I'm an engineer at Microsoft and a Ph.D. student in Cornell's Information Science program. I'm also an occasional photographer, sporadic tweeter, derelict blogger, and frequent flyer.
I want your computer to help you be happy. I think participatory design is the key to making that happen, key to leveraging all the ways in which we think about and experience the world.
I'm particularly interested in how these ideas evolve in the developing world; areas that shouldn't be viewed as in need of charity but instead as rich in a tradition of entrepreneurship and creativity. As places with designs, ideas, and indigenous knowledge that can only inform and nourish the very meaning of computing.