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1. Personal Information

Higher Education

1985 Open University, Institute of Educational Technology. Ph.D. Dissertation: Interpreting Cartesian Graphs: A Study of Children’s Interpretation Skills Using Computers.
1972 Chelsea College University of London, Teacher Training.
1971 University of Ulster, Honors Degree, Biology B.Sc. (scholarship for Ph.D.).
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Employment and Promotions

2005 University of Maryland, Professor and Dean, College of Information Studies
2002 University of Maryland Baltimore County, Professor, Information Systems Department
1997 University of Maryland Baltimore County, Professor and Department Chair, Information Systems Department

Please note that ranks in British and American universities differ. I have therefore tried to indicate the broad equivalents for the following full-time and part-time appointments. Some part-time appointment ran concurrently with full-time appointments, which was normal.
1994 South Bank University, Professor of Information Systems and Human-Computer Interaction and Director of the Center for People and Systems Interactions
1991/2 Open University Graduate Tutor for Human-Computer Interaction
1990 Open University, Senior Lecturer (equivalent to a senior Associate Professor)
1985 Open University, Lecturer in Computing (equivalent to Associate Professor)
1981 Open University, Lecturer in Computer Based Education (equivalent to Assistant Professor)
1979 Open University, Milton Keynes, Course Manager
1977 Barnfield College, Lecturer in Biology and Computing (equivalent to College Lecturer)
1975 Computers in the Curriculum Project, University of London, Researcher and Developer
1974 The Study, Wimbledon, Head of High School Science
1972 Faraday Comprehensive School, London, Borough of Ealing, High School Teacher



Brief overview of my career development

In 1975 I joined the Computers in the Curriculum Project at Chelsea College, University of London. This was a national, highly innovative project to develop computer-based learning curricula for teaching science at university and senior high school.

I then moved to the Open University (OU) where I started working on my Ph.D. part-time in 1980 while working full-time for the university. In 1985 I gained my Ph.D. and I was awarded immediate tenure at the Open University, which was an unusual honor.

In 1994 I became Research Professor of Information Systems and Director of the Research Center for People and Systems Interaction at South Bank University in London.

In 1996 I moved to the USA and became Chair of Information Systems at University of Maryland Baltimore County for five and a half years. During this time we more than doubled the number of faculty members, revised our programs, developed a distance Masters program and increased our research productivity considerably. In January 2005 I moved to the University of Maryland at College Park to be Professor and Dean of the College of Information Studies.

2. Research and Scholarship
After completing my Ph.D. in 1985 my research focused on information systems, computer-mediated communication, human-computer interaction, distance education, and online communities. My current research is concerned with the design and management of online communities. I work with communities of practice, health, education, non-profit and knowledge communities.

My research addresses questions concerned with sociability and usability in online communities. I focus on three main research areas: (i) knowledge exchange, cross-cultural communication, empathy, trust, and etiquette online; (ii) why and how people participate, or do not participate; and (iii) heuristics and methods for developing, maintaining and evaluating online communities.

Books

Sharp, H., Rogers, Y., Preece, J. (2007) Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons. Second Edition. (Draft)

Van den Bresselaar, P., de Michelis, G., Preece, J., Simone, C. (Eds.) (2005) Communities and Technologies, 2005. Netherlands: Springer.

Preece, J., Rogers, Y. & Sharp, H. (2002) Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons. (519 pages). This co-authored book is the text for teaching human-computer interaction to undergraduate and masters students in many universities. www.id-book.com

Preece, J. (2000) Online Communities: Designing Usability, Supporting Sociability. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons. (439 pages)

This is one of the first comprehensive texts about online communities and it has been well reviewed. It was the first book to coherently bring together the sociability and usability issues in online community development.

Preece, J., Rogers, Y., Sharp, H., Benyon, D., Holland, S. & Carey, T. (1994) Human-Computer Interaction. Wokingham, UK: Addison-Wesley. (775 pages)

This book was a leading text in HCI until Interaction Design was published in 2002. In the October 1994 issue of the SIGCHI Bulletin, Gary Perlman said in his review: "Preece et al. have done for HCI what Pressman and Sommerville did for software engineering in their widely used textbooks: they have digested the research and practice and presented the material in a pedagogically sound manner. ... it is the first [book] that fits the billing of a good textbook for graduate and undergraduate use." p. 82. Seven years later in a review of the top ten HCI books on Amazon Perlman still rated this book as number 8 with the comment “the first real textbook in HCI - still useful”.

Preece, J. (Ed.) (1993) A Guide to Usability: Human Factors in Computing. Wokingham, UK: Addison-Wesley.

Preece, J. & Davies, G. (1991) Getting the Most from Office Technology, U.K Crown Copyright

Preece, J. et al. (1990) A Guide to Usability, Open University and Crown Copyright.

Preece J. & Keller L. S. (Eds.) (1990) Readings in Human-Computer Interaction, Prentice-Hall, 1990.

Book Chapters

Preece, J. (2007)Making Universal Access Truly Universal: Looking Towards the Future. Chapter 19. In J. Lazar (Ed.) Universal Usability. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons.

Abras, C., Maloney-Krichmar, D., Preece, J. (2004) User-Centered Design. In Bainbridge, William Sims (Ed.). (2004). Berkshire Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing Group.

Preece, J., Maloney-Krichmar, D. and Abras, C. (2003) History of Online Communities. In Karen Christensen & David Levinson (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Community: From Village to Virtual World. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1023-1027.

Nonnecke, B. & Preece, J. (2002) Silent Participants: Getting to Know Lurkers Better. In C. Leug & D. Fisher (Eds.) From Usenet to CoWebs: Interacting with Social Information Spaces. Springer-Verlag: Amsterdam, Holland, 110-132.

Andrews, D., Nonnecke, B. & Preece, J. (2002). Conducting Research on the Internet: Online Survey Design, Development and Implementation Guidelines. Submitted for review.

Lazar, J. and Preece, J. (2002) Online Communities: Usability, Sociability and Users’ Requirements. In H. van Oostendorp, Cognition in the Digital World. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc. Publishers. Mahwah: NJ. 127-151

Preece, J. (2002) Interaction Issues for Special Applications. Introduction to Section III. In J. Jacko and A. Sears (Eds.) The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc. Publishers. Mahwah: NJ. 523-525.

Preece, J. (Ed) (2002) Section 111C, Interaction Issues for Special Applications in J. Jacko, A. Sears (Editors of Collection), The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ, 523-755 (11 chapters).

Preece, J. and Diane Maloney-Krichmar (2002) Online Communities. In J. Jacko and A. Sears, A. (Eds.) The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc. Publishers. Mahwah: NJ. 596-620.

Smith, D., Huang, Z., Preece, J., Sears, A. (2002) The Effects of Using a Triangulation Approach of Evaluation Methodologies to Examine the Usability of a University Website. In T. Barrier (Ed.) Human-Computer Interaction Development and Management. IRM Press: Hershey, 243-254.

Preece, J. and Ghozati, K. (2001) Observations and Explorations of Empathy Online. In. R. R. Rice and J. E. Katz, The Internet and Health Communication: Experience and Expectations. Sage Publications Inc.: Thousand Oaks. 237-260.

Lazar, J. and Preece, J. (2001) Using Electronic Surveys to Evaluate Networked Resources: From Idea to Implementation. In C. R. McClure and J. C. Berto, Evaluating Networked Information Services: Techniques, Policy and Issues. Medford, NJ: Information Today.

Preece, J. (2001) Online communities: Usability, Sociability, Theory and Methods. In R. Earnshaw, R. Guedj, A. van Dam and T. Vince (Eds) Frontiers of Human-Centred Computing, Online Communities and Virtual Environments. Springer Verlag: Amsterdam, 263-277.

Preece, J. J. (1993) Hypermedia, Multimedia and Human Factors, Chapter 7 In C. Latchem, J. Williamson, and L. Henderson-Lancett. (Eds) Interactive Multimedia, Practice and Promise. Kogan Page. 135 – 150.

Preece, J. J. (1991) Supporting User Testing in Human-Computer Interaction, In H. Maurer (Ed.) New results and New Trends in Computer Science, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer-Verlag. 256-267.

Preece, J. (1990) Issues Concerned with Displaying Quantitative Information Graphically. In M. Tauber. Visualisation in Human Computer Interaction. Springer-Verlag.

Preece, J. and Jones A. (1986) Distance learning and the Third World. In C. Taylor (Ed) Information Transfer. Vol 9, Pergamon Press.

Preece, J. and Jones A. (1986) Using simulations in Science Education in developing countries. In C. Taylor (Ed.) Information Transfer. Vol 9, Pergamon Press.

Preece, J. (1983) Graphs are not Straightforward. In T. R. G. Green, S. J. Payne and G. L. Van der Veer (Eds.). The Psychology of Computer Use. Academic Press.

Denham, J. (1978) Human Energy Expenditure. In M. E. Leveridge. Ch. 7, Computers in the Biology Curriculum. Edward Arnold.

Denham, J. (1978) Predator–Prey Relationships. In M. E. Leveridge. Ch. 4, Computers in the Biology Curriculum, Edward Arnold.

