Gilly Leshed

I am a PhD candidate  in the Information Science program at Cornell University. I am part of the HCI group, and work under the supervision of Prof. Geri Gay. I received my Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the Technion - Israel Institution of Technology in Industrial Engineering and Information Management Engineering, respectively. I also worked several years in the industry as an HCI expert for commercial flight-deck avionics system and command and control systems for military purposes.

My main interests include research and design of interactive systems that facilitate collaboration and communication among users. My dissertation research involves understanding the dynamics of feedback provided by and through technology to team members. I designed GroupMeter, a system to help teams reflect on their behaviors and to support research into fundamental issues of feedback, language, and teamwork process. I also run empirical studies to understand the interactions between social processes in groups, their behavioral manifestations, and technology.

CV (pdf)

New Stuff

July 2008: I received an Intel PhD Fellowship for the 2008-9 academic year. So this year I focus on doing my research and writing my dissertation.

August 2008: I will be presenting my PhD research at the CSCW Doctoral Colloquium in November 2008. Here is the abstract.

Publications

Nomura, S., Birnholtz, J., Rieger, O., Leshed, G., Gay, G., & Trumbull, D. (2008). Cutting into Collaboration: Understanding Coordination in Distributed and Interdisciplinary Medical Research. To appear in Proceedings of CSCW 2008, San Diego, CA.

Leshed, G., Haber, E. M., Matthews, T., & Lau, T. (2008). CoScripter: Automating & sharing how-to knowledge in the enterprise. Best Paper Nominee. Proceedings of CHI 2008, Florence, Italy. (pdf)

Leshed, G., Velden, T., Rieger, O., Kot, B., & Sengers, P. (2008). In-car GPS navigation: Engagement with and disengagement from the environment. Best Paper Award. Proceedings of CHI 2008, Florence, Italy. (pdf)

Leshed, G. (2008). Silencing the clatter: Removing anonymity from a corporate online community. In Davis, T, & Noveck, B. (Eds.) Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice, CSLI Publications, Stanford University. (pdf)

Leshed, G., Hancock, J. H., Cosley, D., McLeod, P. L., & Gay, G. (2007). Feedback for Guiding Reflection on Teamwork Practices. Proceedings of Group 2007, Sanibel Island, Florida. (pdf)

Leshed, G., & Kaye, J. (2006). Understanding how bloggers feel: Recognizing affect in blog posts. Extended Abstracts, SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, Montréal, Québec, Canada. (pdf)

Shami, N. S., Leshed, G., & Klein, D. (2005), Context of Use Evaluation of Peripheral Displays (CUEPD). Proceedings of Interact2005, Rome, September 2005, pp 579-587. (pdf)