Recent Presentations

  • May 2010, presented talk at Northern Voice 2010 – Personal Blogging and Social Media Conference entitled “Why I play alternate reality games, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. http://2010.northernvoice.ca [slides]
  • January 2009, panel member at Office of Learning Technology – Teaching and Learning with Technology Speaker Series entitled “Facebook and Education: The Pros and Cons:, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. http://elearning.ubc.ca
  • June 2008, presented talk as guest lecturer for EBM Internet Technologies 1 course entitled “The Tao of Sharing: Social Media, Games, and Photography”, Vancouver Film School, Vancouver, Canada. (3 hour class) [slides]
  • May 2008, presented talk as guest speaker for the International Internet Marketing Association (IIMA) workshop about Facebook entitled “Facebook for Business: How to build relationships, express identity, and manage information in a social ecology”, Vancouver, Canada (30 minute presentation) [slides]
  • February 2008, presented talk at Northern Voice “Facebook 101: Privacy Protection through User Education”, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. (40 min workshop). [slides]
  • September 2007, presented talk at the Brown Bag Lunch Series “The Role of Facebook in Everyday Student Life”, LFS Learning Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. (1 hour talk).
  • September 2007, presented talk at Artcamp 07 entitled “Artistic Expression in Facebook”, unconference, Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver, Canada.
  • June 2007, presented talk at UBC e-Strategy Town Hall on Learning Technologies: Keeping Pace with Students entitled “Creative Expression & Social Networking in a Digital Culture: Why Students Heart Facebook (and Why You Should Too!)”, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. (1 hour workshop) 59% accepted. [slides] [text of speech] [podcast]
  • June 2007, presented talk at Media and Graphics Interdisciplinary Centre (MAGIC) Workshop on Media Annotation and Tagging entitled “Playing Tag in User-Generated Spaces”, University of British Columbia Robson Square, Vancouver, Canada. [slides]
  • April 2007, presented Member Speaker Series (MSS) talk at Green College entitled “Facebook: Exploring Social Experiences and Cultural Interaction in a user-generated Digital Environment”, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (1 hour talk) [slides]
  • February 2007, presented talk at moosecamp @ Northern Voice 2007 entitled “Everything you wanted to know about Facebook (but was afraid to ask)”, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (unconference).
  • September 2006, presented refereed paper entitled “Chasing the Fugitive on Campus: Designing a Location-based Game for Collaborative Play”, Canadian Game Studies Association (CGSA) Workshop, September 21-24, 2006, York University, Toronto, Canada. [slides]
  • February 2006, presented talk at moosecamp @ Northern Voice 2006 entitled “Discover, Create, Remember, Share: Why tagging works for me”, Vancouver, Canada (unconference).
  • October 2005, presented talk at tagcamp 2005 entitled “Social Navigation and Tagging:Personal Spaces and Shared Experiences”, Palo Alto, USA (unconference)
  • May 2005, Co-organised and presented talk with graduate students for 25 local usability professionals recapping CHI 2005 research. HCI@UBC, Vancouver, Canada.

Media Appearances

Radio

    • “Facebook and their new privacy settings” on “On the Coast”. Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC). Dec 15th, 2009 http://www.cbc.ca/onthecoast
      • “Socially Appropriate Behaviour in Facebook” on “On the Coast”. Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC). Aug 21, 2007 http://www.cbc.ca/onthecoast
      • “The Facebook Phenomenon” on “BC Almanac” (1 hour call-in show). Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC). May 30, 2007. http://www.cbc.ca/bcalmanac

      Press

      • Interviewed by Roberto Rocha, Montreal Gazette, for story about user-generated content in Canada, specifically Montreal-based xtranormal.com, entitled “The automatic filmaker”. October 20, 2008. http://bit.ly/2Q01lq
      • Interviewed by Patrick White, Globe and Mail, for story on the popularity of The Lost Ring and “Alternate Reality” Games, focusing on Canada entitled “Sucked into Real Life by Online Fantasy Worlds”. April 11, 2008. http://tinyurl.com/479syf [blog post]
      • Interviewed by Chantal Eustace, The Vancouver Sun for story on the popularity of Facebook in Canada entitled “Net Friendships: Part 2″. March 14, 2008. http://tinyurl.com/2xwgch [blog post]

      Recent Publications

      Magazine Articles

      • Jeffrey, P. “See you on Facebook”. The Graduate Magazine, UBC Graduate Student Society, University of British Columbia. February 2007. p. 18. [Paper] [Magazine]

      Journal Article

      • Jeffrey, P., Blackstock, M., Finke, M., Tang, A., Lea R., Deutscher, M., Miyaoku, K. (2007). “Chasing the Fugitive on Campus: Designing a Location-based Game for Collaborative Play”. Loading… Journal 1(1), Selected Papers from special Issue from Canadian Games Studies Association (CGSA) Workshop, September 21-24, 2006, York University, Toronto, Canada. May 2007 [Paper] [Journal]

      Short Paper

      • Deutscher, M., Jeffrey, P., and Siu, N. (2004). “Information Capture Devices for Social Environments”. Proceedings Second European Symposium on Ambient Intelligence (EUSAI 2004), November 8-10, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 267-270. [Paper] [Proceedings]