digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu
www.digitallearning.macfound.org/
I'm currently working under Peter Lyman and Mimi Ito on an ethnographic study of how kids' everyday uses of digital technology produce knowledge and culture outside of school. In the summer of 2007, I ran the Coming of Age in a Digital New York project: a study of how New York City youth use information and communication technologies in their daily lives. I primarily focused on the neighborhood of Red Hook, Brooklyn. Previously, I studied the mediated practices of rural youth. In the summer and fall of 2006 I conducted home-visits with families in a rural region of the Sierra-Nevada foothills. A more detailed description of this former project can be found on the Digital Youth website. In the fall of 2005 Judd Antin and I conducted 12 weeks of participant observation at a community-based arts and technology program for teenagers from the Bayview and Hunters Point neighborhoods in San Francisco. The study's website can be found here. The project is funded by the MacArthur Foundation and runs for three years.

In the fall of 2006 Lindsay Tabas and I worked under Robert Glushko to develop curriculum for the new Services Science, Management and Engineering program at UC Berkeley. Our aim was to discover and develop human-centered methodologies for the design of information-rich services and experiences. At the heart of our study was the challenge of bridging front-stage and back-stage approaches. The work resulted in methodological recommendations for students and practitioners who design and innovate services and customer experiences.

research.yahoo.com/berkeley
In the fall of 2005 and winter of 2005-06 I worked as a research intern for Yahoo! Research Berkeley. The lab was founded in the summer of 2005 under the leadership of Marc Davis. The lab continues the work of Garage Cinema Research, where I worked in the spring and summer of 2005. The group's focus was to leverage social, spatial and temporal metadata to aid in the collection, use and reuse of digital media. My responsibilities included: user need assessments, information architecture development, user interface prototyping, and information visualizations.