Dan Suthers
Location: (Honolulu, HI)
Personal Research Web Page: http://lilt.ics.hawaii.edu/%7Esuthers/
Keywords: computer supported collaborative learning, social informatics, representational affordances
Posted on: Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
Broad Research Area: Computer Science Education / Educational Technology, HCI / CSCW, Social Computing / Social Informatics
Research Interests:
General research area: Cognitive, social and computational perspectives on designing and evaluating software for learning, collaboration, and community.
Current focus: Representational affordances in computer supported collaborative learning. Specifically, designing software interfaces to enable learners to construct, discuss, and manipulate representations of their evolving knowledge, and the study of how the notations used in these interfaces affect discourse between learners and learning outcomes.
Uncovering how intersubjective meaning-making can take place through multiple notational tools in computer workspaces, and the roles of language-based and visual/symbolic representations.
Social affordances for online communities, including support for multiple communities and pathways by which participants can discover synergistic value in the larger community.
Prior Activity and Related Interests: Coaching agents, component technology and interoperability (especially at the semantic level), computer mediated communication, networked architectures for collaborative and intelligent learning systems, usability.
Contact Information:
Email suthers at hawaii dot edu, but allow a week or two for me to get to your email. For urgent requests send the email and then leave a message at 808 956 3890.
