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Himanshu Zade

Himanshu is a mixed-methods researcher who graduated with a PhD from the Human Centered Design and Engineering department at the University of Washington. For his dissertation, Himanshu worked with Jennifer Turns, Kate Starbird, and Gary Hsieh. He investigated how information provenance can serve as a useful tool for everyday users to assess the credibility of online information. Generally, he is interested in understanding the impact of technology affordances on human behavior, and designing interventions to adjust it.

Currently, he is working for Microsoft as a UX Researcher. He also serves as a part-time lecturer at University of Washington. He has worked at other places including Airbnb, Intellectual Ventures, and Microsoft Research in research and UX-related roles.

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Publications

Himanshu Zade, Megan Woodruff, Erika Johnson, Mariah Stanley, Zhennan Zhou, Minh Tu Huynh, Alissa Elizabeth Acheson, Gary Hsieh, Kate Starbird. Tweet Trajectory and AMPS-based Contextual Cues can Help Users Identify Misinformation. To Appear in the Journal Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work And Social Computing, 2023.
Himanshu Zade, Morgan Wack, Yuanrui Zhang, Kate Starbird, Ryan Calo, Jason Young, and Jevin D. West. Auditing Google’s Search Headlines as a Potential Gateway to Misleading Content: Evidence from the 2020 US Election. In the Journal Proceedings of Online Trust and Safety, 1(3), 2022.
Elin A. Björling, Jennifer Sonney, Sofia Rodriguez, Nora Carr, Himanshu Zade, and Soo Hyun Moon. Exploring the Effect of a Nature-based Virtual Reality Environment on Stress in Adolescents. In the Proceedings of Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 2022.
Kai Lukoff, Ulrik Lyngs, Himanshu Zade, J Vera Liao, James Choi, Kaiyue Fan, Sean A Munson, and Alexis Hiniker. How the design of youtube influences user sense of agency. In the Proceedings of CHI 2021. [Honorable Mention Award]
Himanshu Zade, Kushal Shah, Vaibhavi Rangarajan, Priyanka Kshirsagar, Muhammad Imran and Kate Starbird. Towards Improving the Utility of Social Media Data for Crisis Response: Understanding Actionability. In the Proceedings of CSCW 2018.
Himanshu Zade, Meg Drouhard, Bonnie Chinh, Lu Gan and Cecilia Aragon. Conceptualising Disagreement in Qualitative Coding. In the Proceedings of CHI 2018.
Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Nicola J. Bidwell, Himanshu Zade, Srihari H. Muralidhar, Anupama Dhareshwar, Baneen Karachiwala, Cedrick Tandong and Jacki O'Neill. Peer to peer in the workplace: A view from the road. In the Proceedings of CHI 2016. [Honorable Mention Award]
Himanshu Zade, Santosh Arvind Adimoolam, Sai Gollapudi, Anind K. Dey and Venkatesh Choppella. Edit Distance Modulo Bisimulation: A quantitative measure to study evolving user models. In the Proceedings of CHI '14, Toronto, Canada, 2014.
Himanshu Zade and Venkatesh Choppella. Functionality or User Interface: which is easier to learn when changed? In the Proceedings of 4th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction, Kharagpur, India, 2012.
Deepti Aggarwal Khot, Himanshu Zade, and Anind K. Dey. Demography based Automated Teller Machines. In the Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction, Pune, India, 2012.

Short Papers / Posters

Bonnie Chinh, Himanshu Zade, Abbas Ganji and Cecilia Aragon. Ways of Qualitative Coding: A Case Study of Four Strategies for Resolving Disagreements. Extended Abstracts at CHI 2019.
Susann Wagenknecht, Min Kyung Lee, Caitlin Lustig, Jacki O'Neill and Himanshu Zade. Algorithms at Work. Extended Abstract and Workshop organised at CSCW 2016.
Himanshu Zade and Jacki O'Neill. Design Illustrations to Make Adoption of Ola Technology More Beneficial for Indian Auto-Rickshaw Drivers. Interactive poster accepted for presentation at CSCW 2016.

Work Experience

UX Researcher at Microsoft, Inc.

Mar 2024 - ongoing | Microsoft (IFG) | Seattle, WA.

Experience Research Intern at Airbnb, Inc.

Jun 2021 - Sep 2021 | Airbnb Inc. | San Francisco, CA.

User Experience Intern at Institute of Disease Modeling, Intellectual Ventures Inc.

Jun 2018 - Sep 2018 | Intellectual Ventures Inc. | Bellevue, WA.

Research Fellow at Microsoft Research India

Jun 2015 - Sep 2016 | Technology for Emerging Markets | Bengaluru, India.

User Experience Researcher at Kern Communications

Oct 2014 - May 2015 | Kern Communications (acquired by [24]7.ai Inc.) | Hyderabad, India.

Research Visitor at Ubicomp Lab, HCII

May 2013 - Apr 2014 | Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, USA.

Intern for Innovation Center, CA Inc.

Jul 2012 - Mar 2013 | CA Technologies Inc. | Hyderabad, India.

Research Assistant for VLEAD

Aug 2011 - May 2012 | VLEAD | Hyderabad, India.

Research Assistant for Virtual Labs

Aug 2010 - Apr 2011 | Pascal Lab @ IIIT-H | Hyderabad, India.

Teaching Roles

Teaching Instructor for Experimental Research Methods

Sep 2021 - ongoing | UW | Seattle, WA.

Teaching Instructor for Human Data Interaction

Apr 2022 - Jun 2022 | UW | Seattle, WA.

Teaching Assistant for Voice Interaction Design

Apr 2019 - Jun 2019 | UW | Seattle, WA.

Teaching Assistant for UX Prototyping

Jan 2019 - Mar 2019, Jan 2018 - Mar 2018 | UW | Seattle, WA.

Teaching Assistant for Intro to Game Design

Apr 2018 - Jun 2018 | UW | Seattle, WA.

Teaching Assistant for Designing a Human Centered Venture

Sep 2017 - Dec 2017 | UW | Seattle, WA.

Teaching Assistant for Principles of Programming Languages

Aug 2011 - Dec 2011 | IIIT-H | Hyderabad, India.

Teaching Assistant for Humanities

Aug 2010 - Dec 2010 | IIIT-H | Hyderabad, India.

Times when I am free

This section has changed a lot with bouldering being the latest addition!

I am a keen traveler, especially places that have interesting architecture!

Making cards, art, and origami is another one!

I also like studying spatial design and huge architectural spaces. Buildings surely drive me crazy! Apart from appreciating, I do sketch decent floorplans, elevations, interiors etc. and end up doing it most of my spare time.

Food, something I can never get bored of! Also try cooking at times.

That's all about me for now! :)