Sarah NikkhahShe/Her

About Me

My name is Sarah Nikkhah. I am passionate about researching and designing pleasant experiences with long-term impact. I translate research findings into insights, stories, and design technology. Some highlights of my work at IU as a Ph.D. student and UX Researcher: - Building a research plan and conducting research to design Family Resilience Technologies - Winning 3 Hackathons - Prize Winner Open IDEO Empowered Health Cancer-Free Challenge - Leading and mentoring 8 professional designers and master students - Presenting and Reviewing work at CSCW and CHI - Worked under two NSF Funded Projects - Worked as a Graduate Ambassador for IU school of informatics and computing - Worked as a Graduate Representative at Graduate School Students Government I am working under an NSF-funded study designing family-centered technology to support family caregivers' collaboration in cancer care. Previously, I worked under another NSF Funded study designing technology on supporting dyadic coping and cancer care. My dissertation topic: Family Resilience Technologies: Designing Collaborative Technologies for Caregiving Coordination in the Children’s Hospital. Research: Research design, User research, Recruitment, Surveys, Interviews, Team leading, Observations, Focus Groups, Market/Industry research, Building Personas, and storyboards, Brainstorming, Qualitative analysis, Inductive/ Deductive coding. Design: Sketching/Paper prototyping, Storyboarding, Wire-framing, Visual, and Interactive Prototyping. Evaluation: Cognitive Walkthroughs, Heuristic Evaluations, Usability Testing. Tools: Figma, Qualtrics, ATLAS.TI, Visual Studio, Microsoft Expression Web, Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, Teams. PhD Minor in Applied Data Science: Deep Learning (NLP and Topic Modeling) B.Sc. In Computer Engineering – Software Engineering And I like reading books, cooking, dancing, biking, traveling and yoga with friends

My Skills

• Content Design
• Human Computer Interaction
• User Experience
• User Research
• Web Design

My Career

• User Experience Researcher/ IDS Intern Eli Lilly and Company · InternshipMay 2022
  Current
• Graduate Ambassador IU School of Informatics and Computing at IUPUI · Part-timeMay 2021 - December 2021
• User Experience Researcher National Science Foundation (NSF) · Part-timeJanuary 2019 - January 2021
• Researcher Parkview Mirro Center for Research and InnovationApril 2019 - June 2019
• PHD Candidate, HCI Researcher University Indianapolis · Full-timeJanuary 2017 -

My Education

• Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Human Computer InteractionGraduated July 2022
• University of Mazandaran Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Software EngineeringGraduated 2015

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