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:
| Klasnja, P., S. Consolvo, D. W. McDonald, J. A. Landay, and W. Pratt. (2009) Using Mobile & Personal Sensing Technologies to Support Health Behavior Change in Everyday Life: Lessons Learned. In Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Fall Symposium (AMIA'09). | |
| Sease, R. and D. W. McDonald (2009) Musical Fingerprints: Collaboration around Home Media Collections. Proceedings of the ACM 2009 International Conference on Supporting Group Work (GROUP'09). | |
| Civan, A., D. W. McDonald, K. T. Unruh and W. Pratt (2009) Locating Patient Expertise in Everyday Life. Proceedings of the ACM 2009 International Conference on Supporting Group Work (GROUP'09). | |
| Torrey, C., E. Churchill and D. W. McDonald (2009) Learning How: The Search for Craft Knowledge on the Internet. Proceedings of the ACM 2009 SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'09). Boston, MA. | |
| Consolvo, S., D. W. McDonald and J. A. Landay (2009) Theory-Driven Design Strategies for Technologies that Support Behavior Change in Everyday Life. Proceedings of the ACM 2009 SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'09). Boston, MA. | |
| Kriplean, T., I. Beschastnikh, and D. W. McDonald. (2008) Articulations of Wikiwork: Uncovering Valued Work in Wikipedia through Barnstars. Proceedings of the 2008 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW’08). |
A complete list of publications is available on my publications page.
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.
Wikipedia Research
I am part of a research team that is conducting studies of Wikipedia. The research primarily focuses on the actions that people take as a means for understanding the practices that make Wikipedia a successful example of large scale groupware.
HCI Remixed Project
Remixed has been out for a little over a year. We have reports of people adopting the book in seminar 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.