Katarzyna Stawarz

• 2015 - Nominated for the UCL Student Choice Teaching Awards
• 2013 - Ulf Aberg Award for the best postgraduate student project in Ergonomics and Human Factors, CIHFE
• 2012 - Joint first prize for the best research project, Orange HCI-E MSc Project Prize 2011/12
• 2012 - Semi-finalist, CHI 2012 Student Design Competition: "Silka: A Domestic Technology to Mediate the Threshold between Connection and Solitude." More about the submission.
• 2011 - Finalist, Institute of Human Factors and Ergonomics, Student Conference 2011: Mobile App Competition

Academic conferences

• Understanding the role of contextual cues in supporting the formation of medication-taking habits, 2nd Behaviour Change Conference: Digital Health and Wellbeing, London, February 2016.
• Beyond self-tracking and reminders: Designing smartphone apps that support habit formation, CHI'2015, Seoul, April 2015.
• "Don't forget your pill! Designing effective medication reminder apps that support users' daily routines", CHI'2014, Toronto, April 2014.
• Bent necks and twisted wrists: Exploring the impact of touch-screen tablets on the posture of office workers, British HCI, Uxbridge, September 2013.

Invited seminars and lectures

• Supporting medication adherence by facilitating the formation of medication habits, invited presentation, UCL Behaviour Change Clinic with Department of Health Behavioural Insight Team, July 2016.
• Forming healthy habits and leaving the app behind, invited seminar, UCL Centre for Behaviour Change, September 2015.
• Supporting medication adherence with smartphone apps, invited seminar, UCL School of Pharmacy, London, September 2015.
• Designing smartphone apps that support habit formation, invited seminar, UCL Centre for Behaviour Change, London, December 2014.
• Smiling robots and vibrating helmets. Sketching and prototyping in UX Design., invited presentation, Design Practice module, MSc in Human-Computer Interaction with Ergonomics, UCL, London, November 2014.
• Designing technologies that support human behaviour, lecture, Behaviour Change: An Interdisciplinary Approach module, BSc in Psychology, UCL, London, October 2014.
• Evaluating smartphone apps, Evaluation methods in eHealth: eHealth unit technology knowledge sharing seminar series, invited seminar, London, September 2014
• "Did you take your Pill after breakfast?" How smartphone apps can support the creation of medication-taking habits, Health Informatics Seminar, invited seminar, BCS Scotland & University of Edinburgh, August 2014
• Evaluating health-related smartphone apps, guest lecture, Research Methods module, MSc in Health Informatics, UCL, London, March 2014.

Workshop presentations and doctoral consortia

• Designing for Health Behavior Change: HCI Research Alone Is Not Enough, Crossing HCI and Health: Advancing Health and Wellness Technology Research in Home and Community Settings, workshop at CHI in Seoul, April 2015.
• Personalized routine support for tackling medication non-adherence, Personalised behaviour change technologies workshop at CHI, Toronto, April 2014.
• How technology supporting daily habits could help women remember oral contraception, Habits in HCI Workshop, British HCI, Uxbridge, September 2013.
• How existing technology supports remembering oral contraception, IHFE and CHI+MED Doctoral Consortium, London, June 2013.

Public engagement events

• Habit Cookbook: Helping people develop good work habits, Focus On The Positive public engagement event, UCL and U3A, November 2014.
• Safer medical devices and number magic for children, Brighton Science Festival, Brighton, February 2014.
• Errors during medicine use, public engagement workshop with older adults organised by UCL School of Pharmacy, London, July 2013.

Industry events

Full list of events I spoke at or co-organised can be found on my Lanyrd profile page.

• Health apps: easy to build, hard to do right, Cambridge Usability, Microsoft Research Cambridge, June 2015. View slides
• People skills in the digital world, Rocket Conf, Birmingham, June 2015.
• Imperfect learning: How embracing mistakes helps us learn new things, Ladies That UX Brighton @ Spring Forward, March 2014.
• Free yourself from perfectionism, Dare Conference, London, September 2014.
• Medication reminder apps: The Bad and The Ugly, UX Brighton - The Health Check, April 2014.
• Broken necks and twisted wrists: Responsible design for tablets, Over the Air, Bletchley Park, September 2013.
• Tablets are bad for posture: should we care?, UXCampLondon 2013, London, August 2013.
• Using Human Factors methods for UX research, UXCampBrighton 2012, Brighton, December 2012.
• Sex and UX: Researching sensitive topics, UXCampLondon 2012, London, July 2012.
• Touchy feely creepy design, Geeky, London, May 2012.
• Mobile UX (co-presented with Arran Ross-Paterson), UXCampLondon 2011, London, July 2011.
• Storytelling and UX: Role-playing your personas, UXCampLondon 2010, London, April 2010.

MSc project supervision

• Simrita Shaheed (2013/2015) - the impact of social positive reinforcement on supporting the formation of health-related habits.
• Wen Jie Lo (2014/2015) - exploring different modalities of screen-based reminders that encourage taking breaks from a computer.
• Pornpong Soponsakulrat (2015/2016) - evaluating the effectiveness of implementation intention reminders in supporting physical exercise habits.

Invited lectures

• Behaviour Change: An Interdisciplinary Approach module, BSc in Psychology (2014, 2015)
• Research Methods module, MSc in Health Informatics (2014)

Teaching assistance

• Two HCI MSc modules (ergonomics, human factors)
• Two Computer Science BSc modules (user-centred design)