A holistic approach to exploring information
Key Research Areas:
My research inquiries are led by my curiosity about how people operate in the world. In particular, I am interested in the barriers, the missing elements that afford disconnects between people and information. I am fascinated with the everyday life experiences and views people hold that allows for holistic solutions to connect people with information to inform their world. Specifically, what are people thinking, doing, experiencing - all at once when they use technology to seek and find information no matter the purpose or goal. These inquiries often result from my own wondering about assumptions and things we take for granted as designers, developers, and teachers.
I have always been fascinated with universals and foundational questions. What makes us human? What connects us as humans? What experiences and knowledge can we share to make connections between people and information. What do I share with someone on the other side of the world, from a different generation, from another system of belief about the world? For that reason, I am interested in finding out similarities and differences in perspectives and possibilities of use of common technologies. How do these similarities and differences manifest in different places and cultures across the world. At once, I am in awe of the uniqueness of the individual who embodies an accumulation of experiences that frames how they see the world in their own unique way. Meanwhile, I am keen to recognize patterns in large data sets made up of collections of individuals. The research I do tends to start with these underlying foundations—asking what all humans share but also exploring individual differences.
My research agenda has convened around human experience with technology objects—especially with respect to emotion, perception, sensation, and spirituality— How does one present in the world through technology and how does the world present to an individual through technology. I have done research on how humans navigate, learn, and work with and through technology. I explore how improvements can be made in technologies and systems through patterns of human use (UD, UXD, UI). In essence, I explore and innovate how we stay human in a technology-mediated world. Most recently, I have been working on developing insights on information packaging. This approach is a unique consideration of the overlaps in communication and information to analyze the presentation or sharing of information. A new model to explore discoverability and enhanced meaning of information is offered. The term epidata reflects the idea of information that surrounds information; a term borrowed and adjusted from epigenetics.
- Social Media
- Second-hand Knowledge
- Expression of Information
- Natural Language Analysis
- Data Quality
- Just-in-time information
My research inquiries are led by my curiosity about how people operate in the world. In particular, I am interested in the barriers, the missing elements that afford disconnects between people and information. I am fascinated with the everyday life experiences and views people hold that allows for holistic solutions to connect people with information to inform their world. Specifically, what are people thinking, doing, experiencing - all at once when they use technology to seek and find information no matter the purpose or goal. These inquiries often result from my own wondering about assumptions and things we take for granted as designers, developers, and teachers.
I have always been fascinated with universals and foundational questions. What makes us human? What connects us as humans? What experiences and knowledge can we share to make connections between people and information. What do I share with someone on the other side of the world, from a different generation, from another system of belief about the world? For that reason, I am interested in finding out similarities and differences in perspectives and possibilities of use of common technologies. How do these similarities and differences manifest in different places and cultures across the world. At once, I am in awe of the uniqueness of the individual who embodies an accumulation of experiences that frames how they see the world in their own unique way. Meanwhile, I am keen to recognize patterns in large data sets made up of collections of individuals. The research I do tends to start with these underlying foundations—asking what all humans share but also exploring individual differences.
My research agenda has convened around human experience with technology objects—especially with respect to emotion, perception, sensation, and spirituality— How does one present in the world through technology and how does the world present to an individual through technology. I have done research on how humans navigate, learn, and work with and through technology. I explore how improvements can be made in technologies and systems through patterns of human use (UD, UXD, UI). In essence, I explore and innovate how we stay human in a technology-mediated world. Most recently, I have been working on developing insights on information packaging. This approach is a unique consideration of the overlaps in communication and information to analyze the presentation or sharing of information. A new model to explore discoverability and enhanced meaning of information is offered. The term epidata reflects the idea of information that surrounds information; a term borrowed and adjusted from epigenetics.
- Epigenetics - the study of changes in organisms caused by modification of gene expression rather than alteration of the genetic code itself.
- Epidata – the changes in content around or accompanying information that modifies meaning or understanding rather than alteration of the information itself.