Her scholarly interests include cognition, culture, gender, privacy, time, space, everyday life, ethnography, user-centered design and, most recently, the social behavior of nonhuman animals, especially the rest of the great apes.
Research Areas:
- Animal Computer Interaction
- Privacy
- Computing, Culture, and Society
Research Areas:
- Computing, Culture, and Society
- Human Computer Interaction and Design
- HCI@Luddy - Crosscutting
- Ethics and Values in Digital Society
- Animal Informatics
- Animal Computer Interaction
- Privacy
I study the ways in which membership in social groups influences the ways individuals think, focusing especially on cultural, categorical boundaries and classificatory schema. I am also an ethnographer, exploring the ways concepts and categorical boundaries manifest in and are reflected, challenged, and changed by more visible behaviors.
In addition, I am extremely interested in the ways social structure and group membership influence the behavior of nonhuman animals, especially the other great apes, and the consequences of this for objects, environments, and systems specifically designed to support them.
