People | connectivIT | Leysia Palen

Steve Willson: Undergraduate Research Assistant

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 22:15:00 -0700

Steve Willson is a sophomore in the College of Engineering. His current project includes geo-coding existing disaster-related research to make it more accessible to a broader and growing audience on the web.

Professor Leysia Palen: Lab Director

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 22:37:35 -0600

Leysia Palen is the director of the connectivIT Lab at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She leads research funded by the National Science Foundation on Crisis Informatics.

Professor Palen is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science (area: Digital & Social Systems) at the University of Colorado, Boulder and a faculty fellow with the Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society (ATLAS Institute) and the Institute for Cognitive Science (ICS). Her training and interests are socio-technical, with a focus on ethnographic studies of work practice that inform technology design, implementation, and policy. Professor Palen has written a range of papers on technology issues in the areas of groupware; mobile communications; privacy, emotion, and public access; and most recently, crises and disaster.

Prior to her appointment at Colorado, she completed her PhD at the University of California, Irvine in Information and Computer Science and her undergraduate education in Cognitive Science at the University of California, San Diego. Professor Palen, who partners with CU's Natural Hazards Center, was awarded a 2006 National Science Federation Early CAREER Grant to study information dissemination in disaster events. In 2005-2006, Professor Palen was a visiting professor at the University of Aarhus, Denmark in the Center for Interactive Spaces and the Center for Pervasive Healthcare.

Leysia Palen's Home Page

<palen at cs dot colorado dot edu>

Sarah Vieweg: PhD Student (ATLAS)

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 19:32:17 -0600

Sarah Vieweg investigates the use of online forums in disaster and crises, with an eye to how people converge, assert identities, and gather and distribute information and participate in sensemaking activities. Sarah has an MA in Linguistics, and brings ethnomethodological and discursive methods to her research and analysis.

<Sarah dot Vieweg at colorado dot edu>

Sophia Liu: PhD Student (ATLAS)

Mon, 04 Sep 2006 10:14:08 -0600

Amanda Hughes: PhD Student (CS)

Mon, 04 Sep 2006 10:12:47 -0600