Refereed Journal Publications

Komlodi, A., Ho, W., Preece, J., Druin, A., Golub, E., Alburo, J., Liao, S., Elkis, A., Resnick, P. (2007) Evaluating a cross-cultural children's online book community: Lessons learned for sociability, usability, and Cultural exchange. Interacting with Computers. 19, 494-511.
http://authors.elsevier.com/offprints/INTCOM1598/e2fb0289e570622d3bad2d812d20aad6 PDF

Shneiderman, B., Preece, J. (2007) 911gov. Science 315, 944. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/315/5814/944

Jaeger, P. T., Shneiderman, B., Fleischmann, K. R., Preece, J., Qu, Y., & Wu, F. P. (2007, in press). Community response grids: E-government, social networks, and effective emergency response. Telecommunications Policy. http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/911gov/

Schoberth, T., Heinzl, A., Preece, J.  (2006) Exploring Communication Activities in Online Communities: A Longitudinal Analysis in the Financial Services Industry. Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce. 16, 3 /4, 247-265. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. Country of Publication: United States - Mahwah, NJ.

Nonnecke, B., Andrews, D., Preece, J.  (2006) Non-public and public online community participation: Needs, attitudes and behavior. Electronic Commerce Research, 6, 1, 7-20.

Nonnecke, B., Preece, J., & Andrews, D. (2005). Lurking and public participation in discretionary online communities. Electronic Commerce Research. 5(4).

Abras, C., Ozok, A., Preece, J. (2005) Research methods for validating and deriving guidelines for e-learning online communities. Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2, 207-219. Troubator Publishing.

Preece, J. and Jones, A. (2005) Online Communities for teachers and life-long learners: A framework for comparing similarities and identifying differences in Communities of Practice and Communities of Interest. (Accepted International Journal of Learning Technology) 2, 2/3, 112-137. http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=87&year=2006&vol=2&issue=2/3

Maloney-Krichmar, D., Preece, J. (2005) A multilevel analysis of sociability, usability and community dynamics in an online health community Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction (TOCHI), 12, 2, 1-32. (PDF)

Andrews, D., Nonnecke, B., Preece, J. (2004) Online community personalities: Characteristics that influence participation. (Submitted to Behavior and Information Technology Journal)

Preece, J. (2004) Online Communities: Researching sociability and usability in hard to reach populations. AJIS, Australian Journal of Information Systems, 1, 146-151.

Nahm, E.-S, Preece, J., Resnick, B., & Mills, M. E. (2004) Usability of Health Web Sites for Older Adults: A Preliminary Study. Computers, Informatics and Nursing, 22, 6, 326-336.

De Souza, C., S., Preece, J. (2004) A framework for analyzing and understanding online communities. Interacting with Computers, The Interdisciplinary Journal of Human-Computer Interaction,16, 3, 579-610.

Feng, J., Lazar, J., Preece, J. (2004) Empathic and predictable communication influences online interpersonal trust. Behavior and Information Technology (accepted, in press)

McGrow, K.,Horsman Brennan, A., Preece, J. (2004) Development of a tool for heuristic evaluation of healthcare information systems. Computers, Informatics, Nursing, Journal of Hospice & Palliative Nursing.

Preece, J. (2004) Etiquette Online: From nice to necessary. Communications of the ACM, 47, 4, 56-61.

Preece, J. (2004) Etiquette and trust drive online communities of practice. Journal of Universal Computer Science.

Preece, J., Abras, C., Maloney-Krichmar, D. (2004) Designing and Evaluating Online Communities: Research Speaks to Emerging Practice. International Journal of Web-based Communities. 1, 1, 2-18.

Preece, J., Nonnecke, B., Andrews, D. (2004) The top 5 reasons for lurking: Improving community experiences for everyone. Computers in Human Behavior, 20, 2, 201-223.

Andrews, D., Nonnecke, B., Preece, J. (2003) Electronic survey methodology: A case study in reaching hard to involve Internet Users. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. 16, 2, 185-210.

Macht, L-N., Preece, J. (2003) How accurately do instructors judge students’ attitudes online? A measurement of expectations and level of satisfaction with an online Information Systems masters program. Association for Learning Technology Journal, 10, 3, 70-82.

Andrews, D., Preece, J., and Turoff, M. (2002) A conceptual framework for demographic groups resistant to online community. International Journal of Electronic Commerce, 6, 3, 9-24.

Bieber, M., Engelbart, D., Furuta, R., Hiltz, S. R., Noll, J., Preece, J., Stohr, E. A., Turoff, M., Van de Walle, B. (2002) Toward virtual community knowledge evolution. Journal of Management Information Systems, 11-35

Preece, J. (2002) Supporting Community and Building Social Capital. Special edition of Communications of the ACM, 45, 4. 37- 39.

Lazar, J., Hanst, E., Buchwalter, J., and Preece, J. (2001). Collecting user requirements in a virtual population. WebNet Journal: Internet Technologies, Applications, and Issues, 2, 4, 20-27.

Preece, J. (2001) Sociability and usability: Twenty years of chatting online. Behavior and Information Technology Journal, 20, 5, 347-356.

Brown, J. R., van Dam, A., Earnshaw, R., Encarnacao, J., Geudj, R., Preece, J., Shneiderman, B., Vince, J. (1999) Human-centered computing, online communities, and virtual environments. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. 19, 6, 70-74.

Brown, J. R., van Dam, A., Earnshaw, R., Encarnacao, J., Geudj, R., Preece, J., Shneiderman, B., Vince, J. (1999) Human-centered computing, online communities, and virtual environments. ACM Interactions. 6, 5.

Brown, J. R., van Dam, A., Earnshaw, R., Encarnacao, J., Geudj, R., Preece, J., Shneiderman, B., Vince, J. (1999) Special report on human-centered computing, online communities, and virtual environments. ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics. 33, 3, 42-62

Lazar, J & Preece, J. (1999) Designing and implementing web-based surveys The Journal of Computer Information Systems. Xxxix, 4, 63-67

Lazar, J., Tsao, R., and Preece, J. (1999). One foot in cyberspace and the other on the ground: A case study of analysis and design issues in a hybrid virtual and physical community. WebNet Journal: Internet Technologies, Applications, and Issues, 1, 3, 49-57.

Preece, J. (1999) Empathy online. Virtual Reality. 4, 1-11.

Preece, J. (1999) Empathic communities: Balancing emotional and factual communication. Interacting with Computers, The Interdisciplinary Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. 12, 1, 63-77.

Squires, D. and Preece, J. (1999) Predicting quality in educational software: Evaluating for learning, usability, and the synergy between them. Interacting with Computers, The Interdisciplinary Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 11, 5, 467-483.

Van Oostendorp, H., Preece, J. and Arnold, B. (1999) Designing multimedia for human needs and capabilities. Guest editorial. Interacting with Computers, The Interdisciplinary Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. 12, 1, 1-5

Ramsay, J., Barbaresi, A. and Preece, J. (1998) A psychological investigation of long retrieval times on the World Wide Web. Interacting with Computers, The Interdisciplinary Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 10, 77-86.

Gasen, J. and Preece, J. (1996) Collaborative team projects: Key issues for effective learning. Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 24, 4.

Ramsay, J., Barbaresi, A. and Preece, J. (1996) Informal communication is about sharing media and objects. Interacting with Computers, The Interdisciplinary Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 8, 3.

Squires, D. and Preece, J. (1996) Usability and learning: Evaluating the potential of educational software. Computers and Education, 27, 1, 15-22.

Jacques, R., Preece, J. and Carey, T. (1995) Engagement as a design concept for multimedia. The Canadian Journal of Educational Communications, Special Issue on Multimedia Design and Production, 24, 1, 49-59.

Nonnecke, B., Jacques, R., McKerlie, D. and Preece, J. (1995) Video-based hypermedia: Guiding design with users questions, The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia: Applications and Research, 1, 185-197.

Preece, J. and Shneiderman, B. (1995) Survival of the fittest. The evolution of multimedia. ACM Computing Surveys, 27, 4 (December), 557-559.

Preece, J. J. and Rombach, D. (1994) A taxonomy for combining software engineering (SE) & human-computer interaction (HCI) measurement approaches: Towards a common framework. The International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 14, 553-583.

Jacques, R., Nonnecke, B., McKerlie, D. and Preece, J. (1993) Current designs in HyperCard: What can we learn? Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia.

McKerlie, D. and Preece, J. J. (1993) The hype and the media: Issues concerned with designing hypermedia, Journal of Microcomputer Applications, 16, 1 , 33-47.

Preece, J. (1993) Human-computer interaction in the informatics curriculum. Education and Computing.

Preece, J. J. and Janvier, C. (1992) Interpreting trends in multiple curve graphs of ecological situations - The Role of Context, International Journal of Science Education, 14, 10.

Preece J. and Janvier C. (1992) The role of context in interpreting graphs. Journal of School Science and Mathematics, 6, 299-306.

Mantei, M., Hewett, T., Eason, K. and Preece, J. (1991) Report on the INTERACT'90 workshop on education in HCI: Transcending disciplinary and national boundaries. Interacting with Computers, 3, 2, 232-240.

Preece, J. J. (1991) Human-computer interaction: What about teaching and training? Computer Bulletin, Journal of the British Computer Society.

Preece, J. J. and Crellin, J. (1991) Assessing the usability of different evaluation techniques in a small company. Journal of Information and Software Technology, 33,5, 366 - 382.

Preece, J. J. and Keller, L. S. (1991) Teaching the practitioners: Developing a distance learning postgraduate HCI course. Interacting with Computers, 3, 1, 92-118.

