Elizabeth Goodman, a doctoral candidate in the School of Information, will be speaking at this week's Data and Cities Conference in San Francisco.
The Data and Cities Conference is sponsored by Stamen Design and is part of the Citytracking project, a two-year project to change the way people view, talk about, and utilize digital city services to improve their urban lives. The project is sponsored by a grant from the Knight News Challenge.
Elizabeth Goodman's research combines human-computer interaction (HCI) with geography, investigating the design of ubiquitous computing systems for everyday urban places such as cafes and gardens. Her dissertation will focus on designing ubiquity: a professional interaction design process for commercial mobile and ubiquitous computing. She is also interested in how information systems might play a role in the creation and stewardship of urban green spaces for local food production and neighborhood activism.
Goodman recently organizing "City Centered", a site-specific art festival in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood that brought together community organizations and locative media artists. She has a master's degree in interaction design from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University and a B.A. in art from Yale University.
This week's conference will feature:
- Stamen designers and developers demonstrating what we're doing and where we see things going
- Government cadre and data visualization practitioners sharing their recent wins, goals, and barriers to success
- Panel discussions with people eager and able to identify issues and debate their solutions
- Workshops comprised of different groups striving for common solutions
