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Education

1971

Masters in Mathematics

Dept. of Mathematics, University of Heidelberg, Germany

1977

Ph.D. in Computer Science

Dept. of Computer Science, University of Hamburg, Germany

Ph.D. Thesis:

“Das Lösen komplexer Problemaufgaben durch naive Benutzer mit Hilfe des interaktiven Programmierens”, Research Group CUU, Project PROKOP, Darmstadt

 primary advisor: Klaus Brunnstein,University of Hamburg, Germany

1982

Habilitation in Computer Science

Dept. of Computer Science, University of Stuttgart, Germany

Habilitation Thesis:

“Mensch-Maschine Kommunikation: Theorien und Systeme”, Department of Computer Science, University of Stuttgart. (Remark: The “Habilitation” is a special German university degree, which is required of full professors in the German university system.)

primary advisor: Herbert Simon, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh

 

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Honors And Awards

2007 Member of CHI Academy
2007 Recipient of the Dean’s Fellowship, College of Engineering, CU-Boulder

2000

Erskine Fellowship, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

1995

Exemplary Research Award for Best Technology Transfer Grant, Colorado Advanced Software Institute, October

1994-1995

SEL Stiftungsprofessur, Technical University, Darmstadt, Germany

1994

Invited Fellow by the Japanese Government, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, October

1993

Boulder Faculty Assembly’s Excellence Award, CU-Boulder

1989-1990

Faculty Fellowship, Council on Research and Creative Work, CU-Boulder

1982

“Habilitation”-Scholarship, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

1979

Prize of the “Friends of the University of Stuttgart” for an outstanding research paper

1977-1978

Postdoctoral Fellowship, German Academic Exchange Service, MIT, Cambridge, MA

1972-1973

Scholarship, German Academic Exchange Service, Univ. of California, Irvine, CA

1971-1972

Scholarship, German Academic Exchange Service, Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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Keynote Speeches (since 1995) and Distinguished Lectures at Universities

2007:

  • Google, Boulder Engineering Open House, November 14
  • Collaborative Partnership Summit, Texas A & M University, November
  • 19th International Engineering Management Conference Austin, Texas, July
  • Computer Supported Collaborative Learning Conference (CSCL 2007), Rutgers University, July

2006:

  • International Computer Symposium (ICS 2006): “HCI Themes for the Future — Distributed Intelligence, Meta-Design, and Social Creativity”, Taipei, Taiwan, December 4, 2006
  • Interagency Committee on Disability Research / Subcommittee on Technology State of the Art Conference , Washington, DC, June 29-30, 2006
  • International Conference “Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI)”, Venice, Italy, May 23-26, 2006

2005:

  • International Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Technologies in Education (WMTE 2005), University of Tokushima, Japan, November 28-30, 2005
  • The First International Conference "Creativity: A Multifaceted View" Moscow, September 15-18, 2005

2004:

  • OZCHI 2004, University of Wollongong, Australia — “Distances in Design Communities: Sources of Social Creativity”, November 2004
  • 5th International Symposium on Knowledge and Systems Sciences; Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) Forum, November 2004
  • International Workshop Series on RFID “Information Sharing and Privacy”, Tokyo, Japan, November, 2004
  • 35 Anniversary Symposium of the University of Monterrey, México — “Meta-Design: A Framework for Software Design of the Future”, October 21, 2004
  • International Conference on Cognitive Styles of Communication Across Languages and Culture”, Crimea, September, 2004

2003:

  • International Workshop on Community-Driven Evolution of Knowledge Artifacts, University of California, Irvine, December
  • End-User Development Symposium, EU Center of Excellence Network, Bonn, Germany
  • ECSCW: European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Helsinki, Finland, September
  • I-KNOW ‘03: 3rd International Conference on Knowledge Management, July, Graz, Austria

2002:

  • University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, Science Prestige Lecture: “Distributed Cognition – Why Anatomy does not have to be Destiny”, October 23, 2002
  • Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo, Japan: “Knowledge Management – Problems, Promises, Realities and Challenges”, October 10, 2002
  • Institute for Software Research, University of California, Irvine: “Social Creativity and Meta-Design in Lifelong Learning Communities”, October 4, 2002
  • Information Sciences and Technology School, Penn State University: “Social Creativity and Meta-Design in Lifelong Learning Communities”, February 22, 2002

2001:

  • ISFST2001: International Symposium on Future Software Technology 2001, November, 5-7, 2001, ZhengZhou, Henan Province, China
  • IRIS (24th annual Information Systems Research Seminar In Scandinavia), Ulvik, Hardanger Fjord, Norway, August 11-14, 2001

2000:

  • OZCHI 2000: Conference on Human-Computer Interaction “Interfacing Reality in the New Millennium”, Sydney, Australia, 4-8 December 2000
  • COOP’2000:  Fourth International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems, Sophia Antipolis, France, May 23-26, 2000
  • TEND’2000: International Conference on Technological Education and National Development, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

1999:

  • UM99 (User Modeling) Conference , “User Modeling: The Long and Winding Road”, Banff, Canada, June
  • ICCE 99, 7th International Conference on Computers in Education on “New Human Abilities for the Networked Society”, Lifelong Learning: Changing Mindsets”, Chiba, Japan, November

1998:

  • International ‘bauhaus der kommunikation’ Workshop 1998, Paderborn, Germany, June
  • 3rd Asia Pacific Computer Human Interaction Conference, IEEE Computer Society, Japan, July
  • ACM Japan Annual Meeting, “Lifelong Learning—New Challenges and Opportunities for Computer Science”, Japan, July
  • International Workshop “Shared Understanding and its Construction”, University of Nara, Japan, July
  • International Symposium Artificial Intelligence in Structural Engineering, July

1997:

  • International Conference “Informatik im Sport”, Cologne, Germany, June
  • International Conference on Computers in Education, University of Sarawak, Kuching, Malaysia, December

1996:

  • IFIP WG 8.1/13.2, Joint Working Conference on Domain Knowledge for Interactive System Design, Geneva, Switzerland, May
  • European Symposium on Human and Machine Learning, October, Brussels, Belgium
  • 5th Urban Systemic Initiative, NSF, Washington DC, December

1995:

  • International AI Symposium 95, Nagoya, Japan, November
  • Brasilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (SBIA), Campinas, Brasil, October
  • 22nd Römerberggespräche, Frankfurt, Germany, June
  • Software-Ergonomie’95, Darmstadt, Germany, February
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Research Interests

  • Human-Computer Interaction
    Social creativity, meta-design, dynamic media, human problem-domain communication, useful and usable systems, convivial systems, ubiquitous computing
  • Education and Computers
    Lifelong learning, self-directed learning, collaborative learning, organizational learning, learning on demand, learning-on-the-job, just-in-time learning, motivation, multimedia
  • Design
    universal design, design-for-all, distributed cognition, integration of problem framing and problem solving, reflection-in-action, breakdowns, design memories, organizational memories, socio-technical environments for the disabled
  • Cognitive Science
    Learning environments, mental models, design principles for comprehensible systems, human-centered design
  • Artificial Intelligence
    Knowledge-based systems, intelligent support systems (e.g. critics, advisors, coaches), AI and Education, personal intelligent information environments, user modeling, collaborative problem solving systems
  • Software Engineering
    Object-oriented architecture, programming environment, design, reuse, redesign, domain-oriented, design environments
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Professional Experience

