Kristi Bartlett is an Assistant Professor in the Product Design Department in the College of Design at the University of Kentucky. Kristi holds a PhD in Technology from Purdue University, an MS in Industrial Design from the University of Houston, and a BA in Civil & Environmental Engineering from Rice University. Kristi’s research focuses on design education, specifically on critical approaches to spatial skills research, broader questions of who gets to be a ‘designer’? and design visualization technologies. Kristi has also provided in-house design and consulting for multiple healthcare startup companies and has ongoing research in healthcare design.
Recent News
August 2024: Welcome to Sadie Aaron, Kiefer Howland, and Anna Quarles who join me as undergraduate researchers for Fall 2024
August 2024: Congratulations to to Anna Quarles, Joshua Hocker, and KayDee Pratt for completing their summer undergraduate research fellowships! Pics below:
July 2024: I am honored to join Engineering Studies as an Associate Editor
June 2024: Excited to share that my paper, coauthored with Davis Ferriell and Jon Mills, was a Best Paper Nominee in the Design in Engineering Education Division at ASEE
May 2024: Honored to have two projects selected for IRC Funding
May 2024: Excited to share that my paper, coauthored with Almudena Palacios-Ibáñez and Jorge Dorribo Camba, was selected as a “Reviewer’s Favourite” at DESIGN 2024
April 2024: Paper accepted at Engineering and Product Design Education (E&PDE) Conference
April 2024: Papers accepted at the 2024 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exhibition in the Design Division and Equity Division
April 2024: Excited to share that I will be participating in the CELT 2024-25 Teaching Innovation Institute focused on generative AI in teaching, learning and higher education
Mar 2024: Excited to share that I will be speaking at the Designing with AI Deep Dive by IDSA on April 3
Mar 2024: Welcome to Lucas de Lima and Ning Lun who join me as undergraduate researchers
Mar 2024: Manuscript published in International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence
Feb 2024: Paper accepted at DESIGN 2024, Design Education Division
Jan 2024: Welcome to KayDee Pratt and Apirada Chetawatee who join me as undergraduate researchers
Jan 2024: Manuscript published in ACM Transactions on Applied Perception
Jan 2024: Honored to have a project selected for funding by UNITE RPA with Aanya Chugh
Dec 2023: Manuscript published in Engineering Studies
Oct 2023: Presentation at UK College of Design Faculty Colloquium, Gender Inclusion in Design
Oct 2023: Presentation at Commonwealth Computational Summit, Generative AI for Medical Device Design
Sept 2023: Manuscript published in Engineering Studies
Aug 2023: Manuscript published in Visual Cognition
July 2023: Invited guest on Beyond Ray podcast