Dr. Stan Ruecker is an Associate Professor of Humanities Computing in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. He is a graduate of the University of Regina (BA Hons English 1985, BSc Computer Science 1988), the University of Toronto (MA English 1989), and the University of Alberta (MDes 1999, PhD 2003). His PhD research was on the affordances of prospect for computer interfaces to large, interpretively-tagged text collections. His postdoctoral research dealt with browsing interfaces for electronic documents. His current research interests are in the areas of computer-human interfaces, humanities visualization, and information design.
Interdisciplinary PhD in Humanities Computing, Departments of English and Art and Design University of Alberta. 2003. Dissertation title: Affordances of Prospect for Academic Users of Interpretively-tagged Text Collections. (pdf)
MDes Visual Communication Design. Department of Art and Design. University of Alberta. 1999. Thesis title: The Bi Sheng Electronic Book: More Like a Book; Less Like a Computer.
MA English. University of Toronto. 1989.
BSc (distinction) Computer Science. University of Regina. 1988.
BA Hons (high honours). English. University of Regina. 1985.
2009 to present: Associate Professor, Humanities Computing Program and Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta
2004 to 2009: Assistant Professor, Humanities Computing Program and Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta
2003: Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Humanities Computing Program and Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Alberta
1997 to 2003: University student in Design, English, and Humanities Computing
1989 to 1997: Consultant in computing and visual communication design
1980 to 1989: University student in Math, Physics, English, and Computer Science
Ruecker, Stan, Milena Radzikowska, and Stéfan Sinclair. Visual Interface Design for Digital Cultural Heritage: A Guide to Rich-Prospect Browsing. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, 2011.
Book Co-Editorship
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Adventurer. Isobel Grundy, Peni Christopher, Megan Crosland, Heather Harper, Susan Liepert, and Stan Ruecker, Eds. Edmonton: Juvenilia Press, 2000.
Book Chapters
Ruecker, Stan, Susan Brown, Milena Radzikowska, Stéfan Sinclair, Thomas M. Nelson, Patricia Clements, Isobel Grundy, Sharon Balasz, and Jeff Antoniuk. “The Table of Contexts: A Dynamic Browsing Tool for Digitally Encoded Texts.” In The Charm of a List: From the Sumerians to Computerised Data Processing. Ed. Lucie Dolezalova. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. pp. 177-187.
Michura, Piotr, Stan Ruecker, Milena Radzikowska, Carlos Fiorentino, Tanya Clement, and Stéfan Sinclair. “Slot Machines, Graphs, and Radar Screens: Prototyping List-based Literary Research Tools.” In The Charm of a List: From the Sumerians to Computerised Data Processing. Ed. Lucie Dolezalova. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. pp. 167-176.
Stafford, Amy, Ali Shiri, Stan Ruecker, Matthew Bouchard, Paras Mehta, Karl Anvik, and Ximena Rossello. “Searchling: User-Centered Evaluation of a Visual Thesaurus-Enhanced Interface for Multilingual Digital Libraries.” In Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Heidelberg: Springer Berlin, 2008. pp. 117-121. (pdf)
Ruecker, Stan. “Rich-prospect Browsing Interfaces.” In Encyclopedia of Multimedia Technology and Networking. 2nd Edition. Ed. Margherita Pagani. Idea Group International. 2008. pp. 1240-1248. (pdf)
Ruecker, Stan. “Traces of Previous Use: The Communicational Possibilities of Interaction Histories.” In Designing Effective Communications: Creating Contexts for Clarity and Meaning. Jorge Frascara, Ed. NY: Allworth Press, 2006. pp. 270-278. (pdf)
Ruecker, Stan. “Carrying the pleasure of books into the design of the electronic book.” In Pleasure with Products: Beyond Usability. William S. Green and Patrick W. Jordan, Eds. London: Taylor and Francis, 2002. pp. 135-146.
Refereed Journal Articles
Sinclair, Stéfan, Stan Ruecker, Sandra Gabriele, Matt Patey, Matt Gooding, Chris Vitas, and Bartosz Bajer. “Meditating on a Mandala in Class: Studying Shakespeare's Plays with a Visual Exploration Tool for XML Texts”. Media | Pedagogy | Culture. 2011.
Brown, Susan, Stan Ruecker, Jeffery Antoniuk, Sharon Farnel, Matt Gooding, Stéfan Sinclair, Matt Patey, and Sandra Gabriele. “Reading Orlando with the Mandala Browser: A Case Study in Algorithmic Criticism via Experimental Visualization.” Digital Studies/Le champ numérique. 1(4), 2010.
Shiri, Ali, Stan Ruecker, Matt Bouchard, Amy Stafford, Paras Mehta, Karl Anvik, Ximena Rossello. “User evaluation of Searchling: a visual interface for bilingual digital libraries.” The Electronic Library, 29(1), 71-89. 2010.
Galey, Alan, Stan Ruecker, and the INKE Research Group. “How a Prototype Argues.” Literary and Linguistic Computing. 25(3). 2010.
Rockwell, Geoffrey, Stéfan Sinclair, Stan Ruecker, and Peter Organisciak. “Ubiquitous Text Analysis.” Poetess Archive Journal. 2(1). 2010.
Arazy, Ofer, Eleni Stroulia, Stan Ruecker, Cristina Arias, Carlos Fiorentino, Veselin Ganev, and Terence Yau. “Recognizing Contributions in Wikis: Authorship Categories, Algorithms, and Visualizations.” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST). 61(6), 1166-1179. 2010.
Siemens, Ray, Claire Warwick, Richard Cunningham, Teresa Dobson, Alan Galey, Stan Ruecker, Susan Schreibman and the INKE Research Group. “Codex Ultor: Toward a Conceptual and Theoretical Foundation for New Research on Books and Knowledge Environments.” Digital Studies / Le champ numérique. Special Issue: The Computer and Canadian Scholarship: Recent Trends in the Humanities and Social Sciences. 1(2), 2009.
Ruecker, Stan, Milena Radzikowska, and Stéfan Sinclair. “Designing Data Mining Droplets: New Interface Objects for the Humanities Scholar.” Digital Humanities Quarterly. 3(3), Summer 2009.
Brown, Susan, Patricia Clements, Isobel Grundy, Stan Ruecker, Jeffery Antoniuk, Sharon Balazs. “Orlando Done!: the tension between projection and completion in digital scholarly research.” Digital Humanities Quarterly. June 2009.
Gainor, Rhiannon, Stéfan Sinclair, Stan Ruecker, Matt Patey, and Sandra Gabriele. “A Mandala Browser User Study: Visualizing XML Versions of Shakespeare’s Plays.” Visible Language 43(1), 60-85. 2009.
Ruecker, Stan, Milena Radzikowska, Piotr Michura, Carlos Fiorentino, and Tanya Clement. “Visualizing Repetition in Text.” Reassembling the Disassembled Book: Symposium of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, May 2007. Brent Nelson, editor. Special Issue of CH Working Papers. August 2008. (Link)
Given, Lisa, Stan Ruecker, Heather Simpson, Bess Sadler, and Andrea Ruskin. “Inclusive Interface Design for Seniors: Exploring the Health Information-Seeking Context.” JASIST. 58(11), 1610-1617. 2007 (pdf)
Brown, Susan, Stan Ruecker, Jeffrey Antoniuk, Sharon Balasz, Patricia Clements, Isobel Grundy. “Designing Rich-Prospect Access to a Feminist Literary History.” Women Writing and Reading. 2(1), 12-17. 2007. (pdf)
Ruecker, Stan, Stéfan Sinclair, and Milena Radzikowska. “Confidence, Visual Research and the Aesthetic Function.” Partnership: the Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research. 2(1). 2007. (pdf)
Frascara, Jorge and Stan Ruecker. “Medical Communications and Information Design.” Information Design Journal and Document Design. 15(1), 44-53. 2007. (pdf)
Ruecker, Stan, Lisa Given, Heather Simpson, Bess Sadler, and Andrea Ruskin. “Design of a Rich-Prospect Browsing Interface for Seniors: A Qualitative Study of Image Similarity Clustering.” Visible Language. 41(1), 4-22. 2007. (pdf)
Ruecker, Stan and Kirsten C. Uszkalo. “Binding the Electronic Book: Design Features for Bibliophiles.” Visible Language. 41(1), 50-69. 2007. (pdf)
Ruecker, Stan. “Experimental Interfaces Involving Visual Grouping During Browsing.” Partnership: the Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research. 1(1). 2006. (pdf)
Ruecker, Stan and Susan Liepert. “Taking Mendeleyev’s Correspondence Course: Interface Design Lessons from the Periodic Table of the Elements.” Information Design Journal and Document Design. 14(3), 236-245. 2006. (pdf)
Ruecker, Stan. “The Sensual Pleasures of Books.” The Senses and Society. 1(1), 109-111. 2006.(pdf)
Devereaux, Zachary and Stan Ruecker. “Online Issue Mapping of International News and Information Design.” Human IT. 8(3), 1–27. 2006. (pdf)
Ruecker, Stan, Eric Homich and Stéfan Sinclair. “Multi-level Document Visualization.” Visible Language. 39(1), 33-41. Jan/Feb 2005. (pdf)
Ruecker, Stan. “A conceptual taxonomy of SGML tags: based on the tagging in the Orlando Project.” Special issue of the Journal of Applied Systems Studies (JASS) on WEB Information Systems Applications. 2002.
Unrefereed Journal Articles
Frascara, Jorge and Stan Ruecker. “Comunicaciones médicas y diseño de información.” Typografica. 28-33. Also includes English translation in insert. Aug/Sept 2006. (pdf)
Sinclair, Stéfan and Stan Ruecker. “The Digital Play Book: An Environment for Interacting with Play Scripts.” Canadian Theatre Review. 127, pp. 38-41, Summer 2006. (pdf)
Reprints
Ray Siemens, Claire Warwick, Richard Cunningham, Teresa Dobson, Alan Galey, Stan Ruecker, Susan Schreibman et L’équipe du projet Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE). “Codex Ultor: Vers des fondations conceptuelles et théoriques pour de nouvelles recherches sur les livres et les environnements documentaires.” Érudit. 1(1). 2009.
Ruecker, Stan, Milena Radzikowska, Piotr Michura, Carlos Fiorentino, and Tanya Clement. “Visualizing Repetition in Text.” Digital Studies/Le champ numérique. August 2009. Reprinted from Reassembling the Disassembled Book: Symposium of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, May 2007. Brent Nelson, editor. Special Issue of CH Working Papers. August 2008.
Refereed Conference Proceedings
Shiri, Ali, Stan Ruecker, Lindsay Doll, Matthew Bouchard, and Carlos Fiorentino. “An Evaluation of Thesaurus-enhanced Visual Interfaces for Multilingual Digital Libraries.” Proceedings of the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, edited by Gradmann, S. et al. (Eds.). LNCS 6966, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2011. pp. 236-243.
Sondheim, Daniel, Geoffrey Rockwell, Milena Radzikowska, Stan Ruecker, Mihaela Ilovan, and the INKE Research Group. “Interfacing the Collection.” Proceedings of Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age: Textual Methodologies and Exemplars. Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, Netherlands. Dec 14-15, 2010.
Giacometti, Alejandro, Stan Ruecker, Carlos Fiorentino, and the INKE Research Group. “Showcase Browsing with Texttiles 2.0 and BubbleLines.” Proceedings of Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age: Textual Methodologies and Exemplars. Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, Netherlands. Dec 14-15, 2010.
