Shaowen Bardzell is an Assistant Professor of Human-Computer Interaction Design in the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University. She specializes in socio-cultural computing, with an emphasis on emotional, intimate, and embodied experiences, a series of research themes that contribute to the broader agenda of feminist HCI that she is developing. Recent work has focused on  intimate interactions, designing for emotion in non-western homes, embodied collaboration in virtual spaces, and the application of critical and cultural theories for developing concept-driven design strategies. 

Shaowen directs the Everyday Computing Research Group and co-directs the User Engagement Research Lab.