Kelly Caine is an associate professor in the Human-Centered Computing Division of the School of Computing at Clemson University and Dean’s Professor in the College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences.
Her research interests include usable security and privacy, human-computer interaction, human factors, health informatics, and designing for special populations.
Dr. Caine received a B.A. in Psychology from the University of South Carolina, a M.S. and Ph.D. in Engineering Psychology from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and completed a post-doc in Computing at Indiana University.
Dr. Caine is the founding director and now co-directs the humans and technology lab (hatlab.org) at Clemson University. She is a member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and AAAS. She is an alumnus of the Georgia Tech Human Factors and Aging Lab, the GVU Center, the Aware Home Initiative and the Indiana University ETHOS group.
She has been awarded funding from the National Science Foundation and other organizations to study usable privacy and security as well as to develop privacy-enhanced health technologies. She has also been awarded a Georgia Tech Presidential Fellowship, a fellowship in Information Technology and International Development, and was chosen by the GVU at Georgia Tech as the Foley Scholar award winner in 2008. Dr. Caine also took time to work outside of academia as a User Experience Researcher at Google.