Presentations

I am regularly invited to speak at conferences, workshops and symposiums. I have also given a number of invited classes and courses at universities, colleges and schools.

• Thinking at Human Scale. Invited presentation, Singularity University, July 19th, 2013.
• Rethinking Intelligence. Invited keynote speaker. W3i (World Wise Web Initiative) 1st TOPOS Conference, “The Future of Human Intelligence and Computer Science”, Tokyo, September 21st. 2012.
• Site design? Service engineering? Experience design, system thinking, agency, value and meaning. Invited panel speaker, 1st International Conference on the Human Side of Service Engineering (HSSE), San Francisco, July 23rd, 2012
• Perspectives from Within and Outside the Collective. Invited Plenary Speaker, MIT Conference on Collective Intelligence, April, 2012 [video]
• Emotion Ecologies. The Case of Online Dating. Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley, MBA 211 Game Theory Class, April 10th 2012
• Missing the Point. The Expanding World of Gestural Interaction. Invited talk, CHIFOO, Portland, February 8th 2012 [abstract]
• The Science and Design of Internet Experiences. Invited seminar at the Human Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon. December 5th, 2011 [abstract]
• Eye, I, aye: the Internet as a social science petri dish. Invited seminar at the Human Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL) at the University of Maryland, December 1st, 2011 [abstract]
• Socializing Content. Invited speaker in Informatics, University of California at Irvine, November 3rd 2011
• Emotion. Invited Speaker, Creative Mornings, San Francisco, October 28, 2011 [video]
• Hunches, Heuristics and Data (or the Art and Science of Principled Design), Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado and Boulder, September 8th, 2011
• Mediated Communication, Ethics and Etiquettes: Choreographing the Social and the Technical. Invited Keynote, The 2011 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems
  (CTS 2011), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 25th May, 2011
• The Internet in Everyday Life. (Rethinking “everyday”). Invited Keynote to Workshop on Human Computer Interaction, Beijing, China, March 24th 2011
• Vulgar truths of human nature and the challenges they pose for HCI, Invited Keynote Speaker, OZCHI, December, 2010
• Internet practices and necessary bridges: the cohabitation of bespoke solutions and application bricolage. NCA Conference, San Francisco, 14th November 2010
• Living in the Machine. Invited speaker. Women in View, Vancouver, BC, Canada, October 14th-16th 2010
• Tipping a Cow …. and other Internet Folklore. Invited seminar at GVU Tech at Georgia Institute of Technology, September 30th 2010. [abstract]
• Rethinking “Social”. (Content, action and meaning: Why it is time to rethink the word ‘social’ as we Buzz through FlickTwitFaceSpace). Technology and Social Behavior Speaker Series, Northwestern University. Invited seminar at March 11th, 2010
• Shopping! Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley, MBA 211 Game Theory Class, April 11th 2010, delivered with Andy Brooks
• Beyond the hype of FlickTwitFaceSpace: The social Internet in everyday life. Invited seminar at CSAIL, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, December 4th 2009 [abstract]
• Sociotech­ni­cal Design and Engi­neer­ing: Putting Peo­ple First. Yahoo! India Big Thinkers, September 2009 (plus press interview)
  