1994-present

Director, Center for LifeLong Learning & Design (L3D), CU-Boulder

2002-2003

Invited Visiting Professor, University of Christchurch, New Zealand

1994-1995

SEL Stiftungsprofessur, Technical University, Darmstadt, Germany

1988-present

Full Professor, Computer Science Department, CU-Boulder
Member of the Institute of Cognitive Science, CU-Boulder

1984-1988

Associate Professor (with tenure), Computer Science Department, CU-Boulder
Member of the Institute of Cognitive Science, CU-Boulder

1982-1984

Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Stuttgart, Germany

1982

Research Associate, Psychology and Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (Feb – May)

1978-1982

Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Stuttgart, Germany

1978

Visiting Research Scientist, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (Feb – April)

1977-1978

Research Associate, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT, Cambridge, MA

1974-1977

Research Associate, Center for Educational Technology, Darmstadt, Germany
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Professional Activities (currently)

Member of Professional Organizations

  • ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
  • AAAI (American Association for Artificial Intelligence)
  • Cognitive Science
  • GI (Gesellschaft für Informatik)
  • CPSR (Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility)

Offices Held (currently)

  • Editorial Board, International Journal of “Interactive Technology and Smart Education”, Troubador Publishing, England
  • Editorial Board, Journal of “Universal Computer Science (J.UCS)”, University of Graz, Austria
  • Editorial Board, International Journal “Universal Access in the Information Society”, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany
  • Editorial Board, Book Series “Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning”, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Netherlands
  • Editorial Board, International Journal “Knowledge-Based Systems”, Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford, UK
  • Editorial Board, International Journal “User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction”, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Netherlands
  • Editorial Board, International Journal “Automated Software Engineering”, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Netherlands
  • Editorial Board, International Journal of “Design Computing” (fully electronic multimedia journal), Key Centre of Design Computing, University of Sydney, Australia

Member of Advisory Boards

  • Science of Learning Center ”The Center for LIFE: Learning in Informal and Formal Environments”, University of Washington, Stanford University, and SRI International
  • EU Project “APOSDLE: Advanced Process-Oriented Self-Directed Learning Environment”
  • Viewpoints Research Institute, Glendale, Calif (president: Alan Kay)
  • Fraunhofer Institute FIT Institute for Applied Information Technology, Sankt Augustin/ Bonn, Germany
  • Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology (B-IT), Bonn, Germany
  • Alliance for Technology, Learning, and Society (ATLAS), University of Colorado, Boulder
  • School of Art and Communication, University of Malmö, Sweden
  • International Conference Series “AI in Design”
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Program Committees (last five years)

Chair

2007:        C&C’2007: Creativity and Cognition, 6th Creativity & Cognition Conference, Washington, DC, June  2007, Co-Chair of Technical Program

2002:           CSCL’2002: Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, Boulder, Co, January

1991:           AAAI-91: User Interface Research Area, Anaheim, CA, July

1990:           AAAI-90: Spring Symposium on Knowledge-Based Human-Computer Communication, Stanford, CA, March

Member

2007:

  • Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction Program Board of HCI International, July 2007
  • Third International Conference on Communities and Technologies, Michigan State University, June 28-30, 2007

2006:

  • NordiChi 2006, Oct 14-18, Oslo, Norway
  • COOP’2006: International conference on the design of cooperative systems,  France, Provence, May 9-12, 2006
  • DIS’2006: Design of Interactive Systems, Penn State, June  20-28, 2006
  • Second International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition (DCC'06) July 2006, Eindhoven,  Netherlands

2005:

  • International Conference on Computational and Cognitive Models of Creative Design (HI'05) 10-14 December 2005, Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia
  • International Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Technologies in Education (WMTE 2005), University of Tokushima, Japan, November 28-30, 2005
  • "Critical Computing - between Sense and Sensibility" The Fourth Decennial Aarhus Conference, Aarhus, Denmark, 21-25 August 2005
  • 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 18-22, 2005.
  • UM 2005: User Modeling Conference, Edinburgh, UK, 24 -30 July, 2005
  • 3rd  Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction Conference (UAHCI 2005) in cooperation with HCI International 2005, 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Las Vegas, 22-27 July 2005
  • 4th International Conference for Interaction Design and Children, Boulder, CO, June 8-10, 2005
  • 5th Creativity & Cognition Conference, Goldsmiths College, London 12-15 April 2005

2004:

  • 6th International Roundtable Conference on Computational and Cognitive Models of Creative Design (HI'04) 1-5 December 2004, Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia
  • ICCE’2004: International Conference on Computers in Education 2004, November 30th to December 3rd, 2004, Melbourne
  • ICALT’2004: 4th IEEE Conference on Advanced Learning Systems, Aug 30-Sept 1, 2004, Joensuu, Finland
  • PDC’2004: 8th Participatory Design Conference, July 27-31, Toronto, Canada
  • 6th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems (COOP’2004), 11-14 May 2004,  Nice, France,

2003:

  • International Conference on Computers In Education (ICCE’2003), Hongkong,  December
  • International Symposium “Communities and Technologies”, Amsterdam, September
  • IKnow’03: International Conference on Knowledge Management, Graz, Austria, June
  • HCI International 2003, 10th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Crete, Greece, June 22-27, 2003

2002:

  • International Conference on Computers In Education (ICCE’2002), Auckland, New Zealand, 3-6 December
  • 4th International Conference on  Creativity and Cognition (C&C’2002), Loughborough,  England, 14-16 October
  • WMTE 2002, IEEE International Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Technologies in Education, Växjö, Sweden, August 2002
  • International Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS’2002), London,  England, 26 -29 June
  • 5th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems (COOP’2002), Saint Raphaël, France, 4– 6 June

2001:

  • ESCL’2001:European Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Conference, March 2001 Maastricht, Netherlands
  • Fifth International Conference on Computational and Cognitive Models of Creative Design (HI'01), 9-13 December 2001, Heron Island, Queensland, Australia
  • IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2001), 6-8 August 2001, Madison, USA
  • 8th International Conference on User Modelling (UM01), July 13 to July 17, 2001, Sonthofen, Bavaria. Germany

2000:

  • ICC' 2000: Interactive and Collaborative Computing, First International Congress on Intelligent Systems and Applications ISA'2000, University of Wollongong,  Australia, December 12 - 15, 2000
  • COOP’2000: Fourth International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems, Sophia Antipolis, France, May 23-26, 2000
  • The 3rd International Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS 2000), New York City, August 17-19, 2000

1999:

