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In Review Process

  • Tension between User-centered Design & e-Government Services. Co-author Thea van der Geest.
  • Playing Stupid, Caring for Users, and Putting on a Good Show: Feminist Acts in Usability Work

 

Journal Articles, Book Chapters & Conference Proceedings

2008. Data-driven persona development. Co-authored with J. McGinn. Proceeding of the Twenty-Sixth Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Florence, Italy, April 05 - 10, 2008). CHI '08. ACM, New York, NY, 1521-1524.

2003. Art versus Code: The Gendered Evolution of Web Design Skills in Society Online: The Internet in Context, eds. Howard, P. and S. Jones. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

2002. Keeping up: Web design skill and the reinvented worker. Information Communication and Society, 5(1): 1-26. [pdf]

1999. The birth of web site design skils: making the present history. American Behavioral Scientist 43(3): 464-474. [pdf]

Book Reviews & Short Essays

  • 2005. Book review of Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution by Howard Rheingold. Social Forces 83(4): 1765-1767
  • 2004. Gender and feelings. Contexts. 3(4):8
  • 2004. Price check on condoms! Contexts. 3(4): 10
  • 2004. The values of kids these days.” Contexts. 3(1): 8-9
  • 2004. Be all that you can be. Contexts. 3(1): 11.
  • 2004. You buy what you think you are. Contexts. 3(1): 12
  • 2003. Book review of Work in the New Economy by Chris Benner. Acta Sociologica 46(4)
  • 2002. Reach Out and Write Someone. Contexts. 1(4): 10-11

Under Review

Invited Lectures & Panel Presentations

  • 2009. Invited Speaker. The Limitations of User-centered Design: An e-Government Initiative Case Study. ACM Prague SIGCHI/Czech Technical University, 22 November.
  • 2007. Keynote Presenter. What Does It Mean to Know Users? World Usability Day, Prague, Czech Republic, 8 November
  • 2007. Invited Speaker. Persona Creation and Data. Innovation@Sun Conference, Monterey Bay, California, USA, 1-3 October
  • 2005. Invited Panelist. Re: activism, A Conference on 21st Century Activism and Technology. Budapest, Hungary, 14-16 October
  • 2005. Invited Speaker. A Question of Class and Race: Mobile Phones and Pagers. Stanford Mobile HCI Workshop. Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA, 17 May

Conference/Workshop Organizer and Discussant Roles

  • 2006. Workshop Co-organizer (with Brian Rink, IDEO). Deep Impact: Creating Strategies for "Meaning-ness" in Research Deliverables. Ethnography Praxis in Industry, Portland, Oregon, USA, 24-26 September
  • 2002. Conference Co-organizer (with Nina Wakeford, University of Surrey). Mobile Devices and the Cultural Worlds of Young People. Annenberg Center for Communication, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA, 10 October

Attendance at Invitation Only Workshops & Conferences

  • 2009. Atmospheres of Participation: Art, Media, Politics. Goldsmiths, University of London. 13 November 2009.
  • 2005. Microsoft Research Social Computing Symposium. Redmond, Washington, USA, 24-26 April
  • 2004. Wireless Communication Workshop: Inspirations from Unusual Sources. Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, 27-29 August
  • 2004. Street Talk: An Urban Computing Happening. Intel Research, Berkeley, California, USA, 16 July
  • 2004. Microsoft Research Social Computing Symposium. Redmond, Washington, USA, 29-30 March
  • 2004. Urban Mobilities Workshop. INCITE, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom, 14-15 January
  • 2002. Illinois Institute of Design. ON/OFF. Managing Personal Accessibility in a Wired World Workshop. Chicago, Illinois, USA, 11 December

Conference Presentations

Living the Digital Lifestyle

  • 2005. Association of Internet Researchers, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 5-9 October
  • 2004. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, USA, 14-17 August. Roundtable Presentation

Pushers, Plumbers & Pediatricians: Symbolism of the Pager in the United States (1975-1995)

  • 2003. Center for Work, Technology, and Organization, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California,
    USA, 10 November. Invited Speaker
  • 2003. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 15-19 August
  • 2002. Society for the Social Study of Science, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, 6-10 November
  • 2002. Association of Internet Researchers Conference, Maastricht, Netherlands, 13-16 October
  • 2002. Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, Tampere, Finland, 29 June-2 July
  • 2002. Center for Information Society Studies, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, 19 March. Invited Speaker

'It's Just Easier To Text. Really.': Young People and New Communication in the United Kingdom & the United States (co-authored with Dr. Nina Wakeford)

  • 2002. Society for the Social Study of Science, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, 6-10 November
  • 2002. Association of Internet Researchers Conference 2002, Maastricht, Netherlands, 13-16 October

Keeping Up: Web Design Skill and the Reinvented Worker

  • 2001. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Anaheim, California, USA 19-21 August
  • 2000. Association of Internet Researchers: Internet Research 1.0: The State of the Interdiscipline, Lawrence, Kansas, USA, 14-17 September

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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

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