Jonathan Ostwald

Campus Box 430
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0430
Phone: (303) 492-3547, Fax: (303) 492-2844
E-mail:ostwald@cs.colorado.edu

Current Projects

The livingOM (Living Organizational Memory) project is a continuation of DynaSites as a web-based environment supporting collaborative working, learning and creativity. More information about this prototype can be found here.

The enTWIne project, sponsored by NSF, aims to study Social Creativity and Meta-Design in Lifelong Learning Communities. The enTWIne website is powered by the livingOM.

The Virtual Library project is a collaborative effort between New Vista High School and L3D. The Virtual Library is implemented with DynaSites, and supports users (Instructors and Students) to collect, structure, and share references to sites on the World Wide Web. See the Virtual Library Prototype

PhD Thesis

Past Projects

The Living Book is an adaptation of a paper-based book manuscript into an extensible, web-based form.

I was co-principle investigator (along with Gerhard Fischer and Gerry Stahl) on a project aiming to create theories and computational prototypes for Organizational Memory and Organizational Learning (OMOL). In other words, we want to understand how computers can support communities of practice to build, share and apply knowledge more effectively.

Explorations in the Design of Future Computational Systems for Every-Day Life. This project is sponsored by PFU Limited and is focused on the following themes:

Design of open, evolvable, complex sytems,
Theories and development of systems in support of lifelong learning, and
Cross-cultural collaboration

Until August 1997, I led a project entitled Designing Useful and Usable Computational Environments (aka U&U). This project investigated tools and frameworks for user-centered and evolutionary development of domain-oriented systems.