She's also the leader of the Software Engineering Global Interaction Laboratory ( http://segal.cs.uvic.ca), where she focuses on developing and evaluating methodological and technological support for collaborative tasks in global software development. Her research interests include software engineering, human-computer interaction, and computer-supported cooperative work. She received her PhD in software engineering from the University of Calgary, Canada. She's the program co-chair for the First International Conference on Global Software Engineering and an associate editor for the Journal of Requirements Engineering and the Journal of Human Computer Studies. She established the Working Group in Distributed Software Development ( http://gsd2004.uvic.ca/gsd/home.htm). She's also a member of the IEEE Computer Society. Contact her at danielad@cs.uvic.ca.