professor

Phoebe Sengers

researcher

Kirsten Boehner

graduate students

Joseph 'Jofish' Kaye
Caitlin Kehoe
Jenn Thom-Santelli
Janet Vertesi
Shay David
Lucian Leahu
Angela Zoss
Claudia Pederson
Nick Knouf
Hrönn Brynjarsdóttir
Stuart Duncan

undergraduates

Alex Ainslie
Alan Garcia

alumni

Elizabeth Goulding
Tom Jenkins
Yevgeniy 'Eugene' Medyinskiy
Adam Kravetz
Lucy Dunne
Tucker Barrett
Elie Shin
Sam Garwin
Susan Wyche
David Klein
Miri Listokin
Jeremiah Fairbank

Jenn Thom-Santelli

I am a PhD student in Communication and Information Science, studying how mobile technologies can affect how people experience public space. Specifically, I am interested in how territoriality can be expressed through the appropriation of systems that allow for personalization, control or intrusion. I've also studied bluejacking, online deception and critically analyzed mobile social software and its representation of the urban environment.

involved in:

Alt.GPS
The SIA

publications:

•   Kirsten Boehner, Jenn Thom-Santelli, Geri Gay, Phoebe Sengers, Jeffrey T. Hancock. Treading Uncommon Ground: Designing for New Shared Experiences through Appropriation. CHI 2005 Workshop on Designing Technology for Community Appropriation, March 2005.
•   Thom-Santelli, Jennifer. Mobile Social Software: Facilitating Serendipity or Encouraging Homogeneity? IEEE Pervasive Computing. Special Issue on Urban Computing.
•   Boehner, K., Thom-Santelli, J., Zoss, A., Gay, G.,Hall, J and Barrett, T. Imprints of Place: Creative Expressions of the Museum Experience. In Extended Abstracts of CHI 2005, pp. 579-582.
•   Thom-Santelli, J., Ainslie, A. and Gay, G. Location, Location, Location: A Study of Bluejacking Practices. In Extended Abstracts of CHI 2007.
•   Leahu, L., Pederson, C., Thom-Santelli, J., Dmitriev, P. and Sengers, P. Uptake of Situationism Considered Harmful. In Extended Abstracts of CHI 2007, to appear.