Jessica K. Barfield is a doctoral candidate in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville where her research involves human interaction with increasingly smart technology such as AI-enabled humanoid robots. Before Tennessee she attended Dartmouth College where she was a STEM major and DI athlete for four seasons. She is the recipient of the ASIS&T SIG Social Informatics: Emerging Scholar Social Informatics Researcher Award, was selected to attend the Doctoral Consortium for the ACM CHIIR Conference and is a recipient of the Southeast Conference Emerging Scholar award. She is on the program committee for the ACM Workshop on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for human-robot interaction and reviews for numerous journals and publishers. Her research focuses on designing technology that accommodates users of different ethnic backgrounds which she has published in ACM, IEEE, and ASIS&T conference proceedings and robotics journals.
