Jennifer Mankoff

Theses

• An architecture and interaction techniques for handling ambiguity in recognition-based input.
  Jennifer Mankoff.
  Commitee Gregory D. Abowd (Advisor), Scott E. Hudson, Elizabeth D. Mynatt, Mark Guzdial, Thomas Moran
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• IIC: Information in Context.
  Undergraduate Honors Thesis. Jennifer Mankoff. Oberlin College.
  Advisor: Professor Rhys Price Jones.
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Journal Papers

• S. Carter, J. Mankoff, S. Klemmer and T. Matthews. Exiting the cleanroom: On ecological validity and ubiquitous computing. HCI Journal, 23(1):47-99, 2008. (pdf)
• T. Matthews, J. Fong, F. W.-L. Ho-Ching and J. Mankoff. Evaluating Visualizations of non-speech sounds for the deaf. Behavior and Information Technology. 25(4):333-351, 2006. (pdf)
• Scott Carter and Jennifer Mankoff "Prototypes in the Wild: Lessons learned from evaluating three Ubicomp systems. IEEE Pervasive, 2005. 4(4):51-57.
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• Jennifer Mankoff, Holly Fait, and Ray Juang "Evaluating accessibility through simulating the experiences of users with vision or motor impairments" IBM Systems Journal, 2005. 44(3):505-518.
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• Anind Dey and Jennifer Mankoff "Designing Mediation for Context-Aware Applications" ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, Special issue on Sensing-Based Interactions, 2005. 12(1):53-80.
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• Scott Carter, Jennifer Mankoff and Patrick Goddi "Building connections among loosely coupled groups: Hebb's rule at work" Journal of CSCW, 2004. 13(3):305-327. (Springer link, pdf)
• Catherine Newman, Marissa Bauer, Alice M. Agogino, Jennifer Mankoff. "Perceptions of the Design Process: An Examination of Gendered Aspects of New Product Development." International Journal of Engineering Education. 20(3):452-460, 2004. (pdf)
• Melody Y. Ivory and Jennifer Mankoff and Audrey Le. "Using Automated Tools to Improve Web Site Usage by Users with Diverse Abilities." Information Technology and Society. 3(1), pp. 195-236. 2003. (abstract, pdf)
• Jennifer Mankoff and Gregory D. Abowd and Scott E. Hudson " OOPS: A Toolkit Supporting Mediation Techniques for Resolving Ambiguity in Recognition-Based Interfaces " Computers and Graphics (Elsevier). Special Issue on Calligraphic Interfaces. 24(6), December, 2000. pp. 819-834. (DOI, abstract, pdf)

Book Chapters and other non-refereed publications

• J. Mankoff. "HCI and Sustainability: A Tale of Two Motivations," Interactions. To Appear.
• Dillahunt, T. & Mankoff, J. (2011) In the dark, out in the cold. ACM Crossroads 17(4):39-41
• J. Mankoff, R. Kravets, E. Blevis. Some computer science issues in creating a sustainable world, IEEE Computer 41(8):102-105, August, 2008 (also published in the IEEE e-zine on energy and sustainability, www.earthzine.net, 11/17/08.
• Jennifer Mankoff and Anind K. Dey, "From Conception to Design: A practical guide to designing ambient displays," In Public and Situated Displays, K. O'Hara et al., eds. Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Conference Papers

