 | Steve HarrisonAssociate Professor of Practice
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Research Interests
My research has been to use networked media to break time and distance. It is informed by studies of creative people working together. My research focuses on the life outside the computer box as much as within it; getting an understanding of the settings of use shapes the design of a system. I do field and laboratory studies of collaboration, looking at the communications between people. And I’ve brought innovative ideas from the lab out to real work situations for evaluation.
I am currently conducting research on the meaning of cheating in games, the relationship of art and computer science, the role of space and place in ICT -- and the the way that ICT changes space and place, and creativity in design. I come to this from extensive backgrounds in research (Xerox Palo Alto Research Center) and architecture (M.Arch, UC Berkeley and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill). I am editor and primary author for two books on media space -- the work that brings these two realms together.
I am jointly in the School of Visual Arts, a studio head the IMPLEMENT studio in the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT), and a member of the Center for Human-Computer Interaction. For the past few years, I have chaired the a subcommittee for the ACM CHI conference reviewing papers and notes on design.
Design of Interactive Systems StudioContact: Steve Harrison | |
h.LabThe h.Lab investigates the phenomenology of mediated life.
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ThirdLabThird Lab provides the intellectual home for two HCI lab groups - Deborah Tatar's POET Lab and Steve Harrison's h.Lab . While each of the labs have different projects and ask different kinds of questions, both are fundmentally phenomenologically situated. The name comes from the seminal paper by Harrison, Tatar and Sengers, The Third Paradigm which organizes the intellectual landscape of HCI into "classical human factors" (e.g. critical incidents), "classical cognitivism" (human information processing model, GOMS, KLM, and other quantifiable performance-oriented systems), and "phenomologically situated" (semiotic design, sociality, ethnography, affect, activity theory, cultural probes, etc.) "Third" also refers to the semeiotic system of Charles Sandes Peirce in which a "sign" is made up of the representation, the thing refered to by the representation, and a third thing -- the idea in the mind that connects the two. Third Lab meets Wednesday afternoons.
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2013
McCrickard, D. S., S. Wahid, S. Branham, and S. Harrison,
"Achieving Both Creativity and Rationale: Reuse in Design with Images and Claims",
Creativity and Rationale: Enhancing Human Experience by Design, London, Springer-Verlag, pp. 105-120, 2013.
Harrison, S.,
"“Parallel Universes of Teleconferencing”",
Electronic Journal of Communications, vol. Volume 23, no. Numbers 1 & 2, 03/2013.
2012
Lazem, S., D. Gracanin, and S. Harrison,
"Effects of context-sensitive delays on group dynamics in 3D virtual worlds",
Computer Supported Cooperative Work Companion (CSCW '12), Bellevue, WA, ACM, 02/2012.
Lee, J. - S., D. Tatar, and S. Harrison,
"Micro-coordination: because we did not already learn everything we need to know about working with others in kindergarten",
ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW '12), Bellevue, WA, ACM, 02/2012.
Abstract
Lee, J. - S., S. Branham, D. Tatar, and S. Harrison,
"Processlessness: Staying Open to Interactional Possibilities",
Design of Interactive Systems (DIS 2012), Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK, ACM, 06/2012.
Abstract
Branham, S., S. Harrison, and T. Hirsch,
"Expanding the Design Space for Intimacy: Supporting Mutual Reflection for Local Partners",
Design of Interactive Systems (DIS 2012), Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK, ACM, 06/2012.
Abstract
Dickey-Kurdziolek, M., D. Tatar, and S. Harrison,
"Framespaces: Framing of Frameworks",
Design of Interactive Systems (DIS 2012), Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK, ACM, 06/2012.
Abstract
Neustaeder, C., S. Harrison, and A. Sellen,
"Connecting Families: The Impact of New Communication Technologies on Domestic Life",
CSCW, London, Springer, pp. 157, 2012.
Abstract
Neustaedter, C., S. Harrison, and A. Sellen,
"Connecting Families: an Introduction",
Connecting Families: The Impact of New Communication Technologies on Domestic Life, London, Springer, pp. 1-14, 2012.
