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Dean Eckles

Member of Research Staff
Palo Alto, California

I am a social scientist and designer in the Innovate, Design, Experience, Animate (IDEA) team at Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto. I study and create mobile interactions, persuasive technology, and social services. A current focus is how mobile phones can be used to change people's attitudes and behaviors. Within this area - called mobile persuasion - my recent and current work is focused on context-aware mobile media sharing, self-disclosure via mobile phones, participation in online communities, and mobile augmented reality.

Before joining Nokia, I co-directed mobile research projects at the Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab and worked at Yahoo! Research Berkeley on ZoneTag and Zurfer. I have M.S. & B.S. degrees in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University, and a B.A. in Philosophy, also from Stanford. My M.S. thesis reported on research in mobile persuasive technology and self-disclosure behavior. I am also a Ph.D. student in the Department of Communication at Stanford

I use my blog, Ready-to-hand, to share new ideas and report on research in an immediate and less formal way than scholarly publications.

Professional Activities

  • Program Committee, Persuasive Technology 2007-2009,
  • Poster Co-chair and Program Committee, Mobiquitous 2008, Dublin
  • Associate Chair, Mobile Persuasion 2007, Stanford University
  • Organizing Committee, Persuasive Technology 2007, Stanford University
  • Reviewer, CHI 2009, Boston Reviewer, CSCW 2008, San Diego
  • Reviewer, IEEE Pervasive
  • Reviewer, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
  • Reviewer, Communications of the Association for Information Systems

Research Interests

  • Human-computer interaction
  • Persuasive technology
  • Mobile and social media sharing
  • Social responses to computers
  • Context-aware services
  • Mobile augmented reality
  • Self-disclosure and privacy
  • Participation in online communities
  • Social cognition and folk psychology
  • Research methods and applied statistics
  • Philosophy of language, mind, action, and communication

Publications

Social Responses in Mobile Messaging: Influence Strategies, Self-Disclosure, and Source Orientation
Eckles, D., Wightman, D., Carlson, C., Thamrongrattanarit, A., Bastea-Forte, M., Fogg, B.J.
Proceedings of CHI 2009. ACM Press.
Photos for information: a field study of cameraphone computer vision interactions in tourism
Cuellar, G., Eckles, D., Spasojevic, M.
Extended Abstracts CHI 2008. ACM Press.
The Behavior Chain for Online Participation: How Successful Web Services Structure Persuasion
Fogg, B.J. and Eckles, D.
Persuasive Technology 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer.
Over-Exposed? Privacy Patterns and Considerations in Online and Mobile Photo Sharing
Ahern, S., Eckles, D., Good, N., King, S., Naaman, M., and Nair, R.
Proceedings of CHI 2007. ACM Press.
Mobile Persuasion: 20 Perspectives on the Future of Behavior Change
Fogg, B.J. and Eckles, D., editors.
Stanford Captology Media, 2007.
Redefining Persuasion for a Mobile World
Eckles, D.
Mobile Persuasion: 20 Perspectives on the Future of Behavior Change. Ed. B.J. Fogg & D. Eckles. Stanford Captology Media, 2007.
ZoneTag: Designing Context-Aware Mobile Media Capture to Increase Participation
Ahern, S., Davis, M., Eckles, D., King, S., Naaman, M., Nair, R., Spasojevic, M., and Yang, J.
Workshop on Pervasive Image Capture and Sharing (PICS 2006), Adjunct Proceedings of Ubicomp 2006.

Patents

System and method for providing highly readable text on small mobile devices
United States Published Patent Application. 11/267,028.