About

Kathryn (Kate) Ringland, PhD in Informatics from the University of California, Irvine, is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She was previously a NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University and a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Santa Cruz. Her research interests include studying and designing playful and community-oriented technology for people with disabilities.

Kate is currently affiliated with the Computational Media Department at University of California, Santa Cruz where she leads the Misfit Lab. Her past affiliations include: ASSIST Lab at UC Santa Cruz, the Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies (CBITs) and the People, Information, and Technology Changing Health (PITCH) Lab at Northwestern University, as well as the Star Group in LUCI in the ICS School.

She is the recipient of Best Paper Awards and Nominations at ACM CHI, CSCW, Ubicomp, and ASSETS.

You can find my most up-to-date CV here.

Kate can be reached at kringlan [at] ucsc [dot] edu.

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