Ruecker, Stan, Ali Shiri, Carlos Fiorentino, Amy Stafford, Mark Bieber and Matthew Bouchard. “Exploratory Search Interfaces for the UNESCO Multilingual Digital Library: Combining Visualization and Semantics.” Proceedings of the Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science. Northwestern University. Nov 19-21, 2010.
Shiri, Ali, Stan Ruecker, Carlos Fiorentino, Amy Stafford, Matthew Bouchard, and Mark Bieber. “Designing a Semantically Rich Visual Interface for Cultural Digital libraries Using the UNESCO Multilingual Thesaurus.” Proceedings of the annual conference on Cultural Attitudes Toward Technology and Education (CATAC 2010). Vancouver, BC. University of British Columbia, June 15-18, 2010. pp. 45-52.
Dobson, Teresa, Piotr Michura, and Stan Ruecker. “Visualizing Plot in 3D.” Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Digital Society (ICDS 2010). February 10-16, 2010 - St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles.
Rockwell, Geoffrey, Garry Wong, Stan Ruecker, Megan Meredith-Lobay, and Stéfan Sinclair. “Big See: Large Scale Visualization.” Proceedings of the Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science. Chicago, The Illinois Institute of Technology, Nov. 14-16, 2009.
Siemens, Ray, Richard Cunningham, Alan Galey, Stan Ruecker, Lynne Siemens, Claire Warwick, and the INKE Team. “Implementing New Knowledge Environments: Year 1 Research Foundations.” Proceedings of the INKE 2009: Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age. 23-24 October 2009.
Ruecker, Stan, Geoffrey Rockwell, Milena Radzikowska, Stéfan Sinclair, Christian Vandendorpe, Ray Siemens, Teresa Dobson, Lindsay Doll, Mark Bieber, Michael Eberle-Sinatra, Shannon Lucky, and the INKE Group. “Drilling for Papers in INKE.” Proceedings of the INKE 2009: Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age. 23-24 October 2009.
Roberts-Smith, Jennifer, Sandra Gabriele, Stan Ruecker, and Stéfan Sinclair with Matt Bouchard, Shawn DeSouza-Coelho, Diane Jakacki, Annemarie Kong, David Lam, and Omar Rodriguez. “The Text and the Line of Action: Re-conceiving Watching the Script.” Proceedings of the INKE 2009: Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age. 23-24 October 2009.
Song, Min, Paul Youngman, and Stan Ruecker. “Indications of Emotional Connection: Epistolary Text Mining for Intimate Language.” Proceedings of the BooksOnline'09 Workshop of the European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL). Corfu, Greece. Oct 2, 2009. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/cambridge/events/booksonline09/papers.htm
Siemens, Ray, Richard Cunningham, Alan Galey, Stan Ruecker, Lynne Siemens, Claire Warwick and the INKE Team. “Implementing New Knowledge Environments: Laying Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age.” Proceedings of the BooksOnline'09 Workshop of the European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL). Corfu, Greece. Oct 2, 2009. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/cambridge/events/booksonline09/papers.htm
Radzikowska, Milena, Brian Traynor, Stan Ruecker, and Norman Vaughn. “Teaching user-centered design through low-fidelity sketches.” Proceedings of the 4th Information Design International Conference. Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Sept 9-12, 2009. pp. 744-756.
Brown, Susan, Stan Ruecker, Milena Radzikowska, Matt Patey, Stéfan Sinclair, Jeffery Antoniuk, Sharon Farnel, and Isobel Grundy. “Visualizing Varieties of Association in Orlando.” Proceedings of the Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science. 1(1). 2009.
Mehta, Paras, Amy Stafford, Matthew Bouchard, Stan Ruecker, Karl Anvik, Ximena Rossello, and Ali Shiri. “Four Ways of Making Sense: Designing and Implementing Searchling, a Visual Thesaurus-Enhanced Interface for Multilingual Digital Libraries.” Proceedings of the Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science. 1(1). 2009.
Siemens, Ray, Claire Warwick, Stan Ruecker and the INKE Research Group. “Codex Redux: Books and New Knowledge Environments.” Proceedings of the BooksOnline'08 Workshop on "Setting the Roadmap for Research Advances in Large Digital Book Repositories.” Napa Valley, CA. October 30, 2008, in conjunction with CIKM 2008.
Radzikowska, Milena, Patricia Derbyshire, Barbara McNicol, Chris Irish, Matt Bouchard, Jacob Quinlan, and Stan Ruecker. “There’s a Grizzly Bear in Sector 7: Emotional triggers in an online GIS-based information system for parks management and safety.” Proceedings of the 6th International Design and Emotion Conference. Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Oct 6-8, 2008. pp. 462-476.
Ruecker, Stan and Milena Radzikowska. “The Design of a Project Charter for Interdisciplinary Research.” Proceedings of Designing Interactive Systems (DIS 2007). Cape Town. 25-28 February 2008. (pdf)
Ruecker, Stan and Bernie Roessler. “Benchmarking Design Performance of Selected Canadian Academic Detailing Materials.” Proceedings of the International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR07) conference. Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. 11-15 November 2007. (pdf)
Shiri, Ali, Stan Ruecker, Ximena Rossello, Matthew Bouchard, and Paras Mehta. “Development of a Thesaurus-enhanced Visual Interface for Multilingual Digital Libraries.” Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science, Information Sharing in a Fragmented World: Crossing Boundaries, K. Dalkir and C. Arsenault (eds.), Montreal, May 10-12, 2007. 1-8. (pdf)
Chow, Rosan and Stan Ruecker. “Transferability – A Wonder on the Ground of Design Research.” Proceedings of Wonderground. Lisbon, Portugal. November 1-5, 2006. pp. 1-6. (pdf)
Ruecker, Stan, Sara Dorow, Heather Jiang, Zachary Devereaux, and Christopher Moore. “Shallow, Narrow, Deep and Wide: Issue Crawling for Chinese Adoption.” Proceedings of CaSTA 2006. Breadth of Text: A Joint Computer Science and Humanities Computing Conference. Fredericton, New Brunswick. October 11-14, 2006. pp. 21-32. (pdf)
Ruecker, Stan, Milena Radzikowska and Stéfan Sinclair. “Communicating Process with Form: Designing the Visual Morphology of the Nora Data Mining Kernels.” Proceedings of CaSTA 2006. Breadth of Text: A Joint Computer Science and Humanities Computing Conference. Fredericton, New Brunswick. October 11-14, 2006. pp. 57-68. (pdf)
Ruecker, Stan, Stéfan Sinclair, Bernie Roessler, Sandra Gabriele, Anthony Sapp, Milena Radzikowska, and Kirsten C. Uszkalo. “Watch My Moves: From Digital Plays To the Digital Playbook.” Proceedings of the Ninth IASTED International Conference on Computers and Advanced Technology in Education (CATE 2006). October 4-6, 2006. Lima, Peru. pp. 175-180. (pdf)
Radzikowska, Milena and Stan Ruecker. “The design of a collaborative on-line environment for people at different stages of a life threatening illness.” Proceedings of the 10th IASTED International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications (IMSA) 2006. August 14-16, 2006. Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
Sinclair, Stéfan, Stan Ruecker, Sandra Gabriele, and Anthony Sapp. “Digital Scripts on a Virtual Stage: The Design of New Online Tools for Drama Students.” Proceedings of the Fifth IASTED International Conference on Web-Based Education (WBE 2006). Ed. V. Uskov. ACTA Press. Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Jan 23-25, 2006. pp. 155-9. (pdf)
Ruecker, Stan and Zachary Devereaux. “Comparing Issue Crawling and Just-in-Time Text Analysis on Information Design and Visualization Research.” Proceedings of Design Systems Evolution. 6th international conference of the European Academy of Design, University of the Arts, Bremen, Germany. March 29-31, 2005. (pdf)
Liepert, Susan and Stan Ruecker. “Voluntary and Irrational Action: The Implications of Body Theory for Design Research.” Proceedings of Design Systems Evolution. 6th international conference of the European Academy of Design, University of the Arts, Bremen, Germany. March 29-31, 2005. (pdf)
Chow, Rosan, Stan Ruecker, and Milena Radzikowska. “Reflection and Inaction.” The Good, The Bad, and The Irrelevant: Proceedings from the conference sponsored by COST 269: User Aspects of Information and Communications Technologies. University of Art and Design. Helsinki, Finland. Sept 3-5, 2003.
Ruecker, Stan and Rosan Chow. “The significance of prospect in interfaces to health-related web sites for the elderly.” Proceedings from Include 2003. Helen Hamlyn Research Institute, Royal College of Art, London England March 25-8, 2003. CD format. pp. 273-7.
Ruecker, Stan. “A conceptual taxonomy of SGML tags: based on the tagging in the Orlando Project.” Proceedings of The First International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering; Workshop on Web Semantics. Vol. 2. Hong Kong June 19-21, 2000. pp. 2-10.
Refereed Conference Presentations
Ruecker, Stan, Lisa M. Given with Myah Slade, Moyra Lang, Mark Bieber, Matt Bouchard, and Carlos Fiorentino. “An Interdisciplinary Digital Humanities Project on Canadian Health Information Design (CHI).” Paper presented at the Osaka Symposium on Digital Humanities (OSDH2011). Osaka, Japan, Sept 12-14, 2011.
Radzikowska, Milena, Stan Ruecker, Susan Brown, Peter Organisciak, and the INKE Research Group. “Structured Surfaces for JiTR.” Paper presented at the Digital Humanities 2011 conference. Stanford, June 19-21, 2011.
Ruecker, Stan and the INKE Research Group. “The Paper Drill.” Paper presented at the Digital Humanities 2011 conference. Stanford, June 19-21, 2011.
Dobson, Teresa, Stan Ruecker, and Monica Brown. “Introduction to PlotVis as a Form of Distant Reading.” Paper presented at the Digital Humanities 2011 conference. Stanford, June 19-21, 2011.
Ruecker, Stan, Piotr Michura, Omar Rodriguez, and Teresa Dobson. “PlotVis: Design and Programming.” Paper presented at the Digital Humanities 2011 conference. Stanford, June 19-21, 2011.
Ruecker, Stan and the INKE Research Group. “Introduction to Comparative Search Visualization.” Paper presented at the Society for Digital Humanities/ Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs annual conference at the 2011 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton. May 30–June 1, 2011.
Ruecker, Stan and the INKE Research Group. “An Introduction to Corpora Interfaces.” Paper presented at the Society for Digital Humanities/ Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs annual conference at the 2011 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton. May 30–June 1, 2011.
Ruecker, Stan, Milena Radzikowska, Alejandro Giacometti, Mark Bieber, and the INKE Research Group. “Corpora Interface Prototypes.” Paper presented at the Society for Digital Humanities/ Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs annual conference at the 2011 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton. May 30–June 1, 2011.
Radzikowska, Milena, Stan Ruecker, and Chung Ta. “So, Why is this a Digital Humanities Project: An Interdisciplinary Case Study in Connecting DH, Engineering and Industry.” Paper presented at the Society for Digital Humanities/ Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs annual conference at the 2011 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton. May 30–June 1, 2011.
Radzikowska, Milena, Stan Ruecker, Susan Brown, and Jeff Antoniuk. “Slicing, Dicing, and Splicing on the Orlando Breadboard.” Paper presented at the Society for Digital Humanities/ Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs annual conference at the 2011 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton. May 30–June 1, 2011.
