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…

As kids get ready to head back to school, and as college students get ready to move back to their dorms and apartments, Consumer Reports has published an article discussing whether an e-reader is the right student purchase to make.  The exciting part is they base the entire article around our study of e-reader usage among grad students. Two things in this article are exciting to me. First, they quote Professor Charlotte Lee making a pretty clear statement about whether…

This column in today’s Chicago Tribune theorizes about what will happen to printed books and physical bookstores in the coming years.  I have to say that I agree with many of the points made, particularly when Keilman talks about printed books having a future. He also rightly points out that big-box bookstores may not be around forever, or at least competing big-box bookstores (Borders’ demise is sort of the premise/focus of the column). The column is exciting, however, because Keilman…

Earlier this week, Amazon announced that they would begin renting out textbooks on Kindle devices.  What’s cool is that two of the articles (on CNET and GeekWire) cite our research on e-reader use among university students. The CNET article in particular has some actual commentary on elements of our findings, particularly cognitive mapping; it’s nice to see at least one comment lauding the CNET article for bringing this up. It’s particularly fun to see your academic research get referenced in…

As we reported last month, our accepted paper “The Imposition and Superimposition of Digital Reading Technology: The Academic Potential of E-readers” won an Honorable Mention award at CHI 2011.  On Monday, we issued a press release through the UW that described the highlights of our research. Happily, that press release was picked up by a number of other folks that very same day: PCMag – Study: E-Readers Need Work Before Schools Toss Out Textbooks GeekWire – UW study of Kindle usage…