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Personal Data and Team Dynamics: Tracking Technology in U.S. College Sports
My dissertation focuses on coordination around personal data and human-data interaction in a high-stakes, high-performance environment: college sports. In the last decade, wearable tracking technologies—e.g., FitBit, Garmin, ... -
Practitioners’ Views on Cultural Adaptation of Web-based Products
Researchers have repeatedly found cross-cultural differences in how people behave, perceive, and interact with information. However, it is unclear how these findings translate into cultural adaptations in global products ... -
Promoting Rhetorical Awareness and Perceived Self-Efficacy: Engineering Undergraduate Students Creating Preparedness Portfolios About Communication
(2013-07-23)Effective communication has been identified in recent years as a crucial competency for practicing engineers by industry professionals, educators, engineering graduates working in the field, and current engineering ... -
Salmon on the run: Practicing scale in the study of wild Alaska salmon
Modern scientific research infrastructure has eclipsed the importance of scaling when understanding ecosystem change. Scale is the lens through which scientists parse complexity. Although scale is central to scientific ... -
Social Media as Local Crisis Infrastructure: The Interconnected Work of Citizens, Responders, and Journalists in the Social Media Crowd
This research considers the role of social media after the deadly 2014 Oso Landslide: how impacted community members, responders, volunteers, and journalists made use (and sometimes did not make use) of social media. Drawing ... -
Software and Space: Investigating How a Cosmology Research Group Enacts Infrastructure by Producing Software
Software is a pervasive element of twenty-first century life and an integral element of scientific research. Research in Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) in recent decades investigates how distributed, collaborative ... -
Supporting Intentional Media Use in Families
Designers of interactive technologies have long prioritized user engagement, and today’s popular end-user products are irresistibly engaging. Modern technology offers enormous value and convenience, but it has also led to ... -
Supporting Long-Term Health Monitoring by Reducing User Burden and Enhancing User Benefit
The prevalence of smartphones and advances in low cost monitoring sensors have dramatically increased self-tracking in recent years. Among many other areas of self-tracking, health and wellness is one area that has received ... -
Task Shifting, Tools, and Tactics: Investigating the Collaborative Practices of Community Health Workers in India
In this study, I investigate the work practices of health workers across five different health centers in India in rural, peri-urban, and urban settings. Study methods includes a clinic site survey, semi-structured interviews, ... -
Technology Support for Online Science Communication
As researchers, we have an obligation to share our scholarship and act as advocates for scientific knowledge. Participatory platforms like social media have become an important way for researchers to connect with the public, ... -
The Effect of Need to Belong on Online Social Behaviors and Cognitive Interactions
The ubiquity of the online and social networking community has changed how people communicate with friends and strangers. The need to belong, one of the fundamental social needs in human’s society, plays an important role ... -
Toward Better Design of Humanitarian ICT: A Social Agency-Centered Framework of Humanitarian Information Needs Based on a Grounded Study of Successful Red
Meaningful and relevant design of humanitarian technology must be informed by a deeper understanding of information practices found within successful humanitarian field-work. Existing largely in geographic isolation and ... -
Toward Centering Access in Professional Design
Human-Computer Interaction research has long been concerned with foregrounding user needs in the design of technology. Indeed, its professionalized application, often called design, aims to put this philosophy in practice. ... -
Transforming Queer Health Technologies Through Community-Based Systems Design
Technologists are often motivated to do good in the world, laying out grand visions for how to optimize systems, automate tedious tasks, and expand what is possible. However, these innovations can create or exacerbate ... -
Troubling Matters: Examining the Spread of Misinformation and Disinformation on Social Media During Mass Disruption Events
Most users want Twitter feeds, Facebook pages, and other information streams to be free of misleading content. Whether this misleading content was spread unintentionally (misinformation) or on purpose (disinformation), ... -
Understanding and Designing Health Technologies with Older Adults
The population of people 60 years and older has been rapidly rising and will continue to grow. This growth has prompted a turn toward innovations to support age-related decline. While these innovations are necessary, the ... -
Understanding and Tooling Translational Research in Human-Computer Interaction
Successfully bridging research and practice in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) can lead to better products and services that benefit society, as well as refined research questions and theories. However, groups of HCI ... -
Understanding the Structure and Dynamics of Multi-platform Information Operations
Information operations—efforts to distort the information ecosystem through methods such as the dissemination of disinformation in efforts to influence opinions or actions of individuals, governments or publics—are ... -
Understanding University Students' Use of Tools and Artifacts in Support of Collaborative Project Work
(2013-07-23)When designers collaborate on projects, they use an assortment of tools to generate a variety of artifacts that help them complete their work. However, it remains unclear how university students use tools and create artifacts ... -
Using Personal Informatics Data in Collaboration among People with Different Expertise
Many people collect and analyze data about themselves to improve their health and wellbeing. With the prevalence of smartphones and wearable sensors, people are able to collect detailed and complex data about their everyday ...