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News Archives Priya Nambisan Will Present Paper at the International Communication Association (ICA) Annual Conference 2004 - 01.23.2004 LL&C doctoral student Priya Nambisan will present her paper "Online community experience: Impact on customer attitudes" at the Communication and Technology Division of the 2004 ICA Conference, New Orleans.
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Associate Professor Audrey Bennett: Finalist for 2004 Universal Forum of Cultures - 12.17.2003 LL&C Associate Professor Audrey Bennett's graphic art project titled "Global Citizen Passport" is a finalist for the 2004 Universal Forum of Cultures’ "100 Good Idea Cubes International Exhibition" co-sponsored by "Design for the World" and "Universal Forum of Cultures, Barcelona." If selected by the Forum, her piece will exhibit May-September 2004 in Barcelona, Spain. More information can be found at: http://www.designfortheworld.org/IdeaCubes/form.htm
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Professor Patricia Search Awarded Fulbright Senior Specialists Grant - 12.17.2003 Patricia Search has been awarded a Fulbright Senior Specialists Grant in Communications and Journalism. Professor Search will go to Sydney, Australia to work with on the design and development of interface concepts for online programs in Indigenous studies that are being developed by professors in the Indigenous Academic Development Unit in the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia and the University of Western Sydney. Professor Search has been working on new models for computer interface design for interactive multimedia programs. These models are derived from oral communication techniques in Indigenous cultures. The goal of this project is to develop interface designs that represent the Indigenous conceptual models for the online programs in Indigenous studies. Patricia Search, who has been recognized with international awards for her research in multimedia design, will join a team of multidisciplinary experts in Australia that has been assembled to assist the Indigenous Academic Development Unit at University of Technology in Sydney (UTS) to define particular online curriculum, pedagogical, and assessment issues in the proposed courses. The team at UTS has worked in Indigenous Education for over twenty years and recently completed an extensive review of the literature on online curriculum and pedagogies across Australia, United States, and Canada. The team at the University of Western Sydney has extensive experience with building university mainframes, emerging Information Technologies, and the flexible delivery of online courses. In addition, a small number of other Australian universities, who are currently involved in the delivery of higher education programs to remote Indigenous Australian communities, will be invited to participate in the program. See RPI Press Realease.
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Andreas Karatsolis Presents at 10th International Conference on Human - Computer Interaction - 11.08.2003 LL&C Doctoral student Andreas Karatsolis presented a demonstration of Hellas Alive: The Development of a Flexible, Web-enabled, Multimedia-based Greek Language Learning Environment at the 10th International Conference on Human - Computer Interaction in Crete, Greece.
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Carrie Clegg Publishes Article in IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication - 11.08.2003 LL&C M.S. student Carrie Clegg has an article appearing in the issue of IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, due out this month. It's a short piece titled "Documents as Prototypes: Designing Written Drafts for Communication across Cross-Disciplinary Teams."
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Huatong Sun and Shaun Slattery Present at Graduate Student Conference - 11.08.2003 LL&C doctoral students Huatong Sun and Shaun Slattery will both be presenting at Wayne State University's "Graduate Student Conference on Digital Literacy and New Media: Definition, Methodology, Use" on November 22, 2003. Huatong Sun will present, “Investigating Ruling Passions behind Mobile Texts," while Shaun Slattery will present, "Using Screen-Capture Software to Study Digital Literacy.”
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Roger Grice Publishes in the Proceeding of the International Professional Communication Conference - 11.08.2003 Roger Grice, Clinical Associate Professor in LL&C, published the following papers in the Proceeding of the International Professional Communication Conference: Lee, Kwang Bok, Roger Grice and Sibel Adali, "Embedded-Zooming Applications for Personal Digital Assistants," and Grice, Roger A. "Comparison of Cost and Effectiveness of Several Different Usability Evaluation Methods: A Classroom Case Study." Kwang Bok Lee recently completed his Ph.D. work under the direction of Roger Grice and James Watt.
