Georgia Kenderova

📧 gak98 [at] uw [dot] edu

🌎 Seattle, WA

Hi! I’m a PhD candidate in Human Centered Design and Engineering (HCDE) at the University of Washington. I’m advised by Dr. Sean A. Munson and am part of the Intentional Traces Collective (ITC). I specialize in qualitative methods, with my current research focusing on how we can leverage technology and storytelling to support mental health. I am specifically interested in understanding how we can use narrative to reframe how we look at failure and, ultimately, how we can create better stories about ourselves. I believe the power of storytelling combined with a strong sense of community can help us shape better mental health futures, and I want to learn how we can use technology in an inclusive and human-centered way to help us get there.

I’m also generally interested in how we can make health tech more fair and safe. My most recent research project examined the impact of the overturn of Roe v. Wade on period tracking and data privacy perceptions.

I got my MS in HCDE from the University of Washington in 2023. I graduated from Pomona College in 2021, where I got a B.A. in Computer Science and Media Studies. During my time there, I was part of the HCI Lab where I researched online health communities for mental health and improving patient-provider collaboration alongside Prof. Alexandra Papoutsaki and Prof. Daniel Epstein (University of California, Irvine).

In my free time, I like to bake sourdough bread, crochet, read (talk to me about your favorite books!), travel, and play/watch sports. I love all things history and mythology and am a massive ice cream and coffee fan. I’m a pretty big movie and TV show nerd, and I also occasionally make short films for fun 🎥

selected publications

Designing Flexible Longitudinal Regimens: Supporting Clinician Planning for Discontinuation of Psychiatric Drugs

Eunkyung Jo, Myeonghan Ryu, Georgia Kenderova, and 4 more authors

In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New Orleans, LA, USA, 2022

Bib

@inproceedings{jo2022designing,
  author = {Jo, Eunkyung and Ryu, Myeonghan and Kenderova, Georgia and So, Samuel and Shapiro, Bryan and Papoutsaki, Alexandra and Epstein, Daniel A.},
  title = {Designing Flexible Longitudinal Regimens: Supporting Clinician Planning for Discontinuation of Psychiatric Drugs},
  year = {2022},
  isbn = {9781450391573},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3502206},
  doi = {10.1145/3491102.3502206},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
  articleno = {352},
  numpages = {17},
  keywords = {Psychiatric drugs, Planning, Clinical decision support systems, Antidepressants},
  location = {New Orleans, LA, USA},
  series = {CHI '22},
  dimensions = {true},
}

Understanding Delivery of Collectively Built Protocols in an Online Health Community for Discontinuation of Psychiatric Drugs

Alexandra Papoutsaki, Samuel So, Georgia Kenderova, and 2 more authors

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact., Oct 2021

Bib

@article{papoutsaki2021understanding,
  author = {Papoutsaki, Alexandra and So, Samuel and Kenderova, Georgia and Shapiro, Bryan and Epstein, Daniel A.},
  title = {Understanding Delivery of Collectively Built Protocols in an Online Health Community for Discontinuation of Psychiatric Drugs},
  year = {2021},
  issue_date = {October 2021},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  volume = {5},
  number = {CSCW2},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3479564},
  doi = {10.1145/3479564},
  journal = {Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.},
  month = oct,
  articleno = {420},
  numpages = {29},
  keywords = {medical distrust, online health communities, psychiatric drugs, sensemaking, withdrawal syndromes},
  dimensions = {true},
}