Scott Robertson

Associate Professor of ICS
HICHI Lab Director

University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Department of Information and Computer Sciences
Pacific Ocean Science and Technology Building
1680 East-West Road
Honolulu, HI 96822 USA

Office: POST 306C

E-mail:
Phone: +1 808-956-2023   Fax: +1 808-956-3548
Skype: sukotto.robertson

Research Areas Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Digital government Digital democracy and e-participation Community informatics and civic engagement Social computing and social informatics

Teaching Schedule Fall 2011: ICS-111: Introduction to Computer Science TuTh 3:00-4:15, Bilger 150 Spring 2011: TBD ICS-111: Introduction to Computer Science TuTh 3:00-4:15, Bilger 150 ICS-667: Adv. Human-Computer Interaction Wed 1:30-4:00, Hamilton 3F

Graduate Advising

• Lyneth Peou (M.S. 2011): Utilizing an information sharing network to improve the voter eligibility verification process in the U.S. voter registration system.
• Evan Yazawa (M.S. 2010): Evolving user interfaces using interactive genetic algorithms.

Professional Activity

• Principle Investigator for NSF Award No. IIS-1064852: Social Search and Deliberation in Digital Political Information and Collaboration Domains.
• Associate Editor: ACM Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction.
• Board Member: Digital Government Society of North America.
• Co-Chair: Open Government and Participation minitrack at HICSS-46.
• Program Committee: 13th International Digital Government Research Conference (dg.o 2012)
• Program Committee: 6th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV 2012)

Recent Publications

• Robertson, S.P. (2011). Changes in referents and emotions over time in election-related social networking dialog. Proceedings of HICSS-44: Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. (10pp). doi=10.1109/HICSS.2011.97
• Robertson, S., Vatrapu, R. & Medina, R. (2010). Off the wall political discourse: Facebook use in the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Information Polity, 15 (1,2), pp. 11-31.
• Robertson, S., Vatrapu, R. & Medina, R. (2010). Online video "friends" social networking. Overlapping online public spheres in the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 7 (2,3), pp. 182-201.
• Robertson, S., & Vatrapu, R. (2010). Digital government. In Cronin, B. (Ed.). Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 44, Ch. 8, pp. 317-364.
• 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). doi=10.1109/HICSS.2009.326
• Robertson, S. P., Vatrapu, R. K., and Medina, R. (2009). The social life of social networks: Facebook linkage patterns in the 2008 U.S. presidential election. In Proceedings of the 10th Annual international Conference on Digital Government Research: Social Networks: Making Connections between Citizens, Data and Government (May 17 - 20, 2009). ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, vol. 390. Digital Government Society of North America, pp. 6-15.
• Robertson, S. (2008). Design research in digital government: A query prosthesis for voters. In Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Digital Government Research (Montreal, Canada, May 18 - 21, 2008). dg.o, vol. 289. Digital Government Society of North America, pp. 73-81.
• Robertson, S., Wania, C., & Abraham, G., & Park, S.J. (2008). Drop-down democracy: Internet portal design influences voters' search strategies. Proceedings of HICSS-41: Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. (10pp). doi=10.1109/HICSS.2008.131
• Robertson, S., Wania, C., & Park, S.J. (2007). An observational study of voters on the internet. Proceedings of HICSS-40: Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. (10pp). doi=10.1109/HICSS.2007.70
• Robertson, S.P. (2005). Voter-centered design: Toward a voter decision support system. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 12(2), pp. 263-292.

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