What am I doing *right now*? Here’s what’s on my plate for the 2024-2025 academic year:

1. Surviving: As we all are. Remember to take care of yourself. Make time for friends, family, and hobbies. My main hobbies are cardmaking and baking, which I document on Instagram.
2. Service work: Professors workloads are broken into research, teaching, and service. Currently, I’m spending about half my time on service work, including in my roles as director of the HCIL and faculty director of the UMD iSchool’s PhD program, as well as one of the General Chairs for CSCW 2025.
3. Smart home privacy: Michael Zimmer and I are on a team that won a NSF grant in spring 2023 to keep doing research on this topic. We published two papers at SOUPS and CSCW in 2023, one at SOUPS 2024, and have a fourth paper under review.
4. Transatlantic Privacy Perceptions (TAPP): This US/EU project is focused on understanding who and what is most influential in privacy policymaking. We have two papers in preparation/under review from this project.
5. PERVADE: The first PERVADE grant wrapped in August 2023, and we’ve been focusing on sharing out results and developing our decision support tool for academics and researchers working with pervasive data. Michael Zimmer, Casey Fiesler, and I won a new NSF grant (from ER2) in Summer 2024 and are beginning data collection for that, focusing on ethics training and curriculum in US research institutions.
6. Teaching: In Fall 2024, I’m teaching one of my favorite classes, INST808: research methods (interviews), as well as a course on ethical considerations for data science. In Spring 2025, I’m teaching a new undergrad course on the history of surveillance.

Note: I try to update this page semi-frequently (read: not that often) with my current projects but I inevitably fall behind. Also, I’m not covering everything here, so if you’d like to chat about any of these projects or more generally about my research, feel free to email me.