Scarlet Hamster

hi. I'm Carolyn Wei. I am interested in:

• use of technology by young people
• unobtrusive field research methods for Web sites and mobile phones
• technology adoption and adaptation in digitally emergent cultures
• technology that supports romantic relationships
  

Publications

• Mobile phones
• Remote experiments and user studies
• ICT in Central Asia
• Blogs and wikis

Mobile Phones

• Wei, C. (2008). “It’s our only connection”: Mobile phones and romantic relationships in India. Design and Emotion Conference, Hong Kong, Oct. 6-9, 2008.
  
• Donner, J., Rangaswamy, N., Steenson, M.W., & Wei, C. (2008). “Express yourself” / “Stay together”: The middle-class Indian family. In J.E. Katz (Ed.), Handbook of Mobile Communication Studies (pp. 325-38). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  
• Wei, C.Y. (2007). Capturing mobile phone usage: Research methods for mobile studies. In Proceedings of the 2007 International Professional Communication Conference, Seattle, WA, Oct. 1-3, 2007. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE.
  
• Schusteritsch, R., Wei, C. Y., & LaRosa, M. (2007). Towards the perfect infrastructure for usability testing on mobile devices. In Extended Abstracts of CHI 2007 Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems, San Jose, CA, Apr. 28–May 3, 2007 (pp. 1839-1844). http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1240866.1240908
  
• Wei, C. Y. (2007). Mobile Hybridity: Supporting Personal and Romantic Relationships with Mobile Phones in Digitally Emergent Spaces. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
  
• Wei, C. Y. (2006). Not crazy, just talking on the mobile phone: Gestures and mobile phone conversations. In Proceedings of the 2006 International Professional Communication Conference, Saratoga Springs, NY, October 23-25, 2006 (pp. 299-307). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE. slide deck
  
• Wei, C., and Kolko, B. (2005). Studying mobile phone use in context: Cultural, political, and economic dimensions of mobile phone use. In Proceedings of the 2005 International Professional Communication Conference, Limerick, Ireland, July 10-13, 2005 (pp. 205-212). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE.
  

Remote Experiments and User Studies

• Cuddihy, E., Wei, C., Bartell, A.L., Barrick, J., Maust, B., Leopold, S.S., & Spyridakis, J.H. (2007). Conducting remote, internet-based experiments on Web design. In G. Hayhoe & H. Grady (Eds.), Connecting People with Technology: Issues in Professional Communication (pp. 31-41). Farmingdale, NY: Baywood.
  
• Spyridakis, J.H., Mobrand, K.A., Cuddihy, E., & Wei, C.Y. (2007). Using structural cues to guide readers on the internet. Information Design Journal, 15 (3), 242-259.
  
• Wei, C.Y., Evans, M.B., Eliot, M., Barrick, J., Maust, B, and Spyridakis, J.H. (2005). Influencing web-browsing behavior with intriguing and informative hyperlink wording. Journal of Information Science 31 (5), 433-445.
  
• Spyridakis, J.H., Wei, C., Barrick, J., Cuddihy, E., and Maust, B. (2005). Internet-based research: Providing a foundation for Web design guidelines. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication 48 (3), 242-260.
  
• Cuddihy, E., Wei, C., Bartell, A., Barrick, J., Maust, B., and Spyridakis, J. (2005). Conducting remote, Internet-based experiments on Web design. In Proceedings of the 2005 International Professional Communication Conference, Limerick, Ireland, July 10-13, 2005 (pp. 554-561). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE.
  
• Wei, C., Barrick, J., Cuddihy, E., and Spyridakis, J. (2005). Conducting usability research through the Internet. In Proceedings of the 2005 Usability Professionals Association Conference, Montreal, Canada, June 27-July 1, 2005.
  
• Cuddihy, E., Wei, C., Barrick, J., Maust, B., Bartell, A.L., and Spyridakis, J.H. (2005). Methods for assessing Web design through the Internet. In CHI '05 Extended Abstracts of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Portland, OR, April 2-7, 2005.
  
• Barrick, J., Maust, B., Spyridakis, J.H., Eliot, M., Wei, C., Evans, M., and Mobrand, K. (2004). A tool for supporting Web-based empirical research: Providing a basis for Web design guidelines. In Proceedings of the 2004 International Professional Communication Conference, Minneapolis, MN, September 29-October 2, 2004 (pp. 189-194). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE.
  
• Evans, M., Wei, C., and Spyridakis, J.H. (2004). Using statistical power analysis to tune-up a research experiment: A case study. In Proceedings of the 2004 International Professional Communication Conference, Minneapolis, MN, September 29-October 2, 2004 (pp. 14-18). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE.
  
• Evans, M., Wei, C., Eliot, M., Barrick, J., Maust, B., and Spyridakis, J.H. (2004). The effect of informative, intriguing, and generic hyperlink wording on Web browsing behavior. In Proceedings of the 51st Conference of the Society for Technical Communication, Baltimore, MD, May 9-12, 2004 (pp. 313-317). Arlington, VA: STC.
  

ICT in Central Asia

• Wei, C.Y., and Kolko, B.E. (2005). Resistance to globalization: Language and Internet diffusion patterns in Uzbekistan. New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia 11(2): 205-220.
  
• Wei, C. (2004). Language and the Internet in Uzbekistan. In F. Sudweeks and C. Ess (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication, Karlstad, Sweden, June 27-July 1, 2004 (pp. 393-396). Murdoch, Australia: Murdoch University Press.
  
• Kolko, B.E., Wei, C., and Spyridakis, J.H. (2003). Internet Use in Uzbekistan: Developing a methodology for tracking IT implementation success. Information Technologies and International Development 1 (2), 1-19.
  
• Spyridakis, J.H., Wei, C., and Kolko, B.E. (2003). The relationship of culture and information-seeking behaviour: A case study in Central Asia. In Adjunct Proceedings of HCI International 2003, Crete, Greece, June 22-27, 2003 (pp. 167-168). Crete, Greece: Crete University Press.
  

Blogs and Wikis

• Wei, C., Maust, B., Barrick, J., Cuddihy, E., and Spyridakis, J.H. (2005). Wikis for supporting distributed collaborative writing. In Proceedings of the 52nd Conference of the Society for Technical Communication, Seattle, WA, May 8-11, 2005 (pp. 204-209). Arlington, VA: STC.
  
• Wei, C. (2004). Formation of norms in a blog community. In L. Gurak, S. Antonijevic, L. Johnson, C. Ratliff, and J. Reyman (Eds.),
  Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community, and Culture of Weblogs.
  

Research experience

• User experience researcher at Google doing usability testing and early-stage research.
• Research internship at Microsoft Research India with the Technology in Emerging Markets group studying how young people use mobile phones to support their personal and romantic relationships.
• Research assistant on a joint project between Technical Communication and Microsoft studying use of MSN Messenger on PC and mobiles.
• Research internship at Sandia National Labs studying group communication and collaboration.
• Member of the Internet-Based Research Group focusing on unobtrusive methods for studying users and conducting remote experiments.
• Research assistant on a project studying information and communication technologies in Central Asia.

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