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Bill Hart-Davidson Presents Papers at ACM and CPTSC Conferences - 11.01.2003 Prof. Bill Hart-Davidson recently gave a paper at the SIGDOC (Special Interest Group on Documentation) Conference 2003 entitled "Seeing the project: Mapping patterns of intra-team communication events." This paper was one of three given in a panel based on a study Prof. Hart-Davidson conducted with Ph.D. students Shaun Slattery and G. Kofi Amponsah in Spring 2003. The paper will be published in the Proceedings of the 21st Annual International Conference on Documentation. San Francisco: Association of Computing Machinery. 28-34 Prof. Hart-Davidson also gave a conference paper "Border? What border? Documents are interfaces" which will be published in the Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Council of Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication. http://www.english.vt.edu/~dubinsky/CPTSC_03/abstracts_03_g-m.htm. Potsdam: CPTSC.
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Debopriyo Roy Publishes Two Papers in IEEE IPCC Proceedings - 11.01.2003 LL&C Doctoral Student Debopriyo Roy and Prof. Roger A. Grice published "Content Management Strategy and Heuristic Evaluation of a Model Electronic Portfolio: A Rhetorical Approach" in the Proceedings of IEEE IPCC (International Professional Communicators Conference) 2003. Debopriyo Roy and fellow doctoral student published "Reader Perceptions in Sequencing Procedural Graphics of Complex Machines" also in the Proceedings of IEEE IPCC 2003.
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James P. Zappen: Recent Accomplishments - 10.29.2003 LL&C Professor James P. Zappen has recently presented two papers at conferences and been interviewed on Channel 10. LL&C Professor James P. Zappen presented his paper with Teresa M. Harrison, "Activity Theory as a Methodology for Assessing Users' Intentions: Design of a Multipurpose Information System to Support Collaborative Youth-Services Work," and held a Workshop, "Applying Activity Theory to CSCW Research and Practice," at the 8th European Conference of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work in Helsinki, Finland, in September 2003. The pair also presented "Intention and Motive in Information-System Design," and held a workshop entitled "Digital Cities 3: Local Information and Communication Infrastructures: Experiences and Challenges," at the International Conference on Communities and Technologies in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, also in September 2003. This month, he was featured in an interview with Dan Levy, "Connected Kids," on A Better Community on Channel 10 of Albany, New York. It can be seen online at http://www.sbrl.rpi.edu/streaming/news10_connected_kids.html.
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Social and Behavioral Research Laboratory Officially Opens - 10.28.2003 The new Social and Behavioral Research Laboratory (SBRL) in the historic Gurley building in downtown Troy held its grand opening October 6th, 2003, with a showcase of the facilities and the research currently being conducted within. Government officials, community leaders, researchers, professors, and media from the Capital Region were invited to share in the celebration. The SBRL, part of Rensselaer’s School of Humanities and Social Sciences (H&SS), is a home for research focusing primarily on the social, cognitive, and behavioral impact of information technology. The facility supports basic research and graduate instruction in psychology, communication, cognitive science, informatics, and technology studies. The SBRL contains a 10-station professional-grade computer-aided telephone and Web survey research lab; rooms with state-of-the-art eye-gaze recording systems and multiple video and audio recording systems; digital editing systems; programming workstations; streaming Web video servers; and an immersive virtual-reality studio equipped with a full motion-tracking system. A configurable open space is available for workshops, discussions, presentations, and large-group data collection. Many of the researchers on current projects were present for the event, demonstrating the equipment and explaining their projects to the assembled guests. The projects range from studying how people play games, in order to apply the high degree of intuitiveness and ability improvement those interfaces engender, to using the virtual reality systems to study how people intercept a moving target – in this case, a virtual basketball. The recording facilities are in use in the Time-Independent Collaboration System, which combines the asynchronicity of e-mail with the visual and verbal cues of video-conferencing to create an entirely new method of internet communication. Students are making use of the facility as well; a research team of mainly graduate students was on hand to present their projects concerning the use of the internet in the 2004 Presidential campaign. TroyNet and Connected Kids, joint RPI/City of Troy projects, are both headquartered in the SBRL.
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Robert Krull Presents at IEEE Professional Communication Conference - 10.27.2003 Prof. Robert Krull was a presenter on the panel "Shaping the Profession: Leading Academic Programs in Technical Communication" at IEEE International Professional Communication Conference, Sept. 21-24, 2003, Orlando, Florida. While at the conference, he attended the board meeting of the IEEE Professional Communication Society as board member and chair of the Awards committee and head of the Research branch of the Society's web portal in Orlando, Florida. Prof. Krull also Chaired the meeting of the Cross-University Research Group in Orlando, Florida. The meeting was attended by representatives from RPI, Twente University (Holland), University of Washington, Mercer University, among others. He also headed the review team for an article submitted to the journal Technical Communication. Prof. Robert Krull also presented information regarding his research on graphics for physical tasks and on usability of handheld devices at the opening of the Social and Behavioral Research Laboratory (SBRL) on October 3.
