Graduating PhD Candidate Jessica Barfield to Teach at iSchool
As technology advances, new problems will always arise, both technical and societal. It is the latter that drew Jessica Barfield into the world of human-computer interaction (HCI). She successfully defended her doctoral dissertation this spring that delved into how humans are biased towards social robots depending on their perceived gender or ethnic identity, and she wants to continue that research as she begins her new role as an assistant professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Kentucky. Barfield is not only graduating with her PhD degree with a concentration in information sciences from the College of … Read more “Graduating PhD Candidate Jessica Barfield to Teach at iSchool”