Biography
Karthik S. Bhat is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Science at Drexel University's College of Computing & Informatics (CCI). His research is positioned at the intersections of human-computer interaction (HCI), healthcare, and technology-enabled care work. Broadly, he studies how emerging technologies can best augment health and care work. His research focuses on how societal, cultural, and socioeconomic factors influence the adoption and anticipated outcomes of emerging healthcare technologies, and how best new technology-mediated care workflows could be designed to better support healthcare provision. His work has been published at premier HCI venues including ACM Conferences on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), and has received Best Paper and Honorable Mention awards at CSCW.
Research Areas
Research Interests
Human-Centered Computing, Human-Centered AI, Care Work, ICTD
Academic Distinctions
- PhD, Human-Centered Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
- B. Tech, Information Technology, NITK Surathkal, India