• Gulotta, R., Faste, H. & Mankoff, J. (2012) Curation, Provocation, and Digital Identity: Risks and Motivations for Sharing Provocative Images Online. In Proceedings of CHI 2012, To Appear.
• J. Mankoff, K. Kuksenok, J. A. Rode, S. Kiesler & K. Waldman, Competing online viewpoints and models of chronic illness. In Proceedings of CHI 2011, pp. 589-598
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• Julia Schwarz, Jennifer Mankoff, and Scott Hudson. 2011. Monte carlo methods for managing interactive state, action and feedback under uncertainty. In Proceedings of the 24th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (UIST '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 235-244.
• Schwarz, J., Hudson, S., Mankoff, J., A Robust and Flexible Framework for Handling Inputs with Uncertainty. In Proceedings of UIST'10, pp. 47-56
• Mankoff, J., Hayes, G. & Kasnitz, D. (2010). Disability Studies as a source of critical inquiry for the field of Assistive Technology. In Proceedings of ASSETS 2010. To Appear (Best Paper Award). (pdf)
• Dillahunt, T., Mankoff, J., Paulos, E. (2010). Understanding conflict between landlords and tenants: Implications for energy sensing and feedback. In Proceedings of UbiComp 2010. pp. 149-158
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• J. Mankoff, S. R. Fussell, T. Dillahunt, R. Glaves, C. Grevet, M. Johnson, D. Matthews, H. S. Matthews, R. McGuire, R. Thompson, A. Shick and L. Setlock, Stepgreen.org: Increasing energy saving behaviors via social networks, In Proceedings of ICWSM 2010, pp. 106-113.
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• J. Schwarz, C. Harrison, S. Hudson and J. Mankoff, Cord Input: An intuitive, high-accuracy, multi-degree-of-freedom input method for mobile devices, In Proceedings of CHI'10, pp. 1657-1660
• A. Hurst, S. E. Hudson, and J. Mankoff, Automatically Identifying Targets Users Interact With During Real World Tasks. In Proceedings of IUI 2010, pp. 11-20
• Grevet, C., Mankoff, J. and Anderson, S. D. (2010). Design and evaluation of a social visualization aimed at encouraging sustainable behavior. In Proceedings of HICSS 2010.
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• T. Dillahunt, J. Mankoff, E. Paulos, S. Fussell, It's not about green: Energy use in low-income communities. In Proceedings of Ubicomp 2009, pp. 255-264
• J. Froehlich, T. Dillahunt, P. Klasnja, J. Mankoff, S. Consolvo, B. Harrison, J. A. Landay, UbiGreen: Investigating a Mobile Tool for Tracking and Supporting Green Transportation Habits. In Proceedings of CHI 2009, pp. 1043-1052. (Full paper)
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• J. Schwarz, J. Mankoff, H. Scott Matthews. Reflections of everyday activity in spending data. In Proceedings of CHI 2009. pp. 1737-1740. (pdf)
• A.Hurst, J. Mankoff, S. E. Hudson. Understanding pointing problems in real world computing environments. In Proceedings of ASSETS 2008. pp. 43-50
• A. Hurst, S. E. Hudson, J. Mankoff, S. Trewin. Automatically detecting pointing performance. In Proceedings of IUI 2008. pp. 11-19.
• A. Hurst, J. Mankoff, A. K. Dey and S. E. Hudson. Dirty desktops: using a patina of magnetic mouse dust to make common interactor targets easier to select. In Proceedings of UIST 2007. pp. 183-186
• Scott Carter, Jennifer Mankoff, and Jeff Heer, Momento: Support for situated ubicomp experimentation, Proceedings of CHI 2007, pp. 125-134.
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• Amy Hurst, Scott E. Hudson and Jennifer Mankoff. Dynamic detection of novice versus skilled use without a task model, Proceedings CHI 2007, pp. 271-280.
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• Jennifer Mankoff, Deanna Matthews, Susan R. Fussell and Michael Johnson, Leveraging Social Networks to Motivate Individuals to Reduce their Ecological Footprints, Proceedings of HICSS 2007, pp. 87.
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• Scott Carter, Amy Hurst, Jennifer Mankoff and Jack Li. Dynamically Adapting GUIs to Diverse Input Devices. Proceedings of ASSETS 2006, pp. 63-70.
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• Tara Matthews, Scott Carter, Carol Pai, Janette Fong and Jennifer Mankoff. Scribe4ME: Evaluating a mobile sound transcription tool for the Deaf. Proceedings of Ubicomp 2006, pp. 159-176.
