News Archive. Sometimes it's hard to keep track of everything we're up to.
2009
Fall, 2009
Congratulations to Jeonghwa Yang, Pixi lab's first Ph.D. Jeonghwa successfully defended her thesis on October 19.
Erika was named one of two Foley Scholars for 2009–2010.
Erika presented her dissertation work at the Ph.D. forum at the Grace Hopper celebration of women in computing.
Erika (and a group of other researchers) are organizing the workshop Revisiting Research Ethics in the Facebook Era: Challenges in Emerging CSCW Research at CSCW10.
Chris will be presenting his paper, “Situated Design: Toward an Understanding of Design Through Social Creation and Cultural Cognition,” at Creativity and Cognition at the end of October.
Jennifer Stoll has a pile of new publications coming out this year: “Interorganizational Awareness in a Nonprofit Ecosystem,” with Keith to appear at CSCW10; “Active Botnet Probing to Identify Obscure Command and Control Channels,” with Gu, Yegneswaran, Porras, and Lee to appear in ACSAC'09; “Dress for Success: Automating the Recycling of School Uniforms,” with Boujarwah, Mogus, and Garg from the CHI09 design competition.
Chris attended the Globicomp workshop at this year's Ubicomp conference in Orlando. He presented his short paper, “Legitimacy at the Outskirts: Categories, Use, and Adoption in Marginal Communities.”
Summer, 2009
Erika Poole presented a talk on “Unraveling the Technological Knot: It's Not Just About Usability or Technological Innovation” at the University of Washington/Microsoft Research Summer Institute, Semiahmoo Resort, July 28.
Keith Edwards presented the keynote, “Interaction and Infrastructure: Bridging the Gap Between Human-Computer Interaction and Networking,” at the University of Washington/Microsoft Research Summer Institute, Semiahmoo Resort, July 28.
Keith attended the Usable Privacy and Security workshop, held by the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, at the National Academy of Science in Washington D.D.
Erika, Keith, and Lawrence Jarvis' paper, “The Home Network as a Sociotechnical System: Understanding the Challenges of Remote Home Network Problem Diagnosis,” will appear in the June issue of JCSCW.
Keith will be keynoting and Erika will be speaking at the UW/MSR Summer Institute on Unraveling The Technological Knot in Homes on July 26–29, 2009.
Sarita Yardi and Erika have a forthcoming paper: “Please Help! Patterns of Participation in Online Technical Support Discussion Boards.” In Communities & Technologies 2009, State College, PA, USA, June 25–27, 2009
Craig is off in Michigan on an internship with Steelcase exploring physical space and collaboration issues involved in improved support for active reading.
Spring, 2009
Keith and Chris helped organize the Computing at the Margins Symposium. The symposium was held May 6 & 7 at GT and included a fantastic group of speakers from industry, academia, and the nonprofit sector.
Erika Poole will be attending the Summer Institute for the Consortium for the Science of Socio-technical Systems (CSST).
Keith was a co-author on a couple of papers accepted this spring: “Challenges in Supporting End-User Privacy and Security Management with Social Navigation” accepted to SOUPS; and “Experiences with Recombinant Computing: Exploring Ad Hoc Interoperability in Evolving Digital Networks” accepted to ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction.
Keith, Erika, and Jeonghwa were three of several co-authors on “The Ins and Outs of Home Networking: The Case for Useful and Usable Home Networking,” to appear in ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction.
Winter, 2009
Chris was awarded a Microsoft Research Fellowship.
Erika was also an AC for the Works in Progress track for CHI 09
Erika was a co-organizer for CHI 2009 SIG entitled “Research Ethics in the Facebook Era: privacy, anonymity and the IRB”
Several Pixis have papers appearing at CHI09 in Boston: “Values as Lived Experience: Evolving Value Sensitive Design in Support of Value Discovery.” by Chris, Erika, and Susan Wyche from W2P, “Lightweight Tagging Expands Information and Activity Management Practices” by Craig and a group of folks from MSR Cambridge; and finally “Computer Help at Home: Methods and Motivations for Informal Technical Support” by Erika, Marshini (from W2P), Tom, Beki (from W2P), and Keith.
2008
Fall, 2008
Erika was in the Doctoral Consortium at CSCW 2008
Several Pixis were at CSCW in San Diego at the beginning of November: Keith presented the paper “The View From the Trenches: Organization, Power, and Technology at Two Nonprofit Homeless Outreach Centers.” (by Chris and Keith); Derek presented his note, “Small Details: using one device to navigate together”; Keith and Pam Hinds (from Stanford) ran the doctoral colloquium.
Microsoft Research has given a cash gift of $50,000 to support the research of Keith Edwards and Rebecca Grinter in next generation home networking. The gift will be used to foster collaboration with MSR in the areas of more usable networking and domestic technologies generally.
Pixi Lab welcomes Derek Reilly, a post doc from the wintry realm of the north (Oh Canada!).
Chris is one of two Foley Scholars for 2009–2008. The award ceremony will take place at the Foley Scholar's dinner on Wednesday, Oct 22nd.
Chris presented two invited talks on his research on the impact of mobile technologies on the homeless: on Oct. 2, he hosted a seminar at the University of Washington iSchool; on Oct. 3 he presented at Community Voice Mail's national convention.
Erika was invited to participate in the NSF NetSE workshop on societal values & networking.
Erika presented her paper “Reflecting on the Invisible: Understanding End-User Perceptions of Ubiquitous Computing.” at UBICOMP in Seoul S. Korea.
Jennifer has a paper, “ALPACA: A Lightweight Platform for Analyzing Claim Acceptability” appearing in Workshop on Credibility of Information on the Web.
