I am a first year doctoral student with The Information School and DUB Group at the University of Washington, advised by Andrew Ko.
My research interests primarily concern everyday design practices; in particular, how people appropriate tools and techniques to serve emerging needs and how this process drives the evolution of new technology. Additionally, I'm interested in cognitive aspects of creativity, research methods in design, interaction design methodology and pedagogy and ubiquitous computing in the urban context.
As an undergraduate I studied architecture, philosophy, and computer science at Carnegie Mellon University and I have a master's degree in histories and theories of architecture from the Architectural Association in London. In practice, I've worked with Plumb Design [Thinkmap] as an interaction developer and with Bohlin Cywinski Jackson as an graduate architect. Prior to joining the iSchool, I was an interaction designer with the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon.
Teaching
Winter 2009, Teaching Assistant for INFX 542 Information Structure Using XML, Bob Boiko
Spring 2009, Teaching Assistant for INFO 344 Web Tools and Development, Faculty TBD
Publications
F Grobler, A Aksamija, H Kim, R Krishnamurti, K Yue, CR Hickerson. 2008. "Ontologies and Shape Grammars: Communication between Knowledge-Based and Generative Systems." Design Computation and Cognition '08: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition. JS Gero, AK Goel, eds. Springer Netherlands. doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-8728-8_2
K Yue, CR Hickerson, R Krishnamurti. 2008. "Determining the Interior Layouts of Buildings Describable by Shape Grammars." CAADRIA 2008: Beyond Computer Aided Design. Chaing Mai, Thailand. 9-12 April 2008. 117-124. via CuminCAD