Grotkowski, Ali, Stan Ruecker, Sandra Gabriele, Jennifer Roberts-Smith, Stéfan Sinclair, Teresa Dobson, Annemarie Akong, Sally Fung, and Omar Rodriguez. “From Pillars of Light to Four-Legged Friends and Chess Pieces with Noses: Avatar Design for the Simulated Environment for Theatre.” Paper presented at the Society for Digital Humanities/ Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs annual conference at the 2011 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton. May 30–June 1, 2011.
Radzikowska, Milena, Stan Ruecker, and Geoffrey Rockwell. “Seeing, Thinking, Making: Students Experiment with Humanities Data Visualization.” 2011 Pica Design Conference, Banff, Alberta. May 1-3, 2011.
Cunningham, Richard, Stan Ruecker, Lynne Siemens, Ray Siemens, Claire Warwick, and the INKE Research Group. “INKE at 1 1/2: The first eighteen months of a Major Collaborative Research Initiative.” Invited presentation at the Digital Humanities Symposium, Hudson-Strode Graduate Program. University of Alabama, March 5, 2011.
Ruecker, Stan and the INKE Research Group. “Introducing the Dynamic Table of Contexts for Scholarly Editions.” Paper presented at the Modern Language Association (MLA) Conference. Los Angeles, CA. Jan 6-8, 2011.
Roberts-Smith, Jennifer, Stan Ruecker, Sandra Gabriele, Stéfan Sinclair. “The Ontology of Stage Directions.” Paper presented at the Pacific Northwest Renaissance Conference. Victoria, BC. Oct 21-23, 2010.
Radzikowska, Milena, Stan Ruecker, Walter Bischof, Michelle Annette, and Fraser Forbes. “Geared Decisions: Experimenting with Decision Support Visualizations.” Paper presented at the Design and Emotion conference. Illinois Institute of Technology. Chicago. Oct 5-7, 2010.
Brown, Susan, Jeffery Antoniuk, Mike Bauer, Jenn Berberich, Milena Radzikowska, Stan Ruecker, and Terence Yung. “How Do You Visualize a Million Links?” Paper presented at the Digital Humanities 2010 conference. King's College London, July 7-11, 2010.
Organisciak, Peter, Geoffrey Rockwell, and Stan Ruecker. “The Day of DH.” Paper presented at the Digital Humanities 2010 conference. King's College London, July 7-11, 2010.
Menezes, Christopher, Blair Nonnecke, Susan Brown, Stan Ruecker, and Claire Warwick. “VidLog: Understanding and Visualizing Website Usage through Logfile Analysis.” Paper presented at the Society for Digital Humanities/ Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs annual conference at the 2010 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec. May 31-June 2, 2010.
Siemens, Ray, Richard Cunningham, Claire Warwick, Stan Ruecker, and the INKE Research Group. “Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age.” Paper presented at the Society for Digital Humanities/ Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs annual conference at the 2010 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec. May 31-June 2, 2010.
Gabriele, Sandra, Stéfan Sinclair, Jennifer Roberts-Smith, Stan Ruecker, Omar Rodriguez and Marcelo Hong. “From Surface to Space: Adding a Dimension to a Theatrical Visualization Interface.” Paper presented at the Society for Digital Humanities/ Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs annual conference at the 2010 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec. May 31-June 2, 2010.
Wynne, Maryanne, Stan Ruecker, Thomas M. Nelson, Melissa Schlachter, Waleed Albakry, Michael Strong, Michael Lewcio, and Michael Plouffe. “Emotion and the Other: A Mandala Study of Children's Memories of Dreams and Waking Events.” Paper presented at the Society for Digital Humanities/ Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs annual conference at the 2010 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec. May 31-June 2, 2010.
Organisciak, Peter, Geoffrey Rockwell, Stéfan Sinclair, Stan Ruecker. “Text Analysis for me Too: An embeddable text analysis widget.” Paper presented at the Society for Digital Humanities/ Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs annual conference at the 2010 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec. May 31-June 2, 2010.
Ruecker, Stan, Milena Radzikowska, Mark Bieber, Shannon Lucky, Geoffrey Rockwell, Daniel Sondheim, Teresa Dobson, Karen Taylor, Stéfan Sinclair, Cyril Briquet, Jenn Ross, Christian Vandendorpe, and the INKE Research Group. “INKE Interface Design Panel on Citation Design.” Panel presented at the Society for Digital Humanities/ Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs annual conference at the 2010 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec. May 31-June 2, 2010.
Rockwell, Geoffrey, Stan Ruecker, Peter Organisciak, Megan Meredith-Lobay, Kamal Ranaweera, Julianne Nyhan. “What do we say about ourselves? An analysis of the Day of DH 2009 data.” Paper presented at the Society for Digital Humanities/ Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs annual conference at the 2010 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec. May 31-June 2, 2010.
Ruecker, Stan, Johanna Drucker, Susan Brown, Megan Meredith-Lobay, Geoffrey Rockwell, Sean Gouglas, Harvey Quamen, Victoria Smith, Sophia Hoosein, and Bethany Nowviskie. “Timelines for Conflicting Witnesses: Three Historical Case Studies.” Panel presented at the Canadian Historical Association annual conference at the 2010 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec. May 30-June 1, 2010.
Shiri, Ali, Stan Ruecker, Carlos Fiorentino, Amy Stafford, and Matthew Bouchard. “Exploratory Interaction with Information through Visualization and Semantics: Designing a Visual User Interface Using the UNESCO Multilingual Thesaurus.” Paper presented at the 38th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science at the 2010 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec. June 2-4, 2010.
Siemens, Ray, Stan Ruecker, and the INKE Research Group. “Framing HPC in the Humanities, Toward Understanding Foundational Points of Engagement.” Invited paper at the BCNET CANARIE Conference 2010, New Ideas for Shared Solutions. May 4-5, 2010. Vancouver, BC.
Galey, Alan and Stan Ruecker. “Design as a Hermeneutic Process: Thinking Through Making from Book History to Critical Design.” Paper presented at the Digital Humanities 2009 conference. University of Maryland. June 22-25, 2009.
Rockwell, Geoffrey, Stan Ruecker, Peter Organisciak, and Stéfan Sinclair. “Ubiquitous text analysis.” Paper presented at the Digital Humanities 2009 conference. University of Maryland. June 22-25, 2009.
Organisciak, Peter, Geoffrey Rockwell, Stan Ruecker, and Susan Brown. “Mashing Texts: Supporting collections-level text analysis.” Paper presented at the Digital Humanities 2009 conference. University of Maryland. June 22-25, 2009.
Uszkalo, Kirsten C., Teresa Dobson, and Stan Ruecker. “Googling Google Books.” Paper presented at the Digital Humanities 2009 conference. University of Maryland. June 22-25, 2009.
Arazy, Ofer, Stan Ruecker and Esther Brainin. “The Monologue of the Group: Wiki Affordances and Organizational Work.” Invited paper for the 2009 conference of CORS/INFORM. June 14-17, 2009.
Given, Lisa M., Stan Ruecker, Martina King, Moyra Lang, and Myah Slade. “Health information online: An examination of consumers’ experiences in managing complex health regimes.” Paper presented at Mapping the 21st Century Information Landscape: Borders, Bridges and Byways – the 37th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science. Ottawa ON, June 2009.
Giacometti, Alejandro, John Simpson, Chris Lepine, and Stan Ruecker. “Online Social Networking for Pre-existing Groups: the Scouts Canada CampSite Project.” Paper presented at the Society for Digital Humanities/ Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs annual conference at the 2009 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario. May 25-27, 2009.
Giacometti, Alejandro, Mariana Paredes Olea, and Stan Ruecker. “Tell me what those blogs are about: comparing corpus-based automatic keyword generation for blog posts with folksonomic tagging.” Paper presented at the Society for Digital Humanities/ Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs annual conference at the 2009 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario. May 25-27, 2009.
Michura, Piotr, Stan Ruecker, Carlos Fiorentino, and Milena Radzikowska. “Text as image: visualization components of text analysis tools.” Paper presented at the Society for Digital Humanities/ Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs annual conference at the 2009 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario. May 25-27, 2009.
Uszkalo, Kirsten C. and Stan Ruecker. “Conjuring and Transmogrifying: A Review of Two Digital Tools in the Context of Studying Early Modern Witchcraft Trials.” Paper presented at the Society for Digital Humanities/ Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs annual conference at the 2009 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario. May 25-27, 2009.
Brown, Susan, Blair Nonnecke, Stan Ruecker, and Claire Warwick. “Studying Orlando's Interfaces.” Paper presented at the Society for Digital Humanities/ Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs annual conference at the 2009 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario. May 25-27, 2009.
Ruecker, Stan, Lisa Given, Martina King, Moyra Lang, Myah Slade, and Carlos Fiorentino. “User Information for the Design of Visual Interfaces for Health Information and the Management of Complex Health Regimes.” Paper presented at the Society for Digital Humanities/ Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs annual conference at the 2009 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario. May 25-27, 2009.
Rockwell, Geoffrey, Stan Ruecker, and Peter Organisciak. “A Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities.” Paper presented at the Society for Digital Humanities/ Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs annual conference at the 2009 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario. May 25-27, 2009.
Rockwell, Geoffrey, Stan Ruecker, Stéfan Sinclair, Susan Brown, and Peter Organisciak. “Mashing Texts: Exploring New Possibilities in Rapid Research Document Management.” Paper presented at the Society for Digital Humanities/ Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs annual conference at the 2009 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario. May 25-27, 2009.
Ruecker, Stan, Geoffrey Rockwell, Peter Organisciak, Jean-Guy Meunier, Ray Siemens, Michael Eberle-Sinatra, Alan Galey, Aimee Morrison. “Graduate Education in the Digital Humanities.” Panel at the Society for Digital Humanities/ Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs annual conference at the 2009 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario. May 25-27, 2009.
Uszkalo, Kirsten C. and Stan Ruecker. “With His Tongue: Searching for Malefic Sexuality.” Paper presented at the Canadian Renaissance Society annual conference at the 2009 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario. May 23-25, 2009.
Brown, Susan, Jeffery Antoniuk, Sharon Farnel, Isobel Grundy, Stan Ruecker, Matt Patey, Stéfan Sinclair, and Milena Radzikowska. “Making Sense of Literary History: The Dense Associative Web of Orlando.” Paper presented at the third Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) Colloquium. Nov 1-3, 2008. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2008.
MacDonald, Andrew, Amit Kumar, Matt Bouchard, Alejandro Giacometti, Matt Patey, Milena Radzikowska, Piotr Michura, Carlos Fiorentino, Stan Ruecker, Catherine Plaisant, and Stéfan Sinclair. “Dozens of Little Radio Stations: Getting Technologies Talking in the MONK Workbench.” Paper presented at the third Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) Colloquium. Nov 1-3, 2008. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2008.
Giacometti, Alejandro, Stan Ruecker, Ian Craig, and Gerry Derksen, and Milena Radzikowska. “Introducing the Ripper Interface for Text Collections.” Paper presented at the Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis (CaSTA) Conference: New Directions in Text Analysis. A Joint Humanities Computing, Computer Science Conference at University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, October 16-18, 2008.
