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 Information Science Colloquium
Talk Title: "It depends": Reconciling Privacy and Awareness in Distributed Collaboration

Speaker: Sameer Patil, PhD Candidate, UC Irvine

Date/Time: Wednesday, September 2, 4:00-5:15pm

Location: 301 College Ave., Seminar Room


Abstract:

It is well-known in CSCW and HCI that distributed collaborators need awareness of each other's activities for effective collaboration. Systems built for fostering such awareness, however, often experience tensions with desires for privacy. In order to inform the design of systems that can empower users to reconcile the often-conflicting needs of awareness and privacy, it is important to understand how distributed collaborators currently engage in privacy management. In this talk, I will present results of several studies in which we investigated this aspect. The results provide a framework that identifies key situational characteristics and interpretive influences in interpersonal privacy management in collaborative work.

Bio:

Sameer Patil is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine and a Research Intern in the Commonsense Computing Department at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, NY. Sameer obtained dual Master's degrees in Information and Computer Science & Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a Bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering from the University of Bombay, India. His research interests lie in the fields of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Human Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous Computing, and Computer- Mediated communication.

For more information, please contact Corinne Russell.

 

8/31/09 - Corinne