I am a PhD candidate in the Human-Computer Interaction Research Group within the computer science department of Tufts University, and Professor Robert Jacob is my advisor. In the summer of 2008, I was an intern in the Computational User Experiences group within Microsoft Research where I worked with Desney Tan and Dan Morris on understanding EEG respresentations of auditory attention. I received a MS in computer science from Tufts in February, 2007.

My main area of research is human-computer interaction. I am interested in next-generation interaction styles, such as reality-based interaction, tangible user interfaces, affective computing, and really any new interaction technique. I am also interested in computer graphics and machine learning. Currently, I am investigating the use of functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) for use in brain-computer interaction. In addition, I worked with Michael Horn on the development and evaluation of an interactive exhibit on robotics and computer programming at the Boston Museum of Science.

Before coming to Tufts, I worked for Oracle Corporation for four years as a Senior Software Engineer. Before Oracle, I was at Harvard University, where I concentrated in computer science, and was also a student founder of the Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard (TECH).

I also have been a summer intern in several different organizations. In 1998, worked at Planet Direct, which was a web portal owned by CMGI, but no longer exists. In 1999, I worked in the JavaSoft Division of Sun Microsystems. In the summer of 2000, I worked in the Manufacturing Applications Division of Oracle Corporation. In the summer of 2006, I worked in the Advanced Networks group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

News
January 6, 2010: Deadline for submissions to CHI2010 workshop: Brain, Body and Bytes: Psychophysiological User Interaction
December, 2009: BostonCHI Labs (our new alliance of Boston area HCI researchers) has a website!
December 4, 2009: Guest speaker at Wellesley College course on Tangible User Interfaces
November 11, 2009: BostonCHI Labs - 1-minute "Madness" and Dinner 6pm, Admiral Grace Hopper Room, Maxwell-Dworkin building at Harvard University
October 12-13 2009: Bay Area for talk at "When Everything is Programmable" conference at the Institute for the Future
October 3-8 2009: Victoria, BC for UIST conference
    ⇒ Presented: Using fNIRS Brain Sensing in Realistic HCI Settings: Experiments and Guidelines
    ⇒ Presented in Doctoral Symposium: Using Your Brain for Human-Computer Interaction
July 2009: Finally updated my website!
July 2009: New EEG system arrives in our lab
May 19, 2009: Became a mommy to Jaclyn Ruhama Solovey.
April 2009: Our "CHIstory" video won the Golden Mouse award for Most Entertaining in the CHI 2009 video showcase. Check it out on YouTube and on the FXPAL blog.
April 2009: Presented workshop paper at CHI 2009 Workshop on Programming Reality: From Transitive Materials to Organic User Interfaces
    ⇒Programming Reality within the Reality-Based Interaction Framework
April 2009: Student volunteer at CHI 2009
April 2009: Coauthor of paper presented at CHI 2009
    ⇒ Brain Measurement for Usability Testing and Adaptive Interfaces: An Example of Uncovering Syntactic Workload with Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy
April 2009: Coauthor of paper presented at CHI 2009
    ⇒ Comparing the Use of Tangible and Graphical Programming Languages for Informal Science Education
March 2009: Guest Lecture "Using your brain for HCI" in MAS 672 - New Paradigms for Human-Computer Interaction at MIT Media Lab