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The center is currently devoting most of its resources to our project Fully Mobile City Government (mCity).
May 18-22, 2008 dg.o 2008: Annual International Digital Government Research Conference, Montreal, Canada
Jochen Scholl, PI for mCity, will be presenting new findings from the project at the conference.
April, 2008 mCity project team started interviewing fieldworkers representing an expert user group who have experienced the fully mobile wirellessly connected environment in 2001.
January, 2008 Happy New Year 2008!
December, 2007 ICEGOV 2007: 1st International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, Macao SAR, China
Paper accepted, and Jochen Scholl, PI and Shuhua M. Liu from mCity project presented our preliminary findings
A doctoral student from Italy visited the CHII office to learn about the mCity project
Barbara Re, a doctoral student from Department of Computer Science, University of Camerino, spent approximately three weeks to share her expertise in the area of Models and languages for e-Government interoperability and Quality in e-Government services.
November, 2007 ICEI 2007: International Conference of Engineering and ICT 2007
Paper submitted.
October, 2007 ASIS&T Annual Meeting 2007: Social Computing & Information Science, Milwaukee, WI
The mCity research team presented our preliminary findings and narrative model based on CWA framework. Our results show the complexity of the interaction and interdependence between major organizational variables and the work context.
Liu, S. (M.), Unsworth, K., Fidel, R., and Scholl, H. J. (2007). Fully Mobile Wirelessly Connected Technology Applications: Organizational Communication, Social and Information Challenges. Paper accepted and presented at ASIST 2007 Joining Research and Practice: Social Computing and Information Science, Milwaukee, WI, October 19-24, 2007.
For copies/pdfs of papers, please go to http:projects.ischool.washington.edu/chii/mcity/publications.html
September, 2007 DEXA 2007: 6th International EGOV Conference within DEXA Conference, Regensburg, Germany
Jochen Scholl, PI for mCity, presented a theoretical application of Stakeholder analysis on our preliminary findings from the mCity project.
Scholl, H.J., Fidel, R., Liu, S. (M.), Paulsmeyer, M. and Unsworth, K. (2007). E-Gov Field Force Automation: Promises, Challenges and Stakeholders. Paper accepted and presented at the Sixth international EGOV conference 2007 within the DEXA conference cluster, Regensburg, Germany, September 3-7, 2007.
For copies/pdfs of papers, please go to http:projects.ischool.washington.edu/chii/mcity/publications.html
May, 2007 dg.o 2007 : 8th Annual International Digital Government Research Conference, Philadelphia, PA
Jochen Scholl, PI for mCity,
presented findings from the project at the dg.o conference in
Philadelphia, May 20-23, 2007:
April, 2007 A new CHII lecture is coming up: Sandy Hirsh, User Experience Research Lead for Windows Live Web Communications at Microsoft's Silicon Valley Campus in California will present on:
Understanding Cultural Differences in the Use of Mobile Phones
Time: Friday, May 11th, 2007, 2:30pm-4:30pm Place: The Information School, University of Washington, Mary Gates Hall, Room 420 http://www.washington.edu/home/maps/northcentral.html?MGH
January, 2007 The Information School in
Olympia
Click here to view the posters.
Information creation Mike Crandall, Dave Hendry, Cheryl Metoyer and Jochen Scholl joined the center and together with Raya Fidel they are exploring information creation as a theme of interest.
December, 2006 Dr. Patricia Katopol dissertation defense Patricia Katopol, the Center manager and iSchool Doctoral Candidate successfully defended her dissertation An Exploratory Study of the Information Culture of Support Staff in Municipal Government and its Relation to Managerial Decision-Making.
Abstract: How is the decision-making
function at one hierarchical level affected by the manner in which
information is obtained, exchanged, and transferred at another hierarchical
level in an organization? The research seeks to answer that question by an
exploratory study of the information culture of support staff in municipal
government offices and the relationship of that culture to managerial
decision-making.
She is now Assistant Professor in the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa.
Dr. Katopol can be reached at patricia-katopol@uiowa.edu
October, 2006 Read about Cognitive Work Analysis in the latest issue of the Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Raya Fidel, Jens-Erik Mai, Patricia Katopol, Ammy Jiranida Phuwanartnurak and Kari Holland present different aspects and different studies related to CWA.
June, 2006 The mCity project is progressing steadily. We presented a paper, and more, at the Annual International Digital Government Conference dg.o 2006. You can read those papers and presentation from our publications page, click here.
January, 2006 National Science Foundation grant to study mobile and wireless applications in city government.
Together with Information School colleague Jochen Scholl, Raya Fidel and Jens-Erik Mai have received $498,000 from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information & Intelligent Systems (IIS) for a three-year study of the use of wireless and mobile technology in Seattle city government.
The Fully Mobile City Government project (mCity for short) will use CWA as informed by Structuration Theory as a methodological lens for the research.
