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 →
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 →
Yesterday was the announcement of accepted Extended Proceedings for the ACM Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (CHI), which I had two WIP papers and one workshop position paper accepted. This year’s conference is in Toronto at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre between April 26th and May 1st. The Work In Progress (WIPs) this year had a 49% acceptance rate. Of my… 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 →