Research Interests
Computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW), human-computer interaction (HCI), social computing, collaboration in Wikipedia, computing in the home.
Research Activities
Some recent publications:
| McDonald, D. W., S. Javanmardi and M. Zachry (2011) Finding Patterns in Behavioral Observations by Automatically Labeling Forms of Wikiwork in Barnstars. Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym'11). | |
| Javanmardi, S., D. W. McDonald and C. Lopes (2011) Vandalism Detection in Wikipedia: A High-Performing, Feature–Rich Model and its Reduction Through Lasso. Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym'11). | |
| Journal | Toscos, T., S. Consolvo and D. W. McDonald (2011) Barriers to Physical Activity: A Study of Self-revelation in an Online Community. Journal of Medical Systems. (doi 10.1007/s10916-011-9721-2) |
| Journal | Sease, R. and D. W. McDonald (2011) The Organization of Home Media. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. 18, 2, Article 9. |
A complete list of publications is available on my publications page.
Wikipedia Research
Our study of Wikipedia is aimed at desgining systems that support large scale collaborative action. Our design approach is motivated by social translucence as a soci-technical perspective that can facilitate better sense making of the activities and roles that individuals and groups play in large scale systems. We study Wikipedia because it is a successful example of large scale groupware.
Digital Living Research
I have some on-going projects that are studying how people are adjusting to an ever increasing digital lifestyle. One current project examines how individuals and families are organizing and managing their growing digital media collections. Another project is examining how people solve the problems that they encounter with their home networks and networked devices.
HCI Remixed Project
Remixed has been out for several years. We have reports of people adopting the book in seminars and reading courses as a supplement to their normal set of conference and journal readings. Let us know if you want some ideas on how to make this work.
| Erickson, Thomas and David W. McDonald (eds.) HCI Remixed: Essays on Works that have Influenced the HCI Community. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 2008 |
CSCW 2008 Conference
I was co-chair for the CSCW 2008 conference. While the conference is now over, you can see the website for the conference program and the CSCW 2008 conference proceedings are available in the ACM Digital Library.
Workshop Organizing
I helped organize the Approaching "Amature" workshop at GROUP 2009. There were a great set of position papers from the workshop.
The Designing for Families workshop was a success at CSCW 2008. There were some great discussions and some resolve for a special issue or some other approach to publish the results of the workshop.
The IT@Home: Unraveling Complexities of Networked Devices in the Home was a success at CHI 2006. The workshop considered a number of interesting issues in everyday home technology. I co-organized this workshop with Bill Schilit and Sara Bly.
The CSCW'04 Workshop on Social Networks with Danyel Fisher and Shelly Farnham is a follow up to the successful ECSCW'03 Social Network Workshop with Danyel Fisher.