer Interaction Consortium ‘22. June 2022.

Public Writing

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