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Health Data Exploration Report Published

Matthew Bietz — March 13, 2014 — Leave a comment

The final report from the Health Data Exploration project has been published by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation!

Health-related data is being tracked more and more as the number of wearable devices and smartphone apps increase. Our report, Personal Data for the Public Good: New Opportunities to Enrich Understanding of Individual and Population Health, examines attitudes towards personal health data from the individuals who track personal health data, the companies involved in self-tracking devices, apps, or services, and the researchers who might use the data.

Three of us in the Department of Informatics at UC Irvine (Scout Calvert, Judith Gregory and I) collaborated with researchers at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) at UCSD (Kevin Patrick, PI) to produce the report.

Key Findings

Individuals were very willing to share their self-tracking data for research. However, the dominant condition (57%) for making their PHD available for research was an assurance of privacy for their data. Over 90 percent of respondents said that it was important that the data be anonymous.
This study showed that the current methods of informed consent are challenged by the ways PHD is being used and reused in research.
Researchers are enthusiastic about using PHD in research but are most concerned about the validity of PHD and lack of standardization of devices.

The report is available at http://www.rwjf.org/en/research-publications/find-rwjf-research/2014/03/personal-data-for-the-public-good.html

In Publication, Research

Book Chapter Published

Matthew Bietz — November 22, 2013 — Leave a comment

My chapter titled “Distributed Work: Working and Learning at a Distance” has been published in Technology-Enhanced Professional Learning, edited by Allison Littlejohn and Anoush Margaryan.

Abstract: Working at a distance has become commonplace. Co-workers may be spread around the world, perhaps never meeting face-to-face. Networked communication technologies are being used to support new ways of working in increasingly global organisations. This chapter provides an overview of the psychological and social challenges of working at a distance. It also discusses new organisational forms and types of distributed work that take advantage of distributed working arrangements. The chapter explores the implications of distributed work for professional learning, including impacts on training programs, organizational learning, and individual learning. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the potential of new technologies to support and improve professional learning in distributed organizations.

You can purchase the book from Routledge or Amazon.

In Publication, Research

Book Chapter Accepted

Matthew Bietz — April 18, 2013 — Leave a comment

My chapter titled “Distributed Work: Working and Learning at a Distance” has been accepted for publication in Technology-Enhanced Professional Learning, edited by Allison Littlejohn and Anoush Margaryan, to be published by Routledge.

Abstract: Working at a distance has become commonplace. Co-workers may be spread around the world, perhaps never meeting face-to-face. Networked communication technologies are being used to support new ways of working in increasingly global organisations. This chapter provides an overview of the psychological and social challenges of working at a distance. It also discusses new organisational forms and types of distributed work that take advantage of distributed working arrangements. The chapter explores the implications of distributed work for professional learning, including impacts on training programs, organizational learning, and individual learning. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the potential of new technologies to support and improve professional learning in distributed organizations.

In Publication

2 Papers Accepted to CSCW 2013

Matthew Bietz — October 18, 2012 — Leave a comment

Two papers have been accepted to the CSCW 2013 conference: “The work of developing cyberinfrastructure middleware projects” and “Globally distributed system developers: Their trust expectations and processes.”

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Sociotechnical Studies of Cyberinfrastructure and e-Research

Matthew Bietz — October 2, 2010 — Leave a comment

Our special issue of CSCW has been published! I’m really excited about the six accepted papers.

Special Issue: Sociotechnical Studies of Cyberinfrastructure and e-Research: Supporting Collaborative Research

Guest Edited by Charlotte P. Lee, David Ribes, Matthew J. Bietz, Helena Karasti and Marina Jirotka

CSCW, v. 19, no. 3-4, August 2010
Read Online at SpringerLink

Sociotechnical Studies of Cyberinfrastructure and e-Research: Current Themes and Future Trajectories / David Ribes and Charlotte P. Lee
Synergizing in Cyberinfrastructure Development / Matthew J. Bietz, Eric P. S. Baumer and Charlotte P. Lee
The Dialectical Tensions in the Funding Infrastructure of Cyberinfrastructure / Kerk F. Kee and Larry D. Browning
Transforming Scholarly Practice: Embedding Technological Interventions to Support the Collaborative Analysis of Ancient Texts / Grace de la Flor, Marina Jirotka, Paul Luff, John Pybus and Ruth Kirkham
Reconfiguring Evidence: Interacting with Digital Objects in Scientific Practice / Marko Monteiro
Reusing Scientific Data: How Earthquake Engineering Researchers Assess the Reusability of Colleagues’ Data / Ixchel M. Faniel and Trond E. Jacobsen
Infrastructure Time: Long-term Matters in Collaborative Development / Helena Karasti, Karen S. Baker and Florence Millerand

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EXTENDED DEADLINE! Special Issue of JCSCW

Matthew Bietz — September 24, 2009 — Leave a comment

NEW EXTENDED DEADLINE! Call for Papers Special Issue of JCSCW

Supporting Scientific Collaboration Through Cyberinfrastructure and e-Science

Guest Editors: Charlotte P. Lee, David Ribes, Matthew Bietz , Marina Jirotka, and Helena Karasti

Scientific collaboration using cyberinfrastructure (CI), or e-Science, is forward facing. e-Science projects aim to support the collaboration of research communities, whether by facilitating distanced collaboration or sharing data and computational resources. The most ambitious e-Science projects are creating entirely novel scientific fields, anticipating and actively cultivating new scientific communities and practices. Such endeavors present original challenges to researchers in CSCW fields: questions of large-scale technology development, of supporting communities in addition to groups, and of long-term sustainability.
Cyberinfrastructure and e-Science projects are partially information technology research ventures, but they are also forms of applied sociology, e.g., building bridges across heterogeneous disciplinary traditions and scientific methods. Careful attention must be paid to the full range of participant’s activities as they go about their work. How to establish reliable, accessible and appropriate information infrastructure is a challenge for contemporary CSCW.

For this special issue on computer supported scientific collaboration, we welcome research on topics such as, but not limited to: case studies or comparative analyses of cyberinfrastructure & e-Science development or use; novel applications for large-scale scientific collaboration; and practices for supporting heterogeneous, distributed, or long-term collaborations. We seek empirically grounded studies with a sensibility for theoretical contributions to CSCW and closely related fields.

Schedule and Submission Process
October 11, 2009……….NEW DEADLINE. Deadline for submission of manuscripts
November 19, 2009……Notification of acceptance
January 30, 2009.………Submission of finished manuscripts
2010…………………………Publication

Instructions for Authors: http://www.springer.com/computer/journal/10606

Submitting Manuscripts: Authors should submit their manuscripts to the Editorial Manager (EM) system (at http://www.editorialmanager.com/cosu/ ). Select the appropriate special issue under Article Type: “Scientific Collaboration Through Cyberinfrastructure”.
About the Journal: Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) disseminates innovative research results and provides an interdisciplinary forum for the debate and exchange of ideas concerning theoretical, practical, technical, and social issues in CSCW. Coverage ranges from ethnographic studies of cooperative work to reports on the development of CSCW systems and their technological foundations.

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