38th Allerton Institute, October 27-29, 1996
As a way of trying to create a representation of the 38th Allerton Institute participants agreed to compose their contributions to a "map." To collect these contributions a poster card was available with a post-it on it that read:
'"MAPPING US"
Put your post-its, notes, etc., here!'
This note is a linear text representation of what turned out to be a 3-dimensional collage of paper descriptions, origami with writing, and even an autumn leaf that curled up as it dried. I have tried to represent each contribution in a way compatible with an ascii text file (Bill Anderson).
EDU: 49
COM: 6 (XEROX - 4, IBM - 1, AMERITECH - 1)
GOV: 5 (LC - 1, NSF - 1, UK - 2, Denmark -1)
social impacts of computing --> humanities computing --> collaborative
work --> scientific workstations --> infrastructures for collaborative
work --> distributed work and remote need's technologies -->
distributed learning communities --> ?
I'm a computer science person frustrated by CS's lack of focus on
social & organizational interactions with technology.
Work life dominated by managing a large corporate data network for 11
years.
Goal is to become bilingual: maintain technical skills from CS and add
an ability to factor the organizational & technical challenges of real
world settings.
B.A. Psychology
B.S. Mathematics & Computer Science
Computer scientist --> programmer / systems builder -->
digital video systems & multimedia systems building -->
multimedia systems evaluation & HCI research -->
digital video libraries development & evaluation
Libraries, People & Change / Digital Libraries
Trained in electrical engineering, computer science, and grad minor
in linguistics
Interested in digital libraries, information storage & retrieval,
multimedia information & systems, education enhanced with technology
Working to build a comprehensive digital library of theses &
dissertations
Working so multimedia, hypertext, and information access (which
includes "digital libraries") becomes a "reputable" scholarly field
Working so digital libraries are usable, scaleable, sustainable and
useful to aid in education
Collaborating with many colleagues working on HCI, educational
technology
Working to model traffic, usage, server behavior of WWW
Working to build more effective, usable information systems
* No apparent influence on LIS work ?!?!
Favorite color - yellow; Favorite number - 7
TSC (a radar company) -> Tymshare -> Xerox -> ? -> Xerox -> ? ->
Xerox -> ? -> Xerox -> ? -> Texas A&M -> Xerox
Hair history: 1972 1980 1988 1996
* GO YANKEES
AMES ------------- PITTSBURGH ---------- BRONX
---- ---------- -----
Iowa State CARNEGIE NY BOTANICAL
[PARKS] Library [GARDEN]--
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[RURAL] <------ [LESS URBAN <----- URBAN |
^ |
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Karen Ruhleder (transcribed from a leaf)
CSCW Infrastructure
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Humanities Distributed
Computing Learning
(and on a piece of paper; in a spiral starting at the center)
Butler (4 stacked post-its):
Barbee Teasley:
An origami bird with Cognitive Psychology and Computer Science under
the wings.
Linda Hill:
Prof Track Family Track & Location
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B.A. Biology
| Stanford
v
Bio Lab Tech
| Univ of Mich
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| Univ of Lancaster
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v
MLS Michigan
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v
Head Bus/Tech Tulsa OK
Dept Public Library
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v
Corp Research Lib Head
(Petroleum company)
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v
Ass't Dir Indexing/Abstracting Service
(Petroleum industry)
|
v
PhD Library Sci (Geospatial Concept Representation)
Pittsburgh
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v
NASA Sci/Tech Info Prog Washington DC
Consultant
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v
Global Change Data Man Wkg Group
Consultant
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v
UCSB Alexandria Digital Library Santa Barbara CA
Raven Wallace (with apologies for replacing curved lines)
MATH (Smith College, 1970; U Mass, 1972)
| UMDL,
| U of M School of Ed
| | ^
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| |
v |
------------ teaching -----------> Elementary School
| (math, computers, business, ^
| computers, math ...) |
| ^ | ^ |
| | | | |
v | | ------------
Civil Eng | -------- |
MS 1976 computers | |
PSDI --------------- v |
^ babies
|
Construction
Fluor Bechtel
Robert Mack:
1971 BA Physics
1980 MA, PhD Cognitive Experimental Michigan
Psychology
Univ of Michigan
Thesis: word recognition in reading
1981- Post doc IBM Watson Research Center New York
1982
Research - self instruction learning of software
1982- Member, - GUI techniques for IBM operating systems manager
present
HF team - DL prototypes for workstations and the web
