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

Orlando

NORA

INKE

Humanities Visualization

MONK

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.

Book Co-Editorship

• Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Adventurer. Isobel Grundy, Stan Ruecker, et al., Eds. Edmonton: Juvenilia Press, 2000.

Refereed Journal Articles

• Susan Brown, 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)

Refereed Conference Proceedings

• 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 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

• 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, 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.
• 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. 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. 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. May 25-27, 2009.
• Uszkalo, Kirsten 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. May 25-27, 2009.
• Uszkalo, Kirsten 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. 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.
• McDonald, 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 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, Stefan 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, Stefan 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

• 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. “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, Cracow, 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

• 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. [Forthcoming]. Review of Stoicheff, Peter, and Andrew Taylor (eds). 2004. The Future of the Page. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 272 pages. ISBN 0-8020-8584-9 (paper); 0-8020-8802-3 (cloth). Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science.
• 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.

Collaborative Research Symposia

• 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

• 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.

Course Summary Count

University of Alberta

Humanities Computing Program

University of Alberta

Master of Communication Technology (MACT) Program

University of Alberta

Department of Art and Design: Visual Communication Design

University of Regina

Department of English

Seminars: Various Locations

• 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

• 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 over 7 years. Funded $768,820.
• 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 $12,000 of project total $49,950 over 1 year. Funded $12,000 of project award of $49,950.
• 2009 SSHRC Information, Text, and Sound Technology. (Co-app). “Watching the Script.” PI Jennifer Roberts-Smith (U of Guelph). Requested $12,000 of project total of $49,700 over 1 year. Funded $12,000 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 Stefan 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

• 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).
• 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)

• Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)
• Association for Computing in the Humanities (ACH)
• Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs (SDH-SEMI)

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.