Erika and Chris were named as Foley Scholar finalists (Pixi Lab representing 2 of the 8 finalists).
Chris has an article on the affect of technology on the urban homeless in the September/October issue of interactions
Summer, 2008
Along with Tom Rodden at Nottingham, Keith will be Program Chair for CHI 2010 in Atlanta.
Keith has been appointed to the Microsoft Trustworthy Computing Academic Advisory Board; this is a group of 18 experts from computing, law, and public policy who advise, analyze, and critique the security and privacy technologies of Microsoft's core products and services.
August 7, 2008, Keith Edwards gave an invited talk at Intel Research Seattle: Human-Centered Networking Research at Georgia Tech.
Keith and Steve Voida have a paper appearing at UIST 2008: Re-framing the Desktop Interface Around the Activities of Knowledge Work
Along with Pam Hinds at Stanford, Keith will chair the Doctoral Colloquium at CSCW 2008.
Erika Poole has a paper appearing in UBICOMP this September in Korea. She also has a paper appearing in the Journal of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, special issue on CSCW, Technology, and Diagnostic Work. Fellow Pixi lab member, Christopher Le Dantec, has a paper appearing in CSCW this November in San Diego and a feature in the upcoming September/October issue of ACM interactions.
Erika Poole has been recognized as a leader in technology and politics: Women in Technology and Politics &/or Policy
Pixi Lab members land prestigious summer internships: Erika Poole is off to MSR Redmond and the Social Computing Group and Craig Tashman is off to the MSR Cambridge and the Integrated Systems Group
Erika and Chris will be at the Values in Design workshop to be held August 8-16, at Santa Clara University.
April, 2008
Catch Chris and Keith in an interview about their work on homelessness & technology by the Italian newspaper Nova100.
March, 2008
Erika Poole and Jennifer Stoll have been awarded The Google 2008 Anita Borg Scholarship
Chris and Keith were awarded CHI Best Paper for Designs on Dignity: Perceptions of Technology Among the Homeless
February 27, 2008
Keith Edwards has been awarded tenure! Celebrations are underway and on-going.
January, 2008
Several Pixi members have papers accepted to CHI08! Designs on Dignity: Perceptions of Technology Among the Homeless, Sesame: Informing User Security Decisions with System Visualization, and TALC: Using Desktop Graffiti to Fight Software Vulnerability
2007
November 14-15, 2007
Pixi Lab researchers will present their paper, "Moving Toward the Middle: The Case Against the End-to-End Argument in Home Networking" at the ACM SIGCOMM Conference on Hot Topics in Networking (HotNets-VI) November 14-15 in Atlanta.
September, 2007
Jennifer Stoll's paper, "Exploiting the User: Adapting Personas for Use in Security Visualization" was accepted to the VizSec 2007 Workshop, to be held in Sacramento, CA 2007.
September 18-21, 2007
Keith Edwards, Erika Poole, and Jennifer Stoll presented their paper "Security Automation Considered Harmful?" at NSPW in North Conway, New Hampshire.
September 19-21, 2007
Christopher Le Dantec presented his paper The Mechanisms of Value Transfer in Design Meetings at DTRS7 in London.
September 10-13, 2007
Jeonghwa Yang presented her work, "ICEbox: Toward Easy-to-Use Home Networking" at INTERACT 2007, Rio De Janerio, Brazil.
August 2007
NSF awards $900,000 for project on tangible interaction led by Pixi Lab researchers.
August 2007
Keith Edwards receives Phase-I commercialization grant from VentureLabs to develop a next-generation home router.
August 2007
Pixi lab receives $12,000 NSF grant to support undergraduate research in human-centered home networking.
June - July
Keith Edwards invited to visit University of Nottingham and Microsoft Research Cambridge for the summer to initiate research collaboration with Georgia Tech
Summer
Pixi Lab members land prestigious summer internships: Jennifer Stoll is off to PNNL; Craig Tashman is off to the VIBE Group at Microsoft Research
May/June
Christopher A. Le Dantec attended to the 2007 Design Research Summer School at CMU for an intense week of design research
May 3
Pixi lab members Shanks Krishnan and Shivam Goya pulled down a first place award in the 2007 IMS Research Competition. mobMedia, a location-based media sharing and social networking application was awarded in the Teen / Young Adult category. For more details, see the press release. Congrats Shivam and Shanks!
May 2
Keith Edwards gives an invited talk at Cisco Research on "Human-Centered Home Networking Research at Georgia Tech"
May
Pixi Lab members present two full papers at CHI 2007: “ Home Networking and HCI: What Hath God Wrought?” and “ Give and Take: A Study of Consumer Photo-Sharing Culture and Practice,”
May
Erika Poole organizes and runs CHI workshop on "Security User Studies: Methodologies and Best Practices"
April 18
Two Pixi Lab teams tie for 2nd place in the Undergrad Research Symposium People's Choice category: Catie Donnelly and John Keyser for their "Ambient Router" project, and Sarah Tursell and Jeremy Duvall for "A Smart Router for the Home Network."
February
Jennifer Stoll has a paper accepted at the 2007 Creativity and Cognition Conference Graduate Student Symposium, “IdeaMurals: a Graphical Interface for Supporting Ideation in Public Policy Knowledge Work”
2006
Fall
Pixi lab member Aras Bilgen lands an internship at Microsoft Research Cambridge.
Summer
Pixi lab members land prestigious internships! Good luck to Jeonghwa Yang (Intel Research), Craig Tashman (IBM Almaden), Erika Poole (Department of Homeland Security), and Jennifer Stoll (Sandia National Labs).
April 23
Three Pixi members participate in the IT@Home Workshop at CHI 2006 in Montreal.