Katie Shilton

UCLA Department of Information Studies, Los Angeles, CA

I am a doctoral student in Information Studies in the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

I'm currently a researcher at the Center for Embedded Network Sensing, focusing on new ethical challenges raised by ubiquitous sensing technologies. Details about our ongoing research are here: http://urban.cens.ucla.edu/technologies/ppr/.

I have also worked as a researcher on the Designing for Forgetting and Exclusion project and the South Asian Web project in the Department of Information Studies. I have worked in a variety of archival repositories, including academic archives, museum archives, and cooperative archives. I also have a background in community non-profit work and fundraising. I received a B.A. in history and German Studies from Oberlin College in 2003, and an Masters of Library and Information Science from UCLA in 2007.

Publications

Refereed Journal Articles
Shilton, Katie and Srinivasan, R., “Participatory Appraisal and Arrangement for Multicultural Archival Collections,” Archivaria vol. 63 (2007): 87-101.

Conference Proceedings
Shilton, Katie, Burke, J., Estrin, D., Hansen, M., Govindan, R., & Kang, J. "Designing the Personal Data Stream: Enabling Participatory Privacy in Mobile Personal Sensing." In The 37th Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy (TPRC). (Arlington, VA, September 2009).
Reddy, S., Shilton, K., Burke, J. A., Estrin, D., Hansen, M., & Srivastava, M. B. Using context-annotated mobility profiles to recruit data collectors in participatory sensing. Presented at the 4th International Symposium on Location and Context Awareness (Tokyo, Japan, May 2009). Springer-Verlag Publishers.
Shilton, Katie, Ramanathan, N., Reddy, S., Samanta, V., Burke, J., Estrin, D., Hansen, M. and Srivastava, M. “Participatory Design of Sensing Networks: Strengths and Challenges.” Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference 2008 (Bloomington, IN, 2008). ACM Press.
Srinivasan, Ramesh and Shilton, K. "The South Asian Web: An Emerging Community Information System in the South Asian Diaspora." Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Participatory Design: Expanding Boundaries in Design - Volume 1 (Trento, Italy, August 01 - 05, 2006). ACM Press, New York, NY, 125-133.

Magazine Articles
Shilton, Katie. " Four billion little brothers? Privacy, mobile phones, and ubiquitous data collection." ACM Queue, vol. 7 no.7 (2009).

Workshop Papers
Reddy, S., Shilton, K., Burke, J., Estrin, D., Hansen, M., & Srivastava, M. B. (2008). Evaluating Participation and Performance in Participatory Sensing. UrbanSense Workshop, Sensys 2008 (Raleigh, NC, November 5, 2008).

Shilton, Katie, Burke, J., Estrin, D., Hansen, M., and Srivastava, M. “Participatory Privacy in Urban Sensing.” MODUS 2008 (St. Louis, MO, April 21, 2008).

Technical Reports
Shilton, Katie, Burke, J., Estrin, D., Hansen, M., and Srivastava, M. “Achieving Participatory Privacy Regulation: Guidelines for CENS Urban Sensing" (June 25, 2008). Center for Embedded Network Sensing. Technical Reports. Paper 62. http://repositories.cdlib.org/cens/techrep/62

Book Reviews
Shilton, Katie, Review: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Knowledge Management edited by David J. Pauleen. InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education & Information Studies 4, no. 1 (2008).

Theses
Shilton, Katie, “Who, What, When, Where and Why: Shifting Preservation Warrants in Archival Appraisal.” Master’s Thesis, Department of Information Studies, UCLA. May 2007.

Invited Presentations

“Personalized Discovery or iSurveillance? Ethics and Innovation in Mobile Sensing.” Paper given at the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) annual meeting. Washington, D.C., October 2009.

“Privacy and Other Challenges: Disclosure, Discretion and Mobile Sensing.” Presentation for the CENS/Google Workshop for Teachers. Los Angeles, CA, July 23, 2009.

“Participating in Privacy: Enabling Disclosure and Discretion in Mobile Sensing.” Seminar talk given at Harvard University’s Center for Research on Computation and Society. Cambridge, MA, April 2009.

"Context Awareness and Privacy in Urban Sensing.” Talk given at the CENS Annual Research Review, Los Angeles, CA, October 22, 2008.

“Ethics in the Digital Archive: Balancing Privacy, Participation, and Representation.” Paper given at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists. San Francisco, CA, August 30, 2008.

“Privacy and Participation in Ubiquitous Information Systems: Information Ethics When Mobile Phones are Sensors.” Paper given at the Third Annual iConference: iFutures: Systems, Selves, Society. Los Angeles, California, February 29, 2008.

“Because the Stakes are Higher: Ethics in Participatory Urban Sensing.” Presentation given for the CENS Technical Seminar Series. Los Angeles, CA, January 11, 2008.

“Forgetting and the Browser: Technologies of Attention and Forgetting in Public Reading Rooms.” Paper given at the Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting. Montreal, Canada, October 2007.

“Authoring the Archive.” Paper given at the Society of California Archivists Annual Meeting. Long Beach, CA, May 2007.