Preece, J. J., Maurer, H. and Davies, G. (1991) Presentation metaphors for a very large hypermedia system, Journal of Microcomputer Applications, 14, 105-116.

Preece, J and Jones, A. (1986) Relating research to curriculum and course development. Computer Education, 10, 1, 149-153.

Preece J. (1985) Graphs are Greek to most people. Design, 4, 37, 39-43.

Preece J. and Jones A. (1985) Training teachers to select educational computer software. British Journal of Educational Technology, 1, 16.

Preece J. and Squires D. (1984) Selecting CAL Packages: Helping teachers to recognize quality software. Computer Education, 4, 6, 20-21.

Preece J. (1983) A study of pupils’ graph concepts with a qualitative interactive graph sketching program. Computer Education, 8, 1, 159-163.

Refereed Conference Publications

Wu, P. F., Preece, J., Shneiderman, B., Jaeger, P. T., & Qu, Y, (2007). Community Response Grids for Older Adults: Motivations, Usability, and Sociability (Pdf File), 13th Americas Conference on Information Systems, (AMCIS'07), Keystone, Colorado, USA. August 9-12.

Komlodi, A., Preece, J Allison Druin, Philip Resnik, Enrique Stanziola, Lingling Zahn, Aaron Elkiss, Sabrina Liao, Roya Swartz (2006), Supporting Children’s Cross-Cultural, Cross-Language Communication. www.hci-international.org Beijing, China.

De Almeida Barbosa, C., Barbosa, C. A., Leitao, C. F., de Souza, C. S., Preece, J. (2005) Analysis of a Brazilian Online Health Community using the Online Community Framework (Submitted to Brazilian National Human-Computer Interaction Conference 2005).

Hou, W., Komlodi, A., Preece, J. (2005) The Study Design of a Cross-Cultural Instant Messaging Study. www.hci-international.org

Maloney-Krichmar, D., Preece, J. (2005) What Do Patients want from Online Health Support? www.hci-international.org

Munoz-Cornejo, G., Holden, S., H. Preece, J. (2005) Analyzing Activity Levels in Online Health Communities with a Mixed Methodology. www.hci-international.org

De Almeida Barbosa, C., Barbosa, C. A., Leitao, C. F., de Souza, C. S., Preece, J. (2005) Analysis of a Brazilian Online Health Community using the Online Community Framework Brazilian National Human-Computer Interaction Conference 2005

Nonnecke, B., Andrews, D., Preece, J. (2004) Online Lurking: Current and past. Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Conference, Brighton, UK, September.

Nonnecke, B., Preece, J., Andrews, D., Voutour, R. (2004) Online lurkers tell why. American Conference on Information Systems. (AMCIS) New York, August 5-8. (Nominated for Best Paper Award)

Nonnecke, B., Preece, J., Andrews, D. (2004) What lurkers and posters think of each other, Internet and the Digital Economy Track of the Thirty-Seventh Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-37) (Nominated for Best Paper Award)

Nonnecke, B., Preece, J., Andrews, D. (2004) What lurkers and posters think of each other. Internet and the Digital Economy Track of the Thirty-Seventh Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-37)

Feng, J., Lazar, J., and Preece, J. (2004). Empathy Online and Online Interpersonal Trust: A Fragile Relationship. Behaviour and Information Technology, 23(2), 97-106.

Abras, C., Maloney-Krichmar, D., Preece, J. (2003) Evaluating an online academic community: Purpose is the key. In C. Sephanidis & J. Jacko (Eds.) HCI International, Crete, Greece, Human-Computer Interaction, Theories and Practice (Part 1) Volume 2, 829-833.

Lazar, J.,Preece, J. (2003) Stop the Spam. Chi’2003, Extended Abstracts (CD-ROM)

Lemon, W., Holden, S.H. and Preece, J. (2003) A Descriptive Model for Federal E-government: A Necessary Step Prior to Field Research. Information Technology and Organizations: Trends, Issues, Challenges and Solutions. Ed. Mehdi Khosrowpour; Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing, 359-362.>

Maloney-Krichmar, D., Eckert, K., Preece, J. (2003) A critique of an ethnographic approach to the study of an online health support community: Advantages, disadvantages, and lessons learned. Duquense Ethnography Conference, Philadelphia, 10-12.

Maloney-Krichmar, D., Preece, J. (2003) An ethnographic study of an online health support community. Duquense Ethnography Conference, Philadelphia, 10-12.

Preece, J. (2003) Tacit knowledge and social capital: Supporting sociability in online Communities of Practice. Proceedings of I-KNOW’03, 3rd International Conference on Knowledge Management. Graz, Austria, July 2-4. In K. Tochtermann and H. Maurer, 72-78.

Preece, J., Abras, C. (2003) The challenges of teaching HCI online: It’s mostly about creating community. In C. Sephanidis & J. Jacko (Eds.) HCI International, Crete, Greece. Human-Computer Interaction, Theories and Practice (Part 1) Volume 1, 391-395.

Schoberth, T., Preece, J., Armin Heinzl (2003) Online Communities: A Longitudinal Analysis of Communication Activities Proceedings of the Thirty-sixth Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. January 6 to 9, 2003, Big Island, Hawaii, USA. (electronic form only).

Lazar, J. Preece, J., Gasen, J. and Winograd, T. (2002) New issues in teaching HCI: Pinning a tail on a moving donkey. Extended Abstracts, CHI’2002 Conference, 696-697.

Maloney-Krichmar, D., Abras, C. Preece, J. (2002) Revitalizing a stalled online community: Beyond user-centered design. Social Implications of Information and Communication Technology. 2002 International Symposium on Technology and Society ISTAS’02, 13-19

Maloney-Krichmar, D., Preece, J. (2002) The Meaning of an Online Health Community in the Lives of Its Members: Roles, Relationships and Group Dynamics. Social Implications ofInformation and Communication Technology. 2002 International Symposium on Technology and Society ISTAS’02, 20-27.

Preece, J., Resnick, P., Schuler, D., Sieckenius de Souza (2002) What’s SIGCHI’s role in strengthening community? Extended Abstracts, CHI’2002 Conference, 566-567

Andrews, D., Nonnecke, B. & Preece, J. (2001). Web-based Surveys: Exploring Design and Implementation Issues. 2nd International Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers
http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/dca4/Final Web-based surveys-aoir2001.pdf

Andrews, D., Preece, J. and Turoff, M. (2001) A Conceptual Framework for Demographic Groups Resistant to Online Community Interaction. Proceedings of the Thirty-fourth Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. IEEE Press: Washington, D.C.

Bieber, Michael, Douglas Engelbart, Richard Furuta, Starr Roxanne Hiltz, John Noll, Jenny Preece, Edward Stohr, Murray Turoff and Bartel Van De Walle. (2001) Virtual Community Knowledge Evolution. Proceedings of the 34th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, IEEE Press:Washington, D.C.http://www.cis.njit.edu/~bieber/pub/hicss01/hicss01-ckess.pdf

Nonnecke, B., & Preece, J. (2001). Why lurkers lurk. Americas Conference on Information Systems 2001. AIS. Boston, MA.

Preece, J. (2001) Designing Usability, Supporting Sociability: Questions Participants Ask About Online Communities. Opening Keynote Address. INTERACT’2001 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. July 9-13. IOS Press, Amsterdam, 3-12.

Smith, D., Huang, S. & Preece, J. (2001) Triangulating Between Different Techniques in the Evaluation of a Large Website. AIS Conference, Toronto, May.

Smith, D., Huang, S. & Preece, J. (2001) Usability evaluation WETICE, June.

Smith, D., Huang, Z., Preece, J. and Sears, A. (2001) The Effects of Using a Triangulation Approach of Evaluation Methodologies to Examine the Usability of a University Website. IRMA International Conference, Toronto, Canada.

Lazar, J. and Preece, J. (2000) Sampling Methodologies for Using Electronic Surveys to Evaluate Networked Information Resources. ASIS May, 24-26, Pasadena.

Nonnecke, B. and Preece, J. (2000) Lurker Demographics: Counting the Silent. Proceedings of CHI’2000, Hague, The Netherlands, 73-80.

Nonnecke, B. and Preece, J. (2000) Persistence and Lurkers in Discussion Lists: A Pilot Study. Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

Preece, J. (2000) Shaping Communities: Empathy, Hostility, Lurking, Participation. Proceedings of CPSR DIAC2000, Shaping the Network Society: The Future of the Public Sphere in Cyberspace, Seattle, 25-34.

Khoo, B. K, S. and Preece, J. (1999) A Web-based Interactive Design Scenario for Teaching Novice User Interface Designers. SAIS Conference.

Khoo, B. K. S. and Preece, J. (1999) A Constructionist Approach to User Interface Design Pedagogy. 14th Annual Conference, International Academy of Information Management. Charlotte: NA.

Lazar, J. and Preece, J. (1999) Implementing Service Learning in an Online Communities Course. 14th Annual Conference, International Academy of Information Management. Charlotte: NA. 22-27.

Lazar, J. and Preece, J. (1999) Sampling Methodologies for Using Electronic Surveys to Evaluate Networked Information Resources. ASIS Midyear Conference, May 1999, Los Angeles.

Nonnecke, B. and Preece, J. (1999) Shedding light on Lurkers in Online Communities. Ethnographic Studies in Real and Virtual Environments: Inhabited Information Spaces and Connected Communities. 24-26 January, Edinburgh. Ed. K. Buckner. 123-128.

