A Few Words

About Me

Researching From Experience

Growing Up Around Technology to Wanting to Study it

I have been interested in emerging technology’s impact on users and society for a number of years. From movies about robots, to robots themselves, to now VR and online discrimination, I am consistently able to stay at the forefront of the newest technology. As a result, I am also attuned to the beliefs and interests of others approaching this technology. Because I know what people are interested in, I also know how to study it.

How do gender and social dominance orientation predict interest in friendship with robots?
Research, Design and Data

You Need Research. You need Analysis. And You need them All Done Right.

Part of the pride I take in my analyses is that I do them right. If I don’t know how to do an analysis, I know who to ask and what to read to learn how to do it. I will come up with ideas for researching and analyzing things previously unconsidered, and I will try to find the signal in the noise. With that said, as part of my tenure in industry, and in my graduate courses, I put transparency with stakeholders above all else. If something does not work, I will be the first to say it. 

I once asked a friend in the British Columbian government if he could help me with understanding my multilevel modeling output. Over three hours and through much of his patience, I took copious notes, replicated the results in R, and have since taught my students and the people on my team how to do and interpret the same analyses.

Part of the challenges I have faced and overcome in my research is studying things that don’t really exist yet. With robots, or with standardizing analyses in VR, the technology isn’t quite there yet without the assistance of multibillion dollar stakeholders. I’m not a billionaire, but I am working to improve how we study this technology, and how we can learn what people truly think about using it.