Michael Voong HCI Researcher @ Birmingham University

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Technology Supported Lying?

Just something that came up from looking at the results of my recent survey on privacy in location-based systems. I found that the general pattern of lying regularity in order of most regular to least regular is acquaintances, family, then friends. This result is hardly unexpected, as the questionnaire was primarily taken by university students, [...]


My Mobile Social Technology Research - Please Help

I’m doing a PhD on improving the way we communicate with friends and family using mobile technologies. In order to gain an understanding of how people currently feel with regards to how technology aids (or doesn’t aid) communication in this way, I have designed a stupidly short and easy 5 minute questionnaire.
Could you, as someone [...]


Thesis Proposal

Woohoo, I submitted my thesis proposal last week. If you’re interested in mobile location-based awareness, check it out [pdf]!
Here’s the abstract:
Researchers in context-aware computing aim to solve real-world problems by adapting systems to context. For many years, the HCI research community have explored the possibilities that context-aware computing has to offer, leading to novel [...]


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