Lazar, J., and Preece, J. (1998). Classification Schema for Online Communities. Proceedings of the 1998 Association for Information Systems, Americas Conference, 84-86.

Neal, L. and Preece, J. (1998) CHI Panel on Distance Education. CHI’98 Companion Volume of Proceedings.

Preece, J. (1998) Empathy on-line: Is It Different for Men and Women? American Psychological Association Conference, LA, August

Preece, J. (1998) Offering Support and Sharing Information: A Study of Empathy in a Bulletin Board Community, UK CVE Conference, June 17-19.

Preece, J. and Ghozati, K. (1998). In Search of Empathy Online: A Review of 100 Online Communities. Proceedings of the 1998 Association for Information Systems Americas Conference, 92-94

Ramsay, J., Jacques, R. and Preece, J. (1996) Organization Overview: Research at the Center for People and Systems Interaction. CHI’1996 Companion to the Proceedings.

Gary Perlman, Arye R. Ephrath, Thomas T. Hewett, John Long, S. Joy Mountford, Jenny Preece (1994): Is HCI education getting a passing grade from industry? CHI Conference Companion 1994: 189-190

Jacques, R., Nonnecke, B., McKerlie, D. and Preece, J. (1993) A Summary of What We Can Learn from Current HyperCard Stack Designs, ED-MEDIA.

McKerlie, D. and Preece, J. J. (1992) The Hypermedia Effect: More than just the Sum of the Parts, in Gornostaev, J. (ed.), International HCI Conference Proceedings, International Center for Scientific and Technical Information, 115-126.

Preece, J. J. and Davies, G. (1992) Multimedia: Some promises, Some problems and Some issues, Proceedings of the International Interactive Multimedia Conference, Perth.

Davies, G. and Preece J. J. (1990) Computer Science, Home Computing and Distance Learning, SIGCSE Bulletin..

Davies, G. and Preece J. (1990) Home computing as an integral part of distance learning. IFIP Conference, Methodologies of Training Data Processing Professionals and Advanced End-Users. 153-159.

Hekmatpour S., Preece J., Woodman M. and Ince D. (1990) Graphics Tools for Software Engineers, In Kilgour, A. (Ed.), Cambridge University Press.

Preece, J. (1990) Multi-media Promises and problems in HCI. Munich Multi-media Colloquium.

Preece, J. J., Crellin, J. and Horn, T. (1990) Evaluating Evaluation: A Case Study of the Use of Novel and Conventional Evaluation Techniques in a Small Company, Procs INTERACT'90 - 3rd European Conference on Human Computer Interaction, North Holland, 329-335.

Preece, J. J. and Keller, L. S. (1990) Why, What and How? Issues in the Development of an HCI Training Course, Procs INTERACT'90 - 3rd European Conference on Human Computer Interaction, North Holland, 3-7.

Preece, J. J. and Keller, L. S. (1990) Teaching Human-Computer Interaction to Computer Professionals by Distance Learning: Some Key Issues, Procs of World Conference on Computers in Education, Sydney, Australia. 561-567.

Davies, G. and Preece J. (1990) Home computing as an integral part of distance learning. IFIP Conference, Methodologies of Training Data Processing Professionals and Advanced End-Users. 153-159.

Preece J., Davies G., Woodman M. and Ince D C., (1987) A Coherent Specification Method for the User Interface of Documentation Systems, in Earnshaw, R. A. (ed.), Workstations and Publication Systems, Springer-Verlag.

Preece J., Woodman M., Ince D. C., Griffiths R. and Davies G. (1987) Towards a Structured Approach to Specifying User Interface Design, in Bullinger, H. J. and Shackel B. (eds.), Human-Computer Interaction - INTERACT ’87, North-Holland, 415-421.

Woodman M., Ince D. C., Davies G. and Preece J. (1987) A Grammar Formalism as a Basis for the Syntax-Directed Editing of Graphical Notations, In Earnshaw, R. A. (ed.), Workstations and Publication Systems, Springer-Verlag.

Davies, G. and Preece J. (1986) The Use of Distance Learning to Provide Professional Retraining in Computing. Proceedings of IFIP Conference on Distance Learning, Budapest, North Holland.

Jones, A and Preece J. (1986) Relating Research to Curriculum and Course Development, in Smith, P. R. (ed.) Advances in Computer-Assisted Learning, Selected Proceedings from the CAL’85 Conference, Pergamon Press, 149-153.

Preece J. and Jones A. (1985) The Educational Software Pack for the Open University, in Lovis, F. B. and Tagg, E. D. (eds.), Informatics and Teacher Training, North Holland.

Preece J. and Jones A. (1985) A Distance Learning Pack for Training Teachers to Assess Software, WCCE 1985, Computers in Education.

Preece J and Jones A. (1985) A Distance Learning Pack for Training Teachers to Assess Software, in Duncan, K and Harris, D. L. (eds.) WCCE 1985. Computers in Education, North Holland.

Preece J., Jones A. and Wood J. (1985) Bridging the Gap: Post Awareness Teacher Training, in Duncan, K and Harris, D. L. (eds.) WCCE 1985. Computers in Education, North Holland.

Preece J. (1984) Examining Children's Concepts of Graphs, Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress of Psychology, Acapulco, Mexico, September.

Preece, J. (1984) Interpreting Trends in Computer-Generated Graphical Displays. CAL’79, Symposium on Computer Assisted Learning. Exeter.

Preece, J. (1983) A study of pupil’s graph concepts with a qualitative interactive graph sketching program. Selected Proceedings from the Computer Assisted Learning 83 Symposium in P.R. Smith (Ed) 159-163.

Preece J. (1981) Inservice Teacher Training about Microcomputers: An Open University Initiative in Distance Learning, in Lewis, R. and Tagg, E D (eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd World Conference on Computers in Education - WCCE 81, North Holland Publishing Company.

Preece, J. and Lewis, B. (1981) Improving Students’ Data Interpretation Skills via CAL Graphics, CAL’81, Symposium on Computer Assisted Learning, 59-E-Thu: am/1.

Preece, J. (1980) Interpreting Cartesian Graphs. CAL’80, Symposium on Computer Assisted Learning. Exeter. Denham, J. and Tagg, W. (1979) Using a Computer to Teach Genetics, CAL’79, Symposium on Computer Assisted Learning, University of Surrey.

Publications in Progress

Paul T. Jaeger, Kenneth R. Fleischmann, Jenny Preece, Yan Qu, & Philip Fei Wu [order TBD, in progress] Community Response Grids: Facilitating Community Response to Biosecurity and Bioterror Emergencies through Information and Communication Technologies. Biosecurity and Bioterrorism Journal.

Refereed Workshop and Magazine Publications

Preece, J., Maloney-Krichmar, D. (2005) Guest Editors for Special Edition, Online Communities: Design, Theory and Practice Journal of Computer Mediated Communication http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol10/issue4/

Alburo, J., Komlodi, A., Preece, J., Druin, A., Elkis, A., Resnick, P. (2005) Evaluating a cross-cultural children’s online book community: Sociability, usability and cultural exchange. HCIL Technical Report. http://hcil.cs.umd.edu/trs/2005-18/2005-18.html

Alburo, J., Komlodi, A., Preece, J., Clamage, A., Druin, A., Elkis, A., Hou, W., Liao, S., Resnick, P. (2005) Poster and Video. Cross-cultural children’s online book communities. University of Maryland, HCIL, Open House, June.

Preece, J. (2003) Teaching children about world tensions. E-Learning Magazine.

Dykstra-Erickson, E., Rogers, Y., Sharp, H., Preece, J. (2002) Perspectives on Interaction Design. ACM Interactions, March/April, 119-122.

Bruckman, A., Druin, A., Inkpen, K., and Preece, J. (2001) The Children’s Challenge: New Technologies and Children. ACM SIGCHI Bulletin.

Farnham, S., Smith, M., Preece, J. Bruckman, A. and Schuler, D. (2001) Integrating Diverse Research and Development Approaches to the Construction of Social Cyberspaces. CHI’2001 Workshop Proposal, Extended Abstracts, CHI 2001, 489-490.

Preece, J. (2001) Online Communities: Designing usability and supporting sociability. IFIP Newsletter, 18, 3, 3-5.

Preece, J. (2000) Online Communities: Empathy, Participation and Lurking. Position paper for Online Communities Workshop. CHI’2000.

Nonnecke, B. and Preece, J. (1999) Lurking Online. Position paper for Online Communities Workshop. CHI’99.

Preece, J. (1999) Invited position paper for NSF and EU Workshop invitation only to develop a research agenda for HCI. A research agenda for Online Communities: Understanding behavior, predicting outcomes and informing design. June 1-5, Toulouse, France.

Preece, J. (1999) What happens after you get online? Information Impacts Magazine. December

Neal, L. and Preece, J. (1998) CHI Panel, ‘Distance Education’. CHI’98 Companion.

Neal, L. and Preece, J. (1998) Workshop Report on Distance Education, ACM SIGCHI Bulletin.

Preece, J. (1998) Empathic communities: Reaching out across the web. Interactions, 32-43.

Preece, J. (1998) CHI Panel, ‘Human-Computer Interaction Education’. CHI’98 Companion Volume of Proceedings.

Ramsay, J., Jacques, Preece, J. (1996) CHI Organization Overview: Research at the Center for People and Systems Interaction. CHI’96 Companion.

