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 →
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 →
I came across this great source showing the slides for Google’s Seminars for Success. Specifically the Analytics 301: Advanced Tracking & Technical Implementations set has some great slides providing clarity on data table limits (around p.40) and how to work around the limitations with profiles. (A lot cheaper then trekking to the nearest american city!) Read more →
IMC 2010 Session Recap: Data Meets Design Presented by: Anil Batra This is a recap of Anil Batra’s presentation at IMC Vancouver 2010 titled Data Meets Design. Anil is a frequent speaker, UBC tutor, and VP of Search & Analytics at POP. Anil asks us who matters: The only person that matters is your customer and what are they looking for.… Read more →