Margaret H. Szymanski

Workscapes & Organization Area
Computer Science Laboratory

Palo Alto Research Center
3333 Coyote Hill Road
Palo Alto, CA 94304-1314

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Publications: [CA] [HCI]

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Social Learning, Workplace Studies, Social Interaction

M.H. Szymanski, P.M. Aoki, E. Vinkhuyzen and A. Woodruff (2005). Organizing a Remote State of Incipient Talk: Push-to-Talk Mobile Radio Interaction. Language in Society, to appear.

E. Vinkhuyzen and M.H. Szymanski, with R.J. Moore, G.T. Raymond, J. Whalen and M. Whalen (2005). Would You Like to Do It Yourself? Service Requests and Their Non-Granting Responses. In Applying Conversation Analysis, K. Richards and P. Seedhouse (eds.), Palgrave Macmillan: Houndmills, Basingstoke, UK, 91-106.

M. Whalen and J. Whalen, with R. Moore, G. Raymond, M. Szymanski and E. Vinkhuyzen (2004). Studying Workscapes. In Discourse and Technology: Multimodal Discourse Analysis, P. LeVine and R. Scollon (eds.), Georgetown University Press: Washington, DC, 208-229.

M.H. Szymanski (2002). Producing Text through Talk: Question-Answering Activity in Classroom Peer Groups. Linguistics & Education 13 (4), 533-563. [→ Elsevier]

J. Cook-Gumperz and M. Szymanski (2001). Classroom “Families”: Cooperating or Competing - Girls’ and Boys’ Interactional Styles in a Bilingual Classroom. Research on Language & Social Interaction 34 (1), 107-130. [→ Erlbaum]

M.H. Szymanski (1999). Re-engaging and Dis-engaging Talk in Activity. Language in Society 28 (1), 1-23. [→ Cambridge Univ. Press]

R.P. Durán and M.H. Szymanski (1995). Cooperative Learning Interaction and Construction of Activity. Discourse Processes 19 (1), 149-164.

P. Prado-Olmos, M. Szymanski and M.E.F. Smith (1993). Students DO Process: Bilingual Students’ Interactions in a Small Cooperative Learning Reading Group. Bilingual Research Journal 17 (3-4), 41-69. [PDF]

Human-Computer Interaction

(These reviewed research papers appeared in the published proceedings of computer science conferences with acceptance rates between 10-25%, with most falling in the range 15-20%.)

P.M. Aoki, M. Romaine, M.H. Szymanski, J.D. Thornton, D. Wilson, and A. Woodruff (2003). The Mad Hatter’s Cocktail Party: A Social Mobile Audio Space Supporting Multiple Conversations. Proc. ACM SIGCHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 425-432. [PDF]

R.E. Grinter, P.M. Aoki, A. Hurst, M.H. Szymanski, J.D. Thornton and A. Woodruff (2002). Revisiting the Visit: Understanding How Technology Can Shape the Museum Visit. Proc. ACM Conf. on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, New Orleans, LA, 146-155. [PDF]

A. Woodruff, M.H. Szymanski, R.E. Grinter, and P.M. Aoki (2002). Practical Strategies for Integrating a Conversation Analyst in an Iterative Design Process. Proc. 4th ACM Conf. on Designing Interactive Systems, London, UK, 19-28. [PDF]

P.M. Aoki, R.E. Grinter, A. Hurst, M.H. Szymanski, J.D. Thornton and A. Woodruff (2002). Sotto Voce: Exploring the Interplay of Conversation and Mobile Audio Spaces. Proc. ACM SIGCHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Minneapolis, MN, 431-438. [PDF]

A. Woodruff, P.M. Aoki, R.E. Grinter, A. Hurst, M.H. Szymanski, and J.D. Thornton (2002). Eavesdropping on Electronic Guidebooks: Observing Learning Resources in Shared Listening Environments. Proc. 6th Int'l Conf. on Museums and the Web, Boston, MA, 21-30. [HTML] [PDF]

A. Woodruff, M.H. Szymanski, P.M. Aoki and A. Hurst (2001). The Conversational Role of Electronic Guidebooks. Proc. 3rd Int'l Conf. on Ubiquitous Computing, Atlanta, GA, 187-208. [PDF]

A. Woodruff, P.M. Aoki, A. Hurst and M.H. Szymanski (2001). Electronic Guidebooks and Visitor Attention. Proc. 6th Int'l Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting, Milan, Italy, 437-454. [PDF]

A. Woodruff, P.M. Aoki, A. Hurst and M.H. Szymanski (2001). The Guidebook, the Friend, and the Room: Visitor Experience in a Historic House. Extended Abstracts, ACM SIGCHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Seattle, WA, 273-274. [PDF]

M. Back and M.H. Szymanski (2001). The AirBook: Force-Free Interaction with Dynamic Text in an Assistive Reading Device. Extended Abstracts, ACM SIGCHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Seattle, WA, 251-252. [PDF]