Erika Poole
- Assistant Professor of Information Sciences and Technology
University Park , PA 16802
Education
- Ph.D., Human-Centered Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010
- M.S., Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008
- B.S., Computer Science with Honors, Purdue University, 2004
Biography
Erika Poole 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.
Research and Teaching
- Human-computer interaction
- Adoption of emerging technologies
- Ubiquitous computing
- Computer-supported cooperative work.
Publications:
Poole, Erika S. and Grudin, Jonathan. A Taxonomy of Wiki Genres in Enterprise Settings. Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym 2010) [recipient of best paper award]
Edwards, W. Keith, Newman, Mark W., and Erika S. Poole The Infrastructure Problem in HCI. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2010), Atlanta, GA, USA, April 5-10, 2010
Eiriksdottir, Elsa, Kestranek, Dan, Miller, Andrew, Poole, Erika S., Xu, Yan, Catrambone, Richard, and Mynatt, Elizabeth. Stepping Outside the Classroom: Fitness Video Games for K-12 Settings. Workshop on Interactive Systems in Healthcare, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Poole, Erika S., Edwards, W. Keith, and Lawrence Jarvis. The Home Network as a Sociotechnical System: Understanding the Challenges of Remote Home Network Problem Diagnosis. Journal of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. Vol 18, No 3, June 2009.
Poole, Erika S., Le Dantec, Christopher A., Eagan, James R., and W. Keith Edwards. Reflecting on the Invisible: Understanding End-User Perceptions of Ubiquitous Computing. Proceedings of Ubicomp 2008, Seoul, Korea, September 21-24, 2008.
