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Journal Articles

Notess, M., Kouper, I., & Swan, M. (2005). Designing effective tasks for digital library user tests: Lessons learned. OCLC Systems & Services: International digital library perspectives, 21(4), 300-310.

Conference | Symposium Proceedings

Kirkley, S., Kirkley, J., Swan, M., & Sherwood, D. (2004). Evaluation of a Framework to Support Embedded Training Using Mixed Reality Simulations. In Proceedings of The Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC), Orlando, Florida, December 6-9, 2004.
[Abstract - PDF 47K]

Swan, M., & Rosenbaum, H. (2004). The social construction of trust in e-business: An empirical investigation. In Proceedings of the 2004 Americas Conference on Information Systems, New York City, August 5-8, 2004.
[Full paper - PDF 187KB]

Notess, M., & Swan, M. (2004). Timeliner: Building a Learning Tool into a Digital Music Library. World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications (EDMEDIA), 2004(1), 603-609.
[Full Paper - PDF 159K] [Online access to Fulltext/Abstract via AACE digital library]

Swan, M., & Notess, M. (2004). Variations2 Help: Moving Help Closer to Users. Accepted to a CHI 2004 workshop entitled "Helping Users to Use Help: Improving Interaction with Help Systems".
[Proposal - PDF 187K]

Swan, M. (2004). Creative women on the WWW: Visual analysis of representation, symbolism and ideology. In online Proceedings of the Symposium on Gender & ICT: Strategies for Inclusion, Brussels, Belgium, January 20, 2004.
[Abstract - PDF 60K]

Swan, M. (2003). Creative women on the WWW: Visual analysis of representation, symbolism and ideology. In online Proceedings of the 1st Annual SLIS Student Conference, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, September 13, 2003.
[Abstract - PDF 60K]   [Presentation Slides - HTML - Do not degrade gracefully in Firefox!]

Rosenbaum, H., Davenport, E., & Swan, M. (2003). Situational trust in digital markets: A socio-technical exploration. In Proceedings of the 2003 Americas Conference on Information Systems, Tampa, FL, August 4-6, 2003, 1761-1765.
[Full Paper - PDF 142K]

Rosenbaum, H. & Swan, M. (2003). Problem-based learning in new media education: The case for human-computer interaction. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Crete, Greece, June 22-27, 2003, 401-405.
[Full Paper - PDF 140K]

Notess, M., & Swan, M. (2003). Predicting user satisfaction from subject satisfaction. In Extended Abstracts of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Ft. Lauderdale, FL, April 5-10, 2003, 738-739.
[Full Paper - PDF 194K]   [Presentation Slides - HTML - Do not degrade gracefully in Firefox!]

Notess, M., & Swan, M. (2003). Predicting user satisfaction from subject satisfaction. In Proceedings of the 3rd Instructional Systems Technology Conference, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, April 4, 2003.
[Full Paper - PDF 194K]

Herring, S., Börner, K., & Swan, M. (2002). Spatial reference in communication in a 3-D world. Language and the New Media Colloquium at British Association for Applied Linguistics 35th Annual Meeting, Cardiff, Wales, September 13, 2002.
[Abstract - PDF 62K]

Other

*Both papers were under review or in press as of 2004, but to my knowledge were never published.

Herring, S., Borner, K., & Swan, M. (Under Review). When rich media are opaque: Spatial reference in a 3-d virtual world. Submitted to Journal of Computer Supported Cooperative Work.

Kirkley, S., Kirkley, J., Swan, M., Myers, T., & Sherwood, D. (In Press). Developing a Scaffolding Framework to Support Problem-Based Embedded Instruction with Mixed and Virtual Reality.

Usability Reports

Swan, M. (2003). Variations2: IU Digital Music Library Version 2.0 Usability Test Report.
[Full Report - PDF 492K]

Swan, M. (2003). Variations2: IU Digital Music Library Version 1.0 Usability Test Report.
[Full Report - PDF 1,226K]

Swan, M. (2003). Variations Satisfaction Survey.
[Full Report - PDF 480K]

Swan, M. (2002). Early Usability Test Results for Variations2, version 1.
[Full Report - PDF 1,141K]

Swan, M., Notess, M. & Isaacson, E. (2002). MMTT prototypes usability testing first round report.
[Full Report - PDF 655K]

Class Papers
[Please do not cite/use these materials without permission from the author.]

Swan, M. (2003). Creativity in HCI: A review of the research.
[Full Paper (unrevised) - PDF 176K]

Swan, M. (2002). Compose-IT: A tool proposal.
[Full Paper - PDF 291K]