STAR :: Social and Technological Action Research Group

Tools for electronic recording have become easier to use, less expensive, and more pervasive in recent years. As a result, just when people think they understand a technology enough to react to it – avoiding or embracing it – new technologies are invented and deployed, making it nearly impossible for even the most technologically savvy to keep up.

Online communities like second life can be a great place for people to develop relationships, and explore who they are and who they want to be, even when faced other challenges in the offline world. This project focuses on the ways identity, privacy, self-presentation, and interaction all interplay in online communities.

On the 42nd episode of The Silver Bullet Security Podcast, Gary chats with Gillian Hayes, Assistant Professor in Informatics at the Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at UC Irvine.

Listen to the KUCI radio interview with Gillian Hayes.

Situated Practices of Looking: Visual Practice in an Online World
Lilly Irani, Gillian R. Hayes, and Paul Dourish

David Nguyen, Gabi Marcu, and Gillian Hayes have been spending some time “across the pond” this summer studying reactions to Microsoft SenseCam by secondary stakeholders.

An Empirical Investigation of Concerns of Everyday Tracking and Recording Technologies

David H. Nguyen, Alfred Kobsa, Gillian R. Hayes