  • ACM SIGCHI International Conference “Creativity & Cognition 3: Intersections and Collaborations: Art, Music, Technology, and Science”, October 11-13, 1999, Loughborough University, Loughborough, England
  • The 7th International Conference on Computers in Education, November 2-5, Chiba, Japan
  • User Modelling UM’99 (http://www.usask.ca/UM99), June 20-24, Banff, Canada

1998:

  • IFIP 13.2 Working Conference “Designing Effective and Usable Multimedia Systems, September 9-11, Stuttgart, Germany
  • Fourth International Round-Table Conference On Computational Models of Creative Design, December 6-10, Heron Island, Queensland, Australia
  • International Conference “Artificial Intelligence in Structural Engineering — Information Technology for Design, Collaboration, Maintenance and Monitoring, July, Ascona, Switzerland
  • ICCE’98 — International Conference On Computers In Education, October, Bejing, China
  • COOP'98 — Third International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems, May 26-29, Cannes, France
  • Fifth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Design (AID'98), July 20-23, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal
  • Fourth International Round-Table Conference “Computational Models of Creative Design”, December 6-10, Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia

1997:

  • DIS’97 — Designing Interactive Systems: Processes, Practices, Methods, And Techniques, ACM SIGCHI in co-operation with IFIP WG 13.2, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, August
  • UM’97 — 7th International Conference on User Modeling, Sardinia, Italy, June
  • ICCE’97 — International Conference On Computers In Education, Kuching, Malaysia, November

1996:

  • ICLS'96 — Second International Conference on the Learning Sciences: “Learning for the Real World”, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, July
  • ITS 96 — Third International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Montreal, Canada June
  • COOP’96 — 2nd International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems, Antibes-Juan-les-Pins, France, June
  • IFIP WG 8.1/13.2 Joint Working Conference, Domain Knowledge for Interactive System Design, Geneva, Switzerland, May
  • Creativity and Cognition 2: “Intersections between Art, Technology and Science”, Loughborough, England, April
  • UM96 — 5th International Conference on User Modeling, Hawaii, January

1995:

  • Third International Conference on Computational Models of Creative Design, Heron Island, Queensland, Australia, December
  • SBIA-95 — Brasilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Campinas, Brasil, October
  • CSCL’95 — Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, Indiana University, October
  • DIS’95 — Symposium on Designing Interactive Systems: “Processes, Practices, Methods & Techniques”, Ann Arbor, MI, August
  • International Workshop on the Design of Cooperative Systems, Antibes-Juan-les-Pins, France, January
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Invited Talks (last five years)

2006:

  • Fischer G.  — December 8, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore: “Distributed Intelligence: From Reflective Practitioners to Reflective Communities”
  • Fischer G.  — December 7, National Institute of Education, Singapore: “Beyond Binary Choices: Understanding and Exploiting Trade-Offs to Enhance Creativity”
  • Fischer G. — November 8, Fraunhofer Institute FIT, Bonn: “Distributed Intelligence: Extending the Power of the Unaided, Individual Human Mind”
  • Fischer G.  —  September 11, University of Alberta, Edmonton: “Meta-Design: Putting Owners of Problems in Charge”
  • Fischer G.  —  September 8, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon: “Distributed Intelligence: Extending the Power of the Unaided, Individual Human Mind”
  • Fischer G.  —  September 7, University of Regina: “Individual and Social Creativity”
  • Fischer G.  —  September 7, University of Regina: “Meta-Design: Putting Owners of Problems in Charge”
  • Fischer G.  —  July 19, Education & Outreach Colloquium Series, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD: “Meta-Design: Putting Owners of Problems in Charge”
  • Fischer G.  —  June 26, Fraunhofer Institute, IPSI, Darmstadt: “Distributed Intelligence: Extending the Power of the Unaided, Individual Human Mind”
  • Fischer G.  —  February 10, 2006; ATR Workshop on Knowledge Sharing for Everyday Life, Nara, Japan: “Innovative Media and Technologies in Support of Distributed Intelligence, Knowledge Sharing, and Lifelong Learning”

2005:

  • Fischer G.,  — December 16, 2005: University of Christchurch, New Zealand: “Beyond Binary Choices: Understanding and Exploiting Trade-Offs to Enhance Creativity”
  • Fischer G.,  — December 1, 2005: Presentation at Workshop “Knowledge, Community, and Creativity”, RCAST, University of Tokyo: “Beyond Binary Choices: Understanding and Exploiting Trade-Offs to Enhance Creativity”
  • Fischer G.,  — November 30, 2005:Presentation at FujiXerox, Tokyo: “Distance Collaboration and Corporate Memories — Sources for Social Creativity”
  • Fischer G.,  — November 18, 2005: University of Gothenburg, Sweden: “Meta-Design: A Framework for Software Design of the Future”
  • Fischer G.,  — November 9, 2005:  “Distances and Diversity: Sources for Social Creativity” School of Interactive Arts and Technology Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
  • Fischer G.,  — September 12, 2005, University of Siegen, Germany: “Distributed Intelligence: From Reflective Practitioners to Reflective Communities”
  • Fischer G.,  — September 13, 2005, Fraunhofer Research Institute, Bonn, Germany: “Distances and Diversity: Sources for Social Creativity”
  • Fischer G.,  — June 17, 2005, German Federal Ministry for Education and Research, Bonn, Germany, “Innovations for Work: Future of Work and Work of the Future”
  • Fischer G.,  — May 31, 2005: Ted and Janice Smith Distinguished Lecture Speaker, University of California, Irvine: “Distributed Intelligence: From Reflective Practitioners to Reflective Communities”
  • Fischer G., “Conceptual Frameworks and Socio-Technical Environments Supporting Learning Organizations”, International Symposium on Work Practice Design, FujiXerox, Tokyo, Japan  March 4 , 2005
  • Fischer G., “Distributed Intelligence: Reflections on Tools for Living and Tools for Learning”, University of Wisconsin, Madison, January 28, 2005

2004:

  • Fischer G., “Meta-Design: A Framework for the Future of End-User Development”, Institut für Arbeitswissenschaften, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Dec 2004
  • Fischer G.: “Smart Care: the Importance of Creating Life Histories for People with Cognitive Disabilities” University of Oregon, December 2004
  • Fischer G., “Meta-Design: A Framework for the Future of End-User Development”, CISRO, Sydney, Australia, November 26, 2004
  • Fischer G., “Social Creativity: Making All Voices Heard”, University of Sydney, November 25, 2004
  • Fischer G., “From ‘Anywhere, Anytime, Anyone’ to ‘the Right Information at the Right Time, in the Right Place, in the Right Way to the Right Person’”, International Workshop Series on RFID “Information Sharing and Privacy”, Tokyo, Japan, November 10, 2004
  • Fischer G., “Social Creativity: Making All Voices Heard”, International Symposium “Dynamic Communities”, Tokyo, Japan, November 9, 2004
  • Fischer G. "Social creativity and meta-design in lifelong learning communities", National Institute of Standards & Technology, Gaithersburg, MD; June  22, 2004.
  • Fischer G. "Supporting Collaboration and Distributed Cognition in Context-Aware Pervasive Computing Environments" University of Maryland, May 7 2004.
  • Fischer, G., Arias, E., Carmien, S., Eden, H., Gorman, A., Konomi, S., & Sullivan, J.: “Supporting Collaboration and Distributed Cognition in Context-Aware Pervasive Computing Environments“, 2004 Meeting of the Human Computer Interaction Consortium , Winter Park, Colorado
  • Fischer G.: "Social creativity and meta-design in lifelong learning communities", University of Madison, Wisconsin, January 30