Abstract
Judge, T., C. Neustaedter, and S. Harrison,
"Inter-Family Messaging with Domestic Media Spaces",
Connecting Families: The Impact of New Communication Technologies on Domestic Life, London, Springer, pp. 141-158, 2012.
Abstract
Branham, S., and S. Harrison,
"Designing for Co-located Couples",
Connecting Families: The Impact of New Communication Technologies on Domestic Life, London, Springer, 2012.
Abstract
2011
Judge, T. K., C. Neustaedter, S. Harrison, and A. Blose,
"Family portals: connecting families through a multifamily media space",
2011 annual conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI '11), Vancouver, BC Canada, ACM, pp. 1205-1214, 05/2011.
Abstract
Wahid, S., D. S. McCrickard, J. DeGol, and S. Harrison,
"Don't drop it!: pick it up and storyboard",
2011 annual conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI '11), Vancouver, BC, Canada, ACM, 05/2011.
Harrison, S., and D. Tatar,
"On methods",
Interactions, March 2011, vol. 18, issue 2, no. 2: ACM, pp. 10-11, 03/2011.
McCrickard, D. S., S. Wahid, S. M. Branham, and S. Harrison,
"Achieving both creativity and rationale: Reuse in design with images and claims",
Human Technology, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 109-122, 08/2011.
Abstract
Baker, A., L. Vega, T. DeHart, and S. Harrison,
"Healthcare and security: understanding and evaluating the risks",
2011 international conference on Ergonomics and health aspects of work with computers: Springer-Verlag, 11/2011.
Harrison, S., P. Sengers, and D. Tatar,
"Making Epistemological Trouble: Third-Paradigm HCI as Successor Scienc",
Interacting with Computers, vol. 23, no. 5, pp. 385-392, 09/2011.
Abstract
2010
Vega, L., Y. T. Sun, D. S. McCrickard, and S. Harrison,
"TIME: A Method for Detecting Dynamic Variances of Trust",
In the Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Information Credibility on the Web. (In conjunction with 19th World Wide Web Conference 2010, Raleigh-Durham, NC, 04/2010.
Harrison, S.,
"Embodied Personal Narrative about Place”. In Gender, Bodies and Technology Conference",
In Gender, Bodies and Technology Conference, Roanoke, VA, 04/2010.
Beaton, B., S. Harrison, and D. Tatar,
"Digital Drumming: A Study of colocated, highly coordinated, dyadic collaboration",
In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Atlanta, GA, 04/2010.
Schaefer, M., D. Tatar, and S. Harrison,
"Can CSCW Technologies Help Us Reconstruct Places",
In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work; “CSCW Horizons, Savannah, GA, 02/2010.
Wahid, S., S. M. Branham, D. S. McCrickard, and S. Harrison,
"Investigating the relationship between imagery and rationale in design",
8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS '10), Aarhus, DK, ACM, pp. 75-84, 08/2010.
Abstract
Neustaedter, C., T. Judge, S. Harrison, and A. Sellen,
"Connecting families: new technologies, family communication, and the impact on domestic space",
16th ACM international conference on Supporting group work (GROUP '10), Sanibel, Island FL, ACm, pp. 363-366, 11/2010.
McCrickard, D. S., M. E. Atwood, G. Curtis, and S. Harrison,
"Artifacts in design: representation, ideation, and process",
28th of the international conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems (CHI EA '10), Atlanta GA, ACM, pp. 4445-4448, 05/2010.
Way, T., L. Cassel, K. Pearson, and U. Wolz,
"A Distributed Expertise Model for Teaching Computing Across Disciplines and Institutions",
he 2010 International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering., Las Vegas, NV, CSREA Press, 07/2010.
Abstract
2009
Wahid, Branham, Cairco, D. S. McCrickard, and S. Harrison,
"Picking Up Artifacts: Storyboarding as a Gateway to Reuse.",
In Proceedings of the IFIP TC.13 Page 8 of 10 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT '09), vol. 5727, Uppsala Sweden, pp. 528 - 541, 08/2009.
