CSC Lab members Katie Derthick and Behzod Sirjani were recently informed that their proposed mobile phone application, “Making Memories,” was selected as a runner up in the activity design contest sponsored by TORURG (the University of Toronto Ubiquitous Computing Research Group). The contest was a call for proposals of applications that would utilize the web-based activity service that TORURG members built, with the goal of exploring the possible applications that such a service could support. “Making Memories” is an application…

CSC Lab recently received notice that our accepted paper “The Imposition and Superimposition of Digital Reading Technology: The Academic Potential of E-readers” has also received an “Honorable Mention” award from the conference committee of CHI conference on Human-Computer Interaction . The CHI 2011 Papers and Notes Committee selected only the top 5% of Papers and Notes submissions to receive the “Honorable Mention” designation. Congratulations to all the authors: Alex Thayer, Charlotte P. Lee (lab director), Linda Hwang, Heidi Sales, Pausali…

Charlotte P. Lee, Director of the Computer Supported Collaboration Laboratory (CSC Lab), was informed today that she has been granted the 2011 HCDE Junior Faculty Innovator Award. Departmental awards are new to HCDE this year. Therefore, Charlotte is the first faculty member to receive the HCDE Junior Faculty Innovator Award. Judy Ramey, head of the awards committee, says: “We are very impressed with your outstanding record of research across a number of cutting-edge domains, and for your record of including…

Following a recent group meeting, Behzod Sirjani (our newest CSC Lab member) posted to his personal blog his thoughts on being an “intellectual child” of a valued mentor and what it means to be a scholar. The conversations one has with a mentor can plant seeds for ideas that can last a lifetime. The first few sentences are excerpted below to pique your interest, but the whole post is well worth reading. “An idea is like a parasite. Resilient, highly…

Betsy Rolland, HCDE PhD student and CSC Lab member is researching coordination and support of collaborative biomedical research. She is also the Project Manager for the Asia Cohort Consortium Coordinating Center at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, WA. The Asia Cohort Consortium (ACC) is a biomedical research collaboration comprised of more than 20 Asia-based cohort studies seeking to build a collective cohort of over a million people. The New England Journal of Medicine article below is a…

Hayes,  G., Lee, C. P., Dourish, J.P. 2011. “Organizational routines, innovation, and flexibility: the application of narrative networks to dynamic workflow.” International Journal of Medical Informatics. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2011.01.005 Abstract Objective The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how current visual representations of organizational and technological processes do not fully account for the variability present in everyday practices. We further demonstrate how narrative networks can augment these representations to indicate potential areas for successful or problematic adoption of new technologies…

Apparently the Apple iPad stands to become the replacement for those bulky printed textbooks that kids have to lug around. This New York Times article has some particularly interesting and illuminating quotes on the benefits of the iPad as a textbook replacement. For example: “The iPads cost $750 apiece, and they are to be used in class and at home during the school year to replace textbooks, allow students to correspond with teachers and turn in papers and homework assignments,…

The Computer Supported Collaboration Lab (CSC Lab) presented two research projects at the 2010 ACM Group conference in Sanibel, Florida, November 7-10. The two projects were accepted to the conference based on submission of extended abstracts and were presented at an interactive poster session. Work by Linda Hwang, Pallavi Damera, Linda Brooking and Charlotte P. Lee on “Promoting Oneself on Flickr: Users’ Strategies and Attitudes” was presented by Linda Hwang. Work by Pausali Sen, Irini Spyridakis, Silvia Amtmann, and Charlotte…

Posting a belated link here to nice article by Sandy Marvinney in the Spring issue of the University of Washington’s Trend Magazine for College of Engineering alumni: http://www.engr.washington.edu/news/trend/spr10_world.html#lee

CSC Lab is pleased to announce that Google Inc. has awarded a Google Research Award of $70,000 to Prof. Charlotte Lee for her proposal, written with assistance from PhD student Alex Thayer, entitled: “Investigating the Role of Online Calendar Use in the Cultivation and Maintenance of Relationships”.  Thayer, Katie Derthick, and Lee will be conducting this work over the 2010-2011 academic year.