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Amelia Abreu

Users, Design and Data

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Thursday, September 19, 13

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Background

Research/Teaching

- PhD Candidate, focus on Human-Computer Interaction- Information Organization and Design- Quantitative, Qualitative and Critical Methods-User-Centered Design and Usability Testing

User Research

- Data analysis and design ethnography- Quantitative, Qualitative and Critical Methods-Report findings and make strategic Recommendations for Product Design

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- Lead professional workshops - Develop design recommendations, including wireframes and prototypes.

Critical Data Mining

- Research Intern with danah boyd and Kate Crawford- Experience-based analysis of data-rich environments.- Analytics/Metrics- Develop personas and use cases for engineering teams

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Collaborative Collecting: Data Sharing in Everyday Life

In 2012, I was a sponsored researcher at Intel’s Experiences and Interaction Lab. As part of a larger project examining how data and media shared in everyday practices, I explored the phenomena of “collaborative collecting” as a data sharing practice, examining social context, metadata, description, and techno-social improvisations. I organized and conducted over 100 hours of design-ethnographic interviews, conducted participant observation, and designed reflective exercises for participants.

Over the course of the project, I reported progress and results to research and product teams.

Report | Slides | Photos and Videos


Big Data/Small DataIn 2012-2013, I lead a collaborative of researchers and designers in exploring the convergence of Big Data (such as sensor data) and Small Data (such as personal records) in universities, cultural institutions, and industry. We published a white paper and conducted workshops in Washington, D.C., Portland, and Austin. Participating institutions included UCLA, University of Michigan, University of Texas-Austin, The Getty Museum and NYPL. We’ve developed prototypes for analysis tools, proposals for future projects, and spurred multiple cross-disciplinary collaborations working to preserve context and integrity for all sizes of data.

White Paper| Meeting Notes | Workshop Agenda

Data Dialectics, from “Context and Collection: a research agenda for Small Data”, Abreu and Acker, 2013


Video (Sharing) GamesIn 2010, I worked with danah boyd at Microsoft Research to examine how youth of color “game” social media platforms for playful interaction, and how these interactions facilitate meaningful online communities. Focusing on video sharing, we traced network patterns, scraped data, conducted textual analysis, and observed patterns of interaction. We shared our results internally at Microsoft and developed specs for engineering and product teams.

Slides | Dataset | Research NotesThursday, September 19, 13

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I teach UX design, usability, programming and related topics, and design and build stuff when I get the chance.

site maps | use cases | wireframes | interactive prototypes


• Abreu, A. and Acker, A. “Traces of Heritage: An archival approach to digital collections” Heritage Matters Workshop, CHI’12, May 5–10, 2012, Austin, TX

• Abreu A., “Critical Information Studies and Digital Humanities”. Presented at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, Doctoral Colloquium, June 5-9, 2011, Victoria, BC.

• Abreu A. and Matienzo, M. “Archival sensemaking: framing personal digital archiving behavior”. Paper presented at Personal Digital Archives 2011, The Internet Archive, San Francisco, February 24-25, 2011

• Abreu, A. “Design for Archives: The Trevor Project”. Poster presented at the I-Conference, Seattle, February 9, 2010

• Abreu, A. “Tag games, tweets, and recipes: Social media as cultural record”, Reimagining the Archives , University of California, Los Angeles, November, 12 2010

Publications and Presentations


Data Science and Analytics

• Archival Data Analysis and Assessment

• Data Journeys and Tours

• Cleaning and Wrangling

• Analysis Tools: R, SPSS, Altas TI

• Scripting: Python, JS

• Databases: SQL, PHP


THANK YOU!

Amelia Abreu | ameliaabreu.com | @ameliaabreu | [email protected] | 206.334.7828




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