Scott Robertson
Assistant Professor
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Department of Information and Computer Sciences
Pacific Ocean Science and Technology Building
1680 East-West Road
Honolulu, HI 96822 USA
Office: POST 306C Hours: By appointment
E-mail: Phone: 1-808-956-2023
Research
My general area of research is human-computer interaction (HCI).
I am the Director of
HI'CHI,
the Hawaii Computer-Human Interaction Lab.
I am active with
ACM SIGCHI,
and currently an associate editor for
Interacting with Computers
and
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction.
Currently I am focusing on the areas of Digital Government and Digital Democracy.
I am the NSF Principle Investigator for a project called
Digital Deliberation: Searching and Deciding About How to Vote.
Here are some recent papers:
- Robertson, S., Vatrapu, R., & Abraham, G. (2009).
Note taking and note sharing while browsing campaign information:
Design tradeoffs between e-democracy and e-participation.
Proceedings of HICSS-42:
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
(10pp).
- Robertson, S. (2008).
Design research in digital government:
A query prosthesis for voters.
Proceedings of dg.o2008: 9th Annual Conference on Digital Government Research.
New York: ACM Press.
- Robertson, S., Wania, C., & Abraham, G., & Park, S.J. (2008).
Drop-down democracy: Internet portal design influences voters’ search strategies.
Proceedings of HICSS-2008: Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. (10pp).
[PDF 185KB]
- Robertson, S., Wania, C., & Park, S.J. (2007).
An observational study of voters on the internet.
Proceedings of HICSS-2007: Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. (10pp).
[PDF 212KB]
- Robertson, S.P. (2005). Voter-centered design: Toward a voter decision support system.
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 12(2), June, 263-292.
[PDF 5MB]
- Robertson, S., Achananuparp, P., Goldman, J., Park, S.J., Zhou, N., & Clare, M. (2005).
Voting and political information gathering on paper and online.
Extended Abstracts of CHI '05: Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York: ACM Press, 1753-1756.
[PDF 131KB]
A full list of publications and other research and professional activity
can be found on
my Curriculum Vitae.
Teaching
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