Talks
Contextual Information in Design of Computer Systems for Communication
Talk @PRISM, University of Toronto, Department of Computer Science | March 2021
From Interaction to Collaboration: The Role and Structure of Contextual Information in The Design of Computer Systems
Talk @University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Computer Science | March 2020
Anthropomorphized Perceptions Of Conversational Agents
Talk @IzraHCI’20, Tel Aviv, Israel | February 2020
How Much is Too Much?
Talk @ UbiComp’19, London, UK | September 2019
Understanding Sense of Presence
Talk @Inria, the MJOLNIR team, Lille, France | November 2016
Sense of Presence in Virtual Environments
Talk @ YouTube, San Bruno, CA, USA | August 2016
People Searched by People: Context-Based Selcetiveness in Online Search
Talk @ Google, Mountain View, CA, USA | June 2016
How to Measure Social Presence: The Role of Speech Patterns
Poster Talk @ the Graphics Interface Conference, Halifax, Canada | June 2015
Selected Media Coverage
``Why is it so hard to pay attention in videoconferences?''
Waterloo Stories | April 22, 2020
``How research can enable more effective remote work'' by Jaime Teevan
Microsoft Research Blog | April 9, 2020
``People Too Trusting of Virtual Assistants.''
Live Interviews across Canada (Toronto, Ottawa, Kingston-Barrie, London, Thunder Bay, Windsor, Kitchener, Sudbury)
CBC Radio | January 7, 2020
``People Too Trusting of Virtual Assistants.''
ACM Tech News | January 6, 2020
``Study Found Consumers Believe Siri is Disingenuous…'' by Bret Kinsella
Voicebot.ai. | January 5, 2020
``The more personable a virtual assistant seems, the more data you'll share.'' by Nicole Bogart
CTVNews.ca | January 3, 2020
``Trusting virtual assistants could make us more revealing.'' by Christine Clark
KitchenerToday | January 3, 2020
``People are trusting virtual assistants way too much.''
Technology.org | January 3, 2020
``How Humanizing Virtual Assistants Earns Consumer Trust.'' by Laurie Sullivan
MediaPost | January 2, 2020
``New study from Waterloo suggests parents need to give their kids privacy.''
Video news segment @ CTV Kitchener | August 2019
``When is too much monitoring?'' by Steve Kannon
The Observer | August 2019
``Kid tracking apps and information needs of parents.''
Radio Live Interview. Kitchener today with Briane Bourke | August 6, 2019
``Kid tracking apps should avoid feeling like an 'ankle bracelet,' study says.'' by Paula Duhatschek
CBC News | August 2019