Affiliation: University of California, San Diego
Department of Computer Science,
San Diego, CA 92093, USA
E-mail: barkhuus[at]it[dot]edu
Office: CS 4206, Office Phone : +1 858 822-5472
Cell phone: (619) 339-4702   DK: + 45 2712 5703

Research Interests

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Personal

Updated:
August 27th 2007

Previous Positions

January 2004 - July 2007
Research Fellow at University of Glasgow. Research and teaching.

Degrees

December 2004
PhD in Computer Science. Title of dissertation: The Context Gap: An Essential Challenge to Context-Aware Computing
The IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
My advisor was Associate Professor Peter Carstensen (ITU) and co-advisor Associate Professor Paul Dourish (UC Irvine)

June 2001
Masters of Information Technology, The IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

June 1999
Bachelor in Computer Science and Psychology, Roskilde University, Denmark

PhD level projects

The Active Campus user study. I investigate the use of a large scale ubiquitous computing system that is developed and deployed at UC San Diego.

Users' interaction with context-aware computing. The study was carried out at UC Berkeley where I worked with Anind Dey

Location privacy in context-aware computing. I investigated how users reacted to two different kind of location based services. The study was also conducted during my stay at UC Berkeley.

Graduate level projects

My Masters Thesis: Echelon. Cross-Media Under Surveillance, June 2001
Written together with 3 other students (Mikkel Cauchi, Kevin Cook McLean and Rebecca Pruzan), we attempted to discover the theoretical, technical and practical implications when developing a cross-media format. We developed a test-case "Echelon" to support our findings. The Echelon game, however, is not available online any longer, but screen shots are available here.

The WAP project: Tranzmobile, June 2000
My "thesis team" (+ Henrik Norberg) and I made a WAP site for the on-line radio station "Tranzistor". Clubs and bars in Copenhagen can be rated real time and published to all WAP users. The site also included a public chat that was quite popular for a while.

Women in computer Science, January 2000
I have always had an interest in computer history and I got the chance to combine it with women's role in the technological development when I had to write an assignment for Media theory class back at my graduate studies in 1999.