Numbers
Total participants: 346
Papers presented: 52
Posters presented: 77
Workshops: 2
Roundtables: 14
Wildcards: 6
Doctoral Colloquium Participants: 16
Organizers
Conference Chair: John Unsworth, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Program Co-Chairs: Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University; Karen E. Fisher, University of Washington
Local Organizing Committee (all from University of Illinois, unless otherwise noted):
Cindy Ashwill
Carie Burgess, Microsoft
Matt Beth
Heekyung Choi
Ingbert Floyd
Sean Goggins, Drexel University
Jonathan Grudin, Microsoft
Sharon Johnson
Natalie Michael, University of Washington
Maeve Reilly, iSchools
Allen Renear
Kim Schmidt
Richard Urban
Dan Wright
Program Committee
Alessandro Acquisti, Carnegie Mellon University
Harry Bruce, University of Washington
Elke Greifeneder, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Joe Hall, UC Berkeley School of Information/Princeton University Center for
Information Technology Policy
Susan Herring, Indiana University
Lori Kendall, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Xia Lin, Drexel University
Jeffrey Pomerantz, University of North Carolina
Jaime Snyder, Syracuse University
Mike Twidale, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Ping Wang, University of Maryland, College Park
Terry Weech, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Kate Williams, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Sponsors & Partners
Microsoft Corp., Yahoo, National Science Foundation
Awards
Best Paper Award: “Of mouse and men: Computers and geeks as cinematic icons in age of ICTD,” Joyojeet Pal, ATLAS Institute, University of Colorado
Best Student Paper: “Music and Mood: Where Theory and Reality Meet,” Xiao Hu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Best Posters: “The Jersey Punk Basement Scene: Exploring the Information Underground,” Joe Sanchez, Aaron Trammell, Jessa Lingal and Nathan Graham, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey;
“Applying multimodal discourse analysis to the study of image-enabled communication,” Jaime Snyder, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University
Van Dran Award: Toni Carbo, Drexel University