Paredes-Olea, Mariana, Stan Ruecker, Carlos Fiorentino, and Fraser Forbes. “Using an Affordance Strength Approach to Study the Possible Redeployment of Designs for Decision Support Visualization.” Paper presented at the 9th Advances in Qualitative Methods Conference 2008. Banff, Canada. October 8-11, 2008.
Uszkalo, Kirsten C. and Stan Ruecker. “A Book is not a Display: A Theoretical Evolution of the E-Book Reader.” Paper presented in the panel “The Building Blocks of the New Electronic Book” chaired by Ray Siemens at the Digital Humanities 2008 conference. Oulu, Finland. June 25-29, 2008.
Sinclair, Stéfan, Stan Ruecker and John Unsworth. “Hackey: A Rapid Online Prototyping Game for Designers and Programmers.” Paper presented at the Digital Humanities 2008 conference. Oulu, Finland. June 25-29, 2008.
Ruecker, Stan, Milena Radzikowska and Stéfan Sinclair. “Hackfests, Designfests, and Writingfests: The Role of Intense Periods of Face-to-Face Collaboration in International Research Teams.” Paper presented at the Digital Humanities 2008 conference. Oulu, Finland. June 25-29, 2008.
Sinclair, Stéfan, Andrew Macdonald, Matthew Bouchard, Mike Plouffe, Alejandro Giacometti, Amit Kumar, Milena Radzikowska, Stan Ruecker, Piotr Michura, Carlos Fiorentino, Matthew Kirschenbaum, and Catherine Plaisant. “Late Nights at the Scriptorium: Interim Results from the Interface Cell of the MONK Project.” Paper presented at the Society for Digital Humanities/ Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs annual conference at the 2008 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of British Columbia. June 2-3, 2008.
Moore, Christopher, Alan Galey, and Stan Ruecker. “Registers of Usage: Results from Usability Testing of the Electronic New Variorum Shakespeare.” Paper presented at the Society for Digital Humanities/ Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs annual conference at the 2008 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of British Columbia. June 2-3, 2008.
Brown, Susan, Patricia Clements, Isobel Grundy, Stan Ruecker, Jeffery Antoniuk, Sharon Balazs, Stéfan Sinclair and Matt Patey. “Thinking Beyond the Text: Using the Mandala Browser to Explore Orlando.” Paper presented at the Society for Digital Humanities/ Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs annual conference at the 2008 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of British Columbia. June 2-3, 2008.
Ruecker, Stan, Ray Siemens, Geoffrey Rockwell, and Harvey Quamen. “Into Something Rich and Strange: The Digital Humanities in the Humanities.” Panel presented at the Society for Digital Humanities/ Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs annual conference at the 2008 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of British Columbia. June 2-3, 2008.
Michura, Piotr, Stan Ruecker, Milena Radzikowska, and Carlos Fiorentino. “The Novel as a List of Words.” The Potential and Limitations of a List: an International Transdisciplinary Workshop. At the Center for Theoretical Study, the Charles University and the Philosophical Institute of the Academy of the Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague. Nov 8-9, 2007.
Ruecker, Stan, Milena Radzikowska, Susan Brown, Thomas M. Nelson, Isobel Grundy, Patricia Clements, Sharon Balasz, Jeff Antoniuk, and Stéfan Sinclair. “The Dynamic Table of Contents: Extending a Venerable List in a Digital Context.” The Potential and Limitations of a List: an International Transdisciplinary Workshop. At the Center for Theoretical Study, the Charles University and the Philosophical Institute of the Academy of the Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague. Nov 8-9, 2007.
Brown, Susan, Patricia Clements, Isobel Grundy, Stan Ruecker, Jeffery Antoniuk, and Sharon Balasz. “‘Countless Links’: Qualitative Query Potential in Orlando.” Second Annual Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science: Querying text and image archives for collaborative scholarship. October 21-22, 2007. Northwestern University. Evanston, Illinois.
Ruecker, Stan and Stéfan Sinclair. “Multilevel Displays and Document Blueprinting: Dynamic Browsing Using XML Structures and Text Features.” Paper presented at the Digital Humanities 2007 conference. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. June 4-7, 2007.
Vandendorpe, Christian, Stan Ruecker, and Stéfan Sinclair. “Explorations in a variety of interfaces for the reading of a database.” Paper presented in Society Panel (SDH/SEMI) at the Digital Humanities 2007 conference. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. June 4-7, 2007.
Wynne, Maryanne, Stan Ruecker, Thomas M. Nelson, Waleed Albakry, Michael Strong, Michael Lewcio, and Michael Plouffe. “The rich prospect of tension, affiliation and reward: from social capital to image analysis.” Paper presented at the Society for Digital Humanities (SDH/SEMI) conference. University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon. May 28-30, 2007.
Fiorentino, Carlos, Stan Ruecker, Piotr Michura, Milena Radzikowska. “Dial “R” for Repetition.” Paper presented at the Society for Digital Humanities (SDH/SEMI) conference. University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon. May 28-30, 2007.
Michura, Piotr, Stan Ruecker, Carlos Fiorentino, and Milena Radzikowska. “A Text Is a String of Words.” Paper presented at the Society for Digital Humanities (SDH/SEMI) conference. University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon. May 28-30, 2007.
Radzikowska, Milena, Stan Ruecker, Carlos Fiorentino, and Piotr Michura. “The Novel as Slot Machine.” Paper presented at the Society for Digital Humanities (SDH/SEMI) conference. University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon. May 28-30, 2007.
Uszkalo, Kirsten C. and Stan Ruecker. “Playing with Witchcraft: Digitizing, Structuring, and Visualizing Early Modern English Witchcraft Texts.” Paper presented at the Rooms of Their Own: Women in the Knowledge Economy and Society conference. University of Alberta, Edmonton. May 2-4, 2007.
Brown, Susan, Stan Ruecker, Jeffrey Antoniuk, Sharon Balasz, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy. “Interfaces for Reading Women’s Writing History.” Paper presented at the Women Writing and Reading conference. University of Alberta, Edmonton. May 4-6, 2007.
Sinclair, Stéfan, Anthony Sapp, and Stan Ruecker. “Experimental Reading: A Humanities Visualization Toolset for the TEI.” Paper presented at the TEI Annual Members’ Meeting. Victoria, BC. October 27-28, 2006.
Ruecker, Stan. “Experimental Interfaces for the Dynamic Visual Grouping of Data During Browsing.” Invited paper for Access 2006. Library Technology Conference. Ottawa, Ontario. Oct 11-14, 2006. Invited as the “Annual David Binkley Paper on Emerging Technology Award”, sponsored by Gibson Library Connections.
Ruecker, Stan. “Proposing an Affordance Strength Model to Study New Interface Tools.” Paper presented at the Digital Humanities 2006 conference, at the Sorbonne, Paris, France. July 5-9, 2006.
Ruecker, Stan, Ximena Rossello, Greg Lord, and Milena Radzikowska. “The Clear Browser: Visually Positioning an Interface for Data Mining by Humanities Scholars.” Paper presented at the Digital Humanities 2006 conference, at the Sorbonne, Paris, France. July 5-9, 2006.
Chow, Rosan and Stan Ruecker. “The Many Arts of Designing Research.” Paper presented at the Workshop on Explaining Design as a Research Activity. Designing Interactive Systems (DIS 2006). Penn State. June 26-8, 2006.
Ruecker, Stan, Michael Lewcio, Michael Plouffe, and Maryanne Wynne. “I never forget a face: a rich-prospect image browser for conferences.” Paper presented at the Society for Digital Humanities (SDH/SEMI) conference. York University, Toronto. May 29-31, 2006.
Anvik, Karl, Ali Shiri, Ximena Rossello, and Stan Ruecker. “A Tabular Thesaurus Browser to Support Multilingual Queries.” Paper presented at the Society for Digital Humanities (SDH/SEMI) conference. York University, Toronto. May 29-31, 2006.
Cheypesh, Oksana, Constanza Pacher, Sandra Gabriele, Stéfan Sinclair, Drew Paulin and Stan Ruecker. “Centering the mind and calming the heart: mandalas as interfaces.” Paper presented at the Society for Digital Humanities (SDH/SEMI) conference. York University, Toronto. May 29-31, 2006.
Given, Lisa, Bess Sadler, Stan Ruecker, and Andrea Ruskin. “Similarity Clustering as a Design Principle for Digital Collections: Creating Usable Interfaces for Seniors.” Paper presented at the conference of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) 2005. Charlotte, North Carolina. Oct 28 - Nov 2, 2005.
Ruecker, Stan. “Visual Arrangement of Content in Rich-Prospect Browsing Interfaces.” Invited paper for Access 2005. Library Technology Conference. Edmonton, Alberta. Oct 17-8, 2005.
Ruecker, Stan, Stéfan Sinclair, and Milena Radzikowska. “The Aesthetic Function: The role of visual communication design in interface research.” Paper presented at the Joint International Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) and the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH). Victoria, BC. June 15-18, 2005.
Ruecker, Stan. “The Electronic Book Table of Contents as a Research Tool.” Paper presented at the President’s Panel. Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences: Consortium for Computers in the Humanities / Consortium pour Ordinateurs en Sciences Humaines (COCH/COSH) Annual Conference. London, Ontario. May 27- 30, 2005.
Ruecker, Stan, Lisa M. Given, Bess Sadler, and Andrea Ruskin. “Building Accessible Web Interfaces for Seniors: Similarity Clustering of Pill Images.” Paper presented at the Include 2005 conference. London. Helen Hamlyn Institute. Royal College of Art. April 5-8, 2005.
Ruecker, Stan and Zachary Devereaux. “Scraping Google and Blogstreet for Just-in-Time Text Analysis.” Paper presented at CaSTA 2004: The Face of Text. 3rd conference of the Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. November 19-21, 2004.
Homich, Eric, Stéfan Sinclair, and Stan Ruecker. “Text Document Prospect.” Paper presented at the Joint International Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) and the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH). Göteborg, Sweden. June 11-16, 2004.
Ruecker, Stan and Susan Liepert. “Strategies for Creating Rich Prospect in Interfaces.” Paper presented at the Joint International Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) and the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH). Göteborg, Sweden. June 11-16, 2004.
Ruecker, Stan, Stéfan Sinclair, and Eric Homich. “Watching the Script.” Paper presented at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences: Consortium for Computers in the Humanities / Consortium pour Ordinateurs en Sciences Humaines (COCH/COSH) Annual Conference. Winnipeg, Manitoba. May 29- June 6, 2004.
Ruecker, Stan. “Traces of Previous Use: The Communicational Possibilities of Interaction Histories.” Paper presented at the Communicational Spaces conference. University of Alberta, Edmonton May 1-4, 2003.
Ruecker, Stan and Rosan Chow. “The significance of the affordances of prospect in interfaces to health-related Web sites.” Paper presented at the Human Factors in Universal Design conference. University of Alberta, Edmonton October 24-5, 2002.
Ruecker, Stan. “Intimacy through private language in the letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.” Paper presented at the British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies conference. Oxford January 3-5, 2001.
Ruecker, Stan. “Carrying the pleasure of books into the design of the electronic book.” Paper presented at the First International Workshop on Pleasure in Design. Copenhagen April 9-12, 2000.
Refereed Posters
Given, Lisa, Ali Grotkowski, Quinn Fletcher and Stan Ruecker. “Customizable Avatars for a Health Information System: An Exploratory Design.” Poster presented at the conference of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) 2010. Pittsburgh, PA, Oct. 22-27, 2010.
