The Latest (January 2010)
- coordinating workshop on Digital Technology Design in Cross-cultural Contexts: Practice & Methods in April 2010 (email me for information). Co-organizer Dr. Somaya Ben Allouch.
- finalizing Limits of User-centered Design in e-Government article. Co-author Dr. Thea van der Geest.
- teaching a new media and communication undergraduate course
- mulling on the similarities between research interviews and romantic dates
Overview
How people construct their identities and navigate their lives with or without information and communication technologies. I spend much of my time reading, writing, teaching, talking, researching about that.
Highlights
- currently an assistant professor, Department of Technical and Professional Communication, University of Twente, Netherlands, Netherlands
- for about 10 years, indulged my interest in how people use technology by working as a user researcher for software companies in Silicon Valley (most notably, the company formerly known as Sun Microsystems) and for now defunct dot.coms (most notably, Productopia).
- Ph.D. in Sociology from University of California at Berkeley
- Undergraduate degrees in Social Studies and Women's Studies from Harvard College.
Keywords
lifestyle, information and communication technologies (ICTs), class (education-income-occupation), web design skill, sex/gender, research methods, new media, identity and questions thereof, the Web, mobile devices, consumer culture, technologization of intimacy, usability and design research, design personas, e-Government web site design
