ABOUT
Our HCI lab faculty, students and staff have been leading the way in HCI research, HCI teaching and community outreach in Saudi Arabia since 2010. The lab is based in Riyadh, and members are affiliated with local academic institutions and industry.
Our team is diverse, consisting of computer scientists, designers, engineers, social scientists, cognitive psychologists, physicians and entrepreneurs.
Principal Investigators
Shiroq Almegren, PhD
Principal Investigator (PI)
Sharifa Alghwinem, PhD
Principal Investigator (PI)
Areej Al-Wabil, PhD
Director and PI
Dr. Shiroq is a postdoc at MIT's Ideation Lab and the director of the Humanistic Co-Design program for assistive technology, CoCreate..Dr. Shiroq's background is in tangible interaction design and her interests include co-creation and participatory design with a specific focus on persons with disabilities.
Dr. Sharifa is a postdoc at MIT's Media Lab in the personal robotics group. Her background is in computer science and affective computing with a focus on sensing affective states of users via speech, gaze and body posture. Her recent work involves intelligent systems for conversational agents for health interventions.
Founder and director of the HCI Lab. Areej is an interaction designer with a passion for bringing research to life. She has worked in several research universities and has built award-winning projects in a number of HCI domains, including BCI, eye tracking and ubiquitous learning technologies for SpLDs.
Abeer Alnafjan, PhD
Co-Investigator
Khalid Majrashi, PhD
Co-Investigator
Shada Alsalamah, PhD
Co-Investigator
ALUMNI
Alhanouf Alolayan
Mashael Aldayel
MSc @KSU 2019
PhD Candidate
Norah Alsahly
MSc Candidate
Hessah Alotaibi
MSc @KSU 2018
Najwa Alghamdi
Nada Almohaimeed
PhD Project
MSC @KSU 2017
Nouf Alrumaih
PhD Candidate
Ashwag Alswaih
MSC @KSU 2016
Dania Alomar
MSc @KSU 2013
Wafa Alrajhi
MSc @KSU 2014
Mona Alzuhair
MSc @KSU 2016
Ashwag Alshathri
MSc @KSU 2013
Naelah Alaqeel
MSc @KSU 2015
Mashael Alsaleh
MSc @KSU 2012
Sulaf Almagooshi
MSc @PSU 2016
Norah Aldahash
MSc @KSU 2016
Rawan Alwabil
MSc @KSU 2016
Ghada Alofisan
MSc @PSU 2016
Layla Alsalhi
MSc @KSU 2016
Shaden Alzeir
MSc @KSU 2016