I am currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Mobile Life Centre at SICS conducting research on technologies for socio-affective interactions.  I am broadly interested in the field of computer-supported cooperative work, but a theme has emerged out of my work to be loosely described as the study of socio-affective behaviors in critical collaborative computer-supported environments. 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 employ both qualitative and quantitative methods although recently I have become partial to ethnographic observations.  Case in point, my dissertation was an ethnographic study of emotion expressions in an emergency room. Currently, I am utilizing interviews to investigate the relationship between the body and the expression of emotions.