I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. I am broadly interested in Human-Computer Interaction, User Interface Software and Technology, and Ubiquitous Computing. My research focuses on developing, deploying, and evaluating new approaches to the human obstacles surrounding the widespread adoption of ubiquitous and intelligent computing technologies. More specifically, I have recently investigated such topics as unobtrusive home activity recognition in support of elder care applications, privacy-sensitive approaches to location-based sensing, sensor-based models of human interruptibility, and optimization-based approaches to generating aesthetic information displays.

I joined the faculty in October of 2006 after receiving my Ph.D. from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, where I worked with Scott E. Hudson. I earned my B.S. in Computer Science at Virginia Tech, where I worked with John Carroll and Mary Beth Rosson.