A brief introduction

I am a research fellow at the HCI Centre at the University of Birmingham. I worked as an interactive and visual designer for ten years, during which I developed an interest in whether and how interactive systems support users' needs, values and social practices. With this objective in mind, I have explored a range of questions across a number of socio-technical systems, including the cross cultural uses of social networks, parents' motives for adopting location tracking with their children and designing systems that enable trust repair between remote parties.

I am co-investigator of SIREN, a EU project with NTUA, INESC-ID, IT University of Copenhagen and University of California, Santa Cruz. Our group is looking at how children experience and resolve conflict with a view of informing a learning game that will teach children effective conflict management strategies.

In collaboration with Alastair Gill, Chrysanthi Papoutsi and Fadhila Mazanderani, I have also developed a new lexical tool for the unobtrusive measurement of privacy. I am principle investigator on a Google University award that will support further research in this area.