Kristine Lu

Inquiries of cognition + design in information environments.

My projects are creative and investigative, committed to public understanding and access. I'm currently a Ph.D. student in Learning Sciences at Northwestern University and a graduate researcher in Delta Lab, where I examine interaction & information design in data-driven media environments - how the way information is designed affects the ways people learn from that information and the decisions they make. My research aims to design socio-technical systems that help people take collective civic action with the information they receive. Prior to my PhD, I researched the evolving news, media, and information landscape at the Pew Research Center; connected the public to knowledge resources in the Digital Public Library of America; conducted computational literary and linguistic research at the Computation of Language Lab at the University of California, Irvine; helped build a massive open technology resource of 2M+ syllabi to promote access in higher education; studied lifelong learning and information literacy; and investigated the impact of piracy on the spread of knowledge around the world.

Other times, you'll find me outside, restoring native habitats, swimming, biking, or hiking. Also: Columbia University Class of 2013; lover of public radio & 19thC British Realism; and semicolons.