GRAND 2013 & CHI WIPs

March 10th, 2013 | Posted by admin in Events | HCI | Research | User Experience - (Comments Off)

CHI WIP Poster

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 WIP focuses on Family Communication in Rural and Slum Regions of Kenya and can be viewed here.

Abstract: We report the findings of an ethnographic study exploring how 13 participants from rural and slum regions of Kenya communicated with remote family members using technology. We focus on communication practices that enabled family members to support economic sustenance activities and also investigate the social aspects of using technology to provide or receive moral, emotional or other forms of support from distributed family members.

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Mobile HCI 2012 – Review

October 27th, 2012 | Posted by admin in Events | HCI | Mobile Commerce | Recommendation | Research - (Comments Off)

San Francisco’s Fishermans Warf

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 have to say, this conference was a much better experience. Don’t get me wrong, CHI has it’s positives, it is often inspirational, very diverse and the food snacks are well thought out. The Mobile HCI experience was focused, and this allowed me to connect with researcher’s specifically doing work in my area.

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Acceptance! MobileHCI 2012

May 17th, 2012 | Posted by admin in Events | HCI | Mobile Commerce | User Experience - (Comments Off)

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 with issues of soft trust, given its long-term concern for eCommerce. Our results describe spontaneous purchasing and routine shopping behaviours where people gravitate to their mobile device even if a computer is nearby. We found that participants faced few trust issues because they had limited access to unknown companies. In addition, app marketplaces and recommendations from friends offered a form of brand protection. These findings suggest that companies can decrease trust issues by tying mCommerce designs to friend networks and known marketplaces. (more…)

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