To read press release, click here
To access the mCity project website, click here
November, 2005 Neelam Naikar, Robyn Hopcroft,
and Anna Moylan of the Centre for Cognitive Work and Safety Analysis (CWSA),
Air Operations Division at the Defence Science and Technology Organisation
in Australia have recently released the report:
October, 2005 We are hosting Dr. Izak Benbasat
from the Sauder Business School, University of British Columbia, as the
speaker for our fifth CHII lecture. Dr. Benbasat will be speaking on:
Human-Computer Interaction for Electronic Commerce: Impact of Explanations
on Trust in Online Recommendation Agents.
Find more information and slides from his presentation in our lectures
archive.
August, 2005 An short article from last year's annual conference of the American Society of Information Science and Technology might be of interest to our visitors. Gulshan Pajwani and Katherine W. McCain of the College of Information Science & Technology, Drexel University, submitted a poster on: Mapping the “Human” side of Computing: An Author Cocitation Analysis of the Interrelationships between Ergonomics, Human-Computer Interaction and Human Factors Research.
May, 2005 On May 23, 2005, Patricia Katopol successfully defended her dissertation proposal, An Exploratory Study of the Information Culture of City Government Support Staff and Its Implications for Managerial Decision-Making. The study is motivated by the question, In an organization, how is the decision-making function at one hierarchical level affected by the manner in which information is obtained, exchanged, and transferred at another hierarchical level? The proposed dissertation seeks to answer that question by an exploratory study of the information culture of support staff in municipal government offices and the implications of that culture on the decision-making of managers they support. The study considers how institutionalism affects the actions of support staff and managers, how support staff are affected by roles, power, and authority and in what way they may exercise power and authority themselves, and how the exercise of power may manifest itself in the way that support staff transfers, or does not transfer, information to the managers they support. Data analysis will be framed by Cognitive Work Analysis. This study is meant to inform three audiences; researchers in human information behavior, management, and designers of knowledge management systems. Click here to view the slides from this presentation.
May, 2005 One of the core books in the areas of Cognitive Work Analysis and Cognitive Systems Engineering - Jens Rasmussen's out-of-print book Information Processing and Human-Machine Interaction : an Approach to Cognitive Engineering - is now available for download through our portal website: http://projects.ischool.washington.edu/chii/portal/literature.html
March, 2005 Slides from Jonathan Grudin's talk on March 4th is now available in our lectures archive. The audio file for the talk will appear shortly.
February, 2005 Details for this quarter's CHII lecture is on the Events page. March 4th the Center will host Dr. Jonathan Grudin from Microsoft Research.
November, 2004 Raya Fidel and Jens-Erik Mai held a panel on Cognitive Work Analysis at the American Society for Information Science & Technology's Annual Meeting in Providence, Rhode Island, November 12-17, 2004. You can download their slides from this link (both sets are in the same file): PowerPoint presentation (495KB).
November, 2004 The audio file from our last lecture is now available in our Lecture archive.
October, 2004 Next week CHII sets the scene for its first Workshop on Cognitive Work Analysis. The workshop will take place here in Seattle, November 3-5, 2004. The workshop brings together internationally renowned experts in Cognitive Work Analysis and Cognitive Systems Engineering from several countries. The experts will discuss and convene for three days. For more information, have a look at the Workshop on CWA website.
October, 2004 We had our third lecture in our exciting lecture series today and it was very well attended. Dr. Debra Friedman gave a very interesting talk on: Is More Information Better for Decision-Making? The lecture will soon be available as an audio file in our Lectures archive. Please click on the title for the talk to go to that page.
July, 2004 NSF has officially announced its support for the Workshop on Cognitive Work Analysis that the Center will host in November this year. The workshop website will be made public later this summer.
June, 2004 Raya Fidel will be presenting at the Models of Information Seeking Session at the conference Information Seeking in Context, Dublin, Ireland, August 31st-September 3rd. She is presenting on "From Information Behavior Research to the Design of Information Systems: The Cognitive Work Analysis Framework" together with Annelise Mark Pejtersen.
June, 2004 Jens-Erik Mai will be presenting a paper on The role of documents, domains and decisions in indexing at the 8th International Conference of the International Society for Knowledge Organization, London, England, July 13th-16th.
At the same conference he is also chairing a session entitled: Social and Sociological Concepts in Knowledge Organization.
May, 2004 Slides from past CHII lectures are now on our website and an audio recording of our second lecture will be here soon. You can use the link just below here, or click on Events in our menu on the left hand side. On our Events page, look for the link to the lectures archive. Click here to go to our archive over past lectures
May, 2004 The CHII website gets attention in OnTechNews, University of Washington Online Technology News.
May, 2004 CHII Lecture Series
Click here to go to our archive over past lectures
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