Kantor: (blue post-its on a 14x16" sheet linked as a directed graph)
Kantor (1) Undergrad Phys/Math/Philo
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v
-- Kantor (2) PhD Mathematical Physics
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| v
| Kantor (3) CWRU: Complex Socio Technical Systems
| ^
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| v
| Kantor (4) 1972 Operations Research / Library Evaluation CWRU ---
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| | Kantor (5*) Tantalus / Optimizing Continuous Improvement | |
| v | |
-> Kantor (5) Tantalus Inc / Info and Decision Systems | |
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| v | |
| Kantor (6*) Biologic Metaphor in Networked Info Finding | |
v | |
Kantor (6*) Rutger Data Fusion for IR <----------------------- |
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Kantor (6) Rutgers 1991 APLab - Lib Cost and Benefit <-----------
Susan Anderson (2 post-its):
(1) Change oriented work:
International development
Health care & medical education
Education policy & practice
Technology design & development
(2) Studies of work & of technologies in use
Design, codesign, participatory design
Technologies to support interaction & collaboration
Bob Sandusky:
Bob Downs:
Education
B.S. Industrial Technology
M.S. Managing the New Technologies
Thesis: Effective techniques for the Selection of
Information Systems Personnel
Ph.D Information Management
(in process) Dissertation: User Interface Features in on On-line
Research Library
Experience
Supervisor of Academic Computer Services
staffing computer labs, support & documentation
Programmer Analyst
Application Development -----> Development / methodology
Designer of F.W. Taylor Project
User Studies & Digital Library Development --
---> Evaluation / Research / Methodology
Phil Smith: (a set of nested semi-circles)
_________________________________________________________
/ \
| Aviation Education Information Systems Medicine |
______________________________________________________
/ \
| -?-?-?- Planning Diagnosis Design Learning |
_______________________________
/ \
| Cooperative Problem Solving |
(Computer & Human Agents)
|
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| | |
v v v
Psychology Artificial Computer
Intelligence Science
Andrew Dillon:
M.A. Psychology
Ph.D. HCI
86-93: Husat Research Institute U.K.
Research & consultancy on design for use in complex I.T. application
94-> Indiana University
Teach + Research HCI --- Design
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--- Usage --- Space
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--- Shape
Lisa Schiff (5 post-its)
(1) Heavy public library user growing up
(2) Traditional Liberal Arts Education - studying imperialism
(3) Political Activism & Community education & collective education
(4) Library School - getting an MLIS
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v
contrasting/comparing/blending community education with
librarianship/info studies
(5) social/political/economic/historical/cultural analyses of people &
info --> DigLib (& my dissertation)
Mike Christel
M.S. Information & Computer Science
Ph.D. Computer Science (Evaluation of digital video interfaces)
Clare Davies (another directed graph):
[START HERE]
|
v
Psychology --> Disillusionment --> Computing industry ('practical')
^ |
| |
gradual increasing focus on ... v
^ increasing concern for users
| |
| v
| HCI research at HUSAT, Loughborough
| |
| |
| -------- electronic libraries work at DMU <----|
| | |
| | work on GIS, IR, spatial cognition <--
| | |
| v v
reawakened interest in cognition & social Y(?)
Michelle Baldonado - how I got here!
Places People Interests
------ ------ ---------
Harvard Barbara Grosz CS
Susumu Kuro Linguistics (sequence of tense
in indirect discourse)
Cambridge Univ Skre Young Speech processing
Bell Labs Julia Hirschberg intonation
SRI Phil Cohen,
Sharon Onatt multimodal interfaces, agents
Stanford Terry Winograd people! design
HCI/CL communities context digital libraries
Geri Gay Cornell
Marine Biology
English --> Film Theory
(theory / Film Making --> Psychology --> Interactive Media Design
practice) Design / |
Evaluation v
CMC
Pauline Cochrane:
Where I've come from that's relevant:
Time Line
1951 Trained to be h.s. history teacher
1954 Actually was an 8th grade history/science/phys.ed. teacher
1952 Indexed research lab notebooks
1954 Earned an M.A. in L.S.
1951-1985 Indexed books, including World Book Encyclopedia
1950s Worked as a reference librarian in
(a) art dept. of public library with a film library
(b) teachers college library
1960+(to date) Faculty member in grad. lib. school while doing
consulting, writing, research in field
1961+(to date) Funded research in ISAR system design
revising/improving index systems (at least 10 different systems)
User requirement research
Evaluation research
As technology changed, tried to revise/improve systems
right up to and including DLs in traditional (librarian) and
non-traditional places.
