Peer-Reviewed Papers

Architecting Utopias: How AI in Healthcare Envisions Societal Ideals and Human Flourishing

Wieczorek, C., Biggs, H., Payyapilly Thiruvenkatanathan, K., & Bardzell, S. (2025, April). Architecting Utopias: How AI in Healthcare Envisions Societal Ideals and Human Flourishing. In Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’25). https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713118

Exploring the Design Space of Technological Interventions for Menopause: A Systematic Review

Payyapilly Thiruvenkatanathan, K., Bardzell, S., & Bardzell, J. (2022, December). Exploring the Design Space of Technological Interventions for Menopause: A Systematic Review. In International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (pp. 584-599). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34586-9_39


Peer-Reviewed Extended Abstracts

A SIG on Researcher Care and the Invisible Care Work

Tuli, A., Payyapilly Thiruvenkatanathan, K., Lusi, B., Petterson, A., Gómez Ortega, A., S Bhat, K., R Pendse, S., Sakeen Wani, A., Turmo Vidal, L., Ismail, A., Park, J. Y., & Patel, D. (2025). Behind the Scenes: A SIG on Researcher Care and the Invisible Care Work. In Companion Publication of the 2025 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW Companion ’25).

Caring for Reproductive Justice: Design in Response to Adversity

Benedetta Lusi, Adrian K. Petterson, Kamala Payyapilly Thiruvenkatanathan, Michaela Krawczyk, Emily Tseng, Lara Reime, Madeline Balaam, Katie A. Siek, and Cristina Zaga. 2024. Caring for Reproductive Justice: Design in Response to Adversity. In Companion Publication of the 2024 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW Companion '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 693–696. https://doi.org/10.1145/3678884.3681832


Position Papers & Posters

Navigating Trauma and Healing: From Pregnancy Loss to Motherhood

Payyapilly Thiruvenkatanathan, K. (2023, April). Navigating Trauma and Healing: From Pregnancy Loss to Motherhood. Presented at Collective Healing to Support Design Futures workshop In Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’23).

Re-imagining FemTech: A Design Research Approach to Women’s Health Informatics

Payyapilly Thiruvenkatanathan, K. (2022, June). Re-imagining FemTech: A Design Research Approach to Women’s Health Informatics. Presented at Human-Computer Interaction Consortium (HCIC ‘22)


Public Writing

Reflecting on UIST 2021

Payyapilly Thiruvenkatanathan, K., Tilekbay, B. & Huq, F. (2021, October). In ACM UIST Medium Blog.


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