ASIS&T Special Interest Group
for Human Computer Interaction

2008 Research Symposium

Human Computer Interaction in Information Intensive Environments: A Focus on Groups

*Keynote Speaker: Dr. John Carroll, Penn State University *

Sunday Oct. 26, 2008, 8:30am-12:30pm

This symposium will focus on the challenges of group and collaborative use of information systems. How do groups of two or more members access and use information, and what technologies best support these activities? While social computing has emerged as a phenomenon among distributed communities, we have yet to fully understand computing at the group level, whether face-to-face or in distributed environments.

The following following papers and posters have been accepted:

Papers
  • Alberts, I., Bertrand-Gastaldy, S., Forest, D. & Bergeron, P. Using Pragmatics and Genre Theory to Study E-mail Triage Behaviour of Managers and Secretaries
  • Burge J., Campbell & Carroll, J. Community Wireless Networks: Field Exploration of Non-Profit Participation
  • Cakir , M. & Stahl, G. Collaborative Information Behavior of Virtual Math Teams in a Multimodal Online Environment
  • Haas, S. Many Actors, Many Sources: Medication Reconciliation in the Emergency Department
  • Razavi, M. N. & Iverson, L. Supporting Group Interaction in Social Systems
  • Tennor, M. & Fleischmann, K.R. Information Exchange Spanning Group Boundaries: Wikis as Boundary Objects
  • Toze, S. & Toms, E.G. Breakdowns – Investigating Critical Moments in GroupWork

Poster Papers

  • Harmon, G. Accelerating Scientific Discovery: Five Collaborative Approaches
  • Mu, X. Video annotations support virtual collaboration
  • Sarmiento-Klapper, J.W. & Stahl, G. Collective Information Practices to Sustain Knowledge Work Over Time
  • Szigeti, S. Web design guidelines: Investigating issues of interpretation and efficacy

The Symposium will end with a special presentation by Dr. John Carroll, Edward M. Frymoyer Professor of Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State University . Dr. Carroll was a founder of human-computer interaction, and has a long and distuished career in both industry and academia. His research in human-computer interaction includes scenario-based methods for design and development, minimalist techniques for making information efficient, computer support for collaborative work and education, community-oriented computing, and social impacts of computing. For more information about Dr. Carroll see his website.

Registration for the Symposium: Participants must register with ASIS&T at www.asis.org for the Symposium. Early registration for ASIS&T ends on September 12, 2008 .

Fees
Members $80, non-members $90, before Sept. 12, 2008
Members $90, non-members $115, after Sept. 12, 2008

Symposium Co-Chairs

Symposium Program Committee

  • Chun Wei Choo, University of Toronto, Canada
  • Brian Detlor, McMaster University, Canada
  • Gary Geisler, University of Texas, USA
  • Preben Hansen, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden
  • Rick Kopak, University of British Columbia, Canada
  • Heather O'Brien, University of British Columbia, Canada
  • Amanda Spink, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
  • Sandra Toze, Dalhousie University, Canada  

2008 Research Symposium

Posted on July 18, 2008

The SIG HCI Research Symposium will be held on Sunday October 26 at the annual ASIS&T meeting in Columbus Ohio. The symposium is entitled HCI in Information Intensive Environments A Focus on Groups.

2008 Annual Meeting

Posted on July 18, 2008

SIG HCI is co-sponsoring 2 Panel sessions at the upcoming ASIS&T meeting: Understanding Visual Search Tools through Users' Reactions, and Waddling around the Digital Iceberg: Use of Virtual Spaces and Environments by children, preteens, and teens

ASIS&T 2008 Program