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[10/04/01 News]

> PROFESSOR DIANE GROMALA (LCC)
She was selected as "one of the world's most influential artists" to be featured in a series of monographs by Zanders, a German patron of the arts. The other featured artists are Peter Greenaway (film), Zaha Hadid (architecture) and Tomato (UK design collaborative).

> PROFESSORS LARRY HODGES, CHRIS SHAW (CoC); DIANE GROMALA, JAY BOLTER (LCC)
Their SIGGRAPH ETech exhibit, The Meditation Chamber, was featured on the front page of the Business Section of the Los Angeles Times, August 14, 2001 edition, pp. C1 and C6. The SIGGRAPH exhibit included the collaborative teamwork of: Fleming Seay, Chris Campbell, Colin Henderson (CoC); Sue Rinker, Eli Wendkos, Dawn Pendergast, Robert Hill, Chris Aquino, Robert Todd (LCC).

> PROFESSOR ELIZABETH MYNATT (CoC)
She was interviewed by NPR, morning edition, about the Aware Home and her research on the Aging in Place project. The segment aired in August.

> PROFESSOR THAD STARNER (CoC)
He was interviewed in August on the "Mitch Albom Show" (based at Detroit radio station WJR, but simulcast on MSNBC) about his work on wearable computing.

> PROFESSORS JOHN STASKO (CoC), RICHARD CATRAMBONE (PSYCH), SCOTT MCCRICKARD (GVU ALUMNUS)
They won the "Best Paper" award at this summer's INTERACT Conference held in Tokyo in July. The paper was "Evaluating Animation in the Periphery as a Mechanism for Maintaining Awareness," based on Scott's dissertation work.

> JAMES HAYS, CoC UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT
His proposal, "Art Styling for Video," was selected to receive a $2,000 grant from the Intel Research Award Contest for Undergraduate Students.


> PAPERS ACCEPTED AT CSCL 2002

Several GVU students and faculty have had several papers accepted for The Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) 2002 Conference held January 7-11, 2002 in Boulder, Colorado.
They are:

- Long Papers:

Authors: Amy Bruckman, Carlos Jensen, and Austina DeBonte
Title: "Gender and Programming Achievement in a CSCL Environment"

Authors: Jochen Rick, Mark Guzdial, Karen Carroll, Lissa Holloway-Attaway, and Brandy Walker
Title: Collaborative Learning at Low Cost: CoWeb Use in English Composition

Authors: Mark Guzdial, Karen Carroll
Title: "Explaining the Lack of Dialogue in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning" 

- Short Papers:

Authors: Jakita Owensby, Janet Kolodner
Title (paraphrased): "Case Reuse Suite"

Authors: James M. Hudson, Amy Bruckman
Title: "Disinhibition in a CSCL Environment"

Authors: Jason B. Ellis, Amy S. Bruckman
Title: "What Do Kids Learn from Adults Online? Examining Student-Elder Discourse in Palaver Tree"

Authors: Colleen Kehoe
Title: "Design Reviews with Remote Critics in an Asynchronous Environment"

Authors: Jochen Rick
Title: "Towards a Poor Learning Environment"

Authors: Jochen Rick
Title: "AudioExplorer: Multiple Linked Representations for Convergence"