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