Personal Information I am a 4th year PhD student in the Dept of Communication, advised by Professor Clifford Nass. I do research in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), mostly in the CHIMe Lab. I also HCI research with Herb Clark in Psychology and Stu Card at PARC. I hold BAs in Cognitive Science and Psychology from UC Berkeley, where I got my first taste of HCI in the Group for User Interface Research (GUIR) in Computer Science.

Research Interests As I am moving into the dissertation phase of my graduate career, I am trying to converge my research interests into one coherent whole. I am not quite there yet, but here are the strongest of my current interests:

• Embodiment and mediated re-embodiment in terms of the experience of being and understanding the world though our physical bodies and physical relationships within our environments
• Mediated decouplings of previously tangled forms of presence, including bodies, "brains," faces, and voices
• Ubiquitous computing as a vision for the future of computing
• Computers as invisible workers

Methods I am most grounded within experimental laboratory studies, but am not wed to the idea that one can (or should!) do studies from only one methodological point of view. I have some experience in field studies and have just begun to learn how to do historical archive diving.

Current Work, Reports, etc.

• Historical archive + interviewing piece on the history of ubiquitous computing as a vision (with Fred Turner)
• Theoretical piece on displaced speaking as observed in the field today (with Herb Clark)
• Experimental piece on decoupled voices, human bodies, and speaker bodies (with Cliff Nass)

Email address: takayama:at:stanford:dot:edu

Home page: http://www.leilatakayama.com

erica ann robles