I am an Assistant Professor of Digital Media in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at Georgia Tech.
My research in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) is focused on integrating theoretical, empirical, and design-based investigations of community technologies. My research focuses on developing mobile information technologies for the disenfranchised and marginalized segments of U.S. society, such as the urban homeless and the working poor. By focusing on uncommon communities of users—communities for whom technology use might be considered a secondary concern—I have examined alternate constraints on mobile computing in urban life, as wells as how social service organizations use information technology, and how participatory design can develop a discourse about technology where none such previously existed.
My research touches a number of different domains, including: computer-supported cooperative work, social computing, urban computing, human-computer interaction, and values in design.