Peyina Lin

I am Ph.D. Candidate in the Information School University of Washington.

I naturally see phenomena in terms of social structures So, I bring the study of social structures and frame it for the CSCW and HCI communities. For example, how status, and social groups contribute to behavioral influence, information diffusion, and technology appropriation.

For my dissertation, I study high school youth and how their social identities and social group affiliation affects their technology-mediated interactions. This work is funded by a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation's Sociology Program. It has also received a University of Washington Graduate School Presidential Dissertation Fellowship (2011-2012).

This past summer (2011), I did a research internship at the FUSE Labs at Microsoft Research with Shelly Farnham.

In the past, I have worked with groups such as the Virtual Information Behavior Environments, theValue Sensitive Design Research Lab and the People and Practices Research Group at Intel amongst others.

I must mention that I am indebted to my committee members: Drs. Michael B. Eisenberg (iSchool), David W. McDonald (iSchool) and Kate Stovel (sociology).

Note: Please see my website for publications. Thanks.