Alisha Pradhan - Publications

Peer-reviewed Publications

[18] Alisha Pradhan, Ben Jelen, Ramprabu Thangaraj, Katie A. Siek, Shannon Jette, Amanda Lazar. (2025). Understanding Older Adults’ (Dis)Engagement with Design Materials. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’25). [PDF]

[17] Alisha Pradhan, Sheena Erete, Shaan Chopra, Pooja Upadhyay, Oluwaseun Sule, Amanda Lazar. (2025). “No, not that voice again!”: Engaging Older Adults in Design of Anthropomorphic Voice Assistants. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 9, 2, Article CSCW141 (April 2025). [PDF]

[16] Alisha Pradhan, Shaan Chopra, Pooja Updhyay, Robin Brewer, Amanda Lazar (2025). Towards Accounting for Nonhuman Agency in Technology Design for Aging. In The PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environ- ments (PETRA ’25), June 25–27, 2025, Corfu Island, Greece. [PDF]

[15] Alisha Pradhan, Shaan Chopra, Pooja Updhyay, Robin Brewer, Amanda Lazar (2025). Understanding entangled human-technology-world relations: use of intelligent voice assistants by older adults. Information Research. Vol. 30. iConf (2025). [PDF]

[14] 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. In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Vol 8, Issue CSCW1. [PDF]

[13] Ben Jelen, Amanda Lazar, Christina Harrington, Alisha Pradhan, and Katie A. Siek. (2023).Speaking from Experience: Co-designing E-textile Projects with Older Adult Fiber Crafters. In the Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '23). [PDF]

[12] Alisha Pradhan, Amanda Lazar. (2021). Hey Google, Do You Have a Personality? Designing Personality and Personas for Conversational Agents. In Proceedings of Conversational User Interfaces (CUI'21). [PDF] Provocation paper honorable mention

[11] Amanda Lazar, Alisha Pradhan, Ben Jelen, Katie A. Siek, Alex Leitch. Studying the Formation of an Older Adult-Led Makerspace. (2021). In Proceedings of the 2021CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '21). [PDF]

[10] Amanda Lazar, Ben Jelen, Alisha Pradhan, Katie A. Siek. Adopting Diffractive Reading to Advance Aging HCI. (2021). ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction.28,5, Article 32. [PDF]

[9] Shaan Chopra, Emma Dixon, Kausalya Ganesh, Alisha Pradhan, Mary Radnofsky, Amanda Lazar. Designing for and with People with Dementia using a Human Rights-Based Approach. (2021). Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'21 case study track). [PDF]

[8] 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. 27, 4, Article 31 (TOCHI). [PDF] ACM TOCHI 2020 best paper award

[7] Alisha Pradhan, Ben Jelen, Katie A. Siek, Joel Chan, Amanda Lazar. Understanding Older Adults' Participation in Design Workshops. (2020). In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (CHI '20) [PDF] [Blog summary]

[6] 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. PACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 3, CSCW, Article 214 (November 2019), 21 pages. [PDF]

[5] Alisha Pradhan, Kanika Mehta, Leah Findlater. (2018). Accessibility Came by Accident: Use of Voice-Controlled Intelligent Personal Assistants by People with Disabilities. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Paper No. 459. (CHI'18) [PDF]

[4] Jonggi Hong, Alisha Pradhan, Jon E. Froehlich, Leah Findlater. (2017). Evaluating Wrist-based Haptic Feedback Designs for Directional Hand Guidance on a 2D Surface. In Proceedings of the 19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '17), 210-219. [PDF]

[3] Uran Oh, Lee Stearns, Alisha Pradhan, Jon E. Froehlich, Leah Findlater. (2017). Investigating Microinteractions for People with Visual Impairments and the Potential Role of On-Body Interaction. In Proceedings of the 19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '17), 22-31. [PDF]

[2] Alisha Pradhan and B. B. V. L. Deepak. (2016). Design of Intangible Interface for Mouseless Computer Handling using Hand Gestures. In Procedia Computer Science 79 (2016), pp. 287-29.

[1] Alisha Pradhan and B. B. V. L. Deepak. (2015). Obtaining hand gesture parameters using image processing, IEEE International Conference on Smart Technologies and Management for Computing, Communication, Controls, Energy and Materials (ICSTM).

Peer-reviewed Posters

[7] Alisha Pradhan, James Gallier, Raymond Domjan, Emma Dixon, Robert Bao, Hanuma Teja Maddali, Amanda Lazar. (2023). Towards a System Architecture for Connected Physical and Digital Reminders Using Embodied Objects for People with Dementia. In 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS ’23).

[6] Hanuma Teja Maddali, Emma Dixon, Alisha Pradhan, Amanda Lazar. (2022). Investigating the Potential of Artificial Intelligence Powered Interfaces to Support Different Types of Memory for People with Dementia. In Extended Abstracts of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’EA).

[5] Alisha Pradhan. (2021). An Entanglement Perspective on How Older Adults Use and Design Emerging Ubiquitous Technologies. Companion Publication of the 2021 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing.

[4] Alisha Pradhan, Amanda Lazar (2021). Voice Technologies to Support Aging in Place: Opportunities and Challenges. Innovation in Aging, 4, Suppl 1.

[3] Hanuma Teja Maddali, Emma Dixon, Alisha Pradhan, Amanda Lazar. (2020). Supporting Remote Participation when Designing with People with Dementia. Conference Companion Publication of the 2020 on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

[2] Korok Sengupta, Sayan Sarcar, Alisha Pradhan, Roisin McNaney, Sergio Sayago, Debaleena Chattopadhyay, Anirudha Joshi. (2020). Challenges and Opportunities of Leveraging Intelligent Conversational Assistant to Improve the Well-being of Older Adults. Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

[1] Amanda Lazar, Jonathan Lazar, Alisha Pradhan. (2019). Using Modules to Teach Accessibility in a User-Centered Design Course. In proceedings of ASSETS '19, The 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility.

Refereed Workshop Position Papers

Alisha Pradhan, and Amanda Lazar. (2021). Designing Credible Conversational Voice Interfaces for Older Adults. CHI workshop on Conversational User Interfaces.

Alisha Pradhan, Amanda Lazar. (2020). Designing Voice User Interfaces for Older Adults: Challenges and Opportunities. CHI workshop on Designing Interactions for the Ageing Populations – Addressing Global Challenges.

Alisha Pradhan, Amanda Lazar. (2019). An “invisible friend”, an “invisible maid”: Older Adults Associating Social Roles with Voice Assistants. CSCW workshop on Social Technologies for Life Transitions.