Lindy Hernandez

I’m a third-year PhD candidate 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 over three 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.

Featured UX Projects

The State of UX in the Philippines

Content Creator Research

Co-innovation with Design Thinking

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. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2024 (CHI 2024). [PDF] [arXiv] [DOI]
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. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2024 (CHI 2024). [DOI]

News

July 2024: Awarded a scholarship to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration 2024 in Philadelphia, PA
May 2024: Began my User Experience Research internship at Signet Jewelers
Apr 2024: Successfully proposed my dissertation proposal and passed my comprehensive exam!
Apr 2024: Selected to participate in the 2024 CRA-WP Grad Cohort for Women, where I presented a poster on my research
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!
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