I’m excited to be participating in CHI 2016. My contributions are in the Late Breaking Works category, with a paper on Diary Studies in AAA Games User Research, and a position paper for the Games User Research workshop. This paper also focuses on diary studies but is geared towards lightweight research for indies and non-profits. View these papers here. Read more →
Happy to announce that Carman Neustaedter (Simon Fraser University) and Tejinder K. Judge (Google Inc.)’s new book Studying and Designing for Domestic Life: Lessons From Home, includes a chapter I helped write. The chapter (Chapter 2) focuses on Conducting Interviews with Remote Participants. I specifically review my experience with mobile commerce and how we overcame remote participant challenges for the project. My fellow co-authors, Azadeh Forghani and… Read more →
On September 2nd and 3rd I will be in Mountain View and Sunnyvale to present my research at both Yahoo! and Google. I have not been to either campuses before, so I am excited to not only present, but get a tour of the facilities. If you are in the area and want to meetup, send me a tweet @drinkthecoolaid. On… Read more →
This summer I will be attending both DIS 2014 (ACM conference on Designing Interactive Systems) and MobileHCI 2014 (ACM conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services) to present some of my latest research. DIS is coming up soon, June 21-25th in Vancouver and Mobile HCI is September 23-27 in Toronto. At DIS I will be presenting a full paper… Read more →
After 4 and a half years of studying at Simon Fraser University I finally defended my Doctoral thesis and it was most certainly an experience I will never forget and well worth the journey. Read more →
The date is finally set for the defense of my thesis, Social Issues, Behaviours and Routines of Ubiquitous Commerce users in North America. The defense will take place at the SFU Surrey Campus on March 12th, the event will start with a 20 minute presentation of my work, followed by questions from my examining committee. The dissertation encompasses work I… Read more →