Four CSC Lab papers, including a collaborative effort with Fudan University’s CISL lab, have been accepted to be presented at CSCW 2013, to be held in San Antonio, Texas in February. The papers will also be published in the proceedings. Every member of CSC Lab during the past academic year has a paper accepted to CSCW 2013. Congratulations to all! Recalibrating the Ratio: Enacting Accountability in Intimate Relationships Using Shared Calendars Alex Thayer*, Behzod Sirjani*, Charlotte P. Lee* The Work…

The Director of CSC Lab, Charlotte P. Lee, today gave the keynote lecture for the Tahoma School District 10Tech Conference. The conference is held every summer and provides a venue for teachers to learn and refine their skills with various technologies, including collaborative technologies, in the classroom. Lee’s talk entitled “”How People Are Changing Technology and Finding New Ways to Collaborate” described the research field of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and a few different CSC Lab research projects ranging…

Director Charlotte P. Lee recently received an award of $16,000 from Nokia Research’s US University Collaboration funding program. The award, recently announced by Nokia, will fund a research project entitled Investigating Student Use of Tablets, Phones and Laptops in Collaborative Design Projects. This project will be undertaken as part of the dissertation work of Doctoral Candidate Alex Thayer. Recipients of these unrestricted funds from Nokia Research are first nominated by a Nokia employee and then selected as “the most promising…

Doing interesting research with great collaborators is truly its own reward. However, it still feels great to get recognition from ones peers. We are pleased to announced that conference reviewers nominated two CSC Lab for the Best Paper Competition of CSCW 2012. One of the two papers will be receiving an Honorable Mention in the competition. Congratulations to all of our co-authors! Honorable Mention, Best Paper Competition Sustaining the Development of Cyberinfrastructure: An Organization Adapting to Change Bietz, Matthew J.,…

A CSC Lab paper has been accepted to the iConference 2012. The paper will be published in the proceedings and will be presented at the annual Conference that will be held in February in Toronto, Canada. Congratulations to former CSC Lab postdoc, Matthew Bietz and lab director, Charlotte Lee! Adapting Cyberinfrastructure to New Science: Tensions and Strategies Bietz, Matthew J. and Lee, Charlotte P.

Three CSC Lab papers have been accepted to the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) 2012. The three papers will be published in the archival proceedings and will be presented at the annual Conference that will be held locally here in Seattle, WA. Congratulations to all of our authors! Sustaining the Development of Cyberinfrastructure: An Organization Adapting to Change Bietz, Matthew J., Ferro, Toni, and Lee, C.P. A Sociotechnical Exploration of Infrastructural Middleware Development Lee, Charlotte P., Bietz,…

Lab Director Charlotte Lee and Research Assistant Drew Paine recently returned from over two weeks in Shanghai, China where they visited Fudan University’s Collaborative Information and Systems Laboratory (CISL). Directed by Professor Ning Gu, CISL is one of China’s premier laboratories studying Computer Supported Cooperative Work. As a “visiting expert” Lee gave a talk about two of her research projects including the study of how relationship work is accomplished with, through, and around the sharing of online calendars and also…