Roberts-Smith, Jennifer, Teresa Dobson, Sandra Gabriele, Stan Ruecker, and Stéfan Sinclair, Matt Bouchard, Shawn DeSouza-Coelho, Annemarie Akong, David Lam, Omar Rodriguez, and Karen Taylor. “English Theory and Theatre Practice: Watching the Script and the Simulated Environment for Theatre.” Poster presented at the Digital Humanities 2010 conference. King's College London, 7-11 July 2010.
Dobson, Teresa M., Michael Eberle-Sinatra, Stan Ruecker, Shannon Lucky, and the INKE Research Group. “Citation Rhetoric Examined" / "Une évaluation de la rhétorique des citations scientifiques.” Poster presented at the Digital Humanities 2010 conference. King's College London, 7-11 July 2010.
Radzikowska, Milena, Stan Ruecker, Walter F. Bischof, Michelle Annett, and Fraser Forbes. “Sprockets for Gears: Interactive Decision Support Visualization for Multi-Modal Industries.” Poster presented at the Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science. Chicago, The Illinois Institute of Technology, Nov. 14-16, 2009.
Stafford, Amy, Ali Shiri, Stan Ruecker, Matthew Bouchard, Paras Mehta, Karl Anvik, and Ximena Rossello. “Making Sense of Interface Design: Implementing Searchling, a Visual Thesaurus-Enhanced Interface for Multilingual Digital Libraries.” Poster presented at the third Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) Colloquium. Nov 1–3, 2008. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2008.
Ruecker, Stan, Carlos Fiorentino, Cristina Arias, Matt Bouchard, Veselin Ganev, Ofer Arazy, and Eleni Stroulia. “Visualizing Relative Wiki Contributions.” Poster presented at the third Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) Colloquium. Nov 1–3, 2008. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2008.
Brown, Susan, Patricia Clements, Isobel Grundy, Stan Ruecker, Jeffrey Antoniuk, and Sharon Balasz. “Teaching Texts Anew: Orlando’s Digital Literary History.” Poster presented at the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing International Conference. Oxford. June 24-26, 2008.
Gainor, Rhiannon, Lisa Given, Stan Ruecker, Andrea Ruskin, Bess Sadler, and Heather Simpson. “Visualization as a Research and Design Approach for LIS: Exploring Seniors’ Use of a Visual Search Interface.” Poster presentation at the 6th International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science: “Featuring the Future.” Boras, Sweden: Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University College of Boras & Goteborg University. 13-16 August 2007.
Shiri, Ali, Stan Ruecker, Karl Anvik and Ximena Rossello. “Thesaurus-enhanced Visual Interfaces for Multilingual Information Retrieval.” Poster presentation at ASIS&T. Austin, Texas. 3-8 November 2006.
Shiri, Ali, Stan Ruecker, Karl Anvik and Ximena Rossello. “Rich Prospect Visual Interfaces for Multilingual Query Enhancement Using Thesauri.” Poster presentation at CaSTA 2006. Breadth of Text: A Joint Computer Science and Humanities Computing Conference. Fredericton, New Brunswick. 11-14 October, 2006.
Award-Winning Software
Giacometti, Alejandro, Stan Ruecker, Ian Craig, and Gerry Derksen. “Ripper Browser.” Tied for first place in Best Tool category. 2008 T-REX (TADA Research Evaluation eXchange). Hamilton: McMaster University, 2008.
Brown, Susan, Jeffery Antoniuk, Sharon Balazs, Patricia Clements, Isobel Grundy, and Stan Ruecker. “Degrees of Connection.” Tied for first place in Best Tool category. 2008 T-REX (TADA Research Evaluation eXchange). Hamilton: McMaster University, 2008.
Fiorentino, Carlos, Stan Ruecker, Piotr Michura, Milena Radzikowska. “Magic Circle.” Tied for first place in Best Idea for New Tool category. 2008 T-REX (TADA Research Evaluation eXchange). Hamilton: McMaster University, 2008.
Public Presentations
Ruecker, Stan, Carlos Fiorentino, Michael Burden, Omar Rodriquez, and Susan Brown. “The Visualization of Uncertainty in Time.” Invited presentation for the Humanities Computing Research Colloquium series. TAPoR and CIRCA, University of Alberta. Sept 22, 2011.
Ruecker, Stan and the INKE Research Group. “Text Visualizations Transform Reading.” TEDxJuanDeFuca. April 30, 2011.
Ruecker, Stan. “Impact of the Institute for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture.” Invited presentation at Texas A&M. Feb 24, 2011.
Ruecker, Stan and the INKE Research Group. “Envisioning New Knowledge Environments.” Invited presentation at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagn. Feb 14, 2011.
Ruecker, Stan and Susan Liepert. “Recent Developments in Humanities Visualization.” Invited presentation at the Academy of Fine Arts. Krakow, Poland. Nov 9, 2010.
Ruecker, Stan, and the INKE Research Group. “In, Around, and Beyond the Electronic Book: INKE designs and prototypes to make working with digital text more enjoyable and rewarding.” Invited presentation for the London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship at University College London. Oct 21, 2010.
Ruecker, Stan. “Design and Humanities Computing.” Invited presentation at Reading University. Oct 14, 2010.
Ruecker, Stan. “The Responsibilities of the Designer in Experimental Interface Research.” Invited presentation at the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology. Oct 26, 2010.
Ruecker, Stan. “The Ocular Proof: Humanities Visualization in Action.” Invited presentation at King's College London. Sept 9, 2010.
Ruecker, Stan. “Interactive Visualization for the Humanities.” Invited presentation at the iSchool. University of Toronto. June 3, 2010.
Ruecker, Stan. “Computing and the Humanities.” Invited presentation at the Department of Computing Science Open House. University of Alberta. Oct 17, 2009.
Ruecker, Stan and the INKE Research Team. “Horizons of the Digital Humanities: Experimental Interface Design and the INKE Project.” Invited address at Digital Humanities 101. University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Oct 9, 2009.
Ruecker, Stan. “From SQL to Mandalas, From Spreadsheets to Oil and Water: The Practice of Humanities Interface Design.” Invited presentation at the second symposium of TRUTH: Teaching and Research Using Technology in the Humanities. University of Victoria. April 3, 2009.
Ruecker, Stan. "Computing and the Humanities." Invited presentation at the Department of Computing Science Open House. Oct 25, 2008.
Ruecker, Stan. "Humanities Computing: Arts for the Next 100 years." Invited presentation at the University of Alberta Open House. Sept 15, 2008.
Sinclair, Stéfan, Milena Radzikowska, and Stan Ruecker. "Interdisciplinary Collaboration by Design." Invited presentation at the iMatter Workshop (McMaster University), May 5, 2008.
Ruecker, Stan. “18 Research Projects in Humanities Visualization.” Invited presentation to the first Edmonton City Pecha Kucha Night. Edmonton Next Gen. May 1, 2008.
Ruecker, Stan. “Humviz, NORA, and MONK: Supporting User Experiments with Digital Collections.” Community-Engaged Research 08: Annual Showcase and Conference. Edmonton, Alberta. March 14, 2008.
Ruecker, Stan, Milena Radzikowska and Susan Liepert. “The Introduction of Radical Change in Human-Computer Interfaces.” An-Institut Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Technische Universität Berlin. Feb 19, 2008.
Sinclair, Stéfan, Milena Radzikowska, Piotr Michura, and Stan Ruecker. “Dynamic Lists and Humanities Visualization.” Center for Theoretical Study, the Charles University and the Philosophical Institute of the Academy of the Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague. Nov 9, 2007.
Ruecker, Stan and Milena Radzikowska. “Rich-Prospect Interfaces and Text Visualization: Collaborative Research in Design and Humanities Computing.” Academy of Fine Arts, Kracow, Poland. October 23, 2007.
Ruecker, Stan. “The Research Potential of Transferability.” University of Maryland. April 24, 2007.
Siemens, Ray, and the HCI-Book Group. “A Useful Approach to Understanding the Book and its Electronic Counterparts?” Presented at the meeting of the UVic Book Culture Research Group. Victoria, BC. 10 November 2006.
Ruecker, Stan. “Pattern finding in large text collections: making life easier for EFS scholars.” March 14, 2006. University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.
Ruecker, Stan. “A History of Information Design.” March 9, 2006. McMaster University, Hamilton, ON.
Ruecker, Stan. “Performance Benchmarking.” March 9, 2006. McMaster University, Hamilton, ON.
Ruecker, Stan. “Crystallizing the Process: the Clear Browser for Data Mining”. Jan 12, 2006. University of Victoria, Victoria, BC.
Ruecker, Stan. “Affordances of Prospect in Computer Interfaces.” Aug 27, 2005. Rock Hill, South Carolina: Department of Art and Design, Winthrop University.
Ruecker, Stan. “TAPoR à la Carte: Interfaces to Support Experimentation.” The Text Analysis Summit: Reflecting on the Past and Planning a Collaborative Future. Hamilton, ON. McMaster University. May 2-4, 2005.
Ruecker, Stan. “Electronic Text Browsing Interfaces.” Institute lecture. Victoria, B.C. Digital Humanities Summer Institute. June 12, 2005.
Ruecker, Stan. “Humanities Visualization.” Invited 20-minute presentation for “Computing in the Arts,” Information and Communications Technology Forum. Jan 24, 2005.
Ruecker, Stan. “New Affordances for Electronic Texts.” Invited 30-minute presentation for “Literacy in a Digital World,” Professional Development Day 2005 at the School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alberta. Feb. 11, 2005.
Ruecker, Stan. “Sees All; Knows All; Tells All: The Virtues of Browsing Interfaces.” One hour public lecture sponsored by the User Experience Group of Southern Alberta. Nov. 23, 2004.
Ruecker, Stan and Aimée Morrison. “Working on the Design of the Orlando Interface.” Keynote address. Victoria, B.C. Digital Humanities Summer Institute. June 19, 2004.
Ruecker, Stan. “Sensual Pleasures: The Design of the Electronic Book.” One hour public lecture sponsored by the Department of Communication, Mount Royal College, Calgary Alberta. Nov. 10, 2003.
Ruecker, Stan. “Affordances of Prospect: or why it’s a good idea to be able to see more.” 90 minute public lecture sponsored by the Department of Art and Design at the University of Alberta. Nov. 27, 2002.
Ruecker, Stan. “The Bi Sheng Electronic Book: More Like a Book; Less Like a Computer.” Group show in FAB associated with the DESSOC 1999 conference (Sept. 30 to Oct. 3, 1999).
Ruecker, Stan. “The Bi Sheng Electronic Book: More Like a Book; Less Like a Computer.” Individual design show in the U of A FAB Gallery (Aug. 24 to Sept. 5, 1999).
Research Reports
Brandt, Di, Andrew Bretz, Susan Brown, Lynn Copeland, Patricia Demers, Michael Eberle-Sinatra, Daniel Fischlin, Dean Irvine, Ashok Mathur, Hannah McGregor, Robyn Read, Susan Rudy, Stan Ruecker, Ray Siemens, Chantal Savoie, Stephen Slemon, Robin Sokoloski, Ron Walker, Darren Wershler, Ann Wilson. (2010). “Lasting Change: Sustaining Digital Scholarship and Culture in Canada.” Report of the Sustaining Digital Scholarship for Sustainable Culture Group.
