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Overview

W. Keith Edwards is affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research spans several domains primarily within computer science and social sciences, focusing extensively on privacy, security, and data protection alongside human-computer interaction and social media-politics intersections.

The scientist's recent publications cover topics in innovative human-technology interaction, collective privacy action, and social cybersecurity. Some of the notable papers include:

  • "StickyLand: Breaking the Linear Presentation of Computational Notebooks" (2022), published in the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts
  • ""A Reasonable Thing to Ask For": Towards a Unified Voice in Privacy Collective Action" (2022), CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • "SoK: Social Cybersecurity" (2022), presented at the 2022 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP)
  • "Privacy for the People? Exploring Collective Action as a Mechanism to Shift Power to Consumers in End-User Privacy" (2021), IEEE Security & Privacy
  • "Design(ing) Fictions for Collective Civic Reporting of Privacy Harms" (2025), Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Their collaborative efforts include frequent co-authorship with researchers such as Yuxi Wu, Sauvik Das, Zijie J. Wang, Katie Dai, and DeBrae Kennedy-Mayo.

Research topics that W. Keith Edwards covers are diverse and interdisciplinary. They include:

  • Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
  • Social Media and Politics
  • Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
  • Data Visualization and Analytics
  • Cell Image Analysis Techniques
  • Scientific Computing and Data Management
  • Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing

Their fields of study incorporate both broad and focused areas of inquiry, including:

  • Computer Science
  • Social Sciences

Within these fields, notable subfields of study include:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Information Systems
  • Communication
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

W. Keith Edwards publishes frequently in several respected academic venues such as:

  • CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts
  • CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • 2022 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP)
  • IEEE Security & Privacy
  • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

This combination of research areas, collaboration network, and publication record demonstrates a focus on interdisciplinary approaches connecting technology design, privacy concerns, and societal impact.

Best Publications

  • At Home with Ubiquitous Computing: Seven Challenges

    W. Keith Edwards;Rebecca E. Grinter

  • Core Jini

    W. Keith Edwards;Bill Joy;Brian Murphy

  • Making sense of sensing systems: five questions for designers and researchers

    Victoria Bellotti;Maribeth Back;W. Keith Edwards;Rebecca E. Grinter

  • Intersectional HCI: Engaging Identity through Gender, Race, and Class

    Ari Schlesinger;W. Keith Edwards;Rebecca E. Grinter

  • Flatland: new dimensions in office whiteboards

    Elizabeth D. Mynatt;Takeo Igarashi;W. Keith Edwards;Anthony LaMarca

  • Extending document management systems with user-specific active properties

    Paul Dourish;W. Keith Edwards;Anthony LaMarca;John Lamping

  • Give and take: a study of consumer photo-sharing culture and practice

    Andrew D. Miller;W. Keith Edwards

  • Presto: an experimental architecture for fluid interactive document spaces

    Paul Dourish;W. Keith Edwards;Anthony LaMarca;Michael Salisbury

  • Policies and roles in collaborative applications

    W. Keith Edwards

  • The work to make a home network work

    Rebecca E. Grinter;W. Keith Edwards;Mark W. Newman;Nicolas Ducheneaut

  • Designs on dignity: perceptions of technology among the homeless

    Christopher A. Le Dantec;W. Keith Edwards

  • Listening in: practices surrounding iTunes music sharing

    Amy Voida;Rebecca E. Grinter;Nicolas Ducheneaut;W. Keith Edwards

  • System for applying application behaviors to freeform data

    W. Keith Edwards;Elizabeth D. Mynatt;Anthony G. LaMarca;Takeo Igarashi

  • No-look notes: accessible eyes-free multi-touch text entry

    Matthew N. Bonner;Jeremy T. Brudvik;Gregory D. Abowd;W. Keith Edwards

  • Challenge: recombinant computing and the speakeasy approach

    W. Keith Edwards;Mark W. Newman;Jana Sedivy;Trevor Smith

  • Designing for serendipity: supporting end-user configuration of ubiquitous computing environments

    Mark W. Newman;Jana Z. Sedivy;Christine M. Neuwirth;W. Keith Edwards

  • Share and share alike: exploring the user interface affordances of file sharing

    Stephen Voida;W. Keith Edwards;Mark W. Newman;Rebecca E. Grinter

  • Designing and implementing asynchronous collaborative applications with Bayou

    W. Keith Edwards;Elizabeth D. Mynatt;Karin Petersen;Mike J. Spreitzer

  • The challenges of user-centered design and evaluation for infrastructure

    W. Keith Edwards;Victoria Bellotti;Anind K. Dey;Mark W. Newman

  • A Bridging Framework for Universal Interoperability in Pervasive Systems

    Jin Nakazawa;H. Tokuda;W.K. Edwards;U. Ramachandran

  • Mapping GUIs to auditory interfaces

    Elizabeth D. Mynatt;W. Keith Edwards

Frequent Co-Authors

Elizabeth D. Mynatt
Elizabeth D. Mynatt Northeastern University
Rebecca E. Grinter
Rebecca E. Grinter Georgia Institute of Technology
Anthony LaMarca
Anthony LaMarca Intel (United States)
Nicolas Ducheneaut
Nicolas Ducheneaut Quantic Foundry
Shahram Izadi
Shahram Izadi Google (United States)
Daniel G. Bobrow
Daniel G. Bobrow Palo Alto Research Center
Takeo Igarashi
Takeo Igarashi University of Tokyo
Nick Feamster
Nick Feamster University of Chicago
Jason Hong
Jason Hong Carnegie Mellon University
Gregory D. Abowd
Gregory D. Abowd Northeastern University

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