About My Mentor

My mentor is Erika Poole and she is an assistant professor of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State University. Her research in human-computer interaction (HCI) focuses on the ways in which groups collaborate to use, maintain, and make sense of computing technologies; in particular, she researches what it takes for technology deployments to be successfully adopted in real-world settings.

Areas of study have included home technology maintenance practices, public understandings of emerging technologies, workplace adoption of collaboration software, and collaborative gaming technologies for improving health and wellness.

Her ongoing research interests include group collaboration, technologies that leverage social support for long-term behavior change, technologies for wellness, HCI research methods, and public policy as it relates to computing.

To find more information about my mentor, please view her home page here.