Doctorial Colloquium: ECSCW 2007

Agenda

9:00	- 10:00	Introduction and presentation of participants
10:00	- 10:15	Break
10:15	- 12:15	First group of 3
12:15	- 13:15	Lunch
13:15	- 15:15	Second group of 3
15:15	- 15:45	Break
15:45	- 17:05	Last group of 2
17:05	- 17:30	Wrap up

19:00		Dinner

Presentation time

40 minutes:		Total time for each presentation
10 minutes:		outline of issues to be considered/discussed
20 minutes:		comments from DC panel members
10 minutes		general comments and discussions

Participants

Paula M. Bach
Supporting Collaboration in Free/Libre/Open Source Software
I am a third-year PhD Student in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State University. My research interest is open source software development and HCI. Currently, at Penn State, I work in both the Computer- Supported Collaboration and Learning Lab and the System Design and Software Development Lab. I have worked on the following research projects: Civic Nexus, a participatory design project with the goal of working with community groups as they use IT in their work, and Explanations of Software Intensive Systems, a project that is developing a theory or theories of explanation for design of software intensive systems. I also spent the summer of 2005 at IBM TJ Watson Research Center in New York.

Judy Chen
Mopix: A Location-Based Mobile Photo Sharing System
I received a B.A. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2003 and a M.S. in Information and Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine in 2006. I began my Ph.D. study at U.C. Irvine in 2004, where I am currently working with Paul Dourish. My research interests are a bit disconnected but are generally in the realm of human computer interaction and ubiquitous computing. More specifically, I’m interested in designing for mobility and the representation of presence in shared spaces through ambient information visualization.

Christian Dindler
Designing for Engaging Experiences

Nazean Jomhari
Long Distance Relationship between Grandparent and Grandchildren Using Video Conferencing

Birgit R. Krogstie
Scaffolding practice-based learning with collaboration technology
I have a combined educational background of educational theory (Master completed in 2000, thesis: “Applying Activity theory in Knowledge management”) and computer science (Master completed 1994; thesis “Adaptive simulation-based training”). I have been working as an assistant professor at a Norwegian university college (2001-2004), mainly teaching systems analysis and project work. I have been employed at NTNU as a PhD student since January 2005. The PhD project is part of the MOTUS2 project funded by LIKT – the research program on Learning and ICT at NTNU. Supervisor is prof. Monica Divitini. The time frame of the PhD work is Jan.2005-Feb.2009, comprising 3 full years of PhD work and one year of mandatory work at the Department of Computer and Information Science.

My research interests are at the intersection of work, learning and technology, with a particular focus on the scaffolding of learning processes and the role of lightweight collaboration technology in this. I consider CSCW and CSCL as my research ‘home ground’. My homepage can be found here.

Farzaneh Namvar
Sharing Travelling Experiences via Weblogs

Laurel Swan
Thinking about Ethnography
For the past two years I have been undertaking an ethnographic study of eight family homes in London. This work has focused on the distinctive ways in which homes are socially organised, and how this social organisation is accomplished in routine ways. Most of my research in this area is concerned with the everyday material features of the home—how households use material things like paper lists, fridge doors, family photos and clutter. It would seem that the ways our homes are and how we live in them are inexorably intertwined with these sorts of mundane things.

I am currently enrolled as a PhD student at London’s Brunel University, in the Department of Information Systems, Computing and Mathematics. As part of my PhD I have worked, closely, with members of the Socio-Digital System Group at Microsoft Research, Cambridge. Before my PhD, I was at University College London where I did my Master in Ergonomics and Human-Computer Interaction and later worked as a Research Fellow. My undergraduate degree was in History with a minor in English at Bard College, New York.

Huang Ying Ying
Design Collaborative Multimodal Interface for sighted and visually impaired people
I am a PhD student in HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) at CSC (School of Computer Science and Communication) at KTH, which is the technical university of Stockholm, Sweden. The PhD studies are four years full-time since Sept. 2005. Professor Yngve Sundblad is my supervisor. I have a Bachelor degree in Computer Science and a Master degree in Control theory and Control Engineering, especially in Virtual Reality Programming and Design, in China.

This is the second year of my doctoral study. My research topic is Design of Collaborative Multimodal Interfaces for sighted and visually impaired people.

This research started when I was involved in an EU-funded project, MICOLE (Multimodal collaboration environment for inclusion of visually impaired people). MICOLE aims to develop an application for collaborative learning among sighted and visually impaired pupils. Such an application must make it possible to gather information not only by looking at things but also by feeling and hearing. It should not matter if you are sighted or not – the information should be accessible by visual, haptic, and audio.The main purpose of my research is to explore how added audio functions will increase achieving awareness, common ground and task efficiency in shared space that supports collaborative learning among sighted and visually impaired people.