Preece, J. (1995) CHI Panel ‘Human-Computer Interaction Education. CHI’95.

Gasen, J., Preece, J., Gorny, P. and Hewett, T. (1993) Advances in Teaching the HCI Design Process, ACM SIGCHI Bulletin.

Keller, L. and Preece, J. (1992) Who develops tools for whom, for what and how? Simulation and Modelling Workshop, University of Surrey.

Preece, J. J. (1992) Lessons learnt from Teaching CHI: Challenges, Innovations and Visions. Position paper, CHI’92 Workshop.

Preece, J. and Keller, L. (1991) Teaching Human-Computer Interaction to Professionals by Distance Education, British Computer Society HCI Newsletter.

Preece, J. J. and Keller, L. S. (1990) Key Issues in HCI Curriculum Design, SIGCHI Bulletin of the ACM.

Preece, J. J. and Robinson, H. (1989) Integrating Evaluation into Design. Workshop Report. British Computer Society HCI Newsletter.

Reports, Editorials, Forwards and Other Publications

Preece, J. (2007) Forward, Information and Emotion: The Emergent Affective Paradigm in Information Behavior Research and Theory. In Diane Nahl and Dania Bilal. Information Today Inc.

Preece, J. (2007) Forward, Enhancing Learning Through Human-Computer Interaction. In Elspeth McKay (Ed.) Idea Group Publishing.

Preece, J., Maloney-Krichmar, D. (2005) Guest Editors for Special Edition, Online Communities: Design, Theory and Practice. Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, 10, 4. http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol10/issue4.

Alburo, J., Komlodi, A., Preece, J., Druin, A., Elkis, A., Resnick, P. (2005) Evaluating a cross-cultural children’s online book community: Sociability, usability and cultural exchange. HCIL Technical Report. http://hcil.cs.umd.edu/trs/2005-18/2005-18.html.

Alburo, J., Komlodi, A., Preece, J., Clamage, A., Druin, A., Elkis, A., Hou, W., Liao, S., Resnick, P. (2005) Poster and Video. Cross-cultural children’s online book communities. University of Maryland, HCIL, Open House, June.

Preece, J. (2004) Online Communities: Researching sociability and usability in hard to reach populations. OZCHI Conference, Extended Keynote Abstract. Woolongong, Australia. November 22.

Zhang, P., Nah, F., Preece, J. (2004) Human-Computer Interaction in Management Information Systems (Editorial) Behavior and Information Technology.

Preece, J. (2003) Kids and World Tensions: Using educational technology to enhance global communication. CHI’2003 Conference Newsletter.

Johnson, D., McDougall, A., Preece, J. (2001) A Tribute to Professor David Squires, 1948-2001. Computers and Education, December.

Preece, J. (2001) Online Communities: Designing usability, supporting sociability. International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Newsletter, 18, 3, 3-5.

Jones, A. and Preece, J. (2000) Affective support using computers. IET Technical Report, Open University, UK.

Francisco V. Cipolla Ficarra, Punyashloke Mishra, Kim Nguyen, Blair Nonnecke, Jennifer Preece, Gary Marchionini: Evaluation. Hypertext 1996: 260

Jacques, R. and Preece, J. (1994) Interaction Devices. Microsoft Encarta.

Jacques, R., Nonnecke, B., McKerlie, D. and Preece, J. (1993) An Evaluation of Current Designs of HyperCard Stacks. Open University Computing Department Report.

Benyon, D. and Preece, J. (1992) AI and Hypermedia. Open University Computing Department Report.

Preece, J. J. (1992) Assessing Usability. METKIT Module.

Preece, J. J. (1992) HalCIon: A proposal for multinational HCI training using hypermedia. Open University Computing Department Report.

Woodman, M. and Preece, J. (1992) Formal methods and Hypermedia. Open University Computing Department Report.

Preece, J. J. (1991) Usability assessment methods. A Report for ESPRIT Project METKIT.

Preece, J. & Davies, G. (1991) A Directory of Training in HCI, HMSO. Specially commisioned.

Benyon D. and Preece J. (1990) An Architecture for a Human Interface Development Environment (HIDE). Open University Computing Department Report.

Davies, G., Maurer, H. & Preece, J. (1990) Presentation metaphors for a very large hypermedia system. Institutes for Information Processing Graz Technical Report Series, Austria.

Preece, J. (1990) Assessing Usability: The State of the Art. A Report for ESPRIT Project 1257, Muse.

Preece, J. J. Crellin, J. and Horn, T. (1990) A Case Study of Using Different Evaluation Techniques in a Small Company. A Report for ESPRIT Project 1257, Muse.

Preece J. (1989) An Environment for Supporting the Development of Personal Representations. Open University Computing Department Report.

Preece, J. (1988) A Review of Metrics and Potential Metrics in HCI. Report for ESPRIT Project 1257, Muse.

Denham J., Wheeler A. and Barret M. (1980) Mating. AUCBE publication, Hertfordshire County Council.

Denham J. and Tagg W. (1977) Spread of Disease. AUCBE publication, Hertfordshire County Council.

Co-authored Teaching Texts for Open University Press

These texts are published by Open University Press, UK. Typically they take the form of booklets of approximately 50-100 pages. The OU now co-publishes with well-known book publishers so the Professors who author them receive appropriate recognition for their work. These texts represent a large portion of my teaching and scholarly work from 1981-92.

  • Project Course: Student and Tutor Project Notes. Lead author. (1992)
  • Computers in Commerce and Industry. MSc Project Notes. Lead author. (1992)
  • Human-Computer Interaction: Evaluation. Lead author. (1990)
  • Human-Computer Interaction: Design. Lead author. (1990)
  • Human-Computer Interaction: Input and Output. Lead author. (1990)
  • Human-Computer Interaction: Introduction. Lead author. (1990)
  • Fundamentals of Computing. Academic Editor for 32 learning texts and supplementary materials. (1988)
  • Programming and Programming Languages. Academic Co-editor for 16 learning texts and supplementary materials (1985).
  • Educational Computing: Evaluation. Lead author. (1985)
  • Educational Studies: Contemporary Issues in Education. Lead author. (1984)
  • Micros in Schools: Educational Software. Evaluation. Lead author. (1983)
  • Educational Studies: Purpose and Planning in the Curriculum. Lead author. (1982)
  • Micros in Schools: An Awareness Pack for Teachers. Case Studies. Lead author. (1981)

Radio Broadcasts

British Broadcasting Company, BBC Radio 4, September, 8.30 pm, interviewed about the research work at the Center for People and Systems Interaction, Connections Program, Half hour interview. (1996)

British Broadcasting Company, BBC Radio 4, October 10, 8.30 pm., HCI Guru on Radio 4, Connections Program, Half hour interview. (1995)

British Broadcasting Company, BBC Radio 4, January 1st, 3.30 pm., The Parts , Half hour interview on Documentation Design. (1992).

Online Discussion Guest

November 3, 2005 Community of Practice Teleconference.

March 19, 2002 Invited guest on UMBC TechPort discussion about building online communities.

2000 Guest on David Silver’s book report.

March 1999 Invited guest on Community Report. Developing online communities.

Sponsorship

2007 $25,000 Studentship awarded to Center for Information Policy and Electronic Government for work on Community Response Grid, University of Maryland.

2005 15,000 ECU European Commison Project L&E, directed by Professor Paolo Paolini, Politecnico di Milano.

2004, $10,000 Microsoft Research. Analysis of the Dynamics of Members’ Interaction in UseNet News groups.

2003, NSF 0328823, $529,972 Technology for Cross-Cultural Communication in a Children’s International Book Community with Allison Druin, Philip Resnick, Jenny Preece (PI, UMBC), Anita Komlodi.

2003, $236,000 NSF 0244131 Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site: Human-Computer Interaction, Senior Researcher (6/1/03 - 5/31/06).

2003, $25,000 Unrestricted gift from Microsoft Research to support work on online communities.

2003, $3000 Erskine Fellowship, University Canterbury, New Zealand.

2003, $4000 from the University of Waikato, New Zealand, to support visit.

2000, $15,000 NSF-1083624 Educational Innovation. Student fellow support for the ACM Conference on Universal Usability. (PI) GBP stands for Great Britain Pound, which is approx. 1.87 US Dollars. ECU is the European currency, which is approx. 1 US Dollar.

1995, 21,000 GBP to support a research scholar in HCI from South Bank University Research Committee. (PI)

1994, 21,000 GBP to support a research scholar in HCI from South Bank University Research Committee. (PI)

1993, 68,625 GBP from the United Kingdom Universities Funding Committee. Software Engineering and Usability. (PI)

1993, 143,194 GBP from the UK Science and Engineering Research Council and the Department of Trade and Industry Safety Critical Software Program for a project on 'Productivity, Integrity and Capability Enhancement for Software' (PRICES) (Co-PI).

