Dylan Thomas Doyle is a Ph.D. student in the University of Colorado Boulder Department of Information Science advised by Dr. Jed Brubaker. View his CV here.
His research explores the intersection between death, grief, mental health and technology design and investigates how online platforms and communities might better embed values of radical empathy and sustain holistic systems of support for their users.
Dylan is currently working to support an NSF-sponsored grant to study the support of end-of-life planning for online accounts and data and the design of systems that support post-mortem data management. This study uses qualitative methods and design research with terminally ill patients and the goal outcome of a student run digital end-of-life clinic serving the public.
Dylan received his BA in Sociology from Sarah Lawrence College and his Masters of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary at Columbia University with a focus in Psychology. His previous career was as an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister and hospital chaplain.
Dylan’s industry experience includes interning as a UX research for Verizon Media and Yahoo!, and ethics consulting with SME’s in Denver, Scotland, and beyond.
Dylan is also a co-host of The Radical AI Podcast discussing the most pressing issues of Human-Computer Interaction and Ethics.