is a Ph.D student
in Computer Science & Engineering
at the University of Washington
studying persuasive technology
and personal informatics.
I am developing technology to help people understand and improve their sleep habits—for example, Lullaby, which helps people track environmental factors that disturb sleep. Such technology has fascinated me for some time, in part due to my own poor sleep habits. My work is conducted under the supervision of Julie Kientz and Shwetak Patel.
In a previous life—my Master's—I investigated ways to improve the design of software license agreements. I developed two alternative techniques for presenting software agreement content, textured agreements and narrative pictograms. I completed this work at the University of Waterloo under supervision of Michael Terry.
Lullaby: environmental sensing for sleep self-improvement
Techniques and heuristics for improving the visual design of software agreements
Textured agreements: re-envisioning electronic consent
Communicating software agreement content using narrative pictograms
Perceptions and practices of usability in the Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) community
Ingimp: introducing instrumentation to an end-user open source application