RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

My expertise is in developing design guidelines for equitable technologies. My research experiences spans developing frameworks for design based on human-centered processes, evaluating existing technologies for opportunities to innovation, and documenting the stories and perspectives of people in different communities.

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Conference and Journal Publications

Stephen R. Pfohl, Heather Cole-Lewis, Rory Sayres, Darlene Neal, Mercy Asiedu, Awa Dieng, Nenad Tomasev, Qazi Mamunur Rashid, Shekoofeh Azizi, Negar Rostamzadeh, Liam G. McCoy, Leo Anthony Celi, Yun Liu, Mike Schaekermann, Alanna Walton, Alicia Parrish, Chirag Nagpal, Preeti Singh, Akeiylah DeWitt, Philip Mansfield, Sushant Prakash, Katherine Heller, Alan Karthikesalignam, Christopher Semturs, Joelle Barral, Greg Corrado, Yossi Matias, Jamila Smith-Loud, Ivor Horn, Karan Singhal. 2024. A Toolbox for Surfacing Health Equity Harms and Biases in Large Language Models.

[In-progress] Akeiylah DeWitt, Andrea Parker, Christina Harrington, Heather Cole-Lewis. 2024. Design principles for Centering Health Equity in the Design of Health LLMs.

[In-progress] Akeiylah DeWitt, David Nguyen, Julie Kientz. 2024. Cultural Safety: A new design framework for cultural tailoring in mobile health technologies.

[In-progress] Akeiylah DeWitt, Rebecca Michelson, Ria Nagar, Alexis Hiniker, Jason Yip, Sean A. Munson, and Julie A. Kientz. 2024. Designing Methods Towards Resilience: A Critical Reflection on Co-Designing Technology with Families During Early COVID-19.

[In-progress] Akeiylah DeWitt and Julie Kientz. 2023. Development of a Heuristic Method for child health promotion mobile apps.

Calvin Liang, Emily Tseng, Akeiylah DeWitt, Yasmine Kotturi, Sucheta Ghoshal, Angela D.R. Smith, Marisol Wong-Villacres, Lauren Wilcox, and Sheena Erete. 2023. Surfacing Structural Barriers to Community-Collaborative Approaches in Human-Computer Interaction. ACM CSCW 2023 Workshops.

Akeiylah DeWitt, Julie Kientz, Kendra Liljenquist. 2022. Quality of Mobile Apps for Child Development Support: Search in App Stores and Content Analysis. JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting.

Akeiylah DeWitt, Julie Kientz, Tumaini Coker, Kendra Liljenquist. 2022. mHealth Technology Design and Evaluation for Early Childhood Health Promotion: Systematic Literature Review. JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting 5, no. 4: e37718.

Rebecca Michelson, Akeiylah DeWitt, Ria Nagar, Alexis Hiniker, Jason Yip, Sean A. Munson, and Julie A. Kientz. Parenting in a Pandemic: Juggling Multiple Roles and Managing Technology Use in Family Life During COVID-19 in the United States. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 5, no. CSCW2 (2021): 1-39.

Saba Kawas, Ye Yuan, Akeiylah DeWitt, Qiao Jin, Susanne Kirchner, Abigail Bilger, Ethan O. Grantham, Julie A. Kientz, Andrea Tartaro, Svetlana Yarosh. 2020. Another Decade of IDC Research: Examining and Reflecting on Values and Ethics. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Interaction Design and Children.

Camila Alviar, Rick Dale, Akeiylah DeWitt, Christopher T. Kello. 2019. Multimodal Coordination of Sound and Movement in Speech. Discourse Processes.

Cristina Maria Sylla, Elena Márquez Segura, Akeiylah DeWitt, Ahmed Sabbir Arif, Eva Irene Brooks. 2019. Fiddling, Pointing, Hovering and Sliding: Embodied Actions with Three Evaluation Tools for Children. Proceedings of the 2019 CHI PLAY Conference – CHI PLAY ’19.

Conference Presentations and Invited Talks

Child Health Equity Research Program. Seattle Childrens Research Institute. 2024. Presented research highlight: Culturally Safe Approaches for Designing Health Technologies.

Behavioral Interventions Core. University of Washington Department of Global Health. 2023. Presented research highlight: Culturally Safe Health Technology: A New Framework for Child Development Support through mHealth.

Workgroup on Interactive Systems in Healthcare (WISH) @ CHI 2023. Hamburg, Germany. Presented research highlight: Quality of Mobile Apps for Child Development Support.

Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD). 2023. Salt Lake City, Utah. Presented research highlight: Co-designing a culturally relevant technology system for child development support.

California Cognitive Science Conference. 2018. Berkeley, California. Presented Paper: Hierarchical Temporal Structure in the Sounds and Visible Movements of Speech and Music.