2003:

  • “Reinventing Learning and Teaching from a Social Creativity Perspective”, PKAL Workshop, Boulder, 21 November 2003
  • “Meta-Design — Empowering Users to Act as Informed Participants”, SAP, 15 July 2003, Walldorf, Germany
  • “Design, Design Communities, and Knowledge Management: Why Learning from the Past is not Enough!” 7 July 2003, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
  • “Computer Science and the University of the 21st Century — New Media, Mindsets, Cultures, and Learning Organizations”, University of Canterbury, 18 June 2003, New Zealand
  • “Meta-Design”, CSIRO, Melbourne, 9 June  2003, Australia
  • “Doing Basic Research on Real Problems — Designing the Intelligent Personal and Shared Information Environments of the Future”, Murdoch University, Perth, 4 June  2003,
  • “Knowledge Management (KM) — Why Learning from the Past is not Enough! “, CSIRO, Alice Springs, 3 June 2003, Australia
  • “Learning Paradigms of the 21st Century — New Mindsets, New Cultures, and New Media for Learning”, University of Waikato, 22 May 2003, Hamilton, New Zealand
  • “Communities of Interest: Bringing Different Communities of Practice Together”, Symposium Collaborative Working — Integrating Creative and Technical Expertise, Waikato University, April 2003, Hamilton, New Zealand
  • “Collaborative Design — Theory, Systems, Practice, and Assessment”, Interdisciplinary College IK 2003, Günne, Germany, March 7, 2003
  • “Human-Computer Interaction and New Media — Research Challenges for the Future”, Technical University (RWTH) Aachen, March 6, 2003
  • “Communities of Practice and Communities of Interest”, CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, Sydney, February 12, Australia
  • “Knowledge Management  — Why Learning from the Past is not Enough!”, International Symposium “Knowledge Management and the Global Firm: Organizational and Technological Dimensions”, University of Sydney, February 7, Australia

2002:

  • Learning Paradigms of the 21st Century — New Mindsets, New Cultures, and New Media for Learning, Centre for Lifelong Learning and Development, Adelaide, November 15, 2002
  • “Knowledge Management (KM) — Problems, Promises, Realities, and Challenges”, Department of Computer Science, University of Sydney, November 13, 2002
  • Social Creativity and Meta-Design in Lifelong Learning Communities, Hail Seminar, Intelligent Interactive Technologies (IIT) Research Group, CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, Sydney, November 12
  • “Knowledge Management (KM) — Problems, Promises, Realities, and Challenges”, University of Technology, Sydney, November 11, 2002
  • “Knowledge Management and Learning Organizations”, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), University of Tokyo, October 10, 2002
  • Social Creativity and Meta-Design in Lifelong Learning Communities, NTT Computer Science Laboratories, Japan, October 8, 2002
  • “Social Creativity and Meta-Design in Lifelong Learning Communities”, Canterbury University, Christchurch, NZ, August 28
  • “Why Anatomy does not have to be Destiny”, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA, July12
  • “Social Creativity and Meta-Design in Lifelong Learning Communities”, Cornell University, Ithaca, July 8
  • “Social Creativity and Meta-Design in Lifelong Learning Communities”, University of Munique, Germany, June 20
  • “Distributed Cognition - Why Anatomy does not have to be Destiny”, University of Tübingen, Germany, June 19
  • “Beyond Gift-Wrapping and Technology Enthusiasm — The Co-Evolution of Learning, New Media and New Learning Organizations”, University of Freiburg, Germany, June 17
  • “Shared Knowledge in Communities of Interest”, International Workshop Barriers and biases in computer-mediated knowledge communication - and how they may be overcome”, University of Münster, Germany, June13
  • “Social Creativity, Meta-Design, Open Systems and Social Capital”, Workshop "The Role of IT in Social Capital", University of Amsterdam, May 27
  • “Making Learning a Part of Life — Beyond the ‘Gift Wrapping’ Approach of Technology”, Symposium über Kooperatives Lernen und Spielen, Fraunhofer Institut Angwandte Informationstechnik, Bonn, Germany, May 24
  • “Transcending the Individual Human Mind: Social Creativity and Meta-Design”, University of Oregon , Eugene, Oregon, May 3
  • “Social Creativity and Meta-Design in Lifelong Learning Communities”, Seminar on People, Computers, and Design, Stanford University, April 19
  • “Social Creativity and Meta-Design in Lifelong Learning Communities”,  University of Utah, March 14
  • Distinguished Lecture Series, Information Sciences and Technology School, Penn State “Social Creativity and Meta-Design in Lifelong Learning Communities”, Friday, February 22

2001:

  • University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, “Lifelong Learning: New Mindsets and New Media, Nov 27
  • Texas A&M University, Department of Computer Science: “Social Creativity and Meta-Design in Lifelong Learning Communities”, October 22
  • University of Helsinki, Department of Psychology: “Lifelong Learning: New Mindsets and New Media”, August 16
  • University of Helsinki, Center for Activity Theory: “Communities of Practice and Communities of interest”, August  15
  • Vaxjö University, Sweden: “Doing Basic Research on Real Problems —Designing the Intelligent Personal and Shared Information Environments of the Future”, May 2001
  • Malmö University, Sweden: “New Media for Collaborative Design”, May 21
  • DaimlerChrysler Research Center, Ulm, Germany: “Making Information Relevant to Tasks and Users”,  May 18
  • SAP Research Center, Karlsruhe, Germany: “Lifelong Learning”, May 17
  • Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB), “Symmetry of Ignorance, Social Creativity, and Meta-Design”, University of Karlsruhe, May 17
  • MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA: “Symmetry of Ignorance, Social Creativity, and
    Meta-Design”, April 20
  • Sun Microsystems, Broomfield, CO : “Knowledge Management (KM) — Problems, Promises, Realities and Challenges”, February 15

2000:

  • IBM Research, Yorktown, “Shared Understanding, Informed Participation, and Social Creativity — Objectives for the Next Generation of Collaborative Systems”, August 16
  • European Workshop, Lübeck, Germany: “Structures of Learning-Shaping the Transition:The Learning paradigms of the 21st Century”, July 3
  • Dagstuhl Seminar Knowledge Management: An Interdisciplinary Approach, “Knowledge Management (KM) — Promises, Hypes, Realities and Challenges”, July 12 
  • Discovery Learning Conference, University of Colorado, Boulder: “New Mindsets and New Cultures: Discovery Learning, Lifelong Learning, Learning Communities, and the University of the Future”, May 13
  • Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA: “User Modeling in Support of High-Functionality Applications, Software Reuse, and Learning on Demand”, February 28
  • University of California, San Diego: “New Media for Learning and Collaboration”, February 16

