Joseph Kaye
Senior Research Scientist & EthnographerNRC Palo Alto
Professional Activities
Editor, Personal & Ubiquitous Computing
Co-chair CHI Panels 2012
Co-chair NordiCHI Workshops 2012
Co-chair Mobile HCI Doctoral Consortium 2011
Co-chair CSCW Horizons 2011
Co-chair alt.chi 2006
Program Committee for CSCW 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008
Program Committee for CHI 2011, 2010
Program Committee for NordiCHI 2010, 2008, 2006
Program Commitee for OzCHI 2008
Program Committee for VR 2006
National Science Foundation Reviewer Panels, 2011, 2010.
Editorial Board: International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction
Research Interests
I have a wide variety of research interests. They're invariably around the intersection of individuals and technology, but that covers a lot of ground. Specific interests include rich user experiences, qualitative studies, epistemology, domestic life, computerized scent output, information visualization, increasing diversity in computing, [local] food, holistic approaches to health, science and technology studies, sex and technology, religion and technology, cultural practices around technology, personal archiving practices, and improv comedy/theatre. In general, I believe studying the borders can tell you more about what the mainstream will be than studying the mainstream.
Research Projects
Studies in Family Communication and Families' Values
Hacking, Tinkering, and Creative Leisure Activities.
Farmville: A Site for Gift-Giving
Understanding Women in Computing: A Statistical Analysis of the ACM Digital Library
An NFC-based system for ensuring clean water supplies in Haiti - a collaboration with Deep Springs International and the Center for Disease Control (more in an article on ScientificAmerican.com)
Conferences
I regularly publish at and attend CHI, CSCW, MobileHCI.
Personal Information
I am married and have twin girls.
Publications
Ames, M., Go., J., Kaye, J. 'J.', Spasojevic, M. Making Love in the Network Closet: The Benefits and Work of Family Videochat. [Full paper; won best paper award.] Proceedings of CSCW 2010.
Ballagas, R., Kaye, J. '., Ames, M., Go, J., and Raffle, H. 2009. Family communication: phone conversations with children. In Proceedings of the 8th international Conference on interaction Design and Children (Como, Italy, June 03 - 05, 2009). IDC '09. ACM, New York, NY, 321-324. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1551788.1551874
Kaye, J. 'J.'. 2009. Some statistical analyses of CHI. In Proceedings of the 27th international Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Boston, MA, USA, April 04 - 09, 2009). CHI EA '09. ACM, New York, NY, 2585-2594. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1520340.1520364
Kaye, J. 'J.' LEGOs. In 'Falling for Science: Objects in Mind', S. Turkle, Ed. MIT Pres. Spring 2009.
Presentations
In the hundreds. See jofish.com for selected details.
Patents
Pending.
