ADITI VASHISTHA

Doctoral Student
FIMS, Western University

Biography

Aditi Vashistha is a doctoral student at Faculty for Information and Media Sciences (FIMS) at Western University. Aditi’s research focuses on Wellness technologies in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). She is particularly interested in the questions of care, self, and design. She uses anthropological methods to study problems of information science and computing.

Research

My doctoral research focuses on wellness technologies in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). My work explores how emerging technologies shape experiences of care and self. I am interested in understanding philosophical and social inquiry that can inform ethical and context-sensitive design. I am currently engaged in a project on Canada’s AI policy where we are trying to operationalize these principles into practices through stakeholder engagement. My work brings together questions and methods from anthropology and philosophy to study problems of information science and computing. Through this, I aim to understand how technological systems embody epistemic assumptions about care, health, and the human in computing.

Selected Publications

Theses

Emotion, Politics and Modernity: A Case Study of Muddupalani’s Radhika Santawanam

Teaching

Fall and Winter 2024-25, Introduction to Media and Technology, TA

Talks & Presentations

Talks

‘Muddupalani’s Radhika Santawanam’ Department of Modern Indian Languages and Literary Studies, DU

Conference Presentations

Chat, Token, Vector: Questioning Models of Language and Neo-Structuralism in AI’ (The Conference is organized by Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia and Cambridge Digital Humanities under the European Research Council (ERC) project on ‘AI Models’)

Talking to ChatGPT: Circuits and Temporalities of Mental Distress ( Society of Social Studies of Science, 2025)

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