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Tamara Sumner

Assistant Professor
Center for LifeLong Learning and Design
University of Colorado at Boulder
sumner@colorado.edu

Research
Interests

&

Current
Projects

An Introduction to Web Traffic Measurement, by Paul Strupp Presentation to the graduate User Interface Design Course on March 20, 2001

The Geoscience Digital Library Project. Two proposed follow-on studies are described in my recent NSDL proposal.

Co-Editor: Journal of Interactive Media in EducationYou can download my COOP 2000 article on this journal in either PDF or RTF.

The Digital Document Discourse Environment Project - a collaborative venture with The Knowledge Media Institute, UK.

Current Obsession: Promoting Scholarship Through Design in Interactive Publishing (see my working paper on these ideas)

General Interests: Human-Computer Interaction, Education and Educational Technology, Interactive Publishing, Socio-technical Design

Some Previous Projects

Recent Publications

Managing persistent discourse: Organizational Goals and Digital Texts
Tamara Sumner, Simeon Yates, Simon Buckingham Shum, and Jane Perrone
Submitted to: Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 32), Special Track on Persistent Discourse, Maui, HA (January 5-8), 1999.
Abstract, Acrobat (336K)

Enriching Representations of Work to Support Organisational Learning
Tamara Sumner, John Domingue, and Zdenek Zdrahal
To appear in: Workshop on Building, Maintaining, and Using Organizational Memories (OM-98), Brighton, UK (August 24-25), 1998.
Abstract, Acrobat (462K)

From Documents to Discourse: Shifting Conceptions of Scholarly Publishing
Tamara Sumner and Simon Buckingham Shum
Presented at the Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (CHI '98), Los Angeles (April 18-23), 1998, pp. 95-102.
Abstract, Acrobat (330K)

New Media, New Practices: Experiences in Open Learning Course Design
Tamara Sumner and Josie Taylor
Presented at the Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (CHI '98), Los Angeles (April 18-23), 1998, pp. 432-439.
Abstract, Acrobat (462K)

The Interactive Course Map
Diane Mole, Tamara Sumner, and Josie Taylor
Presented at the 10th World Conference on Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia (ED-MEDIA 98), Freiberg, Germany, June 20-25, 1998.
Abstract, Acrobat (396K)

Talking about Multimedia: A Layered Design Framework
Josie Taylor, Tamara Sumner, and Andrew Law
Journal of Educational Media, Vol. 23, Issue 2/3, 1997, pp. 215-241.
Abstract, Acrobat (944K)

The rest of my publications...