Week-by-Week Schedule

Course content will be delivered through lectures, videos, student presentations, and individual readings. Below are the likely topics we will cover and a proposed ordering. However, this schedule is temporary. It will be finalized after a reading and presentation date has been determined for each student. The readings are listed here in short form; see the reading list for complete citations. The papers to be presented by individual students are listed by category below; remember that each presenter will eventually write a brief summary about the paper presented.

Week

Topic

Readings

Due Dates

19 Jan

Introduction; CSCW Overview; Psycholinguistics (Notes will be posted soon.)

Ackerman, 2000.

Clark, 1994

Brennan and Ohaeri, 1999  

 

26 Jan

Social and Personality Psychology

Horowitz et al., 2004

Social Psychology (Two chapters)

 

Homework 1, 1/28

 

9 Feb

Sociology and Studies of Work

Suchman, 1993

Suchman, 1995

Kuutti & Arvonen, 1992

Choose system for Usability System, 2/9

Feb. 11:  Social Influence Video

16 Feb

Work Studies

Muller, Carr, Ashworth, Diekmann,  Wharton, Eickstaedt & Clonts, 1995

Palen, 1999

Usability Study Plan 2/16

 

23 Feb

Fundamentals and Methods (Clarification slides)

Dourish, Chapters 1 & 2

Homework 2, Study approval, 2/23

Presentation by Gaurav

1 Mar

Fundamentals and Methods

Dourish, Chapters 3 & 6

In class: Colab, RAVE, Shared ARK, Tivoli

Presentations by Mary and Will

8 Mar - 12 Mar

SPRING BREAK — ENJOY!

15 Mar

Nearly Synchronous

Hansen & Damm, 2002

Grinter & Palen, 2002

 

In Class: IMing, Tapped In

 

Presentations by Chris and Prasant

22 Mar

Instant Messaging (IM)

Isaacs, Walendowski, Whittaker, Schiano, & Kamm, 2002

Clark & Brennan, 1991

 

In class: Email, listservs, Ebay, Amazon.com

Homework 3, 3/24

Presentations by Arul and Sujatha

29 Mar

Intermail Interaction

Constant, Sproull, & Kiesler, 1997

Tatar, Gray, & Fusco, 2002

Wellman, 1997

Ito (Senior Net)

Senior net

Online dating

MoveOn

BloggingLambda-moo (Cherny)

Usability report, due March 31

Presentations by Angie and Vishal

05 Apr

Classroom Learning

Enyedy, N., 2003

Tatar, Roschelle, Vahey, Ye & Brecht, 2004

Goldman, 1996

Presentation by Yvonne

12 Apr

Small Work Groups (AERA)

Gutwin & Greenberg, 2001

Pedersen, McCall, Moran, & Halasz, 1993

AERA2004; no class meetings; online discussion of readings

 

Shared ark

Colab

Media Space

One meeting in Tapped In

John Tang?  Ellen Isaacs?

19 Apr

Other specialized work areas (NCTM)

Mackay, W.E., 2000

Izadi, Brignull, Rodden, Rogers, and Underwood, 2003

 

NCTM2004

 

Presentations by Chetan and Jason

26 Apr

Institutional Collaboration

 

Tullio, Goecks, Mynatt & Nguyen, 2002

Carlsen & Gjersvik, 1997

Wiki/Email

03 May

Cross-Institutional Collaboration

Erickson & Kellogg, 2000

Kraut, Gergle & Fussell, 2002

Math forum

Digital Libraries

 

Presentations by Rob and Jing

05 May

Project Presentations

No readings

Design document due