I am a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University, working with Professor Cliff Nass on multitasking and human performance. This work is funded by a Google Research Award.
I received my PhD in Human Factors (Industrial Engineering) from the Interactive Media Lab at the University of Toronto, working with Professor Mark Chignell. I was motivated by the fact that emotional reactions are central to our experiences with technology. Over and above accurate and efficient and effective task completion, technology enables us to reflect, to play and to make meaning. Yet, we do not have a standardized or well-accepted way to assess how technology makes us feel. One of the key contributions of my dissertation was to deepen our understanding of how emotions change as an interaction experience unfolds, how to measure such emotions, and what patterns exist. The aim of my work was to study accessible, easy-to-use, and low-cost ways to measure emotion (sliders and skin conductance), and to investigate how to analyze this data for valuable insights such as expressiveness and immersion. I worked on emotion measurement across cultures (Canadian and Japanese) and domains (entertainment vs. eHealth).
Throughout my graduate career, I engaged in many exciting collaborative projects such as multidisciplinary augmented dance performances, participatory design for long distance couples, socio-technical theory insights for creativity, and transdisciplinary models for interaction design. My research interests are: emotion, design research, design methods, usability, interdisciplinarity and health metrics.