Prof. Christena Nippert-Eng presents Open Lecture Series at Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design
During the week of May 8-15, associate professor of sociology Christena Nippert-Eng gave a series of three lectures on her privacy research to the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design (CIID), including the school's Open Lecture on May 11th. CIID is a new international school offering a masters degree program in Interaction Design in collaboration with Danmarks Designskole (the Danish Design School).
Nippert-Eng's lecture "Privacy and the Work of Secrets" presents a case study of the way people in the US conceive privacy and how they try to achieve privacy by controlling the disclosure and concealment of information on a daily basis. Other lectures focused on study participants' attempts to achieve privacy by managing others' demands for attention that arrive via communication technologies, and the ways in which a variety of design features can grant privacy to their users or withhold it from them.
Following the lectures, she met individually with the students over three days to advise them on their research for their thesis projects.
Nippert-Eng also met with leaders of the Danish design and business communities discussing possible future research collaborations. In addition to collaborations with other scholars and non-profit organizations Nippert-Eng conducts industrial research on people's behavior and relationships with objects and spaces, including information and communication technologies. She also consults with in-house research groups on the use of ethnographic methods for industrial applications.
Nippert-Eng's work has been featured extensively in the media, including radio, television and newspaper interviews ranging from NPR's "Talk of the Nation" to the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, and Fast Company. She has been an invited speaker for such diverse venues as the Smithsonian Museum, the American Association of Orthopedic Surgeons' Pediatric Group, Reason Magazine's Dynamic Visions conference, MotherRead, and the Industrial Design Society of America.
Read more about Prof. Nippert-Eng here.
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