Suchismita Naik

User Experience and Design Researcher

Embarking on a Doctoral Journey at Purdue:

8+ Years at the Intersection of UX Research and Design

Works

Recent Research Works

This project was done as a part of coursework at Purdue University.

This was done as a part of coursework at Purdue University.

Open Budgets India & Story generator tool

Designing e-Healthcare Ecosystem

Service design | User Experience | 1 year project

This project is redesign of the patient and doctor ecosystem of the 1mg application. After a rigorous user research of the application, features like e-consultation which provides conversational platform for patients and doctors to communicate better was explored in detail.

Information Design | Data Visualisation | 8 months project

This project was in collaboration with a non-profit organisation named Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability. I was responsible for data visualisation of budget data and UI design for open budget data portal which also includes visualisation of five-dimensional state budget data for generating stories.

Data Visualisation | Storytelling | 4 weeks project

Sensex, by Bombay Stock Exchange, is an index to measure the overall performance of the exchange which is taken to be the barometer of the stock market. The objective of this visualisation is to map significant events that occurred with respect to rise and fall of the Sensex for over two decades.

Ensuring zero loss of life due to lack of

availability of blood

System Design | Design Research | 10 weeks project

This was design project in collaboration with TCS Digital impact square, Nashik and MIT Media Labs. This involved a detailed understanding of the blood bank system and providing solutions that can address all the blood-related critical challenges faced today in our country and save more lives.

Selected Design Works

My work comprises of design research, data visualisations, with a focus on data-driven digital products and systems. Always putting the user at the centre of attention.

Narrative visualisation of Indian stock market

Visualisation of the Forever 27 Club

Data Visualisation | Storytelling | 4 weeks project

This information visualization is made from a narrative event when popular musicians died at the age 27, often as a result of drug and alcohol abuse, violent means. The overview, details-on-demands and the interactions were designed to make users find their own stories through data and also to create awareness among a large user base.

Other Works

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Application for real estate investor

UI/UX | 2 months project

Educational Application for kids

UI/UX | 2 weeks project

Personality Trait Mapping

Information Visualisation | 2 weeks project

Story of Indian Freedom struggle

Cartography | 2 weeks project

Food wastage in India

Information Visualisation | 2 weeks project

The visual essay as Drawn Journalism

Journalism | 2 weeks project

Publications & Presentations

Some of the conferences where my work was presented and published

Accepted & Published

Suchismita Naik, Amanda Snellinger, Austin L. Toombs, Scott Saponas, and Amanda K. Hall. 2025. Exploring Early Adopters’ Use
of AI Driven Multi‑Agent Systems to Inform Human‑Agent Interaction Design: Insights from Industry Practice. In Extended Abstracts of
the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’25). Yokohama, Japan. [PDF] (to be active after conference proceedings)
Austin L. Toombs, Kyle Montague, Richmond Y . Wong, Robin N. Brewer, Suchismita Naik, Paul C. Parsons, Selma Šabanović, and
Derek Whitley. 2024. Future Dialogues: Personal AI Assistants and Their Interactions with Us and Each Other. In Companion of the
2024 Computer‑Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW Companion ’24). San Jose, Costa Rica. [PDF]
Suchismita Naik. 2024. From Digital Practices to Bond Formation: A Mixed‑Method Case Study of BTS Online Fandom
Communities. In Creativity and Cognition (C&C ’24). Chicago, IL, USA. [PDF]
Ike Obi, Suchismita Naik, Colin M. Gray, Paul C. Parsons, Austin L. Toombs, Moonnyung Jo, and Prateek Mondan. 2024.
Metacognitive Strategies to Foster Interculturally‑Aware Design Competency. In EduCHI 2024: 6th Annual Symposium on HCI
Education (EduCHI ’24). New York, NY, USA. [PDF]
Prakash Shukla, Suchismita Naik, Ike Obi, Phuong Ngo Ngoc Bui, and Paul Parsons. 2024. Communication Challenges Reported
by UX Designers on Social Media: An Analysis of Subreddit Discussions. In Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human
Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’24). Honolulu, HI, USA. [PDF]
Rasagy Sharma, Suchismita Naik, Chandni Murmu. 2020. Data Stories: Bringing Your Data to Life. Conducted in 11th Indian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Virtual. [Course]
Suchismita Naik. 2019. Where Should We Draw the Line? Bridging the Supply and Demand Gap of Blood. Presented in 10th Indian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Hyderabad, India. [Late Breaking Work]
Suchismita Naik. 2017. Service Design for Blood Bank System. In adjunct proceedings of INTERACT conference. Mumbai, India. [PDF]
Suchismita Naik. 2017. Visualization of the Forever 27 Club. In the EG digital library of IEEE EuroVis conference. Barcelona, Spain. [PDF] [Honorable mention for the poster award]
Suchismita Naik. 2016. A Narrative Data Visualization Of The Indian Stock Market. In the proceedings of the 8th Indian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 162–177. Mumbai, India. [PDF]

Suchismita Naik, Austin L. Toombs, Amanda Snellinger, Scott Saponas, and Amanda K. Hall. Exploring Human‑AI Collaboration
Using Mental Models of Early Adopters of Multi‑Agent Generative AI Tools. In review at CSCW 2025
Mohit Chandra, Suchismita Naik, Denae Ford, Ebele Okoli, Munmun De Choudhury, Mahsa Ershadi, Gonzalo Ramos, Javier
Hernandez, Ananya Bhattacharjee, Shahed Warreth, Jina Suh. 2024. From Lived Experience to Insight: Unpacking the Psychological
Risks of Using AI Conversational Agents. In review at FAccT 2025. [PDF]
Ike Obi, Kehinde Ayano, Oluwafolak Ayano, Chinelo Njoku, Suchismita Naik, Rua Williams, Byung‑Cheol Min, Paul Parsons. Value
Alignment Card: A Framework for Documenting and Communicating AI Model Safety. In review at FAccT 2025.
Suchismita Naik, Austin L. Toombs, Amanda Snellinger, Scott Saponas, and Amanda K. Hall. Designing with Multi‑Agent
Generative AI: Insights from Industry Early Adopters. In review at DIS 2025.

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" The shortest distance between the truth and a human being is a story " - Anthony de Mello

With the natural curiosity to understand the subject matter, I work to discover insights and stories that might not be obvious in the beginning. I focus on transforming these insights into intuitive interfaces, innovative products and services which bring delightful experiences.

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