I am a Humboldt Fellow working at the Media Computing Group at the RWTH Aachen University in Germany. Currently I am on sabbatical from my position as a researcher in the Social Media Research Lab at Motorola Labs. I received my PhD in May of 2006 from the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where I worked with Dr. Elizabeth Mynatt in the Everyday Computing Lab. I hold a Bachelors Degree from Swarthmore College with a double major in Computer Science and Linguistics.

I am currently conducting research in several areas, including environmentally sustainable mobile phone solutions and practices, how people in tightly-knit social networks maintain relationships with friends and family, and what influences the use of large displays in public locations. For more information, please see my project pages and my CV.