CHI 2006 Workshop on
Mobile Social Software

Realizing potential, managing risks

Scott Counts

Scott Counts is a Researcher in the Community Technologies Group at Microsoft Research. His research focuses on building social software based on social psychological principles in order to facilitate online social interactions and networks. Current projects focus on mobile social software, lightweight media sharing to facilitate social presence, and social networking based on co-attendance at informal social events. Scott received his Ph.D. in Social and Personality Psychology from the University of Washington in 2002. There he studied personality and the unique and stable patterns of emotion and behavior each person shows in response to social situations. For more information, go to Scott's homepage.

Henri ter Hofte

Henri ter Hofte has been a researcher at the Telematica Instituut in the Netherlands since 1993. His research interests range from social to technical subjects, including context information in informal communication, social translucence, social networks, presence and instant messaging, CSCW, groupware, mobile computing, distributed object computing and peer-to-peer architectures. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Twente in 1998. Currently, in the Freeband User eXperience project (FRUX), he works on SocioXensor, an extensible research toolkit for measuring user behaviour, context and user experience of freely moving human subjects in their daily lives using contemporary mobile devices like smartphones. Before FRUX, Henri was the lead researcher and chief designer of Live Contacts, a new mobile availability service based on research into the role of context information in informal communication between knowledge workers. For more information, go to Henri's homepage.

Ian Smith
Ian Smith is a senior researcher at the Intel Research Seattle lab in Seattle, Washington. His work focuses on having a big bowl of Ubicomp technology, social science, and some software engineering. Stir vigorously and don't forget to drizzle on some privacy. He previously stirred the pot at the Palo Alto Research Center in Palo Alto, California. He was granted a Ph.D. and a chef's hat from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1998. For more information, go to this webpage.