I am a postdoc researcher with the Socio-Digital Systems (SDS) group at Microsoft Research in Cambridge. My background is in human-computer interaction. In my research, I examine social practices with the objective of furthering the potential of information and communication technologies. Specifically, I (1) investigate existing social practices in work and play, and (2) engage in the development of novel systems to support these social practices.

Currently I am engaged in SDS Themes of Interacting without Touching and Human-Centred System Architectures. My work in both themes have taken me back into the domain of health and wellness. For instance, I am studying collaborative imaging system use during neurosurgery to inform the design of gestural interaction and I am investigating the perceptions of medical record ownership and access in managing chronic illness to address distributed system architectures.

Before MSRC, I was a postdoc at Mobile Life at SICS where I participated in the design and study of a novel mobile device for bodily expression. Prior to that, I completed a PhD in Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University. My dissertation was on the expression of emotion between healthcare workers as a function of the effective coordination of work in an emergency room.

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