Shri Harini Ramesh
3rd Year PhD Student in Computer Science • University of Calgary
I study how patients seek, understand, and act on health information when mediated by emerging technologies. My work spans Generative AI and Data Visualization, examining where patient health cognition breaks down and how design can better support it. Supervised by Dr. Fateme Rajabiyazdi at the Interactions Lab and HealthVisFutures Lab.
My Current Research FocusExamining the metacognitive demands and strategies that arise when patients seek health information using off-the-shelf conversational AI, and what that reveals about breakdowns in health understanding.
Investigating the cognitive affordances of uncertainty encodings that support patient comprehension of cardiac risk, identifying which visual representations best scaffold accurate risk perception.
Designing and evaluating tools that help patients monitor their own health understanding and make better-informed decisions in the face of complex or uncertain health information.
Academic Background
Previously, I completed an MASc in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Ottawa ('21–'23), supervised by Dr. Natalie Baddour & Dr. Edward Lemaire.
Before that, I earned a BE in Biomedical Engineering from Anna University ('17–'21).