Tarika Kumar

Research

Publications
Negotiated Augmentation: How Generative AI Reshapes Creative Workflows, Agency, and Authorship in Architecture and Design

Xinyi Tu, Mariana Teresa da Silva, Tarika Kumar, Matteo Zallio · Preprint, Research Square, 2026

A qualitative study of 20 architects and experience designers using generative AI in early-stage design.

How Generative AI Is Reshaping UI/UX Design Workflows: A Systematic Review

Tarika Kumar, Xinyi Tu, Matteo Zallio · AHFE International Conference on Human Factors in Design, Engineering and Computing, 2025

A review of fifty studies on generative AI in UI and UX design, published between 2020 and 2025.

Unpacking the Invisible: Human Factors in a Data-Driven World

Tarika Kumar, Matteo Zallio · AHFE International, July 2025

Data ethnography and entangled ethnography as methods for human factors research in design.

"Speech is Silver, Silence is Golden": Analyzing Micro-communication Strategies between Visually Impaired Runners and their Guides

Giulia Barbareschi, Tarika Kumar, Christopher Changmok Kim, George Chernyshov, Kai Kunze · CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024

How visually impaired runners and their sighted guides communicate while running together.

Projects
Ethnography and Third Place
Ethnography and Third Place
Research
Bodies in Motion, Tokyo
Bodies in Motion, Tokyo
Research
Speech Is Silver, Silence is Golden
Speech Is Silver, Silence is Golden
Inclusive Design, Ethnography