Frascara, Jorge, Stan Ruecker, and Bernie Roessler. (2006). “Information Design Review Project: Phase 2.” Canadian Collaboration of Academic Detailers. 121 pages.
Frascara, Jorge, and Stan Ruecker. (2005). “Final Report.” The Alberta Drug Utilization Program. 6 pages.
Book Reviews
Ruecker, Stan. Review of Fishwick, Paul A. (ed). (2006). Aesthetic Computing. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press. 457 pages. ISBN 0-262-06250-X (alk. paper). Literary and Linguistic Computing. 22(3), 370-372. 2007.
Program Reviews
Cooper, Tom and Stan Ruecker. (2005). “Quality Assurance Review: Multimedia Studies Program.” University of New Brunswick. 12 page report.
Planning Symposia
Planning symposium for the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory. April 30-May 2, 2010. University of Alberta. PI Susan Brown.
Planning symposium for MCRI LOI on the Canadian HCI E-Book Interface Research Network. Oct 28-9, 2006. Hotel Grand Pacific, Victoria. PI Ray Siemens.
Planning symposium for Strategic Research Cluster and MCRI LOI on the Canadian HCI E-Book Interface Research Network. Jan 13-4, 2006. University of British Columbia, Vancouver. PI Ray Siemens.
Planning symposium for CFI proposal for SSH e-journals by the Canadian Research Knowledge Network. March 18-9, 2005. Montreal. PI Leslie Wier.
Planning symposium for MCRI LOI on E-Text Interfaces Project. Jan 8-9, 2005. University of Victoria. PI Ray Siemens.
Guest Lectures
Oct 2011. The Mandala Browser. IIT Institute of Design. DES 582: Communication Workshop. Instructors Kim Erwin and Matt Mayfield.
Oct 2010. Design and Humanities Computing. Department of Information Studies, University College London. Graduate course. INSTG008: Digital Resources in the Humanities. Instructor Julianne Nyhan.
Oct 2010. Project Management and Project Charters. Department of Information Studies, University College London. Graduate course. INSTG038: Electronic Publishing. Instructor Simon Mahoney.
Oct 2009. Users and User Interfaces. University of Alberta. Graduate seminar. LIS 502. Instructor Ali Shiri.
Oct 2009. Computing and the Humanities. Winthrop University. Senior Seminar in Digital Information Design (DIFD 351). Instructors Jim McKim, Gerry Derksen and Justin Brown.
May 2008. Recent Advances in Rich Prospect Interfaces and Humanities Visualization. University of Alberta. Graduate seminar. EDU 597: Emerging Technologies and 21st Century Educational Practices. Instructor Phil McRae.
July 2007. Rich Prospect Interfaces and Humanities Visualization. University of Alberta. Graduate seminar. EDU 597: Learning & Technology in the Humanities. Instructor Phil McRae.
Feb. 2007. Introduction to Research Ideas and Writing Thesis Topic Sentences. ENG 111. Instructor Susan Liepert.
Nov. 2006. Information Design and Interfaces. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Graduate seminar telephone lecture with synchronous text chat. LIS 590: Electronic Publishing & Info Processing Standards. Instructor Julia Flanders.
Nov. 2006. Time Management for Essay Writing. ENG 111. Instructor Susan Liepert. See also the entry below, under Seminars.
July 2006. Visual Arrangement of Content in Rich-Prospect Browsing Interfaces. University of Alberta. Graduate seminar. EDUC 597: Learning & Technology in the Humanities. Instructor Phil McRae.
June 2006. Project Charters. Digital Humanities Summer Institute, at the University of Victoria, in Victoria, BC. Large Project Management Course. Instructor Lynn Siemens.
Oct. 2004. Just-in-Time Texts, Text Visualization, and Text Analysis. Mount Royal College, Calgary. Senior electronic publications course. Instructor Susan Liepert.
Jan. 2004. Process Design Management. Mount Royal College, Calgary. Senior management course. ADMN 1269: Project Management. Instructors Lloyd Rankin and Jim Lozon.
Nov. 2003. Affordances of Prospect. University of Alberta. Graduate seminar. LIS 502: Organization of Knowledge and Information. Instructor Sharon Balasz.
Oct. 2003. Concepts in Information Design. University of Alberta. Graduate seminar. HuCo 614: Knowledge Management. Instructor Dr. Stéfan Sinclair.
Sept. 2003. Design Theory. University of Alberta. Graduate seminar. HuCo 500: Survey of Humanities Computing. Instructor Dr. Sean Gouglas.
March 1999. Design of the Electronic Book. University of Alberta. Graduate seminar. LIS 591: Publishing. Instructor Dr. Margaret Mackey.
Nov. 1998. Hand Book Binding. University of Alberta. Undergraduate studio course. DES 490: Concepts and Systems in Visual Communication Design. Instructor Bonnie Sadler Takach.
Panels
Ruecker, Stan. “Faculty Members and Graduate Students.” Moderator Kara Leitch. The Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis (CaSTA) Conference: New Directions in Text Analysis. A Joint Humanities Computing, Computer Science Conference at University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, October 16-18, 2008.
Ruecker, Stan. “Text Analysis Developers' Alliance (TADA) and T-REX.” Moderator Stéfan Sinclair. The Digital Humanities 2008 conference. Oulu, Finland. June 25-29, 2008.
Ruecker, Stan. “Predicting the future of humanities computing over the next 50 years.” Moderator Joyce Tam. Bridging Dimensions: 2003 Humanities Computing Graduate Conference. University of Alberta. Edmonton. Dec 4-5, 2003.
Ruecker, Stan. “Who Needs the Social Sciences?” Moderator Rosan Chow. The Good, The Bad, and The Irrelevant Conference. Sponsored by COST 269: User Aspects of Information and Communications Technologies. University of Art and Design. Helsinki, Finland. Sept 3-5, 2003. Published in an online video archive.
IIT Institute of Design
PRIMARY INSTRUCTOR
DES 598: Understanding Context.
I taught a section of this graduate workshop, designed by Jeremy Alexis and Matt Mayfield, in the MDes program in Winter 2011.
DES 580: Prototyping for Hermeneutic Inquiry.
I designed and taught this graduate research workshop in Winter 2011.
University of Alberta
Humanities Computing Program
PRIMARY INSTRUCTOR
HUCO 530: Project Management. I taught this 1st-year core course in the M.A. in Humanities Computing program in Winter 2008 and Winter 2009.
HUCO 617: Research Methods. I piloted and taught this 2nd-year elective course in the M.A. in Humanities Computing program in Fall 2005, Winter 2006, and Fall 2008.
HUCO 614: Knowledge Management and Analysis in the Humanities. I taught this 2nd-year elective course in the M.A. in Humanities Computing program in Fall 2004 and Fall 2005.
HUCO 618: Directed Readings. In Fall 2008, I taught three reading courses:
• Design and Icon Use in Libraries
• Practicum - Project Management
• Experimental Interface Design
In Fall 2007, I taught one reading course, called “Experimental Interface Design.”
In Fall 2005, I taught three reading courses to HUCO students. The titles of the courses were:
• Games: Beyond Entertainment
• Online Research
• Critical Discourse Analysis
HUCO 500: Survey of Humanities Computing. I co-taught this core course in the M.A. in Humanities Computing program in Fall 2004 with Dr. Sean Gouglas. I taught it as sole instructor in Fall 2005 and Fall 2009.
HUCO 510: Theoretical Issues in Humanities Computing. I taught this core course in the M.A. in Humanities Computing program in Winter 2005.
PRIMARY CO-INSTRUCTOR
HUCO 520: Technical Concepts and Approaches in Humanities Computing. I co-taught this core course in the M.A. in Humanities Computing program in Fall 2004 with Dr. Sean Gouglas.
University of Alberta
Master of Communication Technology (MACT) Program
PRIMARY INSTRUCTOR
EXT 598: User-Centred Design. In Winter 2009, I taught this elective as an online reading course to 7 graduate students.
EXT 506: Creating and Maintaining Communication Networks. I taught this core spring intensive course as part of the Master of Communication Technology (MACT) program offered by the Department of Extension, University of Alberta, in spring sessions 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009.
EXT 597: Directed Readings. In Fall 2007, I taught one reading course to a student in the MACT program. The course was called “Participatory Multimedia.”
EXT 551: Understanding Computing Projects: Application Design Issues for Communications Professionals. I developed and taught this web-based course as part of the Master of Communication Technology (MACT) program offered by the Department of Extension, University of Alberta, first in summer session 2001, and again as a directed reading course in summer 2002.
GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT
EXT 504: Organizational Communication. I was the online TA for this core course in the MACT program, dealing with topics involving organization theory, organizational behavior, and organizational communication.
EXT 501: Applied Research in Communications and Technology. I was the online TA for this core course in research methods for the MACT program.
University of Alberta
Department of Art and Design: Visual Communication Design
PRIMARY INSTRUCTOR
DES 496: Image II. In winter 2003 I taught this undergraduate course in the creation of complex images for communication. University of Alberta Department of Art and Design.
DES 483: Design Issues. I delivered 3 sections of this senior undergraduate design seminar for the Department of Art and Design at the University of Alberta during winter session 2001, and another section in winter 2004. I also taught a graduate reading course in this area in winter 2004.
DES 3/4/537: Introduction to Digital Image-making. A full-year course in visual communication design. I taught it three times. Intersession 1998, 1999, and 2002. University of Alberta Department of Art and Design.
GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT
DES 490: Concepts and Systems in Visual Communication Design. A full-year core course involving research and development for organizational communications. 1998-9. University of Alberta Department of Art and Design.
University of Regina
Department of English
GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT
English 100: English composition. A half-year introductory course. 1982-4. I was assistant three times, teaching composition to one class each week throughout the course.
University of Alberta Graduate Supervision and Examining Committees
SUPERVISOR
Mihaela Ilovan (MA, Humanities Computing/MLIS), in progress
Derek Pennycuff (MA, Communications & Technology), project completed Aug 2010.
Website Optimization Among Tennessee Community Colleges
Camille Jensen (MA, Communications & Technology), project completed Aug 2010.
Situated Inter-organizational Communication: Identifying the conditions for collaborative writing progress through a community of practice
Dan Manolescu (MA, Humanities Computing/Interdisciplinary), defended Sept 2009.
Is it Possible to Regulate the Internet Globally?: a Comparative Case Study of the Cybercrime Framework in Canada and Romania
Wayne Williams (MA, Communications & Technology), project completed Sept 2009.
CURVIS: A Multiple-Prospect Visualization Tool for Developing and Sharing Curriculum Knowledge
Alejandro Giacometti (MA, Humanities Computing/Interdisciplinary), defended June 2009.
The Texttiles Browser: An Experiment in Rich-Prospect Browsing for Text Collections
Tamara Trull (MA, Communications & Technology), project completed Sept 2008.
Appreciative Inquiry as a Tool in the Creation of a Multi-Media Informational Package for Victims
Rodney Klatt (MA, Communications & Technology), project completed April 2008.
The Influence of Social Networks on Business Effectiveness
Karl Anvik (MA, Humanities Computing/Modern Languages &anp; Cultural Studies), defended Sept 2007.
Human-Computer Pragmatics: From Habermas's Theory to User Centric Design
Junli Feng (MA, Humanities Computing/Interdisciplinary), defended Sept 2006.