1999:

  • City University, London: "Transcending the Individual Human Mind - Creating Shared Understanding through Collaborative Design", October 14
  • GMD, Bonn: "Transcending the Individual Human Mind - Creating Shared Understanding through Collaborative Design", October 5
  • School of Art and Communication, Malmö University: "Transcending the Individual Human Mind - Creating Shared Understanding through Collaborative Design", October 4
  • Bund-Länder Kommision  Meeting , Bonn: "Beyond 'Gift Wrapping': Grundlegende Innovationen für die (globale) Hochschule der Zukunft", October 1
  • Stanford University: "Transcending the Individual Human Mind - Creating Shared Understanding through Collaborative Design", April 23
  • Tagung "Kunst und Informatik", Evangelische Akademie, Tutzingen: "Soziale Kreativität, Symmetrie der Unwissenheit und Meta-Design", March 5
  • Center for New Media, University of Erfurt, Germany: “Learning with New Media”, January 22
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Dortmund,  Germany: “Making Learning a Part of Life — Beyond the ‘Gift Wrapping Approach‘ of Technology”, January 21
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Research Grants and Contracts

Remark: Unless otherwise noted, I served as PI or as Co-PI with the other persons listed on these grants.

  • 2007-2008: “SGER: A New Generation Wiki for Supporting a Research Community in Creativity and IT”, $199,974, NSF-CISE-IIS
  • 2006-2009: “A Meta-Design Framework for Participative Software Systems”, $745,448; Sponsor: National Science Foundation, CISE, Science of Design Program
  • 2005-2006: “CLever: Building Cognitive Levers to help people help themselves”, $ 160,000; Sponsor: Coleman Institute
  • 2005: “Creativity Support Tools” (with Ben Shneiderman; grant awarded to the University of Maryland), $45,000, Sponsor: NSF CISE — Support for a Workshop, Washington, DC
  • 2004-2005: “SGER: Designing and developing mobile computing infrastructures and architectures to support people with cognitive disabilities and caregivers in authentic everyday tasks”, $ 107,000; Sponsor: NSF CISE
  • 2004-2005: “Smart Care — Socio-Technical Environments for People with Cognitive Disabilities”, $ 30,000K, Sponsor: Imagine!, Boulder, CO
  • 2000 – 2005: “CLever: Building Cognitive Levers to help people help themselves”, $ 2,400,000; Sponsor: Coleman Family Foundation
  • 2002-2005: “A Social-Technical Approach to the Evolutionary Construction of Reusable Software Component Repositories” (with Yunwen Ye), $202,875, Sponsor: National Science Foundation, Division of Computer-Communications Research (Software Engineering)
  • 2001-2005: “Social Creativity and Meta-Design in Lifelong Learning Communities” (with Ernesto Arias, Hal Eden, and Michael Eisenberg), $1,282,353; Sponsor: National Science Foundation, Directorate of Education and Human Resources
  • 2002: “Enhancing Collaborative Learning Among Researchers, Practitioners, and Students at CSCL 2002” (with Hal Eden, and Gerry Stahl), $49,860, Sponsor: National Science Foundation, Directorate of Education and Human Resources (support for the CSCL conference in January, Boulder)
  • 2000: “Informed Participation — A Foundation for Creating Shared Understanding in Collaborative Design and Decision Making”, $ 60,000; Sponsor: ONR
  • 1997-2001: “Allowing Learners to be Articulate: Incorporating Automated Text Evaluation into Collaborative Software Environments” (with W. Kintsch and T.K. Landauer), $678,239; Sponsor: James S. McDonnell Foundation
  • 1997-2000: “Explorations in the Design of Future Computational Systems for Every-Day Life”, $450,00, Sponsor: PFU, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
  • 1997-2000: “Conceptual Frameworks and Computational Support for Organizational Memories and Organizational Learning” (with J. Ostwald and G. Stahl), $725,000; Sponsor: National Science Foundation
  • 1996-1999: “Lifelong Learning - Bringing Learning Activities to Life” (with M. Eisenberg, H. Eden, and A. Repenning), $1,935,996; Sponsor: National Science Foundation
  • 1996-1997: “Shared Interaction in Support of Design, Learning and Planning” (with E. Arias and H. Eden), $61,300; Sponsor: National Science Foundation
  • 1996-1997: “Making Learning a Part of Life: Theories, Technologies, Practices, and Assessment in Support of Lifelong Learning”, Collaborative Research on Learning Technology (CRLT) Center Planning Grant (with 12 Co-PIs), $50,000; Sponsor: National Science Foundation
  • 1995-1996: “Learning by Design: Environments to Support Reinventing and Reengineering Education as a Lifelong Process” (with H. Eden, M. Eisenberg and A. Repenning), $398,482; Sponsor: National Science Foundation
  • 1994-1996: “Next Generation Authoring Tools & Instructional Applications”, $414,235; Sponsor: Technology Reinvestment Program (TRP)
  • 1994-1997: “Designing Useful and Usable Computational Environments” (with M. Eisenberg); $900,000; Sponsor: Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)
  • 1994-1997: “Human-Centered, Intelligent Agents Supporting Communication and Collaboration in Domain-Oriented Design Environments”; $210,000; Sponsor: National Science Foundation
  • 1994-1995: “Learning on Demand - Using Networks for the Integration of School and Workplace Learning” (with H. Eden and M. Eisenberg), $436,141; Sponsor: National Science Foundation
  • 1992-1995: “Mastering High-Functionality Systems by Supporting Learning on Demand” (with M. Eisenberg); $1,068,097; Sponsor: National Science Foundation
  • 1992-1994: “Beyond Object Oriented Programming: A Knowledge-Based Architecture for Contextualized Software Design”; $64,700; Sponsor: Colorado Advanced Software Institute, Denver, CO
  • 1992-1993: “Effective Use of Parallel and Distributed Computing”; $49,193; Sponsor: National Science Foundation
  • 1990-1993: “Supporting Collaborative Design with Integrated Knowledge-Based Design Environments” (with A. Lemke and R. McCall); $700,000; Sponsor: National Science Foundation
  • 1990-1993: CU-USWest Partnership Program (with C. Lewis, R. King, A. Lemke, G. Nutt, N. Pennington and P. Polson), $746,969; Sponsor: USWest Advanced Technologies, Boulder, CO
  • 1990-1995: “Effective Use of Parallel and Distributed Computing” (contributing investigator), $1,999,687; Sponsor: National Science Foundation, CISE Institutional Infrastructure Grant
  • 1988-1991: “Design Principles for Comprehensible Systems” (with W. Kintsch, C. Lewis, and P. Polson); $1,171,246; Sponsor: National Science Foundation (group grant)
  • 1986-1991: “Theories, Methods and Tools for the Design of User-Centered Computer Systems” (with W. Kintsch); $986,867; Sponsor: Army Research Institute (ARI)
  • 1987-1989: “Software Development Environment Research” (with R. King, G. Nutt, and L. Osterweil); $440,700; Sponsor: USWest Advanced Technologies, Englewood, CO
  • 1986-1988: “The Application of Knowledge Engineering Techniques to Automatic Compiler Construction” (with V. Heuring and W. Waite); $337,204; Sponsor: Army Research Office
  • 1985-1989: “A Facility for Research in Distributed Numerical Computation, Software Environments and Artificial Intelligence” (contributing investigator); $4,900,000; Sponsor: National Science Foundation and CU-Boulder
  • 1987-1992: “Optoelectronic Computing Systems” (COCS) (contributing investigator); $14,500,000; Sponsor: National Science Foundation and CU-Boulder
  • 1986: “Artificial Intelligence Research to support Human-Computer Communication, Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Software Engineering”; $2,500,000; Equipment Grant from Hewlett Packard, (with C. Lewis)
  • 1985-1986: “Enhancing Incremental Learning Processes with Knowledge-based Systems”; $243,000; Sponsor: Office of Naval Research
  • 1985: NSF Equipment Grant (with V. Heuring, W. Waite, M. Lightner, C. Lewis, and L. Osterweil); $150,000; Sponsor: NSF Engineering Program
  • 1984-1988: “WISDOM: Knowledge-Based Systems for Office Communication, Document Processing and Human-Computer Communication” (with Triumph-Adler and GMD); $11,500,000; Sponsor: German Federal Ministry of Research and Technology
  • 1983-1984: “Knowledge acquisition”; $100,000; Sponsor: Triumph-Adler, Nürnberg, Germany
  • 1983-1985: “Knowledge-based systems and human-computer communication” (with R. Gunzenhäuser); $1,300,000; Sponsor: German Federal Ministry of Research and Technology
  • 1981-1982: “Integrated, interactive, personal information manipulation systems” (with R. Gunzenhäuser); $600,000; Sponsor: German Federal Ministry of Research and Technology
  • 1980-1981: “Evaluation study of natural language question/answering systems” (with J. Laubsch); $150,000; Sponsor: German Federal Ministry of Research and Technology
  • 1975-1977: “Problem Solving with Interactive Computer System: Project LOGO” (contributing investigator); $675,000; Sponsor: German Federal Ministry of Science and Education