Schaefer, M., D. Tatar, and S. Harrison,
"Reflecting in Context: Collaborative Writing in Place",
Computers and Writing Workshop 2009, Davis, CA, 2009.
2008
Pérez-Quiñones, M. A., M. Tungare, P. Pyla, and S. Harrison,
"Personal Information Ecosystems: Design Concerns for Net-Enabled Devices",
Latin American Web Conference, 2008. LA-WEB '08: IEEE, pp. 3-11, 10/2008.
Baecker, R., S. Harrison, B. Buxton, S. Poltrock, and E. Churchill,
"Media spaces: past visions, current realities, future promise",
CHI '08 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Florence, Italy, ACM, New York, NY, 04/2008.
Harrison, S., D. Tatar, and P. Sengers,
"The Three Paradigms of HCI",
Journal of HCI, 2008.
Otitoju, K., and S. Harrison,
"Interaction as Component of Meaning-Making”",
DIS 2008, Cape Town, South Africa, 03/2008.
Harrison, S.,
"Seeing the Hole in Space",
HCI Remixed, Cambridge, MIT Press, pp. pp155-160, 2008.
Kim, K., D. Tatar, and S. Harrison,
"Sharing Visual Context to Facilitate Late Overhearers’ Understanding of the Handheld-Based Learning Activity",
Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2008.
Schaefer, M., D. Tatar, S. Harrison, and A. Crandell,
"Using Place as Provocation: In situ collaborative narrative construction",
Journal of the Research Center for Educational Technology, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 49-60, 2008.
Abstract
Cox, C., Harrison, S., and C. Hoadley,
"Applying the “Studio Model” to Learning Technology Design",
Educating Learning Technology Designers: Guiding and Inspiring Creators of Innovative Educational Tools, New York, Taylor & Francis, pp. 145-164, 2008.
Abstract
Harrison, S., and D. G. Tatar,
"Places: People, Events, Loci –- the Relation of Semantic Frames in the Construction of Place",
Comput. Supported Coop. Work, vol. 17, no. 2-3, Norwell, MA, USA, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 135–135, 2008.
Kim, K., D. G. Tatar, and S. Harrison,
"Common ground can be efficiently achieved by capturing a screenshot in handheld-based learning activity",
ICLS’08: Proceedings of the 8th international conference on International conference for the learning sciences: International Society of the Learning Sciences, pp. 57–58, 2008.
2007
Harrison, S., D. Tatar, and P. Sengers,
"The Three Paradigms of HCI",
CHI 2007, San Jose, CA, 2007.
Harrison, S., and D. Tatar,
"Places: People, Events, Loci. The relation of semantic frames in the construction of place",
Journal of Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2007.
2006
Lin, S., D. Tatar, S. Harrison, J. Roschelle, and C. Patton,
"Learning When Less is More: “Bootstrapping” Undergraduate Programmers as Coordination Designers",
Participatory Design Conference, Trento Italy, 08/2006.
Kim, K., D. Tatar, and S. Harrison,
"Handheld-Mediated Communication to Support the Effective Sharing of Meaning in Joint Activity",
WMUTE 2006, The 4th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, Athens Greece., 11/2006.
Harrison, S., M. Back, and D. Tatar,
"It’s Just a Method’: A Pedagogical Experiment In Interdisciplinary Design",
Proceedings of DIS 2006, Penn State University, : ACM Press, 06/2006.
Harrison, S., and D. Tatar,
"More Than a Method",
HICEd 2006 –1 Inventivity: Teaching Theory, Design and Innovation in HCI, Limerick, Ireland, 03/2006.
Tungare, M., P. Pyla, P. Bafna, V. Glina, W. Zheng, X. Yu, U. Balli, and S. Harrison,
"Embodied Data Objects: Tangible Interfaces to Information Appliances",
44th ACM Southeast Conference, Melbourne, FL, 03/2006.