Grassroots Blogging Practice in America and China
Jing Zhou (MA, Humanities Computing/Interdisciplinary), defended Sept 2006.
Location and Allocation of English-Chinese Kindergartens in the City of Edmonton
CO-SUPERVISOR
Milena Radzikowska (PhD, Computing Science/Humanities Computing), in progress
Michael Lewcio (MA, Humanities Computing/Interdisciplinary), defended Sept 2011
Matthew Bouchard (MA, Humanities Computing/Interdisciplinary), defended March 2010
Rhiannon Gainor (MA/MLIS, Humanities Computing/Library & Information Studies), defended Jan 2008
Artem Medvedev (MA, Modern Languages & Cultural Studies), defended Sept 2007
Ben Chu (MSc, Computing Science), defended Sept 2007
Isabel Klint (MA, Humanities Computing/Linguistics), defended Jan 2007
Markus Wust (MA/MLIS, Humanities Computing/Library & Information Studies), defended Sept 2006
Waleed Albakry (MA, Humanities Computing/Modern Languages & Cultural Studies), defended Sept 2006
Robin Taylor (MSc, Computing Science), defended Jan 2006
Jingjun Ha (MA, Humanities Computing/Interdisciplinary), defended April 2006
Oksana Cheypesh (MA, Humanities Computing/Interdisciplinary), defended Jan 2006
Olaf Ellefson (MA, Humanities Computing/Philosophy), defended Oct 2005
Zachary Devereaux (MA, Political Science), defended April 2005
Nazia Karamuth (MA, Humanities Computing/Modern Languages & Cultural Studies), defended Jan 2005
Wioletta Polanski (MA, Humanities Computing/Art & Design), defended Jan 2005
EXTERNAL EXAMINER
Voytek Bialkowski (MI, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto), defended July 2011
Seminars: Various Locations
Visualization for Literary History. June 2011, with Susan Brown, Geoffrey Rockwell, and Stéfan Sinclair, I co-taught a one-day workshop at DH2011 in Stanford.
Digital Tools for Literary History. June 2009, with Susan Brown, I co-taught an advanced seminar. It was a week-long daily course for computing humanists at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, at the University of Victoria, in Victoria, BC.
Experimental Interface Design. June 2007, with Alan Galey and Matthew Bouchard, I co-taught an advanced seminar. It was a week-long daily course for computing humanists at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, at the University of Victoria, in Victoria, BC.
Electronic Books. June 19-24, 2006, with Ray Siemens (UVic) and Teresa Dobson (UBC), I co-taught an advanced seminar/consultation on the design of the electronic book. It was a week-long daily course for computing humanists at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, at the University of Victoria, in Victoria, BC.
Design for Humanities Computing. March 7, 2006 with Sandra Gabriele from York, I co-taught introductory and advanced sessions on design theory and practice at McMaster University, in Hamilton, ON.
Multimedia Design. June 25-30, 2004, with Dr. Aimée Morrison, I co-taught an intermediate course in multimedia design. It was a week-long daily course for computing humanists at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, at the University of Victoria, in Victoria, BC.
ESL. In 1998 I was employed as an ESL tutor by graduate students from Mexico City, Hong Kong, and Taiwan who wished to improve their written and spoken English. Weekly workshops focused on professional vocabulary and issues of style in academic writing.
Time Management. I delivered this two-hour guest seminar (using Excel and Illustrator) 3 times in 1999 to graduate students, 5 times in Jan 2000, twice in Jan 2002, and twice in Jan 2004 to undergraduate students in the University of Alberta Department of Art and Design. I also regularly include it in the design courses I teach.
Introduction to Filemaker Pro. Introduction to Style Sheets. Introduction to HTML. I taught these three half-day seminars on 4 occasions for the University of Saskatchewan Extension Division from 1993-7.
Funded
2011 SSHRC Standard Research Grant. (Co-App). “Simulated Environment for Theatre (SET): Analyzing Theatre as Digital Language and Virtual Performance.” PI Jennifer Roberts-Smith at University of Waterloo. Requested $50,000 of project total of $248,950 over 3 years. Received $43,500 of project award of $150,650.
2010 SSHRC Research Development Application. (PI). “Mapping Information Science, 1994-present.” Requested $39,964 over 2 years. Funded $39,964.
2010 SSHRC Standard Research Grant. (Co-app). “Text Mining and Visualization for Literary History.” PI Susan Brown (U of A). Requested $40,000 of project total of $249,962 over 3 years. Funded $30,000 of project award of $150,000.
2010 SSHRC Standard Research Grant. (Co-app). “Just What Do They Do?” PI Geoffrey Rockwell (U of A). Requested $32,804 of project total of $164,022 over 3 years. Funded $32,804 of project award of $164,022.
2010 SSHRC Information, Text, and Sound Technology. (PI). “Speculative Timelines.” Requested $49,500 over 2 years. Funded $49,500.
2010 SSHRC Information, Text, and Sound Technology. (Co-app). “The Mandala Browser for Qualitative Data Analysis.” PI Teresa Dobson (UBC). Requested $10,000 of project total of $49,800 over 2 years. Funded $10,000 of project award of $49,800.
2010 SSHRC Information, Text, and Sound Technology. (Co-app). “Viral Analytics.” PI Stéfan Sinclair (McMaster). Requested $12,000 of project total of $50,000 over 2 years. Funded $12,000 of project award of $50,000.
2009 SSHRC Major Collaborative Research Initiative (MCRI). (Co-app). “Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE).” PI Ray Siemens (U of Victoria). Requested $768,820 of project total $3,683,300 (including cash contributions) over 7 years. Funded $768,820 of project award of $3,683,300.
2009 SSHRC Information, Text, and Sound Technology. (Co-app). “Throwing Bones: A Semi-supervised Classification and GIS-based System for Early Modern Witchcraft Trial Documents.” PI Kirsten C. Uszkalo (Simon Fraser University). Requested $10,000 of project total $49,950 over 1 year. Funded $10,000 of project award of $49,950.
2009 SSHRC Information, Text, and Sound Technology. (Co-app). “Watching the Script.” PI Jennifer Roberts-Smith (U of Waterloo). Requested $15,000 of project total of $49,700 over 1 year. Funded $15,000 of project award of $49,700.
2009 SSHRC Information, Text, and Sound Technology. (Co-app). “Multilingual Thesaurus-enhanced Visual Interfaces for Digital Libraries.” PI Ali Shiri (U of A). Requested $22,750 of project total $45,500 over 1 year. Funded $22,750 of project award of $45,500.
2009 SSHRC Information, Text, and Sound Technology. (Co-app). “Six Degrees of Separation in Digital Literary History.” PI Susan Brown (U of A and U of Guelph). Requested $12,000 of project total $50,000 over 1 year. Funded $12,000 of project award of $50,000.
2008 NSERC Collaborative R and D. (Co-app). “Decision Support for Multi-mode Oil Sands Operations.” PI Fraser Forbes (U of A). Requested $67,000 of project total $460,000 over three years. Funded $67,000 of project award $460,000.
2008 U of Alberta Faculty of Arts Dean's Discretionary Fund. (PI). “INKE MCRI Presentation to SSHRC.” Requested $1,500 for travel to present in Ottawa. Funded $1,500.
2008 SSHRC Information, Text, and Sound Technology. (PI). “Mandala: Visualization Interfaces for Searching Online Collections.” Requested $50,000 over 1 year. Funded $50,000.
2008 SSHRC Information, Text, and Sound Technology. (Co-app). “Orlando’s Faces: Developing Interfaces for Second-Generation Text Technologies.” PI Susan Brown (U of A and U of Guelph). Requested $12,000 of project total $50,000 over 1 year. Funded $12,000 of project award of $50,000.
2007 Killam Travel Fund. (PI). “The Design of an Interdisciplinary Project Charter.” Requested $5,000 for travel to present at the Designing Interactive Systems Conference in Cape Town, Feb 2008. Funded $5,000.
2007 SAS EFF. (PI). “Searchling Multilingual Thesaurus Interface User Study.” Requested $7,000 over 1 year. Funded $3,640.
2007 SAS EFF Travel. (PI). “HCI-Book MCRI Presentation to SSHRC.” Requested $1,453 for travel to present in Ottawa. Funded $1,453.
2006 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. (Co-app). “Metadata Opens New Knowledge (MONK).” PI John Unsworth (UIUC). Requested US$100,000 of project total US$1,000,000 over 2 years. Funded US$100,000 of project award US$1,000,000.
2006 SSHRC Standard Research Grant. (Co-app).”The Pill Identification Project.” PI Lisa Given (U of A). Requested $27,500 of project award $230,000 over 3 years. Funded $27,500 of project total $169,626.
2006 Killam Small Projects Grant. (PI). “Usability of Experimental Interfaces for Online Scholarly Editing.” Requested $9,900 over 1 year. Funded $9,900.
2006 SSHRC Major Collaborative Research Initiative (MCRI) LOI. (Co-app). “HCI Book.” PI Ray Siemens (U of Victoria). Requested $20,000. Funded $20,000.
2006 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Grant. (PI). “Useful and Meaningful Variation of Representation in Browsing Interfaces.” Requested $90,000 over three years. Funded $45,000.
2006 SSHRC Major Collaborative Research Initiative (MCRI) LOI. (Co-app). “Orlando Canada.” PI Patricia Clements (U of A). Requested $20,000. Funded $20,000.
2006 SSHRC Strategic Research Cluster LOI. (Co-app). “HCI Book.” PI Ray Siemens (U of Victoria). Requested $20,000. Funded $20,000.
2006 SSHRC Strategic Research Cluster LOI. (Co-app). “iMatter.” PIs Geoffrey Rockwell (McMaster) and Lynne Hughes (Concordia). Requested $20,000. Funded $20,000.
2005 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. (Subaward). “NORA: Visualization Interface Design.” PI John Unsworth (UIUC). Requested Cdn$50,000 of project total US$600,000 over 18 months. Funded $50,000 of project award US$600,000.
2005 Academic Detailing. (Subaward). “Print Education Materials Evaluation: Performance-based Redesign.” PI Malcolm Maclure. Requested $28,000 over 1 year. Funded $28,000.
2005 Prairie Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Integration (PCERII). (Co-app). “Transnational Adoption.” PI Sara Dorow (U of A). Requested $25,000 over 1 year. Funded $25,000.
2005 HFASSR Travel Grant. (PI). “Building accessible web interfaces for seniors: Similarity clustering of drug images.” Requested $1,200 travel to present at Include 2005. Funded $1,200.
2004 HFASSR Operating Grant. (PI). “Association of Children’s Colour Preferences with Recollection of Affective State.” Requested $7,000 over 1 year. Funded $7,000.
2004 EFF SAS Conference Travel Fund. (PI). “Comparing Issue Crawling and Just-in-Time Text Analysis on Information Design and Visualization Research.” Requested $2,575 for travel to present at Design Systems Evolution, the 6th international conference of the European Academy of Design, March 29-31 2005, University of the Arts, Bremen, Germany. Funded $2,575.
2004 SSHRC Image, Text, Sound and Technology Summer Institute, Workshop, and Conference Grants. (Collaborator). “The Text Analysis Summit: Reflecting on the Past and Planning a Collaborative Future.” PI Stéfan Sinclair (McMaster). Requested $29,427. Funded $29,427.
2004 SSHRC Standard Research Grant. (PI).”The Humanities Visualization Project.” Requested $240,000 over 3 years. Funded $130,000.
