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talks
- "RFID: A Case Study of the Risks and Benefits of Location-Aware Technologies," presented at O'Reilly Emerging Tech 2006, March 8, 2006. [Download the slides here in PDF format.] Read a synopsis of this talk on the O'Reilly website.
Selected Research and Projects At SIMS:
- Final Project: Social Uses of Communication Backchannels in a Shared Physical Space with Matthew Rothenberg. Recipient of the 2006 Dr. James R. Chen Award for an outstanding final project within the Social Life of Information final project track.
- Testing and Evaluation of the RF-Enabled e-Passport - under direction of Prof. Deirdre Mulligan of the Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic at the Boalt School of Law, UC Berkeley - paper in progress
- "PlaceLab: User-Gathered Data and Open Source Data Repositories," a paper co-authored with Matthew Rothenberg for IS296A - Open Source Development and Distribution of Digital Information: Economic, Legal and Social Perspectives
- Photographic Technology and the Social Uses of Images - an ethnographic study in the social uses of cameraphones directed by Prof. Nancy Van House
- "The Network" - an information visualization project exploring the connections between presidential cabinets and social networks for IS247 - Information Visualization
- Usability Assessment of the MMM2 Mobile Media Metadata System for Garage Cinema Research at UC Berkeley for IS214 - Usability and Needs Assessment
- ARTery - a web-based cameraphone application prototype for documenting public artworks for IS202 - Information Search and Retrieval
Areas of Interest and Research:
- information privacy & security
- user experience research & testing (with a special interest in user-focused security)
- online communities & social networks
- digital identity
- mobile and ubiquitous computing
- social uses of technology
05/06 Coursework:
- IS219 - Privacy, Security, and Cryptography
- IS235 - Legal Issues in Information Management
- IS296A-4 - Research Methods: Introduction to Quantitative Methods
- IS247 - Information Visualization & Presentation
- IS296A - Open Source Development and Distribution of Digital Information: Economic, Legal and Social Perspectives
- IS296A - Economics-Informed Design of Networked Systems
- Law 295.5T - Clinical Research
04/05 Coursework:
- IS205 - Information Law and Policy
- IS296A - Legal and Policy Challenges Posed by Peer to Peer File Sharing & P2P Technology
- IS206 - Distributed Computing Applications and Infrastructure
- IS214 - Needs and Usability Assessment
- IS207 - Analysis of Information Systems
- IS290 - XML Foundations
- IS255 - Foundations of Software Design
- IS203 - Social and Organizational Issues of Information
- IS202 - Information Organization and Retrieval
updated 5.03.06