News
2012
- I am co-chairing the Student Research Competition with Anne Aula of Google Research at CHI2012.
- I am co-chairing the Value sub-committee with Marc Hassenzahl of Folkwang University at DIS2012.
- I am an associate chair for CSCW2012 and an associate chair for the Design sub-committee at CHI2012.
2011
- I was invited to speak at CMU’s HCII Seminar Series in Nov on the topic of feminist HCI.
- The special issue of Interacting with Computers (Elsevier) I co-edited with Elizabeth Churchill on “Feminism and HCI: New Perspectives” has been published. The special issue is Volume 23, Issue 5, pages 385-449, and can be accessed here.
- Jeff and my CHI 2011 paper, “‘Pleasure is Your Birthright’: Digitally Enabled Designer Sex Toys as a Case of Third-Wave HCI,” was featured in MIT’s Technology Review blog.
- I am now on the editorial board of Interacting with Computers.
- My student, Katie O’Donnell, has been awarded a highly competitive, 3-year Graduate Research Fellowship by NSF. A big congratulations to Katie! Read the press release.
- I am organizing the Second International Symposium on Culture, Creativity, and Interaction Design (CCID2) with Ann Light, Jeffrey Bardzell, and Mark Blythe. Please consider submitting to the 2-day symposium (July 4-5, 2011, Northumbria University, UK).
- My students Anna Eaglin, Matt Edward, Ammar Halabi, Dan Richert, and Marisol Villacres will present their MS Capstone and Tabletop design research at CHI2011 Work-in-Progress.
- My PhD student Gopi Kannabiran will present a full paper on human sexuality and interaction design at CHI2011.
- I am co-chairing Alt.HCI at HCI2011 with Ann Light and Tuck Leong.
- I am co-organizing a workshop on “Feminism and Interaction Design” at CH 2011.
- I am an Associate Chair for the Design sub-committee at CHI 2011.
2010
- My colleague Jeffrey Bardzell and I have been awarded a NSF grant through the Creative IT program to study massively amateur creativity. Here is the press release!
- I am speaking at the annual Grace Hopper Women in Computing 2010 Conference in Atlanta as part of the “New Voices in Human-Computer Interaction” program.
- My paper, “Feminist HCI: Taking Stock and Outlining an Agenda for Design,” won the Best Paper Award at CHI 2010.
- See my interview in interactions magazine, entitled, “The Lens of Feminist HCI in the Context of Sustainable Interaction Design.”
- I am co-editing a special issue on feminism and HCI for Interacting with Computers, due out May 2011. See the CFP.
- In March 2010, I received the WIC Informatics Graduate Faculty of the Year Award in recognition for exceptional commitment and dedication to female students in the School of Informatics and Computing.
- I am giving a keynote address at the Celebrating Women In Computing Banquet at the IU School of Informatics and Computing