I am an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey. My primary focus of research is Human-Computer Interaction, with a current focus on technologies that support children’s creativity, mobility, and collaboration.

I received my Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland in 2009, where I was an active member of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL) for six years while working with Dr. Allison Druin. Prior to that I received my MS in Computer Science at Brigham Young University in 2003 working Dr. Dan Olsen Jr. While at the University of Maryland I was integrally involved with Kidsteam, an intergenerational design team consisting of young children and adults working together to design technology.

Human-computer interaction
User interfaces
Educational technologies
Mobile devices
Children
Older adults
Design (user-centered, participatory, cooperative inquiry)
Ubiquitous computing