This is the professional site of Karen Tanenbaum, a PhD candidate at the School for Interactive Arts & Technology (SIAT) at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada.

My research interests include artificial intelligence, ubiquitous computing, tangible computing, interaction design, and design philosophy. My dissertation research is on adaptivity in ubiquitous and tangible systems. I am currently working on user studies and data analysis for my dissertation.

My supervisory committee consists of Professor Marek Hatala, Professor Ron Wakkary, and Professor Alissa Antle. My past research projects include:

• Kurio, a tangible museum guide system for families
• Everyday Design, an ethnographic study of non-professional domestic design and the notion of sustainable interaction design
• EventTable, a tangible tabletop system

I am currently working with my husband, fellow PhD student Josh Tanenbaum on:

• The Reading Glove. Our design and research process is being documented on our blog.

Josh and I also collaborate on a number of other projects, including filmmaking and entering student contests such as the UIST Student Innovation Contest to design a novel application for a pressure-sensitive keyboard and the UC-Santa Barbara Bluseky Innovations Competition on “Social Computing in 2020″.

For a full list of my publications and my cv, please see this page.

You can contact me at ktanenba (at) sfu (dot) ca