2005
Harrison, S., and M. Back,
"’It’s Just a Method’: A Pedagogical Experiment In Interdisciplinary Design",
CHI 2005, Portland, OR, 04/2005.
2003
De Guzman, E., M. Back, S. Harrison, W. Ho-Ching, T. Matthews, and T. Rattenbury,
"EEWWW! Tangible Interfaces for Navigating Inside the Human Body",
CHI 2003, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, ACM Press, 04/2003.
McKelvin, M., M. Back, S. Harrison, R. Nestande, L. Valdez, and K. Yee,
"SeismoSpin: An Interactive Instrument for Seismic Data",
CHI 2003, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, ACM Press, 2003.
2001
Harrison, S., S. Minneman, and A. Balsamo,
"The How of XFR: eXperiments in the Future of Reading",
Interactions. , vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 31-41, 2001.
Harrison, S., S. Minneman, M. Back, A. Balsamo, M. Chow, R. Gold, M. Gorbet, and D. MacDonald,
"The What of XFR: eXperiments in the Future of Reading",
Interactions., vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 21-30., 2001.
Back, M., J. Cohen, R. Gold, M. Gorbet, S. Harrison, and S. Minneman,
"Speeder Reader: An Experiment in the Future of Reading",
SIGGRAPH 2001: ACM Press, 08/2001.
Back, M., J. Cohen, R. Gold, S. Harrison, and S. Minneman,
"Listen Reader: an electronically augmented paper-based book",
CHI 2001: ACM Press, 04/2001.
Back, M., M. Chow, R. Gold, A. Balsamo, M. Gorbet, S. Harrison, D. MacDonald, and S. Minneman,
"Designing Interactive Reading Experiences for a Museum Exhibition",
IEEE Computer Magazine, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 1-8, 01/2001.
2000
Back, M., J. Cohen, R. Gold, S. Harrison, and S. Minneman,
"Page Detection Using Embedded Tags",
ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, vol. 2, pp. 159 - 160., 2000.
Balsamo, A., M. Gorbet, S. Harrison, and S. Minneman,
"The Methods of Our Madness: Research on Experimental Documents.",
ACM CHI 2000: Addison-Wesley, 2000.
Harrison, S.,
"The Place of the Artist. Art and Innovation",
The Xerox PARC Artist-in-Residence Program., pp. Pp 36-45., 2000.
1999
Harrison, S., S. Minneman, and J. Marinacci,
"The DrawStream Station or the AVC’s of Video Cocktail Napkins",
International Conference on Multimedia Systems, Firenza, Italy, IEEE Press., 06/1999.
1998
Minneman, S., and S. Harrison,
"Negotiating Right Along: An Extended Case Study of the Social Activity of Engineering Design",
The Design Productivity Debate, (Duffy, A.H.B. ed.) : London, UK Springer-Verlag Ltd, pp. pp 32- 50., 1998.
1997
Harrison, S., S. Bly, S. Anderson, and S. Minneman,
"The Media Space",
Video- Mediated Communication , Mahwah, NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates , pp. pp 273-300, 1997.
1996
Harrison, S., and S. Minneman,
"Space, Timestreams, and Architecture. Design in the Age of Digital Video",
Design Team of the Future Conference, Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 12/1996.
Harrison, S., and P. Dourish,
"Re-Placing Space: The Roles of Place and Space in Collaborative Systems",
ACM CSCW 96.: Addison-Wesley , pp. pp 67-76., 11/1996.
Moran, T., P. Chiu, S. Harrison, G. Kurtenbach, S. Minneman, and W. van Melle,
"Evolutionary Engagement in an Ongoing Collaborative Work Process: A Case Study",
ACM CSCW 96, Reading, MA, Addison-Wesley, pp. pp 150-159, 11/1996.
Harrison, S., and S. Minneman,
"A Bike In Hand",
Analysing Design Activity, Chichester, UK, John Wiley & Sons, pp. pp 417-436, 1996.
