News and Events

• KMDI is please to present AL SELVIN, Director of the IT Group at Verizon Communications, USA on August 5, 2010 at 6:30pm in Bissell 728 (140 St. George). Selvin will lead the discussion on “Making Representations Matter: The Practice of Shaping Participatory Media Artifacts.” Please join us at 5:30 for a Networking reception. Find more informaiton about the event and Al Selvin here.

RSVP and invite colleagues with this link: http://alselvinatkmdi.eventbrite.com/

• JOB POSTING:

  Webcast operator. Looking for qualified Graduate or Undergraduate student who can commit a 8-20 hours a month to recording, webcasting and archiving events. Please see detailed job description here. Must be available on Thursday afternoons during the fall semester. Send resume and cover letter to tliem [at] kmdi [dot] utoronto [dot] ca

• Tuesday June 29, 2010, 12:00pm – 1:00pm: Working Group on Qualitative Methods (WGQM) sponsored by the Knowledge Media Design Collaborative Program (KMD CP) Present: “Studying energy management strategies in the field: participant-observer or participant-supervisor?” featuring Antony Hilliard, Ph.D. Candidate, Cognitive Engineering Laboratory, Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering; University of Toronto, St. George Campus, Claude T. Bissell Building, Brian Cantwell Smith Ideas Exchange, 5th floor (Entrance through the Inforum on the 4th floor), 140 St. George Street.

 

• Funding Annoucement:

  Knowledge Synthesis Grants on the Digital Economy

  The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are:

  To describe the state of knowledge about the digital economy in key areas across Canadian society, including the private, public and not-for-profit sectors, by producing syntheses of research insights, evidence, interpretations and effective practices; and to identify knowledge gaps in areas that are critical for Canada, and that could contribute to a forward-looking Canadian research and research mobilization agenda for the digital economy.

  Value: up to $25,000 over four and a half months (results will be announced 16 July 2010, and work must be completed by by 30 November 2010).

  Up to 10 grants will be awarded. More Info.

• Attention KMDI Faculty and Collaborative Program Students: On Thursday June 17, the eminent interaction design visionary and practitioner Aaron Marcus will be teaching at TORCHI tutorial entitled Mobile User Interface Design. Aaron has agreed to visit KMDI on Friday the 18th and do a series of design crits. There are 4 open slots, at 1:15 p.m., 2:15 p.m., 3:45 p.m., and 4:45 p.m. Information about attending and Aaron Marcus' bio here.
• Thursday, May 27, 12-1pm, Roland Gasser, visiting researcher at the Cognitive Engineering Lab and PhD candidate at TU Berlin: Using discourse analysis and i* to describe local rationalities in organizations, Brian Cantwell Smith Ideas Exchange, 140 St. George St. (Bissel building), 5th floor - entrance through the Inforum on the 4th floor. Abstract
• Thursday, May 20,  12-1 pm, Stephen Tracy, Masters student, Faculty of Information: Information technology, education and computer literacy in the rural south: A mixed methods approach for assessing student achievement in the development of core computer competencies, Brian Cantwell Smith Ideas Exchange, 140 St. George St. (Bissel building), 5th floor - entrance through the Inforum on the 4th floor. Abstract
• Chris Csikszentmihályi (Csik), MIT Center for Future Civic Media, May 20, 4:00-5:30 p.m. in Bissel 728: Acting Locally:  IT for Civic Engagement.
• Patrick Feng, Department of Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary, speaks May 11, 2:30-4:30 p.m. in Bissel 728 on Thinking about design: What (more) can STS learn from the design of technology? Background Paper
  
• Jonathan Grudin, Principal Researcher in the Adaptive Systems and Interaction group at Microsoft Research, April 28: Conferences, Community, and Technology, Archived here . April 29th FI Colloquia, BL 728, 4PM - 6PM: Enterprise Uses of Social Media.
• Brenda Dervin, Professor of Communication, Ohio State University: April 22, 2010, BL 205, 11AM - 12:30 PM Lecture, Given sense‐making/sensemaking by any other name: Dervin's sense‐making
  and other forms of the beast, RSVP: http://lecturedervinapril22.eventbrite.com; and 2PM - 4PM Workshop, Sense‐making in Collaborative Practice: Can Media Design Support Sense‐making in Professional Practice Collaboration and Decision Making? RSVP: http://workshopdervinapril22.eventbrite.com.

   

  

   

  • In Process, April 8, 2010, 4:15PM - 5:15PM: Max Evans and Joel Alleyne: Grounded in a social construction view of knowledge, this paper attempts to extend Colin Reilly’s knowledge domain model using a process modeling approach. The objective of this paper is to construct a more comprehensive meta-understanding of knowledge domains that considers the influence of organizational context, of a community or group, the presence of events and knowledge artifacts, temporal cycles, and individual knowledge processes. The proposed model is then applied to an Inter-Professional Care (IPC) setting within health care.
  • Professional Development Event: Thursday April 1st, 4-6pm, 140 St. George, Faculty of Information, Brian Cantwell Smith Idea Exchange, 4th floor.Click here or go to http://hub.kmdi.utoronto.ca/event
  
  
  • JOB Posting: STUDENT positions part of IBM Canada's EPIC (Employment Pathways to Interns & Co-ops) Student Program. Posting
  
  
  • Allan Collins, Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology: Archive