This Tuesday at Change, Jill Woelfer will present her research on Homeless young people and technology: Ordinary interactions, extraordinary circumstances.
Homeless young people, aged up to 30, have ordinary interactions with technology that are conditioned by the extraordinary circumstances of homelessness. In this talk, I will give an overview of 5 years of research investigating the experiences that homeless young people have with information systems such as Facebook and technologies such as mobile phones and music players. I will conclude with work-in-progress findings from my dissertation research – a study of the role of music in the lives of homeless young people in Seattle and Vancouver, BC and associations that may exist between music and risk-taking behaviors. Jill Palzkill Woelfer is a PhD Candidate in Information Science at the University of Washington Information School and she is affiliated with the Canadian Studies Center at The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. Jill is the 2012 recipient of the University of Washington Graduate School Medal, a 2011-2012 Fulbright Fellow to Canada and a 2010 Google US Anita Borg Memorial Scholar. Her research with homeless young people has appeared in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Children and Youth Services Review, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, and the Association for Computing Machinery’s interactions magazine. She has also published at conferences, including a paper at the annual conference of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval and four papers that have appeared at the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. What: Jill Woelfer on Homeless young people and technology: Ordinary interactions, extraordinary circumstances. When: Tuesday, November 27th at 12 noon Where: The Allen Center, room CSE 203
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