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• Scott Hudson and Jennifer Mankoff. Rapid construction of functioning physical interfaces from cardboard, thumbtacks, tin foil and masking tap. Proceedings of UIST 2006. pp. 289-298.
• Demi Mankoff, Anind Dey, Jennifer Mankoff, and Kenneth Mankoff. Supporting Interspecies Social Awareness: Using Peripheral Displays for Distributed Pack Awareness. In Proceedings of UIST 2005. pp. 253-258. Satire. (ACM DOI)
• Tara Matthews, Jannette Fong, and Jennifer Mankoff, Visualizing Non-Speech sounds for the Deaf. In Proceedings of ASSETS 2005. pp. 52-59. (ACM DOI)
• Jennifer Mankoff, Holly Fait, and Tu Tran, "Is your web page accessible? A comparative study of methods for assessing web page accessibility for the blind," In Proceedings of CHI 2005 pp. 41-50. (ACM DOI, pdf)
• Scott Carter and Jennifer Mankoff, "When Participants do the capturing: The role of media in diary studies," In Proceedings of CHI 2005, pp. 899-908. Nominated for best paper award. (ACM DOI , pdf)
• Scott E. Hudson, Jennifer Mankoff and Ian Smith, "Extensible input handling in the subArctic toolkit," In Proceedings of CHI 2005, pp. 381-390. (ACM DOI)
• Tara Matthews, Anind K. Dey, Jennifer Mankoff, Scott Carter and Tye Rattenbury, "A toolkit for managing user attention in peripheral displays," In Proceedings of UIST 2004, pp. 247-256. (ACM DOI)
• Jeffrey Heer, Nathan Good, Ana Ramirez, Marc Davis and Jennifer Mankoff, "Presiding Over Accidents: System Mediation of Human Action," In Proceedings of CHI 2004, pp. 463-470. (ACM DOI, pdf)
• Jennifer Mankoff, Anind K. Dey, Gary Hsieh, Julie Kientz, Morgan Ames, and Scott Lederer "Heuristic evaluation of ambient displays," In Proceedings of CHI 2003, pp. 169-176. (ACM DOI)
• F. Wai-Ling Ho-Ching, Jennifer Mankoff and James A. Landay, "Can you see what I hear? The Design and Evaluation of a Peripheral Sound Display for the Deaf" In Proceedings of CHI 2003, pp. 161-168 (ACM DOI)
• Jingtao Wang and Jennifer Mankoff, "Theoretical and Architectural Support for Input Device Adaptation," In Proceedings of Conference on Universal Usability, pp. 85-92, 2003. (pdf)
• Scott Lederer, Jennifer Mankoff, and Anind K. Dey "Who Wants to Know What When? Privacy Preference Determinants in Ubiquitous Computing," Short Talk in the Extended Abstracts of CHI 2003, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 724-725, April 5-10, 2003. (ACM DOI)
• Jennifer Mankoff, Anind K. Dey, Udit Batra and Melody Moore. "Web Accessibility for Low Bandwidth Input," In Proceedings of ASSETS 2002, pp. 17-24 (ACM DOI, html, pdf)
• Jennifer Mankoff and Gary Hsieh and Ho Chak Hung and Sharon Lee and Elizabeth Nitao, "Using Low-Cost Sensing to Support Nutritional Awareness," In Proceedings of Ubicomp 2002, G. Borriello & L.E. Holmquist (Eds.), October, 2002, LNCS 2498, Springer-Verlag, pp. 371-378. (Springer link, pdf)
• Anind Dey, Jennifer Mankoff, Gregory Abowd, and Scott Carter, "Distributed Mediation of ambiguous context in aware environments," In Proceedings of UIST 2002, pp. 121-130. (ACM dl, movie (50 MB))
• Melody Moore, Elizabeth Mynatt, Phil Kennedy and Jennifer Mankoff, "Nudge and Shove: Frequency Thresholding for Navigation in Direct Brain-Computer Interfaces," In Proceedings of CHI 2001 Conference Companion, Technical Notes, March, 2001. pp. 361-362.
• Jennifer Mankoff, Scott E. Hudson and Gregory D. Abowd, "Interaction techniques for ambiguity resolution in recognition-based interfaces," In Proceedings of UIST 2000, pp. 11-20 (ACM DOI)
• Jennifer Mankoff, Scott E. Hudson, Gregory D. Abowd, "Providing Integrated Toolkit-Level Support for Ambiguity in Recognition-Based Interfaces," In Proceedings of CHI 2000, pp. 368-375. (ACM dl) (video)
• Jennifer Mankoff and Gregory D. Abowd, "Cirrin: A word-level unistroke keyboard for pen input," In Proceedings of UIST '98, November, 1998. pp.213-214 (ACM DOI)
• Jennifer Mankoff, Jonathan Somers and Gregory D. Abowd, "Bringing People and Places Together with Dual Augmentation," In Proceedings of Collaborative Virtual Environments, Manchester, June 1998, pp.81-86 (pdf)
• Jennifer Mankoff and Bill Schilit, "Supporting knowledge workers beyond the Desktop with PALPlates," In Proceedings of CHI '97 Conference Companion, Technical Notes, pp.550-551.

