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 →
Video teeser describing the paper, “Shared Joy is Double Joy” The Social Practices of User Networks within Group Shopping Sites. The paper will be presented at ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2013, in Paris this spring. Read more →
Very excited that my work on Group Shopping Sites has been accepted to CHI2013. Overall 1963 papers and notes were submitted and 20% were accepted–providing lots of reason to celebrate. The ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is the premier international conference on human-computer interaction and is April 27 – May 2, 2013 in Paris, France. The paper… Read more →
Do you use group shopping sites such as Groupon or LivingSocial? We are interested in understanding group shopping activities more deeply and uncovering what it means to participate in commerce through these websites, eg., Groupon, LivingSocial, ethicalDeal, etc. We will use this knowledge to improve group shopping sites in the future. To be recruited for this study, you must be… Read more →