Hi, I am Brenna!
I am a PhD candidate in the Computer Science Department at the University of Toronto . I am advised by Professors Khai Truong and Alex Mariakakis. My research lie in the intersection of HCI, health informatics, and conversational agents.
I am particularly interested in the ways conversational agents, in the form of chatbots, can be used to facilitate communication between patients and physicians in clinical settings. For my dissertation I am working with real-world patients and physicians to explore the use and design of a chatbot that can act as a medium for patients and physicians to establish a bi-directional form of communication, understanding and information gathering.