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Robert Krull, D. Michael Sharp, and Debopriyo Roy Publish Article - 10.27.2003 Prof. Robert Krull, and doctoral students D. Michael Sharp and Debopriyo Roy have co-written "Canonical Views in Procedural Graphics", an article published in Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference, Sept. 21-24, 2003, Orlando, Florida, pp. 22-28.
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Robert Krull, Shreyas J. D'Souza, Debopriyo Roy and D. Michael Sharp Publish - 10.27.2003 Prof. Robert Krull, M.S. student Shreyas J. D'Souza, and doctoral students Debopriyo Roy and D. Michael Sharp have co-written "Designing Procedural Illustrations", which has been accepted for publication by the IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication.
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James Watt: External Evaluator for New Media Grad Program, Hong Kong - 07.20.2003 James Watt, Chair of Language, Literature, and Communication, was re-appointed to a three-year term as External Evaluator of the graduate program in New Media at the City University of Hong Kong. He will review the program annually and conduct one on-site visit during the three-year term.
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Emilie Gould Discusses Impact of Cultural Issues on HCI Design - 07.15.2003 Emilie Gould, Ph.D. student in Language, Literature, and Communication, recently delivered a presentation in which she discussed how cultural issues affect HCI and interaction design. For the full article, please visit: Culture and Usability Feature: Culture as a Design Heuristic
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Patricia Search: Fellowship in Computer Arts, Exhibition - 07.15.2003 Patricia Search was awarded a Fellowship in Computer Arts from the New York Foundation for the Arts. This is a highly competitive and prestigious grant program. One hundred and forty-four grants were awarded from among 3500 applications. This year's NYFA Fellows were celebrated at a reception at the Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria in New York City. Professor Search currently has a solo exhibition entitled "Finding the Center" at the Amos Eno Gallery in New York City. "Finding the Center" explores new forms of temporal, spatial, and rhythmic links in interactive design that define a "spatial grammar" of interaction and enable the viewer to explore information outside a Western framework of hierarchies and causality. The geometry of space and time are juxtaposed with the poems and rhythms of aboriginal cultures forming an audiovisual counterpoint to the mechanical rhythm of the human-computer interface. "Finding the Center" emphasizes the importance of using fundamental elements of human perception to bridge the gap between the tangible physical world and the ethereal world of electronic communication.
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June Deery on the Cultural Implications of Reality TV - 07.02.2003 June Deery, Associate Professor in LL&C, was recently interviewed by the Los Angles Times about her research of reality television programming and its cultural implications. For the full article, check out: TV Gets its Ph.D.
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Workshop on HCI Research, May 2003 - 06.29.2003 On May 31, eleven managers and project directors from IBM, eleven RPI faculty, and four graduate students congregated in the new Social and Behavioral Research Lab (SBRL) for an all-day workshop on HCI research. LL&C faculty members Robert Krull, Bill Hart-Davidson, and Roger Grice presented synopses of current research projects, as did Selmer Bringsjord of Cognitive Science and Mike Danchak of Computer Science. IBM presented some of their recent user documentation and education projects and research needs, and Jim Watt lead a tour of the new lab. The IBM group was coordinated by Dave Hans, an LL&C graduate and long-time IBM employee. Both IBM and the SBRL associates will continue conversations to identify common areas of research for future projects. Check out the Photo Gallery for photos taken at the workshop. For more information on HCI Research and the new SBRL, please visit: http://www.sbrl.rpi.edu/
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LL&C Communication Opportunities - 06.25.2003 By James Watt There are several new opportunities in Communication at Rensselaer. We have a faculty position beginning in Fall 2003 for either a senior-level communication researcher or a promising new graduate. This position offers significant opportunity for developing or expanding a research program in technologically-mediated communication. We are also seeking top-level graduate students who wish to get immediately involved in communication research, and to prepare themselves for significant research careers in the academic or professional world. For more information, please consult the following documents:  Tenure-Track Faculty PositionGraduate Research and Teaching Assistantships
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