Financial Support from Companies

  • 1993-present: PFU, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan for the Center for LifeLong Learning & Design (L3D)
  • 1993-1998: NYNEX Science and Technology for the Center for LifeLong Learning & Design (L3D)
  • 1997-1998: DaimlerBenz Forschung und Technik, Ulm, Germany for the Center for LifeLong Learning & Design (L3D)
  • 1993-1994: Siemens Corporation, Munich, Germany for the Human-Computer Communications Group
  • 1993-1994: USWest Foundation for the Research Program “Learning on Demand”
  • 1992-1994: Equipment grants from Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, CA for the Human-Computer Communication Group and the Center for LifeLong Learning & Design (L3D)
  • 1989-1998: NYNEX Science and Technology for the NYNEX/CU Graduate Fellowship
  • 1989-present: Software Research Associates (SRA), Tokyo, Japan and Boulder, CO for the Human-Computer Communication Group and the Center for LifeLong Learning & Design (L3D)
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Publications

Papers
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In Press
  1. Derry, S. J., & Fischer, G. (2007): "Transdisciplinary Graduate Education" (forthcoming). http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/transdisciplinary-sharon.pdf

Published

  1. Gerhard Fischer and David Redmiles: "Transdisciplinary Education and Collaboration", Contribution to the Human Computer Interaction Consortium (HCIC) Workshop 2008; http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/hcic2008.pdf

  2. Stefan P. Carmien and Gerhard Fischer: "Design, Adoption, and Assessment of a Socio-Technical Environment Supporting Independence for Persons with Cognitive Disabilities", CHI 2008 Proceedings, April 5-10, 2008 · Florence, Italy, pp 597 - 607; http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/chi2008.pdf

  3. Giaccardi, E. and G. Fischer (2008): Creativity and Evolution: A Metadesign Perspective. Digital Creativity, 19 (1), pp. 19 - 32. http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/digital-creativity-2008.pdf

  4. Ye, Y. and Fischer, G. (2007): "Designing for Participation in Socio-Technical Software Systems", In Stephanidis, C. (Ed.) Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, Part I. Heidelberg, Springer, pp. 312-321. http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/hcii-2007.pdf

  5. Fischer, G. and E. Giaccardi (2007): "Sustaining Social Creativity", CACM, Vol 50, No 2 (December), pp 28-29 http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/cacm-sc-2007.pdf

  6. Fischer, G., & Konomi, S. (2007) "Innovative Media in Support of Distributed Intelligence and Lifelong Learning", Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, Volume 23, Issue 4, Mobile Learning, Page 338-350, Aug 2007http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/final-JCAL-2007.pdf

  7. Fischer, G. (2007): "Meta-Design: Expanding Boundaries and Redistributing Control in Design", Proceedings of the Interact'2007 Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September, pp. 193-206; http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/Interact-2007.pdf

  8. Fischer, G. (2007): "Designing Socio-Technical Environments in Support of Meta-Design and Social Creativity", Proceedings of the Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL '2007), Rutgers University, July pp. 1-10; http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/CSCL-2007.pdf

  9. Fischer, G., Rohde, M., & Wulf, V. (2007). Community-Based Learning: The Core Competency of Residential, Research Based Universities. International Journal for Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, Vol 2 (1), March 2007, pp. 9-40. http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/iJCSCL2007.pdf
    online version from Springer at: http://www.springerlink.com/content/x7m1270830277315/

  10. Carmien, S., Kollar, I., Fischer, G., & Fischer, F. (2007) "The Interplay of Internal and External Scripts." In F. Fischer, I. Kollar, H. Mandl, & J. M. Haake (Eds.), Scripting Computer-Supported Learning – Cognitive, Computational, and Educational Perspectives, Springer, New York, NY, pp. 303-326. http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/external-internal-scripts.pdf

  11. Fischer, G. (2006) "Beyond Binary Choices: Understanding and exploiting trade–offs to enhance creativity," First Monday, 11(4 (April 2006), http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_4/fischer/index.html

  12. Fischer, G. (2006) "Distributed Intelligence: Extending the Power of the Unaided, Individual Human Mind." In Proceedings of Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) Conference, Venice, May 23-26, 2006, pp. 7-14. http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/avi-2006.pdf

  13. Fischer, G., & Giaccardi, E. (2006) "Meta-Design: A Framework for the Future of End User Development." In H. Lieberman, F. Paternò, & V. Wulf (Eds.), End User Development — Empowering people to flexibly employ advanced information and communication technology, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, pp. 427-457. http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/EUD-meta-design-online.pdf

