Hi! I’m Ada, a User Experience Researcher at Meta Reality Labs on the Augmented Reality Wearables team. I recently earned my PhD in Technology and Social Behavior (a joint Computer Science and Communication Studies program) at Northwestern University. I am interested in exploring foundational human needs in service of building novel data-driven daily living, work, and health technologies.
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Ng, A., Walker, A. M., Wakschlag, L., Alshurafa, N., & Reddy, M. (2022). Understanding Self-Tracked Data from Bounded Situational Contexts. In Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 1684-1697).
Ng, A., Wei, B., Jain, J., Ward, E.A., Tandon, S.D., Moskowitz, J.T., Krogh-Jespersen, S., Wakschlag, L.S. and Alshurafa, N., (2022). Predicting the Next-Day Perceived and Physiological Stress of Pregnant Women by Using Machine Learning and Explainability: Algorithm Development and Validation. JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 10(8), e33850. [doi]
Alharbi, R., Ng, A., Alharbi, R., & Hester, J. (2020). “I Am Not an Engineer”: Understanding How Clinicians Design & Alter Assistive Technology. Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI'20 Extended Abstracts). [PDF] [doi]
Ng, A., Kornfield, R., Schueller, S. M., Zalta, A. K., Brennan, M., & Reddy, M. (2019). Provider Perspectives on Integrating Sensor-Captured Patient-Generated Data in Mental Health Care. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 115(CSCW). [PDF] [doi]
Ng, Ada. (2019). Supporting the Use of Wearable Data in the Mental Health Clinic. Workshop on “Identifying Challenges and Opportunities in Human–AI Collaboration in Healthcare.” ACM CSCW 2010. Austin, TX. November 9-13, 2019. [PDF]
Ng, A., Reddy, M., Zalta, A.K., & Schueller, S.M. (2018). Veterans’ Perspectives on Fitbit Use in Treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Interview Study. JMIR Ment Health 2018;5(2):e10415. [PDF] [doi]