A nuanced understanding of the strategies that people who are blind or visually impaired employ to perform different instrumental activities of daily living (iADLs) is essential to the success of future visual accessibility aids.
Lily M. Turkstra
(she/her)
PhD Student
Psychological & Brain Sciences
University of California, Santa Barbara
Lily Turkstra is a PhD student in the Bionic Vision Lab at UC Santa Barbara.
She has extensive research experience with human psychophysics, has worked with clinical populations, and is well versed in statistical software analysis and programming.
Before joining the PBS department as a graduate student, Lily served as lab manager from Fall ‘22 to Summer ‘23. Before that, she was a Behavioral Health and Performance Intern at NASA and a Software Quality Assurance specialist at Tapestry Solutions. She also worked as a member of the Multisensory Perception Lab at Cal Poly and as a children’s behavioral therapist with California PsychCare.
Education
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BS in Research Psychology, 2022
California Polytechnic State University (CalPoly), San Luis Obispo, CA
Publications
Information needs and technology use for daily living activities at home by people who are blind
We present a mixed-methods approach that combines semi-structured interviews with a follow-up behavioral study to understand current and potential future use of technologies for daily activities around the home, especially for cooking.
Lily M. Turkstra, Lexie Van Os, Tanya Bhatia, Michael Beyeler arXiv:2305.03019