1995
Minneman, S., S. Harrison, W. Janssen, G. Kurtenbach, T. Moran, and I. Smith,
"A confederation of tools for capturing and accessing collaborative activity",
ACM Multimedia 95, Reading, MA, Addison-Wesley, pp. pp 523-534, 11/1995.
Harrison, S., and S. Minneman,
"Studying Collaborative Design to Build Design Tools",
Sixth International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design, Center for Advanced Studies in Architecture, National University of Singapore, pp. pp 687-698., 09/1995.
1993
Minneman, S., and S. Harrison,
"Where Were We: making and using nearsynchronous, pre-narrative video",
ACM Multimedia 93: ACM, NY, pp. pp 207-214., 08/1993.
Harrison, S.,
"Design Tools for the Communications Decade",
Architecture & Creativity: the Impact of New Design Tools.: American Institute of Architects, Washington, DC, 06/1993.
Harrison, S.,
"Computing and The Social Nature of Design",
ACADIA Quarterly, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. pp10-18, 1993.
1992
Bly, S., S. Harrison, and S. Irwin,
"Media Spaces: Bringing people together in a video, audio, and computing environment",
Communications of the Association of Computing Machinery, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. pp 28-45., 01/1993, 1992.
Harrison, S., and S. Minneman,
Tools, Communication, and the Nature of Design,
: Xerox Corporation, Palo Alto. , 01/1992.
Harrison, S., S. Minneman, and S. Irwin,
Graspable Implications: a study of 3-D objects in remote collaboration.,
, Palo Alto , Xerox Corporation, 01/1992.
1991
Harrison, S.,
View from the Media Space: People, Events, Places,
: Xerox Corporation, Palo Alto, 10/1991.
1989
Stults, R., S. Harrison, and S. Minneman,
"The Media Space — experience with video support of design activity",
Engineering Design and Manufacturing Management: Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. pp 164-176, 1989.
Harrison, S., S. Minneman, and S. Stults,
"Design Communications Workshops",
Engineering Design and Manufacturing Management: Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. pp 175-195, 1989.
Harrison, S., S. Minneman, R. Stults, and K. Weber,
"VIDEO: a design medium",
SigCHI Bulletin, 10/1989.
Harrison, S., and S. Minneman,
The Media Space: an Electronic Setting for Design,
: Xerox Corporation, Palo Alto, 10/1989.
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"Office Design Project",
SigCHI Video Review, vol. 21, no. 2, 05/1989.
1987
Harrison, S.,
Shoptalk 3: Design and Media Spaces,
: Xerox Corporation, Palo Alto, 1987.
1986
Harrison, S., and S. Stults,
Shoptalk 2: Two Views of a Conversation,
: Xerox Corporation, Palo Alto, 1986.
1983
Harrison, S.,
"Coordinating A/E/C CAD, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's Approach",
Computer Graphics World, vol. 6, no. 11, 11/1983.
Please see projects at: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~srh
CE21 Planning Grant: Integrating Computational Thinking into Middle School Curriculum
Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount: $199,998
Collaborative Research: CPATH CB: Distributed Expertise in Enhancing Computing Education with Connections to the Arts
Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount: $119,951
Connecting Computing Educators With In And Outside The Traditional Boundaries
Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount: $40,001
Distributed Expertise in Enhancing Computing Education with Connections to the Arts
Granting Institution:
Amount: $120,000
HCC-Small: Human Micro-coordination in a World of Pervasive Computing
Granting Institution: NSF
Amount: $499,276
Planning Grant: Integrating Computational Thinking Into Middle School Curriculum
Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount: $199,998
Research Through Design: Exploring Distributed Communication Between Users in Developed and Developing Countries
Granting Institution: CRA
Amount: $140,000
REU Planning Grant: Integrating Computational Thinking Into Middle School Curriculum
Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount: $16,000
Supplement Research through Design: Exploring Distributed Communication between Users in Developed and Developing Countries
Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount: $126,954
Towards Unbounded Display: Developing A Reconfigurable Research Testbed For Large-Scale, High-Resolution Visual Displays
Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount: $230,067