Susan P. Wyche

I am a researcher in the fields of Human-Centered Computing (HCC) and Industrial Design with interests in: how technology supports religious practices, domestic technology, speculative design, and a variety of other things.

Currently, I am a fourth year doctoral student in the GVU Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology. My adviser is Rebecca E. Grinter and I am a member of her "Work 2 Play" lab. In the past I worked as a professional glassware designer for Libbey Inc. in Toledo, Ohio. I have also worked as a design researcher with Intel's User-Centered Design Group, Microsoft Research, and S.C. Johnson Inc.

Prior to coming to GaTech, I received a self-defined MS from Cornell University. During my time there I worked with Phoebe Sengers and the Culturally Embedded Computing Group. My undergraduate degree is in Industrial Design and History from Carnegie-Mellon University.

My CV is here. If you would like to see samples of my work please contact me at spwyche[at]cc.gatech.edu.

Recent Publications

Wyche, S.P., Aoki, P.M., and Grinter, R.E. (2008) "Re-Placing Faith: Reconsidering the Secular-Religious Use Divide in the United States and Kenya." (to appear) Proc. ACM SIGCHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Florence, Italy. [PDF]

Wyche, S.P., Hayes, G.R., Harvel, L., and Grinter, R.E. (2006) "Technology in Spiritual Formation: An Exploratory Study of Computer Mediated Religious Communications." In Proceedings of CSCW 2006, Banff, Alberta. [PDF]

NEWS

Susan Wyche (HCC Ph.D. Student), Kelly Caine (Engineering Psychology Ph.D. Student), Ben Davison (HCC Ph.D. Student) and Michael Arteaga (HCI M.S. Student) won the Georgia's Product Development Management Association's (GPDMA) Student Design Competition for "Sun Dial," a mobile phone application that uses aesthetic representation of the sun moving through the sky to prompt Muslims to their 5 daily prayer times. Our team received a $1000 prize and presented their project at GPDMA's quarterly meeting. [PDF].