Other Conference and Workshop Participation

• T. Dillahunt & J. Mankoff, Social Sharing and Engagement Around Community Energy Monitoring. BECC 2012 Lightning Presentation
• K. Waldman; advised by K. Kuksenok and J. Mankoff, Use of Internet resources by individuals with Lyme Disease. RESNA 2010.
• V. Hanson, L. Gibson, J. Mankoff, S. Kiesler, J. Richards, Grass Roots Distributed Healthcare. Panel presentation for Grand Challenges in Computing Research 2010, April, 2010
• J. Mankoff, S. Kiesler, K. Kuksenok, and K. Waldman, Uncertainty in chronic illness and patients' online experiences, In Proceedings of WISH'10
• T. Dillahunt, J. Mankoff, J. Forlizi, A proposed framework for assessing environmental sustainability in the HCI community. Presented at the workshop on Examining Appropriation, Re-Use, and Maintenance of Sustainability, CHI '10
• K. Rector, with J. Mankoff and S. Hudson, Prototyping custom devices using infrared communication, Grace Hopper Celebration 2009, poster session from DREU.
• K. Kuksenok, K. Waldman, J. Mankoff, S. Kiesler, and M.A. Sevick, Conflict and care: how conflict affects individuals with chronic illness, Grace Hopper Celebration 2009, Technical Poster
• K. Kuksenok, J. Mankoff, End-user moderation of cognitive accessibility in online communities: Case study of brain fog in the Lyme community. In Proceedings of ASSETS 2009, pp. 233-234.
• J. Mankoff, J. Teevan, B. Bederson, G. D. Abowd. Organized Invited Discussion: Real Life and Real Work: Real Experiences Negotiating the Competing Needs of Illness, Disability, Children, and Work. CHI 2009
• E. Blevis, E. M. Huang, J. Mankoff, L. P. Nathan, B. Tomlinson. Workshop on: Defining the role of HCI in the challenges of sustainability. CHI 2009.
• T. Dillahunt, G. Becker, J. Mankoff, R. Kraut. Motivating environmentally sustainable behavior changes with a virtual polar bear. Presented at the workshop on Pervasive Persuasive Technology and Environmental Sustainability, Pervasive'08.
• Froehlich, J., Consolvo, S., Dillahunt, T., Harrison, B., Klasnja, P., Mankoff, J., Landay, J. UbiGreen: Using Mobile Phones as a Persuasive Technology to Affect Daily Transportation Practices. Abstract accepted for presentation at Behavior, Energy and Climate Change, November, 2008.
• J. Hasbrouck, T. Igoe, J. Mankoff and A. Woodruff. Ubiquitous Sustainability: Technologies for Green Values Workshop, Proc. Ubicomp 2007, pp. 567-568. (workshop website)
• J. Mankoff, E. Blevis, A. Borning, B. Friedman, S. R. Fussell, J. Hasbrouck, A. Woodruff and P. Sengers. SIG: Environmental sustainability and interaction. CHI 2007 SIG, Extended Abstracts of CHI 2007. pp. 2121-2124
• J. Mankoff. Case study of Service-Learning for HCI: Practical guidelines for successful integration. Experience Report, Extended abstracts of CHI 2006. pp. 201-206. (pdf)
• J. Mankoff. Applying ethics to the practice, research, and teaching of Human Computer Interaction. Presented at the CHI 2006 workshop on Reflective HCI: Articulating a Research Agenda for Critical Practice Montreal, CA, April, 2006.