1992, 243,000 ECU from European Commission LINGUASOFT Program. (Co-PI)

1992, 10,000 GBP from Addison-Wesley Publishers to develop two texts on HCI. (PI)

1992, 520,000 ECU from European Commission COMETT Program (PI and Leader of Consortium which included an academic and commercial partner from UK, Ireland, France, Belgium and Portugal and Apple Europe)

1991, 7,000 GBP from the Open University to support research on hypermedia. (PI)

1991, 8,300 GBP from the Open University Research Committee to support research on hypermedia. (PI)

1991, 450 GBP from the British Council to support an academic research visit to the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. (PI)

1991, 12,000 GBP from the Open University for research on hypermedia. (PI)

1990, 8,000 GBP to fund research on Usability Assessment for the European Commission ESPRIT project METKIT. (Co-PI)

1990, 76,000 GBP from the UK Department of Trade and Industry to produce an HCI Guide for the Usability Now program of the Enterprise Initiative. (PI)

1990, 23,000 GBP from the UK Employment Department to develop IT training materials. (PI)

1990, 10,000 GBP from the UK Department of Trade and Industry to produce a Training Guide on HCI. (PI).

1988, 89,000 GBP Contract with the Dutch Open University for the development of a course in Human-Computer Interaction. (PI)

1988, 5,000 GBP Research on Usability Assessment for the European Commission's ESPRIT Project. MUSE. (Co-PI)

1982, 1,000 GBP Open University Research Committee. Research on Graph Interpretation. (PI)

1981, 600,000 GBP from the UK Department of Education and Science for the Micros in Schools Project. (Co-PI)

1980, 30,000 GBP from the UK Department of Education and Science for the Micros in Schools Pilot Project (Co-PI).

Journal Editorial Boards

2004 International Journal, Universal Access in the Information Society

2004 International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology (IJEDICT)

2004 Computer-Mediated Communication

2004-2005 International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

2003 Interactions Magazine

2003 International Journal of Web-based Communities

1995 Behavior and Information Technology

1988 Inter-Disciplinary Journal Interacting with Computers

Book Series Technical Advisor

1997 John Wiley and Sons. Editor of World Series on Human-Computer Interaction.

Grant Proposal Reviewing

Leverhulme Trust, UK. SERC (Science and Engineering Research Council of the UK), Tri-Councils Research Initiative (SERC, ESRC, MRC of the UK), EPSRC (Engineering, Physical Sciences Research Council of the UK), Fulbright Foundation, US National Science Foundation

Journals and Conference Reviewing

British Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, Interacting with Computers, Journal of Software Engineering, Computer Journal, Transactions on Human Computer Interaction, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Interacting with Computers, International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, Behavior and Information Technology, Computers and Human Behavior, Communications of the ACM, Journal of Learning Science, Human-Computer Interaction

Conference Reviewing

HCI International, SIGCHI, INTERACT, HICSS, WETICE Usability Conference

Book proposals and manuscript reviewing

Addison-Wesley, John Wiley and Sons, Academic Press, Springer-Verlag, MIT Press, McGraw Hill, Prentice Hall, Morgan Kaufmann, Lawrence Earlbaum

Consultancy

My consultancy work has included contracts with: projects funded by the European Commission, Philips Ltd., de Chezal du Mee (Accountants) of Mauritius, UK Ministry of Defence, UK Department of Trade and Industry, UK Employment Department, IBM, Microsoft, RAND Corps, US National Pain Foundation, European Union 6th Framework. I have also consulted on distance education for the University of Guelph, Canada and Virginia Commonwealth University.

Honors and Awards

2004 Nominated for Best Paper Award: Nonnecke, B., Preece, J., Andrews, D. (2004) What Lurkers and Posters Think of Each Other, Internet and the Digital Economy Track of the Thirty-Seventh Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-37)

2003 Erskine Fellowship to visit Universities of Waikato and Canterbury, New Zealand.

1997 Service Award from Special Interest Group of the ACM in Human-Computer Interaction (SIGCHI) for being Technical Program Chair of Chi’97 (an international conference that attracted around 2500 people)

1993 Fellowship to visit University of Guelph, Canada.

Keynotes and distinguished lectures

2007, May, Keynote, Sociablity and Usability in Online Social Spaces, Communications and Technology Systems Conference, Orlando, Florida

2007, February 18-21, Keynote, Sociability and Usability in Online Social Spaces: Three helping one another will do as much as six working singly. Salamanca, Spain, IADIS, International Conference on Web-based Communities.

2006, November, Keynote Human-Centered Computing: Beyond HCI. ASIST HCI SIG Meeting, Austin, Texas -- powerpoint file

2006 October, Michigan, i-conference. Panel member for Panel on Community Informatics.

2006, October, Opening Keynote for APCHI Conference in Taiwan --powerpoint file

2006, September, Keynote State Department Conference on Cross-cultural communication -- powerpoint file

2005 June, Sociability & Usability in Online Communities. Opening keynote for HCIL Open House

2005, September, Penn State, State College, Panel on i-School future directions.

2004 November, Opening Keynote for the national OZCHI Conference on Human Computer Interaction, Woolongong, Australia. -- powerpoint file

2004 June, Universal Access International Conference, Vienna, Austria.

2004 June, ED-Media International Conference, Lugano, Switzerland. -- powerpoint file

2004 March, Keynote, "New Directions in Online Communities Research," invited conference on Social Computing.

2003 September, "A multilevel analysis of an online patient support community," Samuel Lazaro Memorial Lecture, Syracuse University.

2003 July, I-KNOW’03 Communities of Practice Workshop, Graz, Austria.

2003 July, I-KNOW’03 International Conference, Graz, Austria.

2003 June, Closing Keynote, HCI International Conference, Crete.

2003 May, Important development issues for online communities, ICT Workshop at the WWW Conference, Budapest.

2002 December, Opening Keynote, First AIS Workshop on Research in Human-Computer Interaction, Barcelona.

2002 Distinguished Lecture Series, Hopkins University, Online Communities: Usability, Privacy and Sociability.

2002 September, Opening Keynote, MentorNet Conference (Could not accept).

2001 October, Brazil National HCI Conference.

2002 June, Keynote, Technology in Education Conference, Columbia University, NYC.

2001 June, Opening Keynote, Interact’2001 International HCI Conference, Tokyo, Japan.

2001 May, Keynote Panel, Technology in Education Forum, NYC.

2001 May, Inaugural Keynote, for the DC and Virginia Usability Professionals Association.

2000 December, Get Smart 2000: Community Informatics for Regional Transformation, Rockhampton, Australia (Could not accept).

2000 January, Taiwan 2000, Invited Keynote (Could not accept).

1999 June, British Open University CAL conference 25th Anniversary Conference.

1999 April, Invited Keynote, National Jordanese HCI Conference in Amman (Could not accept).

1997 April, Dutch National HCI Conference.

1996 June, Swedish National HCI Conference.

1989 Munich Multi-media Colloquium.

Presentations 1996 onwards

2007, May 28, International Communications Conference, Panel Member on a panel about communication in networked communities

2007, May, Participating in a Cybershetl to a DC Jewish Community

2005, September, Penn State, State College, Panel on i-School challenges.

2004 September 23, Presentation on impact of technology design on social interaction, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Washington, DC.

2004 September 13, Workshop on Online Communities for Faith Communicators’ Meeting, Washington, DC.

2004 August, Paper "Lurkers tell why," Americas Conference on Information Systems.

2004 March, "Evaluating online health support communities," Johns Hopkins University.

2004 February, "Online Communities: Why people don’t participate actively," University of Maryland.

2004 January, "Reasons why people don’t contribute online," Computing Department, Georgetown University.

2003 December, "Essential issues for developing successful communities of practice," RAND Corps.

2003 November, "How can we help people online: A multilevel analysis of interpersonal dynamics in an online patient support community," PUC-Rio, Brazil.

2003 November, "Why don’t people contribute to online communities," PUC-Rio, Brazil.

2003 October, "Five reasons why people don’t participate online and how we can improve online interaction for everyone," Microsoft Research, Redmont.

2003 October, "Online Communities: Supporting sociability, designing usability," University of Washington.

2003 September, "A multilevel analysis of an online health support community," Cornell University, Department of Communication Annual Invited Seminar Series.

2003 September, "Why people don’t participate," Seminar at Cornell University.

2003 September, Invited presentation, Communities of Practice workshop, University of Milano.

2003, June, Day-long tutorial on online communities at the International Human-Computer Interaction Conference, Crete.

2003 Presenter at Webshop workshop for Ph.D. students doing Internet Research, University of Maryland.

2003 April, Panel presenter on distance education at Chi’2003

2003 April, Panel presenter on ‘spam’ at Chi’2003

2003 March, Two half-day lectures at the IT Masterclass (attended by 60 people), University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

2003 March, "Online Communities, Designing usability, supporting sociablity," University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

2003 March, "Participation and lurking online," University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

2003 March, Seminar for fourth year computer science students on research, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

2003 March, Seminar for second year computer science students on usability, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

2003 February, "Participation and lurking online," Waikato University, New Zealand.

2003 January, "Online Communities, Designing usability, supporting sociablity," Waikato University, New Zealand.

2002 December, Invited panelist, ICIS workshop on Virtual Communities: "Analysis, Design, Implementation and Evaluation of Virtual Communities and Virtual Support for Local Communities.

