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Steven Poltrock
The Boeing Company
P.O. Box 3707 MC 7L-49
Seattle, WA 98124-2207

Education

  • California Institute of Technology -- B.S. in Engineering
  • University of California, Los Angeles -- M.A. in Mathematics
  • University of Washington -- Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology

Recent Professional Experience

  • 1977-1984 Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Denver.
  • 1982-1984 Member of Technical Staff, Bell Laboratories.
  • 1984-1989 Member of Technical Staff, MCC Human Interface Program.
  • 1989-present Technical Fellow, The Boeing Company

Closely Related Publications

Mark, G., Grudin, J. and Poltrock, S.E. in press. “Virtual Teams” in the Workplace. To appear in Proceedings of ECSCW’99.

Grudin, J. and Poltrock, S.E., 1999. Groupware. In J.G. Webster (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. New York: Wiley.

Engelbeck, G. and Poltrock, S. E. 1998. Designing to Support Enterprise-wide Collaboration, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems, Vol. II, pp. 37-39.

Hunt, R., Vanecko, A. and Poltrock, S. E. 1998. Future@Work: An Experimental Exhibit Investigating Integrated Workplace Design. In Cooperative Buildings: Integrating Information, Organization, and Architecture, Ed. N. A. Streitz, S. Konomi and H-J. Burkhardt, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series Number 1370, Springer.

Poltrock, S.E. and Engelbeck, G. 1997. Requirements for a Virtual Collocation Environment. Proceedings of the International ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work, Phoenix. In press in the Journal of Information and Software Technology.

Grudin, J. and Poltrock, S.E., 1997. Computer-supported cooperative work and groupware. In M. Zelkowitz (Ed.), Advances in Computers Vol. 45 (pp. 269-320). Orlando, FL: Academic Press.

Poltrock, S. E. 1996. Groupware, workflow management, and distributed engineering teams. Proceedings of Complex Systems and Human Oriented Information Processing, Tokyo, Japan.

Poltrock, S. E. & Grudin, J. 1996. Organizational obstacles to interface design and development: Two participant-observer studies. In C. Lewis, P. Polson, L. Gugerty, T. McKay and M. Rudisill (Eds.), Human Computer Interface Design: Success Cases, Emerging Methods, and Real-World Contexts. San Mateo: Morgan Kaufman.

Poltrock, S. E. & Grudin, J. 1996. Interface development in a large organization: An observational study. In R. Kling (Ed.), Computerization and Controversy: Value Conflicts and Social Choices, 2nd edition, San Diego: Academic Press, 326-347.

Other Related Publications

Poltrock, S. E. & Grudin, J. 1998. Groupware and workflow: A survey of system and behavioral issues. CHI'98 Conference Companion and Electronic Proceedings.

Nelson, P. R., Poltrock, S. E., & Schuler, D. 1996. Industrial strength hypermedia: Managing engineering information with hypermedia. Bulletin of SIGOIS, 17 (2), 18-33.

Grudin, J. & Poltrock, S. 1995. Software engineering and the CHI & CSCW communities. In R. Taylor and J. Coutaz (Eds.), Software Engineering and Human Computer Interaction. Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

Poltrock, S. E. & Nelson, P. R. 1994. Collaborative hypermedia for engineers. Paper presented to the CSCW and Hypermedia Workshop, CSCW'94, Chapel Hill, NC, October, 1994, and published in Proceedings of the CSCW’94 Workshop Collaborative Hypermedia Systems, GMD-Studien Nr. 239.

Malcolm, K. C., Poltrock, S. E., & Schuler, D. 1991. Industrial Strength Hypermedia: Requirements for a Large Engineering Enterprise. Proceedings of Hypertext '91, San Antonio, TX.

Collaborators

George Engelbeck, Boeing; David Farkas, University of Washington; Jonathan Grudin, University of California, Irvine; Robert Hunt, Barclay Dean Interiors; Peter Nelson, Boeing; Douglas Schuler, Evergreen State College

Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars

None in the last 5 years.

My graduate advisor

Earl Hunt, University of Washington Department of Psychology