• S. Davidoff, C. Bloomberg, I. A. R. Li, J. Mankoff and S. R. Fussell. The book as user interface: lowering the entry cost to email for elders. Extended Abstracts of CHI 2005 (Poster). pp. 1331-1334. (ACM DOI)
• S. Davidoff, S. Carter and J. Mankoff. Can Early-Stage Tools and Techniques for Iterative Design Help Researchers Understand a Problem Space? Presented at the Pervasive 2005 UbiApp Workshop ("What makes for good application-led research in ubiquitous computing"). Munich, Germany, May 2005.
• Jennifer Mankoff and Scott Carter. "Crossing Qualitative and Quantitative Evaluation in the Domain of Ubiquitous Computing." Presented at the CHI 2005 Workshop on Usage Analysis: Combining logging and qualitative methods. Portland, OR, April 2005.
• Tara Matthews and Jennifer Mankoff, "A Toolkit for Evaluating Peripheral Awareness." Presented at the CHI 2005 Workshop on Awareness Systems. Portland, OR, April 2005.
• Scott Lederer, Jennifer Mankoff, Anind K. Dey, Towards a Deconstruction of the Privacy Space. Presented at the UBICOMP 2003 Workshop on Ubicomp Communities: Privacy as Boundary Negotiation, October 12, 2003. (pdf)
• Morgan Ames, Chinmayi Bettadapur, Anind K. Dey and Jennifer Mankoff, "Healthy Cities Ambient Displays," Student poster and extended abstract, Ubicomp 2003.
• C. Newman, M. Bauer, J. Mankoff and A. Agogino. Perceptions of the Design Process. An Examination of Gendered Aspects of New Product Development}. Presented at the Mudd Design Workshop IV, ``Designing Engineering Education.'' 10-12 July, 2003.
• Dey, A.K., Mankoff, J. Applying Heuristic Evaluation to Ambient Displays. Workshop paper CHI 2003 workshop on Providing Elegant Peripheral Awareness
• Dey, A.K., Mankoff, J. "Evaluation of Ambient Displays" Presented at the Workshop on Design and Evaluation of Notification Displays at Ubicomp 2002, September 29, 2002. (pdf)
• Lederer, S., Dey, A. K., Mankoff, J. Everyday Privacy in Ubiquitous Computing Environments. Presented at the UBICOMP 2002 Workshop Socially-informed Design of Privacy-enhancing Solutions in Ubiquitous Computing, September 29, 2002.
• Jason Hong, James Landay, A. Chris Long, Jennifer Mankoff. Sketch Recognizers from the Designer's and Programmer's Perspective. AAAI Symposium on sketch understanding ( pdf )
• Invited Panelist, Augmenting Home and Office Environments. Third International Conference on Assistive Technologies (ASSETS) . April 15-17, 1998. pp. 169-172. (ACM DOI)
• Participated in Workshop on Designing the user interface for pen and speech multimedia applications. In Proceedings of CHI Conference Companion. p. 176. May, 1999.
• Mankoff, J., Somers, J. and Abowd, G. D. Bringing People and Places Together. In Papers from the AAAI Spring Symposium on Intelligent Environments. Technical Report SS-98-02, pp. 168-172, March 1998.  ( html)
• Panel Seamless Augmented Environments on the Scale of a Building, a Room and a Desk Panel on Augmenting Home and Office Environments. Third International Conference on Assistive Technologies (ASSETS). 1998. pp. 169-172. (ACM DOI)