2002 October, "Research in online communities," Presentation to the Human Factors Conference visitors, UMBC.

2002 June, Invited presenter at the Webshop conference, University of Maryland, College Park.

2002 April, Conference on Cyberculture, panelist on "Publishing in the new medium," University of Maryland.

2002 April, Invited discussion organizer and presenter on building community, CHI2002 Conference.

2002 April, Panel organizer and presenter on HCI education, CHI2002 Conference.

2002 April, Invited seminar "Online Communities," University of Minnesota, Department of Rhetoric.

2002 April, Invited seminar "Online Communities," Cornell University.

2001 November, "Online Communities," LLC Colloquium.

2001 October, "Developing online communities," Federal Highway Association.

2001 June 7, Webshop "Online Communities," Presentation to PhD students, College Park, Maryland.

2001 April, Workshop presentation, "Online Communities: Empathy, participation and lurking," CHI.

2001 May, Presentation to the GSA Knowledge Management group, GSA.

2001 May, Brief presentation on online communities, GSA Internet explorations meeting.

2001 May, Inaugural Keynote, DC and Virginia Usability Professionals Association.

2001 April, Closing Reviewer, Workshop on Research on Online Communities, CHI.

2001 June, Workshop on the Internet and Society, NSF.

2000 December, Panel on Children and Technology, ACM CSCW Conference.

2000 November, Panel on Universal Usability, ACM Conference on Universal Usability.

2000 November, Presentation "Online Communities: Designing usability, supporting sociability," Greater Boston SIGCHI Meeting.

2000 October, Seminar "Online Communities," Stanford University.

2000 October, Seminar "Online Communities," Berkeley University.

2000 October, Meeting talk "Online Communities: Designing usability, supporting sociability," BayCHI.

2000 September, Invited Presentation "Online Communities: Designing usability, supporting sociability," The Third International Conference on Virtual Communities.

2000 September, Seminar "Online Communities," NYU.

2000 June, Presentation, Online Communities Workshop, University of Maryland College Park.

1999 October, Invited seminar "Online Communities for the Internet and its Impact on Society," University of Maryland College Park.

1999 June, Invited presentation, "Agenda for research in Online Communities," NSF and EU funded workshop, Toulouse.

1999 June, Keynote talk, British Open University CAL Research Group 25th Birthday celebration.

1999 June, Presented and led workshop, "Online Communities," University of Maryland College Park.

1999 May, Presented position paper, on research in Online Communities, CHI’99 Workshop on Online Communities.

1999 May, Invited presentation, University of Maryland WIT Conference.

1999 April, Invited panel member, Doug Engelbart Turing Award Celebration, Drexel University.

1999 March, Invited presentation "Online Communities in Education," Weismann Institute, Israel.

1999 January, Paper, Text and Discourse Analysis Conference, Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

1998 October, Called together panel and prepared a paper, "Online Communities,"DC chapter of SIGCHI, Virginia.

1998 August, "Online Communities in Education," Open University, Israel.

1998 June, Open University of UK.

1998 June, Computers and Virtual Environments Conference, Manchester, UK.

1998 May, Information Systems Department, Drexel University, Philadelphia.

1998 March, Open University of Israel.

1998 January, Text and Discourse Conference, Jackson Hole.

1996 May, University of Maryland Baltimore County.

1996 January, Text and Discourse Conference, Jackson Hole.

Summary of Presentations 1980-1995

1995 2 seminars and workshop at University of Guelph, Canada, seminar at University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, seminar and workshop at Virginia Commonwealth University, Discussant at Chi'95.

1994 2 seminars at University of New Brunswick, USA HCI Club meeting in Colorado.

1993 2 seminars at University of Guelph, seminar at Virginia Tech.

1992 8 including talks in Perth and Aukland.

1991 8 including talks at University of Western Australia, University of Guelph, University of Graz, Austria, Austrian Computer Society, Zurich and a BBC Radio 4 interview.

1990 22 including invited key note address entitled "Multimedia: promises and problems in human-computer interaction' at the symposium on 'New Media in Education and Training" in Munich, Germany.

1989 4 including one to the Basser Computer Science Department, University of Sydney, Australia, and IFIP Working Group 3.6 on Vocational Training, Helsinki.

1989 9 including one to the Austrian and German Computer Society Conference, Scharding, Austria.

1987 3 including one at the INTERACT'87 conference, Stuttgart and one in Darmstadt, Germany.

1986 3 seminars.

1985 6 including two at the UNESCO Conference in Bangalore and one at the Open University of Thailand.

1984 8 including one at Ottawa, University of Montreal and Cornell University.

1983 6 including at University of Montreal.

1983 6 including two seminars in Australia and a conference presentation in Amsterdam.

1983 5 including IFIP World Conference on Computer Education in Lausanne in July.

1980 4 seminars including one at the University of Montreal.

Workshops Organized and Chaired

2001, Integrating Diverse Research and Development Approaches to the Construction of Social Cyberspaces with Shelly Farnham, Marc Smith, Amy Bruckman, Doug Schuler. Chi’200Conference workshop.

2000, Online Communities with Jean Gasen and Jonathan Lazar. Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory Open House. University of Maryland, College Park.

1999, Online Communities with Jean Gasen and Jonathan Lazar. Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory Open House. University of Maryland, College Park.

1993, April, Co-chair of IFIP and ACM SIGCHI International Workshop on "Advances in Teaching the HCI Design Process," Amsterdam.

1992, November, Organizer and chair of the BCS HSI Workshop "The HCI needs of Industry".

1991, HCI Education, with Jean Gasen CHI’1991, Seattle.

1990, August, Organizer of INTERACT'90, "HCI Curriculum Workshop" at the 3rd European Conference on Human-Computer Interaction.

1989, January, Organized and co-chaired workshop, "Integrating Evaluation in Design," Open University.

1987, November, Organized and co-chaired workshop, "Design Methodologies," Open University.

1985, July, Chaired and organized workshop, "Distance Learning," UNESCO Conference Bangalore.

1985, July, Chaired and organized workshop, "Computer Simulations in Science," UNESCO Conference Bangalore.

Recent Tutorials

2003, June, Preece & Abras, Day-long tutorial, “Online Communities,” HCI International.

Sabbaticals and Extended Visits

2003, Visitor, Waikato University, New Zealand.

2003, Erskine Fellowship Vistor, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

1995, Visiting Professor, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada for one week to advise on Distance Learning and work with Professor Tom Carey.

1995, Advisor on Distance Learning, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA.

1993 - 1994, Visiting Scholar, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia with Dr. Jean Gasen.

1993 - 1994, Visiting Professor, University of Guelph, to work with Prof. Tom Carey.

1991, Visiting academic, University of Guelph, to work with Prof. Tom Carey.

1990, Visiting academic, University of Maryland, for one week to work on a paper on HCI and software metrics with Dr. Dieter Rombach.

1990, Visiting academic, Technical University of Graz, Austria to give a seminar and to explore HCI issues pertinent to the design of a large multi-media system.

1990, Visiting academic, University of Maryland for one week to continue work started with Dr. Dieter Rombach.

1983, Visiting academic, University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada for two weeks to work with Prof. Claude Janvier.

1982, Visiting academic, South Australian College of Advanced Education, Adelaide, Australia for one term to work with Dr. Bruce Keepes.

3. Teaching

I have a broad range of teaching experience at different levels including: high school, undergraduate and graduate. I am also experience in developing curricula for face-to-face, technology enhanced and web-based distance education.

Face to Face Teaching

Classes that I have taught include: online communities (498, 698, 700, 800), communities of practice and online communities (700), seminar on communication (700), human-computer interaction (303), systems analysis and design (436, 636), research methods (graduate), technical writing and HCI (undergraduate), student projects (graduate), multimedia design (undergraduate & graduate).

I also get many requests for independent studies from Information Systems, Language Literacy and Culture, and Nursing Informatics students. Typically these students have attended my online communities classes and are attracted by the interdisciplinary nature of my work.

Distance Education Curriculum Development and Teaching

During the time that I was department chair at UMBC we created a new Online Masters Program in Information Systems. I developed a course on Interaction design (667) and the Capstone Project course (699) for this program.

At the Open University multi-media courses, comprising text, television, video, experimental kits, home computing, computer assisted learning, Internet and Web, are developed by teams of academics. I chaired several development teams, including the one that developed the first distance education course in human-computer interaction for professional students in 1990. I also authored and taught the following courses: project management (graduate), graduate project courses, human-computer interaction (graduate), fundamentals of computing (undergraduate), programming and programming languages (undergraduate), contemporary issues in education (undergraduate), educational computing (undergraduate and graduate), purpose and planning in the curriculum (undergraduate), science foundation course (undergraduate), awareness courses in educational computing (professional courses for teachers).

Design of Multimedia Teaching Resources

Interaction Design website www.id-book.com,  I worked with co-authors Helen Sharp, and Yvonne Rogers to increase the number of case studies that support the second edition of  Sharp, H., Rogers, Y., Preece (2007) Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons.

Online Communities website http://www.ischool.umd.edu/people/preece/onlinecommunities/ (worked with a consultant). This website supports: Preece, J. (2000) Online Communities: Designing Usability, Supporting Sociability. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons.

Quality Software a 35 minute video for the Open University, Micros in Schools: Educational Software course.

Using a Micro-computer in Sixth form Ecology a video case study for the Open University Micros in Schools: Micros in action in the Classroom course.

Industrial Applications of HCI - video bands on Design, Evaluation and Input and Output for the Open University Master's Course on HCI.

DIY Software a C60 audio-cassette for Open University Micros in Schools: Educational Software course.

Teaching notes for the CAL materials used at the Open University Genetics Summer School.

SERVICE a queue simulation program for Open University Micros in Schools: Awareness course.

