IRList Digest Friday, 14 Mar 1986 Volume 2 : Issue 13 Today's Topics: Research Interest - Full-text retrieval and Keyword Consistency Software Psychology Society - V10 #13, Potamac Chapter Call for Papers - ACM SIGIR Forum - Computer Supported Cooperative Work ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 11 March 1986, 00:16:55 EST From: James H. Coombs Greetings! Please add me to the IRLIST. I have a Ph.D. in English and an A.M. in Linguistics. Am currently Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in English at Brown. I have developed an Information Management System for Scholars, currently in beta testing, and am especially interested in the problems of full-text retrieval and maintaining keyword consistency. Thanks. --Jim [Welcome! Folks with common interests, please send James some news or send to IRList for sharing.- Ed] ------------------------------ From: Ben Shneiderman Date: Tue, 4 Mar 86 08:17:59 EST Subject: SPS .ll 6.0i .(l .ps 18 .b "SOFTWARE PSYCHOLOGY SOCIETY" .sp 1 .b " POTOMAC CHAPTER" .ps 14 .sp 1 .b "VOLUME 10 NUMBER 3 SPRING 1986" .ps 12 .sp 2 .b "March 14 Room 413-414" .)l .sp .ps 12 .ce 4 .b "MANAGING PERSONAL COMPUTERS:" .br .b "HUMAN RESOURCES AND TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE IN THE OFFICE" .sp 1 Marc Sokol, Department of Psychology .br University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 .ps 11 .sp 2 During 1984, over 100 personal computers were installed in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, US Dept of Health and Human Services. A one-year study examined the implementation, initial use, and impact. The findings, presented from the point of view of innovation diffusion and human resource management, include: 1. The impact of the PC training design on staff perceptions of the new technology and its applications. 2. Initial effects of widespread access to the PC on the work behavior of secretaries, professional staff, and managers. 3. Correlates of higher use of the new technology. 4. A profile of how PCs were used during the first year. .(f Note: All meetings will be held at the George Washington University's Marvin Center (800 21st Street, N.W.) between 10:00 AM and noon. Coffee and doughnuts will be provided by the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. .)f .sp 3 .(l L .ps 12 .b "April 11 Room 413-414" .)l .sp .ps 12 .ce 3 .b "THE USE OF COLOR IN COMPUTER DISPLAYS" .sp 1 Glenn C. Kinney, The MITRE Corporation .br 1820 Dolley Madison Blvd., McLean, VA 22102 .br .ps 11 .sp 2 The talk reviews the literature on human color vision as applied to the use of colors on computer displays, with emphasis on the air traffic control system. Several demonstrations of relevant optical and physiological properties of vision are included and empirical results are reported. Consideration is given to the importance of hereditary and acquired color deficiencies. .sp 3 .(l L .ps 12 .b "May 9 Room 413-414" .)l .sp 1 .ce 6 .ps 12 .b "INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION:" .br .b "A MINI-PANEL" .sp 1 .br Elizabeth Buie, Computer Sciences Corporation, 8728 Colesville Rd., .br Silver Spring, MD 20910 .br Sue Bogner, Army Research Institute, 5001 Eisenhower Ave., .br Alexandria, VA 22333 .sp 2 .ps 11 Ms. Buie will briefly review the CHI'86 meeting of the Interest Group on Individual Differences, touching on the research studies described by interest group participants. She will then summarize research on Jungian psychological type as it relates to programmers and users; special mention will be made of her own studies. Dr. Bogner will present research results on cognitive complexity as an individual difference. She will also discuss her research on cognitive complexity as a factor in learning computer skills, and in the effectiveness of computer assisted instruction. Implications for user-system interface design will be discussed. .(f Send correspondence for this newsletter to: Software Psychology Society, c/o Skip Williamson, Knowledge Systems, Inc., 5705 Stillwell Rd., Rockville, MD 20851. .)f [Note: I have left this in troff format since some people may want a nicely typeset copy - please let me know if you prefer having me process this BEFORE sending it to you. - Ed] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1986 12:40 CST From: Vijay V. Raghavan Subject: call for forum Ed, The deadline for the next issue of Forum would be around the end of March. I encourage any one interested to submit material to me elcetronically or otherwise. The hard copy material should be compact for the sake of economy. Usually, the typing should be single space. Pl. include in IR digest. Vijay Raghavan (RAGHAVAN@UREGINA1.BITNET) ------------------------------ From: "Robert B. Allen at lafite.UUCP" Date: Wed, 12 Mar 86 14:03:01 est Subject: Computer-Supported Cooperative Work: CALL FOR PAPERS PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER-SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK Austin, Texas December 3-5, 1986 sponsored by Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC) Software Technology Program (STP) CONFERENCE CHAIR: Herb Krasner, MCC STP PROGRAM CHAIR: Irene Greif, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science PROGRAM COMMITTEE: John Seely Brown, Xerox PARC Christine Bullen, MIT Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) Paul Cashman, DEC Bill Curtis, MCC STP Clarence A. Ellis, MCC STP Douglas C. Engelbart, McDonnell Douglas George Huber, University of Texas Thomas Malone, MIT Sloan School of Management Margrethe H. Olson, NYU Graduate School of Business Administration Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland Mark Stefik, Xerox PARC Lucy Suchman, Xerox PARC Terry Winograd, Stanford University LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS: Bryan Fugate, MCC STP CONFERENCE THEME -- SUGGESTED TOPICS This conference takes an interdisciplinary look at computer-supported cooperative work from technological, sociological, organizational, cognitive and task domain points of view. It grows from two past conferences: the DEC/MIT Workshop on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work in August, 1984 and the MCC Interdisciplinary Design Symposium in May, 1985. The previous conferences drew participants from computer science, organization design, cognitive science, sociology, artificial intelligence and practical engineering disciplines. We hope to incorporate an even broader range of research and application perspectives on groups and group work at this meeting. We are soliciting new papers on the following representative topics: * Experiences with technology for cooperative work * Computer-based environments that support cooperation: co-authorship, project management, large-scale design of computer systems * Empirical studies of cooperation/teamwork * Impact of computer technology on group behavior, organizational structures and work practices * Underlying technologies: data bases, structured documents and hypertext, access controls and privacy * Theoretical models for analyzing group work: "roles", communication protocols, coordination constraints * Multi-media conferencing * Group decision support systems * Domain-specific requirements for computer-supported group work In order to encourage an informal and informative atmosphere, the conference's size will be limited. The program will include invited speakers, paper sessions, panel sessions and informal interest groups. We invite proposals for panels and discussion groups as well as papers. INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: July 1, 1986 Acceptance Notification: Sept 1, 1986 Final Version Due: Oct 1, 1986 Conference Date: Dec 3-5, 1986 Fifteen (15) copies of a double-spaced extended abstract of 10-12 pages in length should be submitted to: Dr. Irene Greif MIT Laboratory for Computer Science 545 Technology Square Cambridge, MA 02139 phone (617)- 253-5987 e-mail: greif@xx.lcs.mit.edu People who have limited access to copiers, or for whom overseas airmail costs will be a burden, should submit only one copy. Suggestions for panels and interest group meetings should be 1-2 pages long. Submit these short proposals either by sending fifteen copies to the address above, or by mailing one copy to the email address above. For more information call Barbara Smith, MCC STP at 512-834-3336 or by netmail to basmith@mcc.arpa ------------------------------ END OF IRList Digest ********************