  14. Fischer, G., & Sugimoto, M. (2006) "Supporting Self-Directed Learners and Learning Communities with Sociotechnical Environments," International Journal Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning (RPTEL), 1(1), pp. 31-64. http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/final-RPTE.pdf

  15. Fischer, G. (2005) "Beyond Binary Choices: Understanding and Exploiting Trade-Offs to Enhance Creativity." In J. S. Gero, & M. L. Maher (Eds.), Computational and Cognitive Models of Creative Design, Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, pp. 71-92. http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/final-heron05-final.pdf

  16. Fischer, G. (2005) "Socio-Technical Environments Supporting People with Cognitive Disabilities (in Japanese; translated by Takemi Yamazaki)," Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) Magazine, 46(11), pp. 1269-1278. http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/final-ipsj-takemi.pdf

  17. Fischer, G., & Konomi, S. (2005) "Innovative Media in Support of Distributed Intelligence and Lifelong Learning." In Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Technologies in Education, IEEE Computer Society, Tokushima, Japan, pp. 3-10. http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/WMTE-2005.pdf

  18. Fischer, G., Giaccardi, E., Eden, H., Sugimoto, M., & Ye, Y. (2005) "Beyond Binary Choices: Integrating Individual and Social Creativity," International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS) Special Issue on Computer Support for Creativity (E.A. Edmonds & L. Candy, Eds.), 63(4-5), pp. 482-512. http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/ind-social-creativity-05.pdf

  19. Carmien, S., Dawe, M., Fischer, G., Gorman, A., Kintsch, A., & Sullivan, J. F. (2005) "Socio-Technical Environments Supporting People with Cognitive Disabilities Using Public Transportation," Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction (ToCHI), June 2005, Vol 12, No 2, pp 233-262. http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/tochi-social-issues-final.pdf.

  20. Fischer, G. (2005) "From Reflective Practitioners to Reflective Communities." In: Proceedings of the HCI International Conference (HCII), Las Vegas, July 2005, (published on CD). http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/reflective-communities-hcii-2005.pdf

  21. Fischer, G. (2005) "Social Creativity: Making All Voices Heard." In, Proceedings of the HCI International Conference (HCII), Las Vegas, July 2005, (published on CD). http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/social-creativity-hcii-2005.pdf

  22. Carmien, S., & Fischer, G. (2005) "Tools for Living and Tools for Learning." In, Proceedings of the  HCI International Conference (HCII), Las Vegas, July 2005, (published on CD). http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/tools-hcii-2005.pdf

  23. Dawe, M., Fischer, G., Gorman, A., Kintsch, A., Konomi,  S., Sullivan, J., Taylor, J., & Wellems, G. (2005) "Smart  Care: the Importance and Challenges of Creating Life Histories  for People with Cognitive Disabilities." In, Proceedings of the HCI International Conference (HCII), Las Vegas, July  2005, (published on CD). http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/smartcare-hcii-2005.pdf

  24. Fischer, G. (2005) "Computational Literacy and Fluency: Being Independent of High-Tech Scribes." In J. Engel, R. Vogel, & S. Wessolowski (Eds.), Strukturieren - Modellieren - Kommunizieren. Leitbild  mathematischer und informatischer Aktivitäten, Franzbecker, Hildesheim, pp 217-230; http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/hightechscribes-05.pdf

  25. Derry S. & Fischer, G. (2005) "Toward a Model and Theory  for Transdisciplinary Graduate Education," Paper presented at  2005 AERA Annual Meeting, Symposium, "Sociotechnical Design for  Lifelong Learning: A Crucial Role for Graduate Education", Montreal,  April 2005 http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/aera-montreal.pdf

  26. Fischer, G. (2005) "Distances and Diversity: Sources for Social Creativity," Proceedings of Creativity & Cognition, London, April, pp. 128-136. http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/creativity-cognition-2005.pdf

  27. Ye, Y., & Fischer, G. (2005) "Reuse-Conducive Development Environments," International Journal Automated Software Engineering, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 12(2), pp. 199-235.http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/J-ASE-final.pdf

  28. Giaccardi, E., & Fischer, G. (2005) "Creativity and Evolution: A Metadesign Perspective." In Proceedings of the European Academy of Design (EAD-6) Conference, Bremen, Germany, 29-31 March, available at: http://ead06.hfk-bremen.de/conference/ead06_cdrom.zip; and http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/ead06.pdf

  29. Fischer,  G., & Ostwald, J. (2005) "Knowledge Communication  In Design Communities." In R. Bromme, F. Hesse, & H.  Spada (Eds.), Barriers and Biases in Computer-Mediated Knowledge Communication, Springer, New York, NY, pp 213 - 242. http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/fi_ost-final.pdf

  30. dePaula, R., & Fischer, G. (2005) "Knowledge Management: Why Learning from the Past is not Enough!" In J. Davis, E. Subrahmanian, & A. Westerberg (Eds.), Knowledge Management: Organizational and Technological Dimensions, Physica Verlag, Heidelberg, pp. 21-54. http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/km-final-2005.pdf

  31. Fischer, G., Arias, E., Carmien, S., Eden, H., Gorman, A., ShinichiKonomi, & Sullivan, J. F. (2004) Supporting Collaboration and Distributed Cognition in Context-Aware Pervasive Computing Environments (Paper Presented at the 2004 Meeting of the Human Computer Interaction Consortium "Computing Off The Desktop"), Available at http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/hcic2004.pdf

  32. Fischer, G., Giaccardi, E., Ye, Y., Sutcliffe, A. G., & Mehandjiev, N. (2004) "Meta-Design: A Manifesto for End-User Development," Communications of the ACM, 47(9), pp. 33-37. http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/CACM-meta-design.pdf.

  33. Fischer, G. (2004) "Social Creativity: Turning Barriers into Opportunities for Collaborative Design." In F. deCindio, & D. Schuler (Eds.), Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference (PDC’04), CPSR, P.O. Box 717, Palo Alto, CA 94302, University of Toronto, Canada, July, pp. 152-161. http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/pd04-final-submit.pdf

  34. Fischer, G., Scharff, E., & Ye, Y. (2004) "Fostering Social Creativity by Increasing Social Capital." In M. Huysman, & V. Wulf (Eds.), Social Capital and Information Technology, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 355-399.http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/social-capital-2002.pdf

  35. "Meta-Design: Beyond User-Centered and Participatory Design," Proceedings of HCI International 2003, Julie Jacko and Constantine Stephanidis (eds.), Crete, Greece, June 2003, pp. 88-92. http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/hci2003-meta-design.pdf

  36. "Distributed Cognition: A Conceptual Framework for Design-for-All," Proceedings of HCI International 2003, Constantine Stephanidis (ed.), Crete, Greece, June 2003, pp. 78-82. http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/hci2003-dis-cog.pdf

  37. "Desert Island: Software Engineering - A Human Activity," International Journal Automated Software Engineering, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 10(2), pp. 233-237 http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/ase2002.pdf

