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Specializations

  • Indigenous Research Methodologies & Ethics
  • Indigenous Health Communication & Digital Youth
  • Human-Computer Interaction & Social Media

Research Areas

Awards

  • Best Paper Nomination - CSEDU 2020 (Computer Supported Education), 2020

Publications and Contributions

  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Indigenous Research Ethics and Tribal Research Review Boards in the United States: Analyzing Online Presence and Emerging Themes in Documentation (2024)
    Research Ethics, pp. 1–30 Authors: Nicole Kuhn, Ethan Kuhn, Michael Vendiola, Clarita Lefthand-Begay
  • Conference Proceeding
    Supporting Teens’ Intentional Social Media Use Through Interaction Design (2023)
    Proceedings of the 22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference Authors: Katie Davis, Petr Slovak, Rotem Landesman, Caroline Pitt, Abdullatif Ghajar, Jessica Lee Schleider, Saba Kawas, Andrea Guadalupe Perez Portillo, Nicole Kuhn
  • Conference Paper
    When screen time isn’t screen time: Tensions and needs between tweens and their parents during nature-based exploration (2021)
    Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '21) Authors: Saba Kawas, Nicole Kuhn, E. E. Bascom, Alexis Hiniker, Katharine Davis
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Decolonizing Risk Communication: Indigenous Responses to COVID-19 using Social Media (2020)
    Journal of Indigenous Social Development Authors: Nicole Kuhn, Shawon Sarkar, Lauren Alaine White, Josephine Hoy, Celena McCray, Clarita Lefthand-Begay
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Indigenous research ethics requirements: An examination of six Tribal Institutional Review Board Applications and Processes in the United States (2020)
    Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 15(4), pp. 279-291 Authors: Nicole Kuhn, Myra Parker, Clarita Lefthand-Begay
  • Conference Paper
    NatureCollections: Can a mobile application trigger children’s interest in nature? (2020)
    Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU ’20) Authors: Saba Kawas, Jordan Sherry-Wagner, Nicole Kuhn, Sarah K. Chase, Brittany Bentley, Joshua J. Lawler, Katharine Davis
  • Conference Paper
    Otter this World: Can a Mobile Application Promote Children’s Connectedness to Nature? (2020)
    Interaction Design and Children (IDC 2020), pp. 444-457 Authors: Saba Kawas, Nicole Kuhn, Mina Tari, Alexis Hiniker, Katharine Davis
  • Journal Article, Professional Journal
    Cultivating a space for intergenerational research mentorship through Knowledge Families
    Authors: Clarita Lefthand-Begay, Nicole Kuhn, Turam Purty, Tessa Rose Campbell, Shawon Sarkar, Jesse Brisbois, Robin Ruhm, Kunsang Choden Lama, Ana Rodriguez, Celina Ghost Dog, Jean M Dennison, Shayla Chatto, Ruonan Guo

Presentations

  • Responsible and Responsive Indigenous Design Methodologies and Techniques (2025)
    Indigenous Computational Futures Collective 2025 Winter Institute - Tempe, Arizona
  • Engaging Indigenous Research Methodologies and Ethics to Understand How Indigenous Communities are Leveraging Social Media for Health Communication (2024)
    Berkeley Center for New Media's Indigenous Technologies - Berkeley, CA
  • Hear Our Stories: A Call to Action for Indigenizing Information Science Educational Spaces panel (2024)
    The Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Conference - Portland, Oregon
  • Developing Indigenous Community-Based Participatory Design Methods to Understand Tribal Communities’ Use of Information Technologies for Addressing Critical Health Needs (2020)
    American Indian & Indigenous Studies (AIIS) Scholars Program Showcase - Virtual
  • Engaging Tribal Communities to Decolonize COVID-19 Risk Communications Using Social Media (2020)
    2020 National Tribal Health Conference - Virtual
  • Indigenous research ethics requirements: An examination of six Tribal Institutional Review Board Applications and Processes in the United States (2019)
    Provost Richard’s iSchool Visit - Seattle, WA
  • Tribal Research Review Boards (2019)
    McNair Scholars Program, Undergraduate Research Symposium - Seattle, WA