Jennifer Ann RodePhD
Has also published under the name of:
"Jennifer Rode" and "Jennifer A. Rode"
Personal Homepage:
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~jenCurrent place of employment:
University College London
Currently, she is a Lecturer (e.g. UK assistant professor) at University College London, having recently completed a PhD at the University of California, Irvine working with Paul Dourish. Her dissertation looked at domestic ubiquitous computing, end-user programming and gender.
Her research interests lie within Human Computer Interaction, and include:
- Programming as it relates to domestic technologies
- Tangible user interfaces
- Ethnography as an approach to existing domestic appliance and as a way of exploring new product designs
She holds a Masters in HCI from CMU, and a BS in Anthropology & History also from CMU.
Her previous work included doing usabity work as part of the early TiVo UI team.
Publications by Jennifer Ann Rode (bibliography)
» 2009 «
Blackwell, Alan F., Rode, Jennifer Ann and Toye, Eleanor F. (2009): How do we Program the Home? Gender, Attention Investment, and the Psychology of Programming at Home. In International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 67 (4) pp. 324-41
» 2006 «
Wolf, Tracee Vetting, Rode, Jennifer Ann, Sussman, Jeremy and Kellogg, Wendy A. (2006): Dispelling "design" as the black art of CHI. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2006 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2006. pp. 521-530. Available online
“We discuss the legacy and processes of creative design, and differentiate it from the type of user-centered design commonly found in CHI. We provide an example of this process, and discuss how design practice constitutes an essential mode of inquiry. We argue the complementary nature of creative design and user-centered design practices. Syncretic disciplines shift and drift from their original practice. A key issue is how CHI is to respond to changes in acceptable design practice. A key contribution of this work is an illustrative example showing how designers can communicate their intellectual rigor to the CHI community.”
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Rode, Jennifer Ann, Johansson, Carolina, DiGioia, Paul, Filho, Roberto Silva, Nies, Kari, Nguyen, David H., Ren, Jie, Dourish, Paul and Redmiles, David F. (2006): Seeing further: extending visualization as a basis for usable security. In: Proceedings of the 2006 Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security 2006. pp. 145-155. Available online
“The focus of our approach to the usability considerations of privacy and security has been on providing people with information they can use to understand the implications of their interactions with a system, as well as, to assess whether or not a system is secure enough for their immediate needs. To this end, we have been exploring two design principles for secure interaction: visualizing system activity and integrating configuration and action. Here we discuss the results of a user study designed as a broad formative examination of the successes and failures of an initial prototype based around these principles. Our response to the results of this study has been twofold. First, we have fixed a number of implementation and usability problems. Second, we have extended our visualizations to incorporate new considerations regarding the temporal and structural organization of interactions.”
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Rode, Jennifer Ann (2006): Appliances for whom? Considering place. In Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 10 (2) pp. 90-94
» 2005 «
Paula, Rogerio de, Ding, Xianghua, Dourish, Paul, Nies, Kari, Pillet, Ben, Redmiles, David F., Ren, Jie, Rode, Jennifer Ann and Filho, Roberto Silva (2005): In the eye of the beholder: A visualization-based approach to information system security. In International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 63 (1) pp. 5-24
“Computer system security is traditionally regarded as a primarily technological concern; the fundamental questions to which security researchers address themselves are those of the mathematical guarantees that can be made for the performance of various communication and computational challenges. However, in our research, we focus on a different question. For us, the fundamental security question is one that end-users routinely encounter and resolve for themselves many times a day -- the question of whether a system is secure enough for their immediate needs. In this paper, we will describe our explorations of this issue. In particular, we will draw on three major elements of our research to date. The first is empirical investigation into everyday security practices, looking at how people manage security as a practical, day-to-day concern, and exploring the context in which security decisions are made. This empirical work provides a foundation for our reconsideration of the problems of security to a large degree as an interactional problem. The second is our systems approach, based on visualization and event-based architectures. This technical approach provides a broad platform for investigating security and interaction, based on a set of general principles. The third is our initial experiences in a prototype deployment of these mechanisms in an application for peer-to-peer file sharing in face-to-face collaborative settings. We have been using this application as the basis of an initial evaluation of our technology in support of everyday security practices in collaborative workgroups.”
