Mary Beth Rosson

Papers

Here are a few recent publications. For a full list, check my CV (as of April 2009).

Rosson, M.B., Carroll, J.M., Zhao, D. & Paone, T. 2009. wConnect: A Facebook-based developmental learning community to support women in information technology. Proceedings of Communities & Technology 2009. New York: ACM. pdf

Rosson, M.B., Sinha, H., Bhattacharya, M. & Zhao, D. 2008. Design planning in end-user web development. Journal of Visual Languages and Computers, 19, 468-484. pdf

Du, H., Rosson, M.B., Carroll, J.M. & Ganoe, C. 2009. “I felt like a contributing member of the class”: Increasing class participation with Class Commons. Proceedings of GROUP 2009 (pp. 233-242). New York: ACM. pdf

Zhao, D. & Rosson, M.B. 2009. How and why people Twitter: The role that micro-blogging plays in informal communication at work. Proceedings of GROUP 2009 (pp. 243-252). New York: ACM. pdf

Convertino, G., Mentis, H.M., Rosson, M.B., Slavkovic, A. & Carroll, J.M. 2009. Supporting content and process common ground in computer-supported teamwork. Proceedings of Human Factors in Computing Systems: CHI 2009 (pp. 2339-2348). New York: ACM. pdf

Rosson, M.B., Ioujanina, A., Paone, T., Sheasley, G., Sinha, H., Ganoe, C., Carroll, J.M. & Mahar, J. 2009. A scaffolded introduction to dynamic website development for female high school students. Proceedings SIGCSE 2009 (pp. 226-230). New York: ACM. pdf

Rosson, M.B., Sinha, H., Zhao, D., Carroll, J.M., Ganoe, G. & Mahar, J. 2008. Cultivating a landscape of online places for a developmental learning community. Proceedings of International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies – ICALT 2008 (pp. 311-315). Washington, DC: IEEE. pdf

Ocker, R.J., Kracow, D., Rosson, M.B., Hiltz, S.R. & Plotnick, L. 2009. Enhancing learning experiences in partially distributed teams: Training students to work effectively across distances. Proceedings of the 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (pp. 1-10). New York: IEEE. pdf

Carroll, J.M. & Rosson, M.B. 2008. Theorizing mobility in community networks. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 66, 944-962. pdf

Carroll, J.M., Convertino, G., Rosson, M.B. & Ganoe, C.H. 2008. Toward a conceptual model of common ground in teamwork. M. Letsky, N. Warner, S. Fiore & C. Smith (Eds.), Macrocognition in Teams: Theories and Methodologies (pp. 87-105). Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company. pdf

Zang, N. & Rosson, M.B. 2008. What’s in a mashup? And why? Studying the perceptions of active web users. Proceedings of Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing: VL/HCC 2008 (pp. 31-38). New York: IEEE. pdf

Some classics and frequent requests

Carroll, J. M., & Rosson, M. B. 1987. The paradox of the active user. In J.M. Carroll (Ed.), Interfacing Thought: Cognitive Aspects of Human-Computer Interaction. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press (pp. 80-111).

Carroll, J. M., & Rosson, M. B. 1991. Deliberated Evolution: Stalking the View Matcher in Design Space. Human-Computer Interaction, 6(3&4), 281-318.

Carroll, J. M., & Rosson, M. B. 1992. Getting around the task-artifact cycle: How to make claims and design by scenario. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 10(2), 181-212.

Carroll, J. M., & Rosson, M. B. 1996. Developing the Blacksburg Electronic Village. Communications of the ACM, 39(12), December, 69-74.

Carroll, J.M. & Rosson, M.B. 2003. A trajectory for community networks. The Information Society, 19(5), 381-393.

Carroll, J.M. & Rosson, M.B. 2005. A Case Library for Teaching Usability Engineering: Design Rationale, Development, and Classroom Experience. ACM Journal on Educational Resources in Computing, 5(1), March 2005.

Carroll, J.M., Rosson, M.B., Convertino, G., & Ganoe, C. 2006. Awareness and teamwork in computer-supported collaborations. Interacting with Computers, 18(1), 21-46.

Carroll, J.M., Rosson, M.B., Kavanaugh, A., Dunlap, D., Schafer, W., Snook, J. & Isenhour, P. 2006. Social and civic participation in a community network. In R. Kraut, M. Brynin & S. Kiesler. (Eds.) Domesticating Information Technologies. New York: Oxford University Press.

Carroll, J.M. Rosson, M.B., & Zhou, J. 2005. Collective efficacy as a measure of community. In Proceedings of Human Factors in Computing Systems: CHI 2005. New York: ACM.

Chin, G. & Rosson, M. B. 1998. Progressive Design: Staged evolution of scenarios in the design of a collaborative science learning environment. In Proceedings of Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI’98 Conference (pp. 611-618). New York: ACM.

Chin, G., Rosson, M. B. and Carroll, J. M. 1997. Participatory Analysis: Shared development of requirements from scenarios. In Proceedings of Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI’97 Conference (pp. 162-169). New York: ACM.

Rode,J. & Rosson, M.B. 2003. Programming at Runtime: Requirements and paradigms for nonprogrammer web application development. IEEE 2003 Symposium on Human-Centric Computing Languages and Environments (pp. 23-30). New York: IEEE.

Rode, J., Rosson, M.B., & Perez-Quinones, M.A. 2004. End-users’ mental models of web engineering concepts. Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing 2004 (pp. 215-222). New York: IEEE.

Rode, J., Rosson, M.B., & Perez, M. 2006. End user development of web applications. In H. Lieberman, F. Paterno, & V. Wulf (Eds.), End-User Development. Springer-Verlag.

Rosson, M.B. 2005. The end of users (slides from Onward! keynote talk; 8MB). In OOPSLA ‘05 Conference Companion (p. 3). New York: ACM).

Rosson, M. B. 1999. Integrating development of task and object models. Communications of the ACM, 42(1: January), 49-56.

Rosson, M.B., Ballin, J., & Nash, H. 2004. Everyday programming: Challenges and opportunities for informal web development. Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing 2004 (pp. 123-130). New York: IEEE.

Rosson, M.B., Ballin, J., & Rode, J. 2005. Who, what and why? A survey of informal and professional web developers. Proceedings of Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing 2005 (pp. 199-206).

Rosson, M. B. & Carroll, J. M. 1996. Scaffolded examples for learning object-oriented design. Communications of the ACM, 39(4), 46-47.

Rosson, M. B., & Carroll, J. M. 1996. The reuse of uses in Smalltalk programming. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 3(3), September, 219-253.

Rosson, M.B. & Carroll, J.M. 2001. Scenarios, objects, and points-of-view in user interface design. In M. van Harmelen (Ed.), Object Modeling and User Interface Design (pp. 39-70). London: Addison-Wesley Longman.

Rosson, M. B., & Carroll, J. M. 2003. Learning and collaboration across generations in a community.. In Proceedings of Communities & Technology 2003 (pp. 205-225). Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer.

Rosson, M. B., & Carroll, J. M. 2005. Minimalist design for community computing. . In Proceedings of Communities & Technology 2005 (pp. 75-94). Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer.

Rosson, M.B., Carroll, J.M., Seals, C., & Lewis, T. 2002. Community design of community simulations. Proceedings of Designing Interactive Systems: DIS 2002 (pp. 74-83). New York: ACM.

About Me

Mary Beth Rosson

Mary Beth Rosson is Professor of IST at Penn State University, as well as an HCI researcher; she can be contacted by email via mrosson AT psu.edu.