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iSchool Employer Connections Fair

Published on January 12, 2010 in Career Resources. 0 Comments Tags: .

iSchool Employer Connections Fair

Wednesday, January 13, 2010, 1:30-4:30pm, Mary Gates Hall- The Commons

Come learn about internship, career, and research opportunities with great organizations!  Our sponsors, Disney Interactive Media Group, Multnomah County Library, Sno-Isle Libraries, T-Mobile USA, and Vulcan, and other employers are looking forward to meeting students!  For a complete list of attendees and their descriptions, please visit, http://ischool.uw.edu/resources/employerfair/participants.aspx.  Take advantage of this opportunity to network with industry in IT and related fields.   Hope to see you there!

Published on January 6, 2010 in Alumni, Current Students and Events. 0 Comments Tags: , , .
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2010 Intelligence Community Colloquium:
Information and Intelligence in Open Society

January 20 – 21, 2010
Husky Union Building, Room 108
University of Washington

Speakers include:

Deborah Frincke, Cybersecurity Chief Scientist, PNNL

Mark Haselkorn, HCDE Professor

Barbara Endicott-Popovsky, Director, Center for Information Assurance & Cybersecurity, iSchool

Download the colloquium agenda in PDF.

Student registration is available through INSER’s web site.

Continental Breakfast (both days) and Lunch (Jan. 20 only) will be served. The event is free.

RSVP deadline is January 15.

Wednesday @ DUB (EEB 403): Jill Woelfer & Dave Hendry (iSchool): “Stabilizing Homeless Young People with Information and Place”

Published on January 5, 2010 in Community, Current Students and Events. 0 Comments Tags: , .

*Where:* EEB 403 (directions below)

*When:* Jan. 6th, 12-1:20PM

*Who:* Jill Woelfer & Dave Hendry (iSchool)

Food will be provided!

SPEAKER: Jill Woelfer & Dave Hendry

TITLE:  Stabilizing Homeless Young People with Information and Place

ABSTRACT:

Over the last 24 months, we have investigated the use of information systems – digital and non-digital – in a community of homeless young people, aged 13 to 25. In December 2008, working with collaborators at a drop-in that seeks to stabilize youth and improve their welfare, we launched a community technology center for homeless young people. Since then, acting as volunteers and collaborating with case managers and outreach workers, we have worked with more than 50 young people to improve their computer skills for finding jobs. In this talk, however, we present findings from an initial research study where we asked the question: How might the organization and presentation of information resources, which are abundant in this community, be improved? We collected 250 printed materials from four service agencies and then used a sample of these materials in a card-sorting exercise. The resulting categorization scheme was then used to design four interrelated prototypes:  Rolling Case, InfoBike, Slat Wall, and Infold. Each prototype explored how different kinds of “places” could be reconstituted out of a common body of information resources. To convey the use of these prototypes and to evaluate their potential usefulness and practicality, three short videos were created and shown to homeless young people and to service providers. A key finding of this work is that the presentation of information resources is not always in keeping with the values held by the service providers. Nevertheless, “places” for meeting and engaging homeless young people can be reconstituted, in part, through the use of information resources.

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iSchool Research Fair

Published on November 17, 2009 in Community. 0 Comments Tags: .

The iSchool is hosting its first research fair this Thursday, November 19 and we really hope you can come.

WHAT: Inaugural UW iSchool Research Fair

WHEN: November 19, 2009, 6 pm – 7:30 pm

WHERE: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture

WHY: Come learn more about the research and scholarship of our faculty, researchers, and students

Refreshments will be served.

Please R.S.V.P. as soon as possible using UW Catalyst.

The R.S.V.P. Web site can be found at https://catalysttools.washington.edu/webq/survey/mms2/86393.

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Two-Hourly Undergrad Research Assistants (HCI) – Winter Quarter 2010

Published on November 14, 2009 in Employment and Undergrads. 0 Comments Tags: , .

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Position Type: On-campus Hourly or Federal Work Study
Deadline to apply: November 20th

Description: Hourly Undergrad Research Assistant, Multitasking Study
Start Date: 12/1/2009, or as soon as possible.
End Date: 03/15/2010, with a possible extension into spring quarter.

These positions will average 19.5 hours per week.

Position Description: The Information School is seeking two Undergraduate Research Assistants. The Ugrad RAs will participate in an NSF-sponsored research study. They will conduct detailed observation and analysis of audio/video recordings of people performing office tasks using computers, phones, and pencil and paper. This is an opportunity for students to acquire experience in conducting research and in analyzing data, to work directly with iSchool faculty, and to make use of state-of-the-art usability assessment software.

Required Qualifications:

  • Strong interest in carefully observing recordings of human-computer interaction;
  • Able to pay careful attention to detail and to make precise observations;
  • Enjoy learning new software tools.

Desired Qualification:

  • Prior observation and analysis experience helpful, but not required.

Salary $10 to $14 per hour DOE

This position is open to all University of Washington UNDERGRADUATE students.  Questions regarding this position should be directed to Crystal Yost, Assistant HR Manager at crystaly@uw.edu.

