Ghada Alsebayel
(She/Her/Hers)
PhD Student
Research Interests
- Human Computer Interaction
- Data Science Personal
- Health Informatics
Education
- Msc in information systems, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University
- Bsc in information technology, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University
Biography
Ghada Alsebayel is a doctoral student at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, advised by Casper Harteveld. Her research areas include games, human-computer interaction and personal health informatics.
Prior to joining Northeastern in 2020, Alsebayel received her master’s in information systems and bachelor’s in information technology from King Saud Universiy —Saudi Arabia. Her research has been published in the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2022.
Recent publications
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“I Want My Data To Be Used Purposely”: Women’s Data Relationships with FemTech Apps
Citation: Ximena Lainfiesta, Ghada Alsebayel, Chenyan Jia, Casper Harteveld. (2026). "I Want My Data To Be Used Purposely": Women's Data Relationships with FemTech Apps CHI Extended Abstracts, 12:1-12:9. https://doi.org/10.1145/3772363.3798505 -
My Body, Their Business: User Perspectives on Commercial Data Practices in FemTech mHealth Apps
Citation: Ghada Alsebayel, Ximena Lucia Lainfiesta, Ayesha Fatima, Giovanni Maria Troiano, Chenyan Jia, Casper Harteveld. (2026). My Body, Their Business: User Perspectives on Commercial Data Practices in FemTech mHealth Apps CHI, 1223:1-1223:27. https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3790847 -
“An Ad Posing as Medical Advice”: User Accounts of Dark UX in FemTech mHealth Apps MHCI003
Citation: Ghada Alsebayel, Giovanni Maria Troiano, Johanna Gunawan, Herman Saksono, Casper Harteveld. (2025). "An Ad Posing as Medical Advice": User Accounts of Dark UX in FemTech mHealth Apps MHCI003 Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact., 9, 1-34. https://doi.org/10.1145/3743736 -
“I Believe the Baby in the Picture is My Baby”: User Experiences with Commercial Pregnancy Apps
Citation: Ghada Alsebayel, Giovanni Maria Troiano, Casper Harteveld. (2024). "I Believe the Baby in the Picture is My Baby": User Experiences with Commercial Pregnancy Apps Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact., 8, 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1145/3676511