Ed Fox:
un-named:
Economics of Innovation
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v
Intell. Prop. Economics
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v
Marketing Intell. Prop.
|
v
Analysis Library
Strategic Issues
|
v
Analysis Online Books
Marcia J. Bates (a completely connected graph of overlapping areas):
-------------- >[Design of IR system interfaces]<---------------
| ^ |
| | |
| v |
| [User-centered design of information retrieval systems] |
| ^ ^ |
| | | |
v v v v
[Info seeking behavior]<---------->[Info organization, indexing, access]
Carol Hert (several parallel and interconnected strands):
Nature undergraduate degree at Boston U
| | |
| preserve natural settings? or work in library
| (tried degree in Natural Resource Management) which I was good at
| | |
| ------------------------
| |
| Systems Librarian<----->MLS at Columbia
| Cycling \
| | Trying to Figure out what people were doing on systems
| | (to improve them) |
| | |
| | v
| | User Centered Ph.D at Syracuse - user centered sensemaking
| | | |
| | | v
| | | User behavior on IR systems (ethnographic approach)
| | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | ->IR in info seeking contexts
| | | | | | -> Whats IR anyhow?
| | | | | -> How do we evaluate
| | | | -> What insights do we gain from ethnographic
| | | | & other methods
v v v -> IR is Digital Lib Contexts Allerton'96
So I see myself on a path -- thus the linear approach above,
running throughout is user-centeredness, and an interest in the natural
world, its preservation, and what we can learn from the natural world
to make our lives rich and meaningful
Lisa Covi (3 paths):
|
Columbia University
Academic Computing (Battan, Kaufman, Peters, Crosswell, Chow, Kennedy)
Teachers College - M.A. (Birnbaum)
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CAD Language Systems Inc. (now Compass Design)
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EDUCOM (King, Roberts, Gilbert, Gehl)
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University of California Irvine (Kling, King, Ackerman, Grudin)
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University of Michigan (Olson, Olson, Finholt, Teasley, Cohen)
Mishna Vaughan:
Aerospace Engineering [Austin, TX]
|
v
Radio - TV - Film
|
v
Information Telecommunications Computer [Bloomington, IN]
Science Science
| | |
| v v
--------->[Human Computer Interaction]
|
v
Human Media (?) Interaction Santa Cruz, CA
Bloomington, IN
Michael Twidale (a directed graph):
Intelligent Interfaces
tutoring <-------> to support <-------> HCI <---> Digital
systems learning | libraries
^ v ^
| Visualization |
| of concepts |
v ^ |
AI & education | |
^ v v
| Learning search skills
v
Computer Computer
Supported Supported
Cooperative<--->Cooperative<-------->Evaluation
Learning Work | |
| of learning environments
|
of cooperative systems
un-named:
New BA Biggest influences
--majors--------- ------------------
| | |
v v |
math <-- 1971 -> English |
teacher teacher |
catharsis 1 v
time-shared computing 1972 --- why do these kids want leave my
math class to do noisy, 110
1974 Brian baud drill & practice?
teaching programming to learn algebra ---
why do kids go to Chris D for
help (a 1974 9th grade
"hacker") on programming rather
1976 Deanna than me? who has power? control?
M.ED at Wayne State U --- Eugene Smith --- mentor what is
a teacher? most of math I
learned come up my right arm
Inservice specialist in Detroit
Center for Prof. Growth & Devel. --- personal computing
less math, more computing explosion
Altair --- TRS 80 --- Apple
1981 PhD -- math ed
educational computing impact
math education only a part of larger
issues of learning & teaching with technology
1983 U Maryland convinces me there --- catharsis 2
is a place in LIS What is this field about?