Technical Reports

• Dillahunt, T. and Mankoff, J. (2012). Design implications for social-energy applications. Technical Report CMU-HCII-12-100, Carnegie Mellon, February 2012. (pdf)
• S. Carter and J. Mankoff. "Momento: Early Stage Prototyping and Evaluation for Mobile Applications" Technical Report UCB-CSD-05-1380, Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley, April, 2005.
• Scott Carter and J. Mankoff "Challenges for Ubicomp Evaluation." Technical Report UCB-CSD-04-1331, Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley, 2004.
• G. Hsieh and J. Mankoff. "A Comparison of Two Peripheral Displays for Monitoring Email: Measuring Usability, Awareness, and Distraction" Technical Report UCB-CSD-03-1286, Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley, October, 2003.
• Lederer, S., Hong, J.I., Jiang, X., Dey, A.K., Landay, J.A., Mankoff, J. Towards Everyday Privacy for Ubiquitous Computing. Technical Report UCB-CSD-03-1283, Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley, October 20, 2003. (pdf)
• Lederer, S., Mankoff, J. and Dey, A. K. Managing personal information disclosure in ubiquitous computing environments Technical Report UCB-CSD-03-1257 and IRB-TR-03-015, Computer Science Division, UC Berkeley and Intel Research Berkeley, July, 2003.
• T. Matthews, T. Rattenbury, S. Carter, A. K. Dey, and J. Mankoff. A Peripheral Display Toolkit. Technical Report UCB-CSD-03-1258 and IRB-TR-03-018, Computer Science Division, UC Berkeley and Intel Research Berkeley, July, 2003.
• Fait, H. and Mankoff, J. EASE: A Simulation Tool for Accessible Design. Technical Report UCB-CS-03-1260, Computer Science Division, UC Berkeley, July, 2003
• Carter, S., Mankoff, J. and Goddi, P. hebb: An Infrastructure for Conveying Shared Interests. UCB-CS-03-1259, Computer Science Division, UC Berkeley, July, 2003
• Lederer, S., Dey, A. K. and Mankoff, J. "A Conceptual Model and a Metaphor of Everyday Privacy in Ubiquitous Computing Environments." Technical Report UCB-CSD-02-1188, Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley, July 30, 2002. (pdf) (ps)
• Mankoff, J., Rowan, J., Mynatt, E. D., McJunkin, M. and S.E. Hudson. Ten inch pixels: ambient art for remote awareness. GIT GVU-Technical Report GVU-01-07. (abstract)
• Dey, A. K., Mankoff, J. and Abowd, G. D. Distributed mediation of imperfectly sensed context in aware environments. GVU Technical report GIT-GVU-00-14 (pdf)
• Mankoff, J., Abowd, G. D. and Hudson, S. Interacting with Multiple Alternatives Generated by Recognition Technologies. ( abstract , html ) GIT GVU-Techreport #GIT-GVU-99-26
• Mankoff, J. and Abowd, G. D. Error Correction Techniques for Handwriting, Speech, and other ambiguous or error prone systems. GVU TechReport GIT-GVU-99-18. June 1999. ( abstract , ps , html )
• J. Mankoff and G.D. Abowd. Domisilica: Providing Ubiquitous Access to the Home, Georgia Tech GVU Center, Technical Report GIT-GVU-97-17, May 1997.  ( postscript , pdf , HTML)

Sample Funded Proposals

• 8/09 J. Mankoff (3 years, $492,000), "Helping People Negotiate Uncertain Information Online" More information
• 8/08 J. Mankoff, S. Fussell and H. S. Matthews, NSF Medium (3 years $450,000), "StepGreen: Mobilizing social networks and context awareness to motivate reduced energy consumption" More information
• 1/07 J. Mankoff, S. Fussel, D. Matthews and M. Johnson, Intel Research (3 years, $263,000), "Leveraging computational technologies to support behavior change"
• 1/08 J. Mankoff, S. Fusselll, D. Matthews, Google Research Grant (1 year, $60,000), "Energy reduction through personalized suggestions on social networks"
• 9/02 Co-PI, NSF ITR (5 years, $2.3 million), "Human-Centered Design of Context-Aware Computing: Scalability, Usability, and Privacy" Abstract (pdf)
• 9/02 PI, NSF grant (3 years, ~$240,000) "Web Accessibility for Low Bandwidth Input" Abstract (pdf)
• 1/03 HP Research (1 semester, ~$17,000), "Group awareness support" With Scott Carter.
• 9/03 MICRO award (1 year, $44,000) "Early-stage evaluation of Ubiquitous Computing Applications" Abstract (pdf)
• 9/03 Co-PI, NSF ITR (5 years, $2.6 mill) "A Scalable Enabling IT Infrastructure for Developing Countries" Abstract (pdf)