CV

Education

• B.A. in Philosophy, Southern Methodist University, 2011
• B.A. in English, Southern Methodist University, 2011
• Ph.D in Information, University of Michigan, 2020-present

Work experience

• 2010-2011: Research Associate
• 2011-2012: Healthcare & Benefits Consulting
• 2013-2019: Human Resources Information Systems
• 2020-2022: Graduate Student Research Assistant
• 2023-2024: Graduate Student Instructor

Skills

• Quantitative: experimental surveys, data mining, machine learning
  • R, Python, SQL
• Qualitative: in-depth interviews, content analysis, theory
• SME: enterprise systems configuration, design, and implementation; data management and governance

Publications

Data Subjects’ Conceptualizations of and Attitudes Toward Automatic Emotion Recognition-Enabled Wellbeing Interventions on Social Media

Kat Roemmich and Nazanin Andalibi. 2021. Data Subjects’ Conceptualizations of and Attitudes Toward Automatic Emotion Recognition-Enabled Wellbeing Interventions on Social Media. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 5, CSCW2, Article 308 (October 2021), 34 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3476049

Emotion AI at Work: Implications for Workplace Surveillance, Emotional Labor, and Emotional Privacy

Kat Roemmich, Florian Schaub, and Nazanin Andalibi. 2023. Emotion AI at Work: Implications for Workplace Surveillance, Emotional Labor, and Emotional Privacy. In CHI ’23: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 23–28, 2023,Hamburg, Germany. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 20 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3580950

Data Subjects’ Perspectives on Emotion Artificial Intelligence Use in the Workplace: A Relational Ethics Lens

Shanley Corvite*, Kat Roemmich*, Tillie Rosenberg, and Nazanin Andalibi. 2023. Data Subjects’ Perspectives on Emotion Artificial Intelligence Use in the Workplace: A Relational Ethics Lens. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 7, CSCW1, Article 124 (April 2023), 38 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3579600. *Co-first authors contributed equally.

Values in Emotion Artificial Intelligence Hiring Services: Technosolutions to Organizational Problems

Kat Roemmich, Tillie Rosenberg, Serena Fan, and Nazanin Andalibi. 2023. Values in Emotion Artificial Intelligence Hiring Services: Technosolutions to Organizational Problems. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 7, CSCW1, Article 109 (April 2023), 28 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3579543

Overworking in HCI: A Reflection on Why We Are Burned Out, Stressed, and Out of Control; and What We Can Do About It

Abraham Mhaidli* and Kat Roemmich*. 2024. Overworking in HCI: A Reflection on Why We Are Burned Out, Stressed, and Out of Control; and What We Can Do About It. In Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '24), May 11-16, 2024. Honolulu, HI, USA. 10 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613905.3644052 *Co-first authors contributed equally

Emotion AI Use in U.S. Mental Healthcare: Potentially Unjust and Techno-Solutionist

Kat Roemmich, Shanley Corvite, Cassidy Pyle, Nadia Karizat, and Nazanin Andalibi. 2024. Emotion AI Use in U.S. Mental Healthcare: Potentially Unjust and Techno-Solutionist. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 8, CSCW1, Article 47 (April 2024), 46 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3637324

Talks

Conference Proceeding talk presenting Data Subjects’ Conceptualizations of and Attitudes Toward Automatic Emotion Recognition-Enabled Wellbeing Interventions on Social Media

October 25, 2021

Conference proceedings talk at 24th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, held virtually

Conference Proceeding talk presenting Emotion AI at Work: Implications for Workplace Surveillance, Emotional Labor, and Emotional Privacy

April 24, 2023

Conference proceedings talk at CHI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Hamburg, Germany

Conference Proceeding talk presenting Values in Emotion Artificial Intelligence Hiring Services: Technosolutions to Organizational Problems

October 17, 2023

Conference proceedings talk at 2023 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW), Minneapolis, MN, USA

Conference Proceeding talk presenting Data Subjects’ Perspectives on Emotion Artificial Intelligence Use in the Workplace: A Relational Ethics Lens

October 18, 2023

Conference proceedings talk at 2023 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW), Minneapolis, MN, USA

Awards

• Best Paper Award, CSCW 2023, Data Subjects’ Perspectives on Emotion Artificial Intelligence Use in the Workplace: A Relational Ethics Lens
• Honorable Mention for Best Paper Award, CSCW 2021, Data Subjects’ Conceptualizations of and Attitudes Toward Automatic Emotion Recognition-Enabled Wellbeing Interventions on Social Media

Grants and Funding

• UMSI Merit Fellow, 2020-2021
• USENIX Security Diversity Grant, 2020
• UMSI PhD Travel Grant, 2020
• UMSI PhD Travel Grant, 2021
• UM Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant, 2021
• UM Rackham Conference Travel Grant, 2023
• UMSI PhD Travel Grant, 2023
• USENIX GREPSEC VI Grant, 2023
• IAPP Privacy, Security, and Risk Conference Scholarship, 2023
• Gary Marsden Travel Award, 2023
• UM Rackham Conference Travel Grant, 2024

Service, affiliations, and membership

• The Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing, researcher
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), member