“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
—Maya Angelou
My writings reside at the intersections of Technology, Human Experience Design, Sustainability, Diversity in Design and AI Bias, which is my dissertation focus. I write on Medium
This book focuses on the economic, sociological and environmental movement in business to make all products including digital ones more sustainable. Not only are businesses finding a significant ROI from these choices, but customers are also demanding this responsible behaviour. The author looks at user experience practice through the lens of sustainability whether it be a mobile phone, service-based subscription solutions or sustainable packaging to expose the ways in which user researchers and designers can begin to connect to sustainability not merely as a theoretical. This book provides frameworks, along with case studies and personal stories from doing this work successfully. Both hardware and software design are covered.
Other Selected Publications
Upcoming Sept 2023: RQS Journal Article (Special Issue): Sex After Technology: The Rhetoric of Health Monitoring Apps & the Reversal of Roe vs. Wade
Nov 2022 - ARSTM Presentation: Sex After Technology: Rhetoric of Health Monitoring Apps & the Reversal of Roe vs. Wade
- June 27 – Presenter - HCII 2022 – ” Conversation Towards AI-HCI Heuristics ”
- May 16, 2022 – Panel - “AI 5 Ways” – University of Waterloo, Critical Media Lab
- March 28-31, 2022 – Guest Speaker “Environmental Life Cycle Assessment in Design” conference. “Dashboards and UI/UX for LCA Data integration,” hosted by NJIT
- 2021 – IEEE - ISTAS. Co-chair: “A Conversation with Safiya Noble – Technology, Race & AI”
- 2021 – IEEE - ISTAS. Presenter: “AI Literacy – A Cross Disciplinary Exploration” 2021 – (March 12-14) BLND Conference (University of Waterloo's Stratford School of Interaction and Business, Keynote Speaker – “Sustainable UX –What Progress Have We Made as Designers?”
- 2021 – Workshop Chair, “Feminism, Social Justice, and AI” Workshop, hosted by the University of Waterloo Philosophy Department, ON, Canada.
- 2020 DESIGNTO – Speaker: “Bias in Design” - Event Women that Make, Create, and Innovate (Winner of the People’s Choice: Favourite Event DESIGNTO Festival)
- 2020 – Presenter “Women in the Future of Work” – Humber College, ON
- 2011: User Experience in the Age of Sustainability (highly cited/ academic text)
Research Patents
1. Filing digital images using voice input - US US9013600B2
2. Method and apparatus for providing files to electronic devices- EP US US9723435B2:
3. Electronic device and method for determining time periods for a meeting - US20090204904A1
4. Electronic device and method for determining time periods for meetings
5. US20090204464A1:
6. Portable electronic device and method of controlling same- US US8887086B2:
7. Filing digital images using voice input - CA CA2726391C
8. Portable electronic device and method of controlling same - EP CA CA2735040C
9. Virtual hold baskets of media objects - EP2482283A1
10. Elektronische Vorrichtung und Verfahren zur Bestimmung von Zeiträumen für- EP2088547A1