Academic Interests & Research
I am currently a doctoral candidate at the School of Information at the University of Michigan, with an expected graduation of Spring 2010. I earned an MSI with a focus on human-computer interaction from Michigan in 2004 and a BA in Interdisciplinary Humanities from Michigan State in 1997.
Broadly construed, my research interests center on emergent social and creative behaviors afforded by technology placed in amateur and informal contexts. This has led me to do work into such topics such as distributed creative practice, distance collaboration, creative toolkit environments, and amateur and professional interactions in online creative communities.
In my dissertation work, I focus on the concept of networked home mode production -- the use of snapshot media for the construction and maintenance of coherent familial biographies. One goal in this endeavor is to develop a more nuanced and theoretically grounded perspective on user-generated content systems.
Publications & Related Activities
- Peer reviewed publications/presentations:
Book chapter: Case Studies: Three Distributed Biomedical Research Centers
Authors: Teasley, S. D., Schleyer, T., Hemphill, L., Cook, E.
In press. To appear in Scientific Colloboration on the Internet (eds. Olson, G., Zimmerman, A., Bos, N.). MIT Press.
Conference Workshop: The Missing Chapters: Learning Sciences Beyond the Classroom.
Workshop co-organizers: Teasley, S., Wulf, V., Cook, E., Hemphill, L. & Yew, J.
Held at International Conference of the Learning Sciences in Utrecht, NL on Thursday,
June 26, 2008.
Poster: Many-to-Few: Expanding the Model of User-Generated Media Production.
Author: Cook, E.
Presented at ACM Group 2007, Sanibel Island, FL on Nov 4-7, 2007
Doctoral symposium paper: The Knot of Amateurs & Professionals: Untangling Social Roles in Creative Practice
Authors: Cook, E.
Presented at ACM Creativity and Cognition 2007, in Washington, D.C. on June 13-15, 2007
Poster: Socio-technical Factors of Practice Transmission in an Online Creative Tool Community
Authors: Cook, E., Teasley, S. D., Ackerman, M.
Presented at the International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS 2006, in Bloomington, IN on June 27-30, 2006
Workshop Position Paper: Socio-technical Factors of Practice Transmission in an Online Creative Community
Author: Cook, E.
Presented at ACM CHI 2006, at the About Face: Interface Creative Engagment in New Media Arts and HCI workshop sesson, in Montreal, ON on April 22-23, 2006.
Poster: Heterogeneity in Harmony: Practice and Preferences of a Multimedia Arts Collective
Authors: Cook, E., Teasley, S. D., Olson, J.
Presented at ACM Group 2005, Sanibel Island, FL on Nov 6-8, 2005
- Grants/Awards:
University of Michigan School of Information Outstanding GSI award, 2007 - 2008. (Shared with Archer Batcheller)
ICOS small awards grant 2005-2006, awarded January 2006.
Proposal: Facilitating Innovation in an Open/Closed System: Socio-technical Factors of Practice Transmission in an Online Creative Community
Margaret Mann Award in recognition of "academic abilty and professional potential," awarded Dec. 2004.
- Teaching & Service activities:
Graduate Student Instructor, Fall 2007, taught two discussion sections of SI 500, Information in Social
Systems: Collections, Flows and Processing (Profs. Michael Cohen, Jeff MacKie-
Mason and Gary Olson), Masters' level foundations course.
Teaching ratings:
"Overall, the GSI was an excellent teacher": section medians of 4.77 & 4.88 (5
point scale).
Graduate Student Instructor, Fall 2006, taught two discussion sections of SI 504, Social Systems and
Collections (Profs. Michael Cohen and Paul Edwards), Masters' level
foundations course.
Teaching ratings: "Overall, the GSI was an excellent
teacher": section medians of 4.75 & 4.83 (5 point scale).
Founder and co-organizer, FIRST: Featured Information Research Student Talks.
Twice-monthly series of invited public presentations of student research at the
School of Information, Univ. of Michigan. 2007 - 2008.
Guest speaker, School of Information Doctoral Development Seminar.
Featured
student speaker for sessions on pre-candidacy papers, and the field prelim process. 2007 - 2008.
Co-president, School of Information Doctoral Student Organization, 2007 - 2008 .
Graduate Student Research Asst. for Prof. Stephanie Teasley
2006 - present: Assist in the study and facilitation of distributed scientific collaboration, Gates Foundation Grand Challenges for Global Health project:
Nanoemulsions as Adjuvants for Nasal-Spray Vaccines.
2003 - 2005: Assisted in the study and facilitation of distributed scientific collaboration within the GLRCE, the Great Lakes Regional Center of Excellence
for biodefense and emerging infectious disease research.
Doctoral Student representative, SI North Quad Planning Committee, 2005 - 2007.
Co-organizer, 1st Annual University of Michigan ICOS (Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies) Retreat planning committee (co-chairs, Michael Cohen & Jane Dutton), Fall 2005.
Paper Reviewer: ACM CHI 2006 & 2007, ACM CSCW 2006 & 2008, CSCL 2007, ICSWM08.
Last update: August 5, 2008.