Lisa P. Nathan

lpn [at] u.washington.edu
Graduate Student
Information School

Keywords: culture, design methods, sustainability, values

Lisa Nathan is a doctoral candidate in the Information School at the University of Washington advised by Professor Batya Friedman. She received a B.A. in Education from Eckerd College and an M.S. in Library and Information Science from Simmons College. Lisa's research interests include the role of human values during interactions with information technology, the socio-technical history of information technology, and the design of methods for envisioning the systemic effects of new technology to guide design and policy decisions. Lisa's dissertation proposal is entitled: Adaptation and Information Technology: An ethnography of values, choice, and tension in two ecovillages.

Publications

Envisioning Systemic Effects on Persons and Society Throughout Interactive System Design
Lisa P. Nathan, Batya Friedman, Predrag Klasnja, Shaun K. Kane and Jessica Miller
Designing Interactive Systems, 2008. Paper (PDF)
Value Scenarios: A Technique for Envisioning Systemic Effects of New Technologies
Lisa P. Nathan, Predrag Klasnja and Batya Friedman
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2007. Work in Progress (PDF)