  38. "Beyond 'Couch Potatoes': From Consumers to Designers and Active Contributors", in FirstMonday (Peer-Reviewed Journal on the Internet), Available at http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_12/fischer/, 2002

  39. "Transcending the Information Given: Designing Learning Environments for Informed Participation" (with Jonathan Ostwald), Proceedings of ICCE 2002 International Conference on Computers in Education, December 2002, Auckland, New Zealand, pp 378-381 http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/icce2002.pdf

  40. "Symmetry of Ignorance and Informed Participation" (with Pelle Ehn, Yrjö Engeström , and Jaakko Virkkunen), Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference (PDC'02), T. Binder, J. Gregory, I. Wagner (Eds.), Malmö University, Sweden, June 2002, CPSR, P.O. Box 717, Palo Alto, CA 94302, pp 426-428. http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/pdc2002-soi.pdf

  41. "Human-Centered Public Transportation Systems for Persons with Cognitive Disabilities - Challenges and Insights for Participatory Design" (with James Sullivan), Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference (PDC'02), T. Binder, J. Gregory, I. Wagner (Eds.), Malmö University, Sweden, June 2002, CPSR, P.O. Box 717, Palo Alto, CA 94302, pp 194-198. http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/pdc2002-mfa.pdf

  42. "Seeding, Evolutionary Growth, and Reseeding: Enriching Participatory Design with Informed Participation" (with Jonathan Ostwald), Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference (PDC'02), T. Binder, J. Gregory, I. Wagner (Eds.), Malmö University, Sweden, June 2002, CPSR, P.O. Box 717, Palo Alto, CA 94302, pp 135-143. http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/pdc2002-ser.pdf

  43. "Supporting Reuse by Delivering Task-Relevant and Personalized Information (with Yunwen Ye)," Proceedings of 2002 International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'02), Orlando, FL., pp. 513-523, May 19-25, 2002. http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/1cse2002.pdf

  44. "Information Delivery in Support of Learning Reusable Software Components on Demand" (with Yunwen Ye) , Proceedings of 2002 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI'02), San Francisco, CA, pp. 159-166, Jan. 13-16, 2002. http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/iui2002.pdf

  45. "Lifelong Learning and its Support with New Media", in N.J. Smelser and P. B. Baltes (eds): International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Elsevier, Volume 13, pages 8836-40, 2001 http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/iesbs2001.pdf

  46. "The Software Technology of the 21st Century: From Software Reuse to Collaborative Software Design", Proceedings of ISFST2001: International Symposium on Future Software Technology, November, 2001, ZhengZhou, China, pp 1-8 (published by Software Engineers Association, Japan) http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/isfst2001.pdf

  47. "External and shareable artifacts as opportunities for social creativity in communities of interest", in J. S. Gero and M. L. Maher (eds), Computational and Cognitive Models of Creative Design (Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference "Computational and Cognitive Models of Creative Design"), Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition, University of Sydney, pp. 67-89, Heron Island, Australia, 9-13 December 2001 http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/ccmcd2001.pdf

  48. “Context-Aware Browsing of Large Component Repositories”, (with Yunwen Ye). Proceedings of 16th International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE'01), Coronado Island, CA, IEEE Computer Society, 99-106. http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/ase01.pdf

  49. “Articulating the Task at Hand and Making Information Relevant to It”, Human-Computer Interaction Journal, Special Issue on “Context-Aware Computing, 2001 Volume 16, pp. 243–256, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/hci2001.pdf

  50. "Transcending the Individual Human Mind - Creating Shared Understanding through Collaborative Design" (with Ernesto Arias, Hal Eden, Andrew Gorman, and Eric Scharff; in J. Carroll (ed.): "Human Computer Interaction in the New Millennium", Addison-Wesley, 2001, pp. 347-372

  51. "Personalizing Delivered Information in a Software Reuse Environment." (with Yunwen Ye), In M. Bauer, P. Gmytrasiewicz, & J. Vassileva (Eds.), Proceedings of User Modeling 2001 (8th International Conference, UM 2001), Sonthofen, Germany, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, pp. 178-187. http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/um2001.pdf

  52. "Communities of Interest: Learning through the Interaction of Multiple Knowledge Systems", Proceedings of the 24th IRIS Conference (eds: S. Bjornestad, R. Moe, A. Morch, A. Opdahl), August 2001, Ulvik, , Department of Information Science, Bergen, Norway, pp 1-14 http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/iris24.pdf

  53. "Seeding, Evolutionary Growth and Reseeding: The Incremental Development of Collaborative Design Environments." (with Grudin, J., McCall, R., Ostwald, J., Redmiles, D., Reeves, B., & Shipman, F.) In G. Olson, T. Malone, & J. Smith (Eds.), Coordination Theory and Collaboration Technology, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, New Jersey, 2001, pp. 447-472.

  54. "User Modeling in Human-Computer Interaction", Contribution to the 10th Anniversary Issue of the Journal "User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction (UMUAI)" Vol. 11, No. 1/2, pp 65-86, 2001 http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/umuai2000.pdf

  55. "Courses as Seeds: Expectations and Realities" (with Rogerio dePaula and Jonathan Ostwald), Proceedings of The European Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning 2001 (Euro-CSCL 2001), Maastricht, The Netherlands, March 22-24, 2001, pp 494-501. http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/ecscl2001.pdf

  56. "Knowledge Management--Problems, Promises, Realities and Challenges" (with Jonathan Ostwald), IEEE Intelligent Systems Journal, Special Issue "Knowledge Management: An Interdisciplinary Approach", (selected papers from Dagstuhl Seminar), January/February 2001, pp. 60-72. http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/km-ieee-2001.pdf

  57. "Lifelong Learning - More Than Training", Special Issue on Intelligent Systems/Tools In Training and Life-Long Learning (eds.: Riichiro Mizoguchi and Piet A.M. Kommers), Journal of Interactive Learning Research, Vol. 11, No 3/4, 2000, pp. 265-294. http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/lll99.pdf

  58. "Integrating Active Information Delivery and Reuse Repository Systems" (with Yunwen Ye and Brent Reeves), ACM SIGSOFT 8th International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE-8), San Diego, CA, pp 60-68, Nov. 8-10, 2000. http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/fse8-2000.pdf

  59. "Boundary Objects: Their Role in Articulating the Task at Hand and Making Information Relevant to It" (with Ernesto Arias), International ICSC Symposium on Interactive & Collaborative Computing (ICC'2000), University of Wollongong, Australia, ICSC Academic Press, Wetaskiwin, Canada, December 2000, pp 567-574. http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/icsc2000.pdf

  60. "Design, Learning, Collaboration and New Media--A Co-Evolutionary HCI Perspective", in C. Paris, N. Ozkan, S. Howard, and S. Lu (eds), Proceedings of OZCHI 2000, Sydney, Australia, December 2000, pp 282-289. http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/ozchi2000.pdf

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