Research Student Mentoring

Ph.D. Mentoring and chairing

Dana Rotman(UMD, Information Studies, current)
Rachel Bradley (UMD, Information Studies, current)
Philip (Fei Wu) (UMD, Information Studies, current with Yan Qu)
Alfreda Dudley-Sponaugle (Language, Literature & Culture, UMBC, until 2004)
Datta Kaur Khalsa (Language, Literature & Culture, UMBC, graduated 2005)
Michael Carlin (Information Systems, UMBC with Ant Ozok, until 2005)
Wayne Lemmon (Information Systems, UMBC with Steven Holden, until 2004)
Enrique Stanziola (Information Systems, UMBC with Anita Komlodi, until 2004)
Weimin Hou (Information Systems, UMBC with Anita Komlodi, current)
Chadia Abras (Language, Literature & Culture, UMBC, completed 2003)
Diane Maloney-Kritchmar (Language, Literature & Culture, UMBC, completed 2002)
Blair Nonnecke (South Bank University but based at UMBC, completed 2000)
Diane McKerlie (South Bank University, with Fintan Culwin, completed 1999)
Richard Jacques (South Bank University, completed 1996)
David Benyon (Open University, with Darrel Ince, completed 1993)
Jonathan Crellin (Open University, completed 1991)

Committee member

Sheri Massey (UMD, Information Studies, Comps Committee.)
Sherae Daniel (UMD, Information Studies, Business School)
Kara Reuter (UMD, Information Studies, Comps Committee.)
Katy Lawley (UMD, Information Studies, Comps Committee.
Jessie Meng Ma (University of Maryland, Smith School of Business, graduated 2005)
Gary Kiesler (University of North Carolina, graduated 2002)
Ben Khoo (UMBC, IS, graduated 2002)
Dana Smith (UMBC, IS, 1999-2000)
Karen Carpenter (UMBC, LLC, graduated 2002)
Jason Ellis (Georgia Tech, graduated 2002)
Shannon White (UMBC, Psychology, graduated 2002)
Charles Kisner (UMCP, American Studies, graduated 2001)
Dorine Andrews (UB, Communications Studies, graduated 2000)
Jonathan Lazar (UMBC, IS, graduated 1999)
Mitzi Pitts (UMBC, IS, graduated 1999)

Ph.D. Examiner

Responsible for determining whether the following students qualified for a Ph.D.

Caterina Poggi (University of Milan, examined 2005)
Laura Ripamonti (University of Milan, examined 2003)
Gad Jones (Ph.D., University of Haifa, Israel, examined 2001)
Patrick Hall’s student (Ph.D., Brunel University, UK, examined 1996)
David Ambaye (Ph.D., Brunel University, UK, examined 1995)
Peter Innocent’s student (Ph.D., De Montford University, UK, examined 1995)
Andrew Lee (Ph.D., South Bank University, UK, examined 1995)
I am mentored a Ph.D. project by Clarissa de Barabosa at PUC-Rio de Janeiro, Brasil on online health support communities (November 2003-April 2004)

Masters Students Mentoring and Examining

Gabi Ford (University of South Africa, UNISA, examined 2005)
Frances Jennings (MSc., Open University, UK, examined 1991)
I have mentored numerous distance education Masters students at the Open University (1990-1993).

4. Administration and Service

2005

Dean of the College of Information Studies at University of Maryland at College Park.

In addition to my duties in the College, I have also served on the following committees: Search Committee for Provost (2007, member), Search Committee for IGCA Director (2007, Chair), Joint University of Maryland and NARA Committee (2004 to present, member)

1997- 2002

Chair of Information Systems Department at University of Maryland Baltimore County

During the five and half years that I was chair of the Information Systems Department at UMBC the department increased from eight tenured and tenure-track faculty to twenty, from two lecturers to nine, and from three staff and associate staff to five. We also had twenty-four part-time instructors.

One of my aims as department chair was to improve research productivity, which we began by making good hires at the junior level and also by creating the first named chair of Information Systems at UMBC. This enabled us to attract a talented senior person and shortly afterwards we appointed a second senior faculty member. With the help of these new hires we started to increase our sponsored research to around $1.5 - $2 million dollars per annum and created a foundation on which to build more sponsored research. We have also dramatically increased the number of journal and conference papers written each year. A new research center and research groups were also created. We also revised the Ph.D. program.

Other developments included restructuring the undergraduate and masters programs to make them more coherent and improve our academic standards. We created a new Masters program that is delivered through distance education and mounted an off-campus undergraduate program at Shady Grove Campus in Montgomery County. This began in fall 2001 and continues to grow.

By fall 2001 there were approximately 1500 undergraduate majors, 160 Masters students in the face-to-face program, 100 Masters students in the online program and 30 Ph.D. students. Typically we graduated 1-3 Ph.D. students each year.

Other service at University of Maryland Baltimore County

2002 Member of the Interactive Systems Research Center which was founded during my tenure as department chair.

2000-2001 Member of the Gender and Equity Committee.

1998 Member of the Search Committee for the new Provost.

1998-present Member of the President and Provost’s Advisory Committee.

1997-1998 Member of the Information Technology Steering Committee, which was responsible for advising the university on IT policy.

1997-2000 Chair Information Systems Department Search Committee.

1998-2000 Member of the Information Systems Department Research Strategy Committee.

1997-2000 Member of the Information Systems Department Online Masters Development Team.

1997-2004 Member of the Information Systems Department Promotion and Tenure Committee.

1994-1996 Service at South Bank University

Founder and Director of the Center for People and Systems Interaction Research Group (12 full time members and 18 affiliates).

Member of the Computing Department Management Team Member of the School Research Committee.

Member of the University Higher Degrees Committee.


1980-1993 Service at the Open University

Founding member of the Computer Assisted Learning Research Group.

Co-chair of the Micros in Schools Educational Software development team.

Chair of the British and Dutch Open University Human-Computer Interaction course development team. This team comprised ten academic faculty members, plus a publishing editor, and a BBC media production team. This was the first time the Open University collaborated with an overseas university. The development budget for this course was over $500,000.

Chaired the joint HCI and Software Engineering Research Group (15 faculty plus students).

Started and chaired the HCI Research Group (8 faculty, plus graduate students).

Maths and Computing Faculty representative on the Institute of Educational Technology Faculty Board.

Member of the Maths and Computing Faculty Resources Management Group.

Mentor and appraiser for junior faculty.

Member of the Faculty Promotions Committee.

External Course Validation and Examining at Other Universities

In Britain senior academics are asked to validate new courses for other universities and to externally examine existing courses. Terms of appointment are usually for three years. Examiners review Faculty’s curricula, grading and the standards of the students' work in order to ensure that comparable standards are adhered to across different institutions. Each validation or external examination normally takes 2-3 days.

External Program Reviewer
 New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University – Newark Campus
Joint program review, 2000. B.S. in Human –Computer Interaction.
Rochester Institute of Technology. Masters Program in Human-Computer Interaction (2007)

Program validator
Loughborough University, UK, Human Sciences Masters Program
Kingston University, UK, Masters Program
Sussex University, UK, Masters Program
De Montford University, UK, Masters Program
London Guild Hall University, UK, Masters Program

External program examiner
Loughborough University, UK, Masters in HCI
Loughborough University, UK, Masters in Ergonomic
London Guild Hall University, UK, B.Sc. in Computing
London Guild Hall University, UK, Masters in Human-Computer Interaction Service

National and International Professional Committees

2006-2007 Technical Program member, International Conference Communities and Technologies 2007, in Michigan, USA June 27-30, 2007.

2005-2006 Technical program co-chair with Jim Foley for Education Community for SIGCHI Conference 2006., Montreal.

2004-2005 Technical program board co-chair with Peter van den Besselaar for International Conference Communities and Technologies 2005, in Milano in June 13-16, 2005.

2004 UN Community Design Initiative panel member

2003-2005 Program board chair for the "1st International Conference on Online Communities and Social Computing", Las Vegas, July 22-27, 2005.

2003 Member of the Program Board for the 2004 I-Know Knowledge Management Conference.

2003 Co-chair for a track at HICSS 2003 Conference.

1997 Technical Program Co-Chair for CHI’97 at Atlanta. Attendance of around 2000 delegates.

1996-1998 National Education Chair for ACM SIGCHI (HCI Education).

1994-1997 Research advisor for Center for Interactive Systems, University of Ulster at Magee, Ireland.

1993-present Advisory committee member for the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at University of Maryland, which meets annually after the group holds its annual Open House event in June.

1992-1999 Deputy Chair International IFIP WG 13.1 Committee for HCI Education and Training.

1991-1994 Executive Committee Member British Computer Society Special Interest Group on HCI.

1991-1992 Member of the IFIP WG 3.2 on Computer Education.

1990-1994 Chair of the British Computer Society HCI Working Group on Education and Training.

1989-1990 Member of the Technical Committee for International INTERACT'90 HCI Conference.

1989-1994 Member of the British Computer Society Human-Systems Interaction Technical Committee.

1989-1991 Advisory and Editorial Panel for the UK Department of Trade and Industry Enterprise Initiative in HCI.

1984-1985 Member of the planning committee for the Third World Science Teaching Conference organized by the International Congress of Scientific Unions and sponsored by UNESCO.

1981-1986 Member of the UK National Working Group for Computer Based Education.

Membership of Professional Organizations

British Computer Society's Special Interest Group in Human-Computer Interaction
ACM & ACM Special Interest Group in Computer-Human Interaction
ASIST.

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