Although I'm broadly concerned with topics on computer-supported cooperative work, I have found a theme has emerged from my research over the last few years to be loosely described as socio-affective critical collaborative information systems. This is primarily due to my fascination with high-stress critical environment – environments which most mistakenly believe are rationale and prescribed but are really highly tuned social and emotional machines to deal with the ambiguity and chaos. I love it. I am currently using both qualitative methods and quantitative methods to get at some of the big questions.
News and Notes
April 2009 I've been accepted to the 2nd meeting of the Summer Institute for the Consortium for the Science of Socio-technical Systems. I regard this as a great honor and am super excited!
March 2009 I've been accepted to the PhD consortium at ISCRAM. Sweden here I come!
February 2009 The first presentation of preliminary data from my dissertation will be presented at CHI09 this year as a WIP poster.
December 2008 I'll be presenting two full papers at CHI 2009 in Boston this year. Both of them related to the common ground in geocollaboration study.
September 2008 I've been accepted to the doctoral colloquium at CSCW2008. Come and see my poster and chat about affect in emergency rooms! My DC Abstract
March 2008 My first full paper has been accepted to CHI08 on the development of common ground in geocollaboration.
January 2008 I'll be speaking on the use of qualitative research methods at the CHI08 Workshop, Measuring Affect in HCI: Going Beyond the Individual
"Your brain may give birth to any technology, but other brains will decide
whether the technology thrives. The number of possible technologies is
infinite, and only a few pass this test of affinity with human nature."
-Robert Wright, Nonzero: The logic of human destiny
"We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us."
-Winston Churchill