Career
Aragon received her B.S. in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology and her Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley. She is an associate professor in the Department of Human Centered Design and Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle. Her research interests in the field of human-computer interaction include eScience, scientific and information visualization, visual analytics, image processing, collaborative creativity, analysis of spontaneous text communication, dynamic affect detection, and games for good. Prior to her appointment at UW, she was a computer scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for six years and NASA Ames Research Center for nine years, and before that, an airshow and test pilot, entrepreneur, and member of the United States Aerobatic Team.
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