Engineering Communication in Data Rich Environments
I have been awarded $170,000 from the UW Innovation Fund for the project “Engineering Communication in Data Rich Environments: How do we support innovation in multidisciplinary teams?” Today’s engineers grapple with more data, more people, and less time. Design theory suggests collaborative problem solving leads to innovation, but multidisciplinary projects often fall short of this […]
Book Review: Self-Tracking in Science
Thank you Connor Farrington for reviewing Self-Tracking in Science. Conor Farrington. 2016. “Big Data Meets Human Health,” Science 353 (6296/ July 16): 227. doi: 10.1126/science.aaf8769
Technologies for Sharing
Quantified Self (QS) is a group that coordinates a global set of in-person meetings for sharing personal experiences and experiments with self-tracking behaviours, moods, and activities. Through participation in US-based QS events and watching online QS presentations from around the globe, we identify a function of ambiguous valuation for supporting sharing communities. Drawing on Stark’s […]


