Pantea Habibi

I work at the intersection of HCI, AI, and UX research — studying how people interact with emerging technologies and make sense of AI systems, and turning that evidence into design. My work spans immersive environments, human-AI interaction, and digital health; I typically build the system I study, then evaluate it with mixed methods.

I am currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Symbiotic and Augmented Intelligence Lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology, with a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Chicago, where I worked in the UIC HCI Laboratory and the Electronic Visualization Laboratory.

Research areas

• Human-centered AI and explainability
  Understanding how people interpret, question, and come to trust AI predictions, and designing explanations that prompt reasoning instead of ending it.
• Digital health
  Designing patient-centered technologies that make clinical information understandable and actionable, and assessment tools that give clinicians objective measures of motor function.
• Gestural interaction and human performance
  Understanding how motor abilities — handedness, asymmetry, two-handed coordination — shape interaction beyond the desktop, and designing input techniques that work with them.
• XR for training and industrial work
  Building and evaluating VR systems for skill training, and studying how immersive practice transfers to real-world performance.