From Chapter 6
My appreciation of this topic has emerged over my ten years of teaching in our advanced technology classroom called the AT&T Teaching/Learning Theater. We
discussed educational philosophies strenuously as a guide to designing and then using this classroom and its successors.
http://www.inform.umd.edu/TT/
Dearing Report, 1997 http://www.leeds.ac.uk/educol/ncihe/
WebCT: Helping Educators Transform Education http://www.webct.com/
Blackboard: Bringing Education Online http://www.blackboard.com/
GroupSystems http://www.groupsystems.com/
This distance learning course in Fall 1993 had 12 students in front of me and
12 more who watached via satellite TV. The first student team project,
completed in six weeks, was the Encyclopedia of Virtual Environments.
http://www.hitl.washington.edu/scivw/EVE. This was followed by the Journal of
Virtual Environments that was completed at the end of the 15 week semester
http://www.hitl.washington.edu/scivw/JOVE. These projects were eagerly taken
over by the very helpful cybrarian Toni Emerson at the University of Washington
Human Interaction Technology Lab that specializes in virtual reality.
Universal Usability in Practice, Spring semester 2001 project
http://www.otal.umd.edu/uupractice
My students named the project web site Student's Human-Computer Interaction
Online Research Experiments -- SHORE -- to conjure up an image of Maryland's
beaches
http://www.otal.umd.edu/SHORE97
http://www.otal.umd.edu/SHORE98
http://www.otal.umd.edu/SHORE99
http://www.otal.umd.edu/SHORE2000
http://www.otal.umd.edu/SHORE2001
From Chapter 7
Amazon http://www.amazon.com/
Buy Brigade - CNET.com, 2001. http://www.cnet.com
i411 Interactive Information Discovery http://www.i411.com
Better Business Bureau Online, 2001. http://www.bbbonline.com
From Chapter 8
Merck Manual Home Edition http://www.merckhomeedition.com/home.html
Yahoo! Groups http://groups.yahoo.com/
Computer Based Patient Records Institute and Healthcare Open Systems and Trials,
http://www.cpri-host.org/
Maryland Board of Physician Quality Assurance http://www.bpqa.state.md.us/
U. S. National Institutes of Health's National Human Genome Research Institute
http://www.nhgri.nih.gov/
IBM Blue Gene Project
http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/bluegene/
U. S. National Library of Medicine http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
U. S. National Institutes of Health http://www.nih.gov/
The U.S. National Institutes of Health provides current information about clinical
research studies http://clinicaltrials.gov/
WebMD http://www.webmd.com/
and Dr. Koop http://www.drkoop.com/
Preece, Jenny, 2000. Online Communities: Designing Usability, Supporting Sociability,
Wiley, Chichester, UK. http://www.ifsm.umbc.edu/onlinecommunities
Compumentor http://www.compumentor.org/
TechSoup: The technology place for non-profits http://www.techsoup.com/
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation set a positive example in their strong
commitment to supporting vaccinations, HIV/AIDS treatment, and children's health
in many third world countries http://www.gatesfoundation.org/
The United Nations Information Technology Service http://www.unites.org/
Doctors without Borders http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/
Med Help International http://medhelp.org/
This playful fantasy is based on Frank Baum's classic story, The Wizard of
Oz, that was made into the 1939 film starring Judy Garland as Dorothy. For readers
who don't know this story, Toto was Dorothy's dog and the Cowardly Lion (the
inspiration for Dr. Lyon) was one of Dorothy's companions during her adventure.
Dorothy received a magical pair of Ruby Red slippers from the Good Witch of
the North. The munchkins were happy characters that she encountered in the forest.
This fanciful scenario originated in my 1998 opening keynote address in Los
Angeles to the Conference on Human Factors in Computer Systems, run by the Special
Interest Group on Computer Human Interaction of the Association for Computing
Machinery. An electronic demonstration of the medical system created in Macromedia
Director by Chris North, is at http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/genex
Lifelines is a research information visualization tool for exploring temporal
history data, such as found in patient records. Facets, such as doctor visits,
hospitalizations, lab tests, and medications, are shown in parallel horizontal
panels. It is based on research at the University of Maryland Human-Computer
Interaction Lab, http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/lifelines
Spotfire is a commercial information visualization tool for exploring complex
data. It grew out of the research at the University of Maryland Human-Computer
Interaction Lab, http://www.spotfire.com
. Its main successes have been in pharmaceutical drug discovery and DNA microarray
data analysis.
From Chapter 9
Washington State http://www.state.wa.us
Van Tassel, Joan, January 1994. Yakety-Yak, Do Talk Back! Wired Magazine,
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.01/pen.html
City of Santa Monica Official Homepage, http://pen.ci.santa-monica.ca.us/cm/
You can visit the Seattle Community Network, http://www.scn.org/
or read Schuler, Doug, 1996. New Community Networks:Wired for Change, Addison-Wesley
Publishing Company, Reading, MA.
United States Conference of Mayors, http://www.usmayors.org/
United States Bureau of the Census, http://www.census.gov/
Putnam, Robert, 2000. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community,
Simon & Schuster, New York. http://www.bowlingalong.org
Levine, Peter, Fall 2000. The Internet and civil society, Report from the Institute
for Philosophy & Public Policy 20, 4, http://www.puaf.umd.edu/IPPP/reports/vol20fall00/vol20.html
Intuit Inc., Quicken Turbotax, http://www.quicken.com/taxes/
O'Baoill, Andrew, 2000. Slashdot and the Public Sphere, First Monday. http://firstmonday.org
, Slashdot http://www.slashdot.org is a public discussion forum Slashdot: News
for Nerds. Stuff that Matters http://slashdot.org/
Shulman, S., Zavestoski, S., Scholsberg, D, Courard-Hauri, D, and Richards,
D., May 2001. Citizen agenda-setting: The electronic collection and synthesis
of public commentary in the regulatory rulemaking process, Proc. National Conference
on Digital Government Research, http://www.isi.edu/dgrc/dgo2001/program.html
On the web at http://www.isi.edu/dgrc/dgo2001/papers/session-3/shulman.pdf
From Chapter 10
Smartmoney http://www.smartmoney.com/
and visit Map of the Market
Environmental Systems Research Institute http://www.esri.com/
One of my pleasures in preparing this book was to have an hour phone conversation
with Marsh Fisher, the developer of IdeaFisher http://www.ideafisher.com/
SimCity http://www.simcity.com
Dramatica Pro http://www.dramatica.com/
From Chapter 11
Cable News Network, Peace through E-mail: Wired activists find strength in cyberspace
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1997/nobel.prize/stories/internet.coalition/index.html
, accessed on July 18, 2001.
