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Research Area: Econ and Social Sys |
Profile
I am a Principal Research Scientist at Yahoo! Research in Santa Clara, CA, where I manage the Internet Experiences Group. I am also the current Vice President of SigCHI, the ACM's Special Interest Group for Human Computer Interaction.
My research focus is social media. At the highest level, I am interested in emerging digital media ethnoscapes - the fluid, shifting landscape of people and groups - that make up internet life. I take a human centered approach to design and innovation, and believe that lasting innovations derive from a deep understanding of how technologies are woven into everyday lives. Therefore my work centralizes the influence of social and cultural factors on people's adoption and adaptation of technologies. Over the last decade, I have conducted studies to address how social technologies and social media are created, consumed, adopted and adapted in different regions: in Japan, the US and the UK - and also in virtual worlds. I have designed applications for personal (mobile, desktop) and public space settings.
My work at Yahoo! Research continues threads that have been previously developed: mediated collaboration, mobile connectivity, transmedia technologies, digital archive and memory, and the development of emplaced media. My work and ideas elaborated in more detail in my written publications, and embodied in technology prototypes and products.
Recent Publications, Projects and News
- Lead type, dead type: New patterns of local news production and consumption Elizabeth F. Churchill; Jeff Ubois; Melissa Cefkin, Martha Cotton, Simon Pulman-Jones, EPIC (Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference) 2009, American Anthropological Association (AAA), 2009 [view abstract]
- Research automation as technomethodological pixie dust Churchill, E.F., interactions, ACM, 2009, 5 [view abstract]
- The Golden Age of Newsprint Collides With the Gilt Age of Internet News Elizabeth F. Churchill, interactions, ACM, 2009 [view abstract]
- Givin’ You More of What You’re Funkin’ For: DJs and the Internet Elizabeth Churchill, interactions, ACM Press, 2009 [view abstract]
- Digital Order: Just Over the Horizon or at the End of the Rainbow? Elizabeth F. Churchill, interactions, ACM, 2009 [view abstract]
- Flexibility and the Curatorial Eye: Why and How Well-Documented Fieldwork Sustains Value Over Time Elizabeth F. Churchill; Ame Elliott; Melissa Cefkin, Martha Cotton, Simon Pulman-Jones, EPIC (Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference) 2009, American Anthropological Association (AAA), 2009 [view abstract]
- Conversations in Developer Communities: a Preliminary Analysis of the Yahoo! Pipes Community M. Cameron Jones; Elizabeth F. Churchill, International Conference on Communities and Technologies, ACM, 2009 [view abstract]
- On trusting your socks to find each other Elizabeth Churchill, interactions, ACM Press, 2009 [view abstract]
- Learning How: The Search for Craft Knowledge on the Internet Cristen Torrey; Elizabeth F. Churchill; David W. McDonald, CHI 2009, ACM Press, 2009 [view abstract]
- Information Flows in a Gallery-Work-Entertainment Space: The Effect of a Digital Bulletin Board on Social Encounters Elizabeth Churchill; Les Nelson, Human Organization, Society for Applied Anthropology, 2009, 2 [view abstract]
- Of Candied Herbs and Happy Babies: Seeking and Searching on Your Own Terms Churchill, E.F., interactions, ACM, 2008, 6 [view abstract]
- (In)visible partners: people, algorithms, and business models in online dating Elizabeth Churchill; Elizabeth Goodman, Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference (EPIC), Blackwell Publishing, 2008 [view abstract]
- Uncomfortable Adaptation and Mashed Convergence: The Evolution of Interactive Applications Les Nelson; Elizabeth F. Churchill, 2008 [view abstract]
- A Site for SOAR Eyes: (Re)placing Cognition Elizabeth F. Churchill; Thomas Erickson and David W. McDonald, HCI Remixed, MIT Press, 2008
- Keyholes: Selective Sharing in Close Collaboration Les Nelson; Diana Smetters; Elizabeth F. Churchill, CHI 2008, ACM Press, 2008, alt.chi [view abstract]
- MapChat: Conversing in Place Elizabeth F. Churchill; Elizabeth Goodman; Joseph OSullivan, CHI 2008, ACM Press, 2008 [view abstract]
- Media spaces: past visions, current realities, future promise Ron Baecker; Steve Harrison; Bill Buxton; Steven Poltrock; Elizabeth Churchill, CHI 2008, ACM Press, 2008 [view abstract]
- Values, value and worth: their relationship to HCI? David J. Gilmore, Gilbert Cockton; Elizabeth Churchill; Sari Kujala; Austin Henderson; Monty Hammontre;, CHI 2008, ACM Press, 2008 [view abstract]
- Useful computer security Elizabeth Churchill; Les Nelson; Diana Smetters, IEEE Internet Computing, 2008, 3 [view abstract]
- Keep your hair on: designed and emergent interactions for graphical virtual worlds Elizabeth Churchill; Bob Moore, interactions, ACM Press, 2008, 3


