About me
Research Staff Member
Research lab: Watson Research Center (Hawthorne)
Clare-Marie Karat (ckarat@us.ibm.com) is a Research Staff Member in the Policy Lifecycle Technologies department at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center. Dr. Karat conducts HCI research in the areas of policy, privacy, security, usability methods, and personalization. Dr. Karat leads the Server Privacy ARchitecture and Capability Enablement (SPARCLE) Policy Workbench research project that will provide organizations and external users with the capability to effectively manage the personal information held by organizations (www.research.ibm.com/sparcle). She also has technical leadership roles in the Army Research Laboratory International Technology Alliance (ARL ITA) project on security policy management of information in mobile adhoc networks, IBM’s Open Collaborative Research on Policy Frameworks for Security and Privacy project with academic colleagues at CMU and Purdue Universities, and the National Security Agency High Assurance Platform project to improve secure information sharing.
Dr. Karat is the editor of the book Designing Personalized User Experiences in eCommerce, published in 2004. She is well-known for the Computer User's Bill of Rights and for creating a cost-benefit methodology for analyzing the return on investment in usability. She is an editorial board member of the ACM interactions, the British Computer Society’s Interacting with Computers, and Elsevier’s International Journal of Human Computer Studies journals; and a reviewer for the ACM Communications of the ACM, IEEE Security and Privacy and the IBM Systems Journal journals. She has chaired international conferences and held a variety of technical committee roles in the ACM CHI, HFES, IFIP INTERACT, and SOUPS conferences. Dr. Karat has presented keynote addresses, taught seminars, published numerous papers in technical journals and conference proceedings, and contributed to many books in the fields of HCI, policy, privacy, security, and personalization.
http://www.research.ibm.com/sparcle
Last updated 13 Jun 2008