is a Ph.D student
in Computer Science & Engineering
at the University of Washington
studying persuasive technology
and personal informatics.
more specifically,
I am developing technology to help people understand and improve their sleep habits—for example, Lullaby, which helps people track environmental factors that disturb sleep. Such technology has fascinated me for some time, in part due to my own poor sleep habits. My work is conducted under the supervision of Julie Kientz and Shwetak Patel.
In a previous life—my Master’s—I investigated ways to improve the design of software license agreements. I developed two alternative techniques for presenting software agreement content, textured agreements and narrative pictograms. I completed this work at the University of Waterloo under supervision of Michael Terry.
publications
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Lullaby: a capture & access system for understanding the sleep environment
Ubicomp 2012- to appear
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Lullaby: capturing the unconscious in the sleep environment
CHI 2012 workshop on personal informatics -
Lullaby: environmental sensing for sleep self-improvement
CHI 2011 workshop on personal informatics -
Techniques and heuristics for improving the visual design of software agreements
Master’s thesis, University of Waterloo, 2010 -
Textured agreements: re-envisioning electronic consent
SOUPS 2010 -
Communicating software agreement content using narrative pictograms
alt.chi 2010 -
Perceptions and practices of usability in the Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) community
CHI 2010 -
Ingimp: introducing instrumentation to an end-user open source application
CHI 2008