Iuliia Avgustis is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences. With a background in sociology (BA, MA) and a PhD in Information Processing Science, her interdisciplinary research brings together human-computer interaction, sociology, and interactional linguistics to explore technology use in social interactions. She has previously examined smartphone use in everyday life, interactions with artificial conversational agents, and instructed actions in the context of video games. Her current work, situated within the UNITE flagship, draws on video-based research grounded in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis to investigate human-nature-machine interactions. Iuliia is also a recipient of a Kone Foundation grant. Her project “Neurotypical and Neurodivergent (Dis)engagements: Practices of Smartphone Use in Face-to-Face Interactions” explores how individuals with and without ADHD manage smartphone-related disengagements and navigate the social and moral dimensions of device use in face-to-face settings.