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Rode, Jennifer Ann, Toye, Eleanor F. and Blackwell, Alan (2005): The domestic economy: a broader unit of analysis for end user programming. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2005 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2005. pp. 1757-1760. Available online
“Domestic ubicomp applications often assume individual users will program and configure their technology in isolation, decoupled from complex domestic environments in which they are situated. To investigate this assumption, we conducted a two week study of VCR use by eight families. Each household member old enough to write completed a diary, interviews were conducted before and after, and information on demographics and appliance ownership was collected. Our key finding supports the notion of the domestic economy and the trading of programming expertise. We use the Attention Investment paradigm, and discuss how the model fits with multi-user programming situations. We discuss the importance of the parent v/s child roles in VCR use, as well as, the tension between direct manipulation (e.g. pressing record) and programming ahead of time. We propose that future work on end user programming must focus on the household as a domestic system rather than on the individual.”
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Paula, Rogerio de, Ding, Xianghua, Dourish, Paul, Nies, Kari, Pillet, Ben, Redmiles, David F., Ren, Jie, Rode, Jennifer Ann and Filho, Roberto Silva (2005): Two experiences designing for effective security. In: Proceedings of the 2005 Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security 2005. pp. 25-34. Available online
“In our research, we have been concerned with the question of how to make relevant features of security situations visible to users in order to allow them to make informed decisions regarding potential privacy and security problems, as well as regarding potential implications of their actions. To this end, we have designed technical infrastructures that make visible the configurations, activities, and implications of available security mechanisms. This thus allows users to make informed choices and take coordinated and appropriate actions when necessary. This work differs from the more traditional security usability work in that our focus is not only on the usability of security mechanism (e.g., the ease-of-use of an access control interface), but how security can manifest itself as part of people's interactions with and through information systems (i.e., how people experience and interpret privacy and security situations, and are enabled or constrained by existing technological mechanisms to act appropriately). In this paper, we report our experiences designing, developing, and testing two technical infrastructures for supporting this approach for usable security.”
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» 2004 «
Stringer, Mark, Toye, Eleanor F., Rode, Jennifer Ann and Blackwell, Alan (2004): Teaching rhetorical skills with a tangible user interface. In: Proceedings of ACM IDC04: Interaction Design and Children 2004. pp. 11-18. Available online
“We describe Webkit, an application which uses a large-screen graphical user interface and a tangible user interface to teach children important rhetorical skills. We discuss our evaluation of this application and possible future directions for computer-supported rhetorical applications.”
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» 2003 «
Rode, Jennifer Ann, Stringer, Mark, Toye, Eleanor F., Simpson, Amanda R. and Blackwell, Alan (2003): Curriculum-focused design. In: Proceedings of ACM IDC03: Interaction Design and Children 2003. pp. 119-126. Available online
“In this paper we describe a technique of Curriculum-Focused Design, and the aspects of our research experience on which the technique is based. Our technique is a variant of Druin's Cooperative Inquiry. Cooperative Inquiry is a well-developed design practice for children, but it has been practised largely outside the classroom. Druin's technique has also been developed in American schools, which have greater curriculum flexibility than English schools, which are highly curriculum-focused. We studied the English curriculum and identified an area that we believed could fruitfully be augmented by technology. Our design approach was novel insofar as our evaluation sessions doubled as lessons for students. Our interdisciplinary design team, including a former teacher with over 10 years' classroom experience, evaluated the interface in a classroom setting, providing strong environmental validity to the design process.”
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» 2000 «
Patrick, Emilee, Cosgrove, Dennis, Slavkovic, Aleksandra, Rode, Jennifer Ann, Verratti, Thom and Chiselko, Greg (2000): Using a Large Projection Screen as an Alternative to Head-Mounted Displays for Virtual Environments. In: Turner, Thea, Szwillus, Gerd, Czerwinski, Mary, Peterno, Fabio and Pemberton, Steven (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 2000 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 1-6, 2000, The Hague, The Netherlands. pp. 478-485. Available online
“Head-mounted displays for virtual environments facilitate an immersive experience that seems more real than an experience provided by a desk-top monitor [18]; however, the cost of head-mounted displays can prohibit their use. An empirical study was conducted investigating differences in spatial knowledge learned for a virtual environment presented in three viewing conditions: head-mounted display, large projection screen, and desk-top monitor. Participants in each condition were asked to reproduce their cognitive map of a virtual environment, which had been developed during individual exploration of the environment along a predetermined course. Error scores were calculated, indicating the degree to which each participant's map differed from the actual layout of the virtual environment. No statistically significant difference was found between the head-mounted display and large projection screen conditions. An implication of this result is that a large projection screen may be an effective, inexpensive substitute for a head-mounted display.”
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