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HCDE PhD student Joe Sullivan presents his research on Monday, 11/16

Published on November 13, 2009 in Community, Current Students and Events. 0 Comments Tags: .

**BROWN BAG MONDAY: Please bring your lunch with you to this conversation**

WHEN: Monday, November 16, 2009; 12:00-1:20pm
WHERE: Mary Gates Hall 420

WHO: Joe Sullivan, Researcher with the Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA) and a PhD student in Human Centered Design and Engineering
WHAT: Quasi-experiments, attribution theory and the genre of success stories: A framework for evidence in Community Technology Research and examples from Bogota, Colombia

ABSTRACT
Producing community technology research which meets acceptable standards of validity is challenging due to inevitable methodological shortcomings and the apparent incommensurability of different contexts. Our approach is to embrace this “messiness,” developing a systematic strategy that acknowledges and even harnesses the relative strengths and weaknesses of various methods, applying the logic of quasi-experiments and attribution theory within and across individual sites. In this way hypotheses, sampling strategies, data collection and analyses are assembled and refined to maximize the relative contributions of the deployed methods. The evidentiary value of each data point — from massive quantitative surveys to systematic case studies to publicity reports to donors — can thus be interpreted in light of the pitfalls of each and the value that emerges from strategically assembling the varieties of data and perspectives.

Joe and fellow researchers are advocating inclusion of the genre of “success stories” as data worth interrogating. In the very difficult terrain of donor/grantee relations, where everyone has incentive to emphasize stories of success, how can evidence be drawn from the seemingly endless pool of success stories?

The conversation will lay out our theoretical approach, drawing on examples from recent fieldwork in Bogota, Colombia

DISCUSSION-QUESTIONS
1. Can any evidentiary value be drawn from PR stories?
2. Are their ethical dangers in research activities like unannounced site visits?
3. How can “failure” in Community Technology interventions be contextualized and understood?
4. How can we tell the stories which cannot be told?

BIO
Joe Sullivan is a researcher with the Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA) and a PhD student in Human Centered Design and Engineering. He’s working on the material for this presentation with Andrew Gordon from the Evans School of Public Affairs and Claudia Hernandez, Maria Garrido and also TASCHA researchers.

http://cis.washington.edu/about/researchers-staff/sullivan/

iSchool Research Conversation: Monday, Oct 19 (MGH 420) 12:00-1:20 ‘All A-Twitter: Integrating The Real-Time Web Into The Classroom’ Speaker: Kathy Gill

Published on October 16, 2009 in Alumni, Current Students and Events. 0 Comments Tags: , .

twitter logoWHERE:  MGH 420

WHEN:  October 19th, 12:00-1:20pm

WHO: Kathy Gill

Food will be provided!  First come, first served.  Please remember to bring your own drink.

TITLE:  ‘All A-Twitter: Integrating The Real-Time Web Into The Classroom’

ABSTRACT

Summer quarter, Kathy taught her first class focused exclusively on Twitter as a representative real-time web technology; this was a class in the Master of Communication Digital Media (MCDM) program. She taught her first “lesson” using Twitter in Spring 2008 in an undergraduate journalism program.  During this conversation she will share trials and tribulations as well as talk about the summer class work-in-progress: an edited volume of student research that they will self-publish this fall.

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iSchool Research Conversation – Monday (MGH 420) 12-1:20pm, ‘Performing the Mundane: Language, Gender, and Play in Blogs of Israeli Teenage Girls’, Speaker: Carmel Vaisman

Published on October 2, 2009 in Events. 0 Comments Tags: , .

WHERE:  MGH 420

WHEN:  October 5th, 12:00-1:20pm

WHO: CARMEL VAISMAN, research student in the Department of Communications of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, writing her doctoral ethnographic research on teenage girls’ blogs and publishes academic papers about the Hebrew blogosphere

Food will be provided!

TITLE: Performing the Mundane: Language, Gender, and Play in Blogs of Israeli Teenage Girls

ABSTRACT

Carmel’s dissertation is an attempt to untangle female adolescence through its documented visibility in a media-absorbed environment. This work juxtaposes the emerging disciplines of Girls’ Studies and New Media Literacies, and explores the ways new literacies facilitate girlhood performances online: How do girls use performative and playful blogging practices to make meaning? How do they perform gender identities; do they conform to gender roles or subvert them? Which literacy skills are girls acquiring through blogging and how are these skills positioned vis-à-vis traditional literacy? How do girls employ visual imagery and narratives from various genres to transcend their social and cultural boundaries?

BIO

Carmel L. Vaisman is a research student in the Department of Communications of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, writing her doctoral ethnographic research on teenage girls’ blogs and publishes academic papers about the Hebrew blogosphere. She received her graduate degree in professional communications from Clark University, Mass. and her undergraduate degree in political science, sociology, and anthropology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

She has been teaching various communication courses for 9 years at the Communication Departments of the Hebrew university, the Israeli College of Management, the Interdisciplinary Center and the Open University, in addition to being a leading publicist in the field of Internet culture in various Israeli publications. Her previous work included technology-related journalism and Internet industry consultancy. She is one of the pioneer Internet users in Israel and an active member of the social media Israeli community.

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