• The Internet in Everyday Life, Palo Alto Research Center, Invited Speaker, October 2009
• Conversational information seeking and exchange. Invited Speaker, Culture Lab, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, August 5th 2009
• How to design effective communication situations—both face to face and technologically mediated. Invited Keynote Speaker, Govis, New Zealand May 2009
• Mind the Gap. Identifying Gaps in Online Dating Services. Invited speaker, d-school. Stanford University, January 26th 2009
• Design and Mnemotechnics in the Age of Distributed Digital Data, Usability Professional Association. Conference. Invited Keynote on Usability & Creativity, Turin, December 2008
• Tools and Talk: Conversational Code and the Changing World of the Internet. Invited Speaker, Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, October 2nd, 2008
• Frontiers and Boundaries: The Business of the SocioTechnical, Invited Seynote Speaker, Frontiers of Interaction, Turin July 2008
• People – What we know and what it means (about us and about them), Invited Speaker, Supernova, June 16, 2008
• Place Matters: Social Encounters between the Physical and the Digital. Invited Keynote Speaker, ETech – Emerging Technology Conference, March 2008
• Users, Socializers and Producers: How Internet Technologies are Changing Our Selves, Invited Speaker, ETech – Emerging Technology Conference, March 2008
• Designing with people in mind.  Executive Women’s Leadership Summit, Invited Speaker, Yahoo! January, 2008
• HCI: then, now and what’s next? HCI 2007, Lancaster University, Lancaster. Closing Keynote Speaker, 3-7 September 2007
• Sharing Preferences and Privacy Cultures. Invited Speaker, Microsoft Social Computing Symposium, September 16th-18th 2007
• Users, participants, members Social science and the design of public space interactive media. Information Processing Society of Japan, IPSJ SIGHCI, Invited Keynote Speaker, May 2007
• Social perturbations and posited practices: looking at prototypes as more than immature proto-products. Invited Speaker, Stanford d-school, April 2007 [Video]
• Getting to know you: The art and science of designing interactive and communication technologies with sociality in mind. Invited Speaker, School of Culture and Technology, KAIST, Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, November, 2005
• Getting to know you: Designing for People – From Fieldwork to Design. Invited Speaker, Samsung HCI group, November, 2005
• Giggling, gossiping and gifting: essentials for social connection. Opening Keynote Speaker, About, With and For Design Conference, Chicago, October 2005
• The Plasma Poster Network: Multimedia Community Content in Public Places. Invited Speaker, Microsoft Research, March 2003
• So that’s what they look like: From text to visuals and back again in virtual collaboration Human Factors and the Access Grid. Invited Speaker, SuperComputing, November 2001

Selected panels:

• Exploring the Representation of Women’s Perspectives in Technologies, ACM CHI Conference, May 1st, 2013
• “Speaker Sparks”, CHI Women’s Breakfast, ACM CHI Conference, April 30th, 2013
• New Frontiers in Social Media, San Jose Social Media Day, Irish Technology Leadership Group, June 30th 2011.
• Revisiting Mobility – Should we return to mobility as a concept to understand mobile practice? Mobile HCI, Stockholm Sweden, August 31st, 2011
• Differentiating Distances. Presentation on Panel: Managing Global User Experience Teams, May 11th, ACM CHI, 2011
• Career Stories for Women Working in Human Computer Interaction, Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, October 1st, 2010
• Cooperation or competition: how can HCI organizations work together? Invited panelist, Usability Professionals Association Conference, Munich, May 2010.
• Overcoming Within-Enterprise Objections to Social Media, Social Media Strategies (Conference on Social Business, Social Marketing and Optimization), Santa Clara, CA, May, 2010
• Seeing, Understanding and Explaining. Presentation on Panel: Addressing Key Challenges in Doing International Field Research, ACM CHI, April 2010
• Collaboration through social networks: What is the future? Digital Media Conference, October 2009: http://www.digitalmediaconference.com/west/speakers09.shtml
• Women Leading Innovation, October 2008, panelist. Organized by FountainBlue http://www.fountainblue.biz/whenshespeaks.html, October 10th, 2008.
• Distance reduced: why virtual is real. The Social in the Virtual Panel, IFIP Working Conference in Virtuality and Virtualization, July, Portland, Oregon, USA
• Digital Backchannels in Shared Physical Spaces: Attention, Intention and Contention. As part of ‘Backchannels: rude and not listening versus effective multi-tasking?’ CSCW 2004, Chicago, IL, November 2004. McCarthy, J., boyd, d., Churchill E.F., Griswold, W.G., Lawley, E.L. and Zner, M. (2004)
• SPAM. So What? CHI 2004, Vienna, Austria, April 2004.