Balance research/service/practice?
key insight --- maybe I *do*
belong, information seeking is
most often applied to learning
1996 catharsis 3
how to leverage the info tech
window of opportunity to
'hyper-evolve' small, understaffed,
low-status LIS programs?
un-named (concentric circles):
Design & Practice
-----------------
/ Philosophy \
------------
/ commun \
-----
/ \
\ ?jgwin?/
-----
\ LIS /
\ ----------- /
----------------
responsive systems
Howard:
Journalism ----- Medial communications
1970 | | Educational Design - Instructional Technology
| | / | Art, Drama, Political Theory - situationism
| \ / | |
| \ / v v
| - /---> Film Theory -- Semiology / Structuralism
| / |
1975 | / v
| / Film Librarianship -- LIS
| / |
| / v
1980 |/---------- LIS --- Sociology of knowledge,
| | |
| | --- Postmodern Theory, Critical Theory
1985 | v
| Image Databases --- LIS
| | | | | |
| | | | | --- CS
| | | | --- HCI
| | | --- Sociology of knowledge
| | --- Design
1990 | |
v v
Electronically Aided Instruction, --- Instructional Tech
Digital Design & | | |
Publishing | | --- Sociology of knowledge
| --- Communications
--- Economics
Rob Kling:
1961 - 65
Columbia Univ Electrical Eng.
Philosophy
Sociology
New York City
Stanford 1965 - 1971
Artificial Intelligence
SF Bay Area
Counterculture
Wisconsin 1971 - 1973
Irvine 1973 - 1996
- Politics & Sociology of Computerization
- Post suburban California
- Sociotech
Indiana U - 1996 -
Social Informatics
Roberta Lamb (4 layered post-its):
Karen Weickert:
Escape
| Home
| Dropped out of high school
v
UW - LaCrosse
| "Chaos" -> Mathematics
Escape |
Wisconsin
|
-> Oregon State University
|<-- Mathematics -> Chaos -> Artificial Intelligence
| ^
| |
--> Argonne Natl. Laboratory *needs*
| Artificial Intelligence --> Graduate School
|
--> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Artificial Intelligence -->
Philosophy of Science --> [Nuclear war protests]
-------- Increasing disatisfaction |
| |
--> US House of Representatives |
Science, Research & Tech Staff --> v
Politics of Research Funding --> CPSR
-------- Increasing dissatisfaction
| [women in computing]
--> Systems Development Corporation |
Designer of NLG & E.S. --> v
(OTA Committee on AI &
Rob Kling --> )
| dissatisfaction
v
-----------
|
--> UC - Irvine
Love and marriage; computers, org, policy & society
( Design Process ) Intellectual
( Design in Situ ) Mission [ Bomb Lady ]
|
v family move
-----------
|
--> Stanford University & Institute for Research on Learning
/ - design of EDI systems
| - design of computer-based patient records & decision
| support systems
| [CHILD] - teaching in Human Computer Interaction
|
| [MOVE to - consultant to future product design
| BERKELEY] - construction of scenarios and uses and users
/ \ as materials for design process
|
--> UC - Berkeley
Evaluation of Museum Educational Site Licensing Project
Ann Bishop (a very rich and complex net of threads and nodes):
(Mom - social worker / Dad - Tribologist)
|
| (influenced by Trained in survey, interview
| Chuck McClure, methods of data collection;
| Liz Liddy, Mike Nilan) primarily "action research"
| \ /
| \ / (learning more about
| \ / ethnographic methods
v v v from DLI Soc Team)
* BA, Russian Lit --> MLS -----> PhD, Information |
Cornell U Syracuse U Transfer |
Syracuse U |
\ | / v
- JOBS - -> Cataloger --> Research sponsored --> Asst. Prof LIS --> MOM
/ | \ Cornell U CLR, OCLC, NASA Univ. of Illinois;
| US Office of Tech. Asses. ^
| Office of Mgmt & Budget |
| -- [Syracuse] /
| |--- Dissertation on Use of Computer
| | Nets in Aerospace Engineering
| | - what applications used?
| | - for what engineering tasks?
| | - what factors effect use?
| | - impact of use?
| |
| | [Interests]
| |-> - info needs and behavior --------------------
| | (esp. related to computer systems) |
| |-> - Federal info policy ----------------------- |
| |-> - scientific & tech. communication -------- ||
--> -> - info organization & access ------------ | ||
- social equity & impact of info systems | | ||
| v v vv
| [Illinois]
v |
Prarienet (community info system) co-founder |
v
DLI Project
Study of nature of virtual museums from point of view of
artists, curators, viewers
Prarienet use studies
[Research Approach]
- Focused primarily on person as individual actor, who functions
instrumentally as part of a particular group, e.g., engineer, artist
Allergies - cats, wool
Bill Anderson:
Chemistry / Physics / Mathematics
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Computer Science
Software Engineering
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| |
| | Participatory Design
| <-- Sociotechnical systems
Psychoanalytical --->
Studies of
Group Dynamics
| Co-development
Organizational | of digital library products
Behavior ---> |
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Political | |
Theory | |
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