Abstracts

This page contains the abstracts that have been accepted to the 2008 IST Graduate Symposium.

Presentation Abstracts

Varun Adibhatla
Spatial Annotation using Wifi Positioning System
Phillip Ayoub, Patricia Ruma Spence, Blaine Hoffman, Bernie Zang
Understanding and Supporting "Space" and "Place" in a Graduate Student Academic Community
Keunmin Bae, Nivedita Chatterjee, Hyunjin Kang, HyangSook Kim
Only for You!: an Investigation of Tailored Internet Services’ Effects on Users’ Attitudes and Gratifications
Robert J. Chesnick, Qian Xu, Deanna Berring
The Effect of Media Modality on Cross Cultural Virtual Cooperation
Ben Donaldson
Part Pirates: How Mass Customization and 3D Printing Could Bring DRM Issues to the Manufacturing World
Honglu Du, Jing Shang, Bo Yu
Interdisciplinary or Just Multidisciplinary? An SNA Analysis on IST
D. Benjamin Hellar
Data Overload in Team Decision Making
Sameer Honwad
Use of indigenous knowledge in community decision-making across cultures in the Middle Himalayas
Mohammad Hosein Jarrahi
Information and Communication Technologies, Organizational Change: A Critical Literature Review
Goknur Kaplan Akilli
Interplay of Real and Virtual Worlds: An Avatar Study
Kwangho Kim
The Effect of Competitor Network on Determining Benchmark Target
Kwangho Kim
When My Friend’s Enemy Becomes My Enemy: Competition Spillover Through Strategic Alliances
Anthony Limperos, Julia Woolley, Dan Tamul
Friendship on Facebook: Exploring the Role of Disclosure and Friend Requests
Ying Liu, Prasenjit Mitra, C. Lee Giles
Searching for Tables in Digital Documents
Xiaonan Lu, Saurabh Kataria, William J. Brouwer, James J. Wang, Prasenjit Mitra, C. L. Giles
Data Extraction from 2-D Plots
Xiaonan Lu, James Z. Wang, and C. Lee Giles
Parsing Scanned Volumes for Web Based Archives
Sampada Marathe
Control and Agency in Customizable Video Games-A Theoretical Approach to Learning Outcomes
Sampada Marathe, S. Shyam Sundar
Who Are These Power Users Anyway? Building a Psychological Profile
Seung Ki Moon
Module-Based Platform Strategy for Service Family Design Using a Coalitional Game
Rosalie J. Ocker, Mary Beth Rosson
Addressing the Problem of “Us Vs. Them” in Partially Distributed Virtual Teams
Sooyoung Oh, Xiaocong Fan, John Yen
Trust on Human-Automation Collaboration
Mark Pfaff
Affective Dimensions of Team Interactions in a Simulated Task Environment
Kristin Price
Reflexively Making Sense of Information, Science and Technology: the Formation of an Organizational Identity
Bingjun Sun, Qingzhao Tan, Prasenjit Mitra, and C. Lee Giles
Extraction and Search of Chemical Formulae in Text Documents on the Web

Panel Abstracts

Bridget Blodgett
The Shape of Protest Actions in Virtual Worlds.pdf
Michael Colibraro
Participating in the Visual: an Exploratory Study of Fanart Communities in World of Warcraft
Joshua Gross
Why the Future Looks Like the Past
Bob Marchant
Organizational View of Privacy Implication from Emerging Risk Management Reference Architectures
Nicolai Pogrebnyakov
Come Talk to Me: Why Mobile Operators Enter Developing Countries
Bart Pursel
Leveraging Virtual Worlds for Collaboration and Learning
David J. Saab
IST Research in a Global Context
Fernando Skackauskas Dias
Past, Present and Trends: a Landscape of Twenty Years of the Strategic Information Systems Researches
Pucktada Treeratpituk, Jian Huang
Synthesizing Sociological and Computational SNA: an Exploratory Study in Two Scientific Digital Libraries
Ibrahim Yucel
Lessons from Glados: Why Are Games Engaging?
Bernie Zang
Mashups: the Next Step for End-User Programming?
Ziming Zhuang
Programming 2.0: Everyone’s a Programmer

Poster Abstracts

Guruprasad Airy, Po-Chun Chen, John Yen
Collaborative Agents Assisting Decision Making in Information Rich Scenarios
Bimal Balakrishnan, Alice Shapiro, Mark Pfaff, Varun Adibhatla
Transactive Memory Systems for Geo-Collaboration in Emergency Crisis Management
Kayla Hales
Computer Mediated Communication: a Relational Maintenance Strategy for Romantic Couples
Michael Hills
Attrition and Persistence in Computer Supported Cooperative Learning (CSCL)
Joey J. Lee, Christopher M. Hoadley, Heng Xu, Mary Beth Rosson
How to Anger Internet Users by Sharing Information They’ve Already Published: Privacy and the Facebook Controversy
Audrey Lim, C. Frank Igwe, Jessica L. Dzieweczynski
Counterproductive Behavior in Virtual Teams: a Grounded Theory Approach
Louis-Marie Ngamassi Tchouakeu
Influence of Network Structure on Organization’s Effectiveness
Ray Pastore
Effects of Visual Representations and Time-Compressed Instruction on Achievement
Baojun Qiu, John Yen
Anomaly Detection in Shipment Itinerary Data
Yang Sun
A Large-Scale Study of Robots.txt
Herschel F. Thomas III, Louis-Marie Ngamassi Tchouakeu, Carleen Maitland
Views from the Field: International Human Rights Organizations and the Threat of Internet Censorship

Tutorial Abstracts

Umer Farooq
Designing for Creativity in Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)