Dr. Wei is a user experience researcher at Google. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Washington in Seattle. Her dissertation was a study of mobile phone use for supporting romantic relationships in developing countries.
Review of Beyond the Desktop Metaphor: Designing Integrated Digital Work Environments, edited by Victor Kaptelinin and Mary Czerwinski, Carolyn Wei, Technical Communication, vol. 55 (2008), pp. 434-435.
“Express yourself” / “Stay together”: The middle-class Indian family, Jonathan Donner, Nimmi Rangaswamy, Molly Wright Steenson, Carolyn Wei, Handbook of Mobile Communication Studies, 2008, pp. 325-38.
“It’s our only connection”: Mobile phones and romantic relationships in India, Carolyn Wei, Proceedings of Design and Emotion 2008.
Capturing mobile phone usage: Research methods for mobile studies, Carolyn Y. Wei, Proceedings of the 2007 International Professional Communication Conference.
Conducting remote, internet-based experiments on Web design, Elisabeth Cuddihy, Carolyn Wei, Alexandra L. Bartell, Jennifer Barrick, Brandon Maust, Seth S. Leopold, Jan H. Spyridakis, Connecting People with Technology: Issues in Professional Communication, 2007, pp. 31-41.
Review of The Body and the Screen: Theories of Internet Spectatorship, by Michele White, Carolyn Wei, Technical Communication, vol. 54 (2007), pp. 384-385.
Towards the Perfect Infrastructure for Usability Testing on Mobile Devices, Rudy Schusteritsch, Carolyn Wei, Mark LaRosa, CHI '07 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems, 2007, pp. 1839-1844.
Using structural cues to guide readers on the internet, Jan H. Spyridakis, Kathryn A. Mobrand, Elisabeth Cuddihy, Carolyn Y. Wei, Information Design Journal, vol. 15 (2007), pp. 242-259.
Not crazy, just talking on the mobile phone: Gestures and mobile phone conversations, Carolyn Y. Wei, Proceedings of the 2006 International Professional Communication Conference, pp. 299-307.
Conducting remote, internet-based experiments on Web design, Elisabeth Cuddihy, Carolyn Wei, Alexandra Bartell, Jennifer Barrick, Brandon Maust, Jan Spyridakis, Proceedings of the 2005 International Professional Communication Conference, pp. 554-561.
Conducting usability research through the internet, Carolyn Wei, Jennifer Barrick, Elisabeth Cuddihy, Jan Spyridakis, Proceedings of the 2005 Usability Professionals Association Conference.
Influencing Web-browsing behavior with intriguing and informative hyperlink wording, Carolyn Y. Wei, Mary B. Evans, Matthew Eliot, Jennifer Barrick, Brandon Maust, Jan Spyridakis, Journal of Information Science, vol. 31 (2005), pp. 433-445.
Internet-based research: Providing a foundation for Web design guidelines, Jan H. Spyridakis, Carolyn Wei, Jennifer Barrick, Elisabeth Cuddihy, Brandon Maust, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, vol. 48 (2005), pp. 242-260.
Methods for assessing web design through the internet, Elisabeth Cuddihy, Carolyn Wei, Jennifer Barrick, Brandon Maust, Alexandra L. Bartell, Jan H. Spyridakis, CHI Extended Abstracts, 2005, pp. 1316-1319.
Resistance to globalization: Language and internet diffusion patterns in Uzbekistan, Carolyn Y. Wei, Beth E. Kolko, New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, vol. 11 (2005), pp. 205-220.
Studying mobile phone use in context: Cultural, political, and economic dimensions of mobile phone use, Carolyn Wei, Beth Kolko, Proceedings of the 2005 International Professional Communication Conference, pp. 205-212.
Wikis for supporting distributed collaborative writing, Carolyn Wei, Brandon Maust, Jennifer Barrick, Elisabeth Cuddihy, Jan Spyridakis, Proceedings of the 52nd Conference of the Society for Technical Communication, 2005, pp. 204-209.
Language and the internet in Uzbekistan, Carolyn Wei, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication, 2004.