2004 HFASSR Conference Travel Fund. (PI). “Strategies for Creating Rich Prospect in Interfaces.” Requested $1,400 for travel to present at the 2004 ALLC/ACH conference in Göteborg, Sweden. Funded $1,400.
2003-4 Killam Post-doctoral Research Fellowship. (PI). “Multi-document Text Visualization.” Requested $42,000 over 2 years. (Second year honorary only). Funded $42,000.
1999-2003 SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship. (PI). “Ecological Interface Design.” Requested $49,500 over 3 years. Funded $49,500.
Not Funded
2011 SSRHC Standard Research Grant. (PI). “Cultural Analytics of International Crowdsourced Photos.” Requested $202,008 over 3 years. Not funded (4A).
2010 SSHRC Standard Research Grant. (PI). “Four Billion Photos, So Little Time: Applying Cultural Analytics to Flickr.” Requested $163,232 over 3 years. Not funded (4A).
2010 NSERC Discovery Grant. (PI). “The Text Visualization Workbench.” Requested $140,130 over 3 years. Not funded.
2010 SSHRC MCRI. (Co-app). “Hidden Costs; Invisible Contributions II.” PI Janet Fast. Requested $30,000 for 3 years of project total of $2,500,000 over 7 years. Not funded.
2009 SSHRC Digging into Data (PI). “Only the Racy Bits.” Requested $90,000 over 1.5 years. Not funded.
2009 SSHRC Digging into Data (Co-app). “DAME.” PI Susan Brown (Guelph). Requested $12,000 of project total of $85,000 over 1.5 years. Not funded.
2009 SSHRC Digging into Data (Co-app). “Epidemiology of Ideas.” PI Geoffrey Rockwell (U of A). Requested $12,000 of project total of $100,000 over 1.5 years. Not funded.
2009 NSERC Discovery Grant. (PI). “Meaningful and Useful Variation in Browsing Interfaces II.” Requested $98,875 over 5 years. Not funded.
2009 SSHRC Standard Research Grant. (Co-app). “Text Mining and Visualization for Literary Historical Analysis.” PI Susan Brown (U of A and U of Guelph). Requested $250,000 over 3 years. Not funded (4A).
2009 SSHRC Standard Research Grant (SRG). (PI). “Rich-Prospect Interface Design for Virtual Teams.” Requested $200,000 over 3 years. Not funded.
2009 SSHRC Information, Text, and Sound Technology. (Co-app). "Analysis and Visualization of Collaboration Patterns in Wikis.” PI Arie Croitoru (U of A). Requested $50,000 over 1 year. Not funded (4A).
2009 MacArthur Foundation. (Co-app). “The History POND (Participating ONline in Depth).” PI William Thomas (U of Nebraska). Requested $90,000 over one year. Not funded.
2007 SSHRC Standard Research Grant (SRG). (PI). “Participatory design of user interfaces for online public data mining: Web usability in the context of textual pattern finding.” Requested $250,000 over 3 years. Not funded.
2007 SSHRC Standard Research Grant (SRG) – Special Program for Business. (PI). “Visualization-Based Interfaces for Managing Social Capital in Virtual Teams.” Requested $250,000 over 3 years. Not funded.
2007 SSHRC Major Collaborative Research Initiative (MCRI). (Co-app). “HCI Book.” PI Ray Siemens (U of Victoria). Requested $2,500,000 over 7 years. Not funded.
2007 MacArthur Foundation. (Co-app). “The History POND (Participating ONline in Depth).“ PI William Thomas (U of Nebraska). Requested $90,000 over 1 year. Not funded.
2006 SSHRC Strategic Knowledge Cluster. (Co-app). “iMatter.” PIs Geoffrey Rockwell (McMaster) and Lynne Hughes (Concordia). Requested $1,400,000 over 5 years. Not funded.
2006 SSHRC Major Collaborative Research Initiative (MCRI). (Co-app). “Orlando Canada.” PI Patricia Clements (U of A). Requested $2,000,000 over 5 years. Not funded.
2004 SSHRC CURA LOI. (PI). “Action Research on the Survival of Resource Communities.” Requested $20,000. Not funded.
2004 EFF Special Capital Recruitment Fund. (PI). “Humanities Visualization; Arts Research Annual Report; Sustainable Resource Communities.” Requested $28,100. Not funded.
2004 SSHRC Standard Research Grant. (Co-app). “Tracing Transnational Childhoods: Chinese Adoptees in North America.” PI Sara Dorow (U of A). Requested $156,083 over 3 years. Not funded.
2004 SSHRC Standard Research Grant. (Co-app) “Electronic Book Interfaces.” PI Ray Siemens (U of Victoria). Not funded.
2004 Sappi Ltd. Ideas that Matter. (Co-app). “Creating Understanding with Knowledge: The Arts Research Annual Report.” PI Stéfan Sinclair (U of A). Requested $50,000. Not funded.
2004 Inukshuk. “The Alpha Beta Reading Readiness System.” (PI). Requested $55,000. Not funded.
2004 Inukshuk. “Multi-Level Document Display System.” (Co-app). PI Stéfan Sinclair (U of A). Requested $75,000. Not funded.
2003 SSHRC CURA (LOI). (Co-app). “Action Research on the Survival of Resource Communities.” PI Rick Szostak (U of A). Requested $20,000. Not funded.
2006 David Binkley Emerging Technology Paper Award. Gibson Library Connections. Access 2006 conference. $1,500.
2004/6 Harriet Winspear Foundation Research Grant. $10,000.
2004 U of A Capital Equipment Recruitment Fund. $5,000.
2004 U of A VP Academic Startup Grant. $1,500.
2003 University of Alberta Dissertation Fellowship $18,000
2000 to 2003 Walter M. Johns Memorial Fellowship $3,500 per year (total $14,000)
1999 to 2002 University of Alberta PhD Scholarship $52,000
(honorary after 1999, replaced by the SSHRC Fellowship)
1999 Province of Alberta Graduate Scholarship $3,500
1998 University of Alberta Graduate Teaching Assistantship $2,400
1987 Open Fellowship University of Toronto Graduate Studies $8,100
1985, 1984, 1982, 1981 4 Saskatchewan Government Proficiency Awards total $1,800
1983 Lutheran Life Academic Achievement Award
1982 Luther College General Proficiency Award
1980 2 Entrance Scholarships (U. of Regina and Luther College)
1980 Greenall High School Award of Excellence (top male graduate of the year)
Ongoing Service: IIT Institute of Design
IIT Graduate Studies Committee (2011-present)
IIT ID Information Technology Strategy Committee (2011-present)
Previous Service: University of Alberta
Humanities Computing Visiting Speakers Program (2009-10)
Department of English and Film Studies Fellowships Committee (2009 – 2011)
Member of Board of Directors of CIRCA (2009 – present)
Member of Research Board, TAPoR at the University of Alberta (2008 – 2011)
School of Library and Information Studies Advisory Council (2006 – 2011)
Reviewer, Literary and Linguistic Computing (2010 - present)
Reviewer, Information Visualization (2010 - present)
Member of Board of Directors of the Canadian Institute for Research in Computing and the Arts (CIRCA), University of Alberta (2009 – present)
Adjunct Professor, University of Victoria (2007 – present)
CEO, Alpha Beta Program for English Reading Readiness (2006 – present)
Member of Editorial Board, Digital Studies (national journal) (2008 – present)
Reviewer, Digital Humanities (international conference) (2006 – present)
Reviewer, International Association of Societies for Design Research (IASDR) (international conference) (2008 – present)
Reviewer, Society for Digital Humanities (SDH-SEMI) (national conference) (2006 – present)
Previous Service: National and International
Reviewer, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communications (2008 – 2009)
Member of Board of Directors, Society for Community-Inspired Active Mindsets (SCIAM) (2004 – 5)
Founding Member, Health Information Design Network (2004)
Consultant, Canadian Research Knowledge Network (2004)
Association for Computing in the Humanities (ACH) (2005 - present)
Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs (SDH-SEMI) (2005 - present)
Canadian Historical Association (2010)
Renaissance Society of Canada (2009)
Text Encoding Initiative (2006)
SGML research
Orlando Project. During 1999-2000 I was a graduate research assistant on the Orlando project, an electronic history of women’s writing in the British Isles, produced collaboratively by the University of Alberta and the University of Guelph. My responsibilities included tagging text in SGML (standard generalized mark-up language) and using XSL (extensible mark-up language) style sheets for web delivery. I am currently working again with the Orlando Project, in the capacity of interface designer.
Project management
SHL Systemhouse. From 1991-1993, I worked as a systems analyst responsible for a total of three projects. I managed interdisciplinary teams ranging from 3 to 12 people, including consultants from other firms, our own staff, and clients. My responsibilities included management, programming, systems analysis, writing technical reports and documentation, running small group meetings, and acting as a liaison between the technical and executive spheres.
Artificial intelligence programming
Natural Language Technologies, Inc. I worked as a researcher with this software development firm from 1989 to 1991. We designed and documented syntactic analysis tools for use in grammar checkers, computer games, and database interfaces. I was computational syntactician, and also supervised the computational lexicographers and programmers. Prior to my work with NLT, I was also employed by GigaText, a machine translation company for whom I helped create an English analysis prototype.
Technical writing
Breckman-White Educational Consultants. From 1990-1991, I edited and formatted evaluation reports for remote band-managed schools. Prior to my work with Breckman-White, I also wrote technical documents for Statistics Canada, Synthetic Realities Inc., and the University of Saskatchewan’s POS Pilot Plant.
Design consulting
Various clients. Since 1994 I have run my own consulting company, completing a wide range of projects in government, education, and industry. One aim of my work is to make existing research in design, communication theory, and the social sciences available for solving ‘real world’ problems. Projects include:
• the design and documentation of a sales management database for Factor X Solutions, building on Lucy Suchman’s analysis of human-machine interaction as “situated activity.” In 2002, Factor X was one of three finalists for the Calgary Chamber of Commerce “Emerging Enterprise of the Year” award.
• the creation of book designs for Juvenilia Press, Lone Pine Publishing, Tesseract, and University Extension Press, employing the theories of typographers such as Robert Bringhurst and Jan Tschichold. At University Extension Press I worked for five years doing copy writing, editing, proofreading, layout, and design on books, ads, brochures, fax packages, newsletters, and prospectuses. One of our most ambitious projects was the 1994 award-winning ESL Toolbox, a multi-media resource package for teachers of English as a second language.
• the development of over 50 digital designs for Hewlett-Packard’s data visualization team at the University of Alberta, utilizing Humberto Maturana’s theory of “mutual ontogenic structural coupling” to help create meaningful visual metaphors for the movement of data packets across a complex network topology
Interactive computing
Various clients. I specialize in web delivery of data and multimedia development. Examples include:
• developing an e-commerce prototype website using SiteServer for Orange Industries, Edmonton
• assisting in the creation of an on-line 3D virtual art gallery for the Alberta Arts Council, using Director and QuickTime VR
• creating a web-based image archive for Environment Canada, using Filemaker Pro and CDML (Claris’s proprietary mark-up language)
Computing for special needs
Systems Plus Inc. I provided technical support for four years (1993-7) to this company that specialized in computing for people with special needs. In addition to standard computer hardware and software, we handled Braille equipment, voice input systems, and electronic reading devices.
