Hi there! I’m Harsh.

I use Human Factors and UX to make products, software, and systems easy, safe, and efficient for people.

Research

I spent two years working on human-computer interaction research at the Mind Music Machine Lab at Virginia Tech. The Mind Music Machine (tri-M) Lab is a multidisciplinary research group based in Industrial and Systems Engineering and Computer Science at Virginia Tech and Cognitive Science and Computer Science at Michigan Tech. The lab is led by Dr. Myounghoon Jeon.

The research goal of the lab is understanding the mechanisms of the human mind and designing better interactions between people and technologies. I work mostly with Autonomous Driving (AV) research, while helping out on other projects. I work closely with the Nervteh driving simulator running SCANeR studio as well as the Tobii Pro 2 eye tracker among other tech.

Published Research

1. Harsh Sanghavi, Yiqi Zhang, and Myounghoon Jeon. 2020. Effects of Anger and Display Urgency on Takeover Performance in Semi-automated Vehicles. In 12th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 48–56. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3409120.3410664

2. Molly G. Hickman, Viral Pasad, Harsh Sanghavi, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, and Sang Won Lee. 2020. Wiki HUEs: Understanding Wikipedia practices through Hindi, Urdu, and English takes on evolving regional conflict. In Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2020). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 32, 1–5. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3392561.3397586

3. Sanghavi, H. (2020). Exploring the Influence of Anger on Takeover Performance in Semi-automated Vehicles (Master's thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, USA). Retrieved from: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/98540

4. Nadri, C., Dong, J., Swaim, H., Ko, S., Sanghavi, H., & Jeon, M. (2020). Investigating the effects of demographics and framing on robot-theater summer youth programs. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society's 2020 International Annual Meeting (HFES2020), Chicago, IL, October 5-9.

5. Stojmenova, K., Sanghavi, H.,Nadri, C., Ko, S., Sodnik, J., & Jeon, M. (2020). Use of spatial sound notifications for takeover requests in semi-autonomous vehicles – a cross-cultural study. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information Society and Technology (ICIST2020) Kopaonik, Serbia, Mar 8-11, 2020.

6. Seul Chan Lee, Chihab Nadri, Harsh Sanghavi, and Myounghoon Jeon. 2020. Exploring User Needs and Design Requirements in Fully Automated Vehicles. In Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–9. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3334480.3382881

7. Sangjin Ko, Haley Swaim, Harsh Sanghavi, Jiayuan Dong, Chihab Nadri, and Myounghoon Jeon. 2020. Robot-Theater Programs for Different Age Groups to Promote STEAM Education and Robotics Research. In Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 299–301. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3371382.3378353

8. Seul Chan Lee, Harsh Sanghavi, Sangjin Ko, and Myounghoon Jeon. 2019. Autonomous driving with an agent: speech style and embodiment. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications: Adjunct Proceedings (AutomotiveUI '19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 209–214. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3349263.3351515

9. Sanghavi, H. & Narlely, J. (2017, September). The role of geogaphic information system (GIS) in modern India. In 68th International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2017). International Astronautical Federation, IAF.