Lindy Hernandez
I’m a second year PhD student studying Informatics and specializing in Human-Computer Interaction at Penn State, where I’m part of the Health and Play Lab and advised by Dr. Xinning Gui. My research interests are in personal informatics, user experience, and platform labor.
I have 2+ years of industry experience where I developed my skills in UX research, design thinking, and UX design with Kumu, User Experience Philippines, and Accenture Philippines.
I'm always happy to talk about grad school, research, and UX! Feel free to contact me at lindyhernandez@psu.edu or message me on LinkedIn.
Featured Projects
Publications
Rie Helene (Lindy) Hernandez, Qiurong Song, Yubo Kou, Xinning Gui. (2024). "At the end of the day, I am accountable": Gig Workers' Self-Tracking for Multi-Dimensional Accountability Management. Accepted to Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2024 (CHI 2024). [PDF] [arXiv]
Qiurong Song, Rie Helene (Lindy) Hernandez, Yubo Kou, Xinning Gui. (2024). “Our Users' Privacy is Paramount to Us”: A Discourse Analysis of How Period and Fertility Tracking App Companies Address the Roe v Wade Overturn. Accepted to Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2024 (CHI 2024).
News
March 2024: Presented a poster on my research at The Graduate School at Penn State's Graduate Exhibition
January 2024: Two papers accepted to CHI 2024!
January 2024: Selected to participate in the 2024 CRA-WP Grad Cohort for Women
August 2023: Elected as the Vice President of the Graduate Student Association in Information Sciences and Technology (GIST) at Penn State. Looking forward to working with my fellow officers to bring the IST community together!
July 2023: Awarded a scholarship to attend the Virtual Grace Hopper Celebration 2023
May 2023: Passed my Qualifying Exam!
August 2022: Started my PhD journey at Penn State IST