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 →
This week I will be in sunny Phoenix to present my work on Tumblr and the fandom experience at the 2014 Grace Hopper Celebration. I will be speaking on the 2nd day of the conference, Thursday Oct 9th, at 5:15pm at the Phoenix Convention Center, room North 121 A-C. 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 →
It was a very busy February with CHI WIP submissions/notification and GRAND 2013happenings. GRAND is the fourth annual digital media conference, taking place May 14-16, 2013, at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre (read more about it below). Our accepted CHI WIP was primary authored by Erick Oduor, a PhD student who is also a member of cLab at SFU. His… Read more →
I just recently had the pleasure of attending Mobile HCI 2012 in San Francisco. It was a week of firsts for me – first time in San Francisco, first presentation of a full paper and first academic workshop. I was pleasantly surprised by the conference. My only other academic conference experience has been CHI 2011 and CHI 2012, and I… Read more →
Very proud to report that my full paper on Soft Trust and mCommerce Shopping Behaviours has been accepted to MobileHCI 2012. The conference boasts a 25% acceptance rate and will be held in San Francisco this year at the Westin St. Francis, September 21st to 24th. Here is a quick description of the paper: Our study explores typical mCommerce routines and behaviours along… Read more →