I’m a PhD candidate working to understand and improve video chat as a tool to form and maintain relationships.

My current interests include understanding how video chat makes us feel (e.g., anxious or self-focused) and behave (e.g., sharing personal information). I also study how tools for coviewing media can support video chat users in spending time together.

I enjoy development as part of the research process; my development interests are mainly web-centric. Some of the technologies I’ve been using most are Typescript, React, Firebase, Node, and WebRTC.

Other experience:

• Worked for two summers as a research intern at Microsoft Research, studying novel interfaces for scaling text and audio communication to large audiences in live streams
• Worked with as an instructor with the U of S, teaching courses on HCI, implementation of graphical interfaces, and computer organization/architecture
• Worked as an undergraduate research assistant, doing development for research projects including Kinect applications for people who use wheelchairs, exertion games, and mobile games