Scott P. Robertson

Author: Scott P. Robertson

Ph.D.

Dr. Scott Robertson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. His general research area is human-computer interaction (HCI) and his most recent work has been in the areas of Digital Government, e-Democracy, and e-Participation.

Dr. Robertson has served as an invited participant and speaker on electronic voting and digital government for the Computer Science and Telecommunication Board of the National Academy of Sciences(see A Framework for Understanding Electronic Voting)and the Scientific Freedom, Responsibility, and Law Program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science(see Workshop on Developing a Research Agenda for Electronic Voting Technologies).

Dr. Robertson is Director of HI'CHI, the Hawaii Computer-Human Interaction Lab. He is currently the Principal Investigator for Digital Deliberation: Searching and Deciding About How to Vote,a three-year project funded by the Information and Intelligent Systems Division of the National Science Foundation(award # IIS-0535036).

Dr. Robertson received his B.A. in Social Science from the University of California, Irvine,his M.A. in Cognitive Psychology from California State University, Fullerton, and his Ph.D. in Psychology with a specialization in Cognitive Science from Yale University. Dr. Robertson has also worked as a researcher in the computing and telecommunications industries where he focused on collaboration and knowledge management technologies.

Publications

Publication period start: 2006
Number of co-authors: 34

Co-authors

Number of publications with favourite co-authors
Christine E. Wania
2
George Abraham
2
Sang Joon Park
3

Productive Colleagues

Most productive colleagues in number of publications
Bonnie A. Nardi
67
Mary Beth Rosson
142
John M. Carroll
209

Publications

Robertson, Scott P., Reese, Kathy (1999): A Virtual Library for Building Community and Sharing Knowledge. In International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 51 (3) pp. 663-685.

Robertson, Scott P., Wharton, Cathleen, Ashworth, Catherine, Franzke, Marita (1996): Dual Device User Interface Design: PDAs and Interactive Television. In: Tauber, Michael J., Bellotti, Victoria, Jeffries, Robin, Mackinlay, Jock D., Nielsen, Jakob (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 96 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 14-18, 1996, Vancouver, Canada. pp. 79-86. https://www.acm.org/sigchi/chi96/proceedings/papers/Robertson/spr_txt.htm

Carroll, John M., Mack, Robert L., Robertson, Scott P., Rosson, Mary Beth (1994): Binding Objects to Scenarios of Use. In International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 41 (1) pp. 243-276.

Robertson, Scott P. (1994): TSUNAMI: Simultaneous Understanding, Answering, and Memory Interaction for Questions. In Cognitive Science, 18 (1) pp. 51-85.

Koenemann, Jurgen, Robertson, Scott P. (1991): Expert Problem Solving Strategies for Program Comprehension. In: Robertson, Scott P., Olson, Gary M., Olson, Judith S. (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 91 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 28 - June 5, 1991, New Orleans, Louisiana. pp. 125-130. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/chi/108844/p125-koenemann/p125-koenemann.pdf

Riecken, R. Douglas, Koenemann-Belliveau, Jurgen, Robertson, Scott P. (1991): What Do Expert Programmers Communicate by Means of Descriptive Commenting?. In: Koenemann-Belliveau, Jurgen, Moher, Thomas G., Robertson, Scott P. (eds.) Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Workshop on Empirical Studies of Programmers , 1991, Norwood, New Jersey, USA. pp. 177-195.

Robertson, Scott P., Yu, Chiung-Chen (1990): Common Cognitive Representations of Program Code Across Tasks and Languages. In International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 33 (3) pp. 343-360.

Robertson, Scott P., Davis, Erle F. (1990): Program Comprehension Beyond the Line. In: Diaper, Dan, Gilmore, David J., Cockton, Gilbert, Shackel, Brian (eds.) INTERACT 90 - 3rd IFIP International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction August 27-31, 1990, Cambridge, UK. pp. 959-963.

Yu, Chiung-Chen, Robertson, Scott P. (1988): Plan-Based Representations of Pascal and Fortran Code. In: Soloway, Elliot, Frye, Douglas, Sheppard, Sylvia B. (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 88 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference June 15-19, 1988, Washington, DC, USA. pp. 251-256.

Robertson, Scott P., Black, John B. (1986): Structure and Development of Plans in Computer Text Editing. In Human-Computer Interaction, 2 (3) pp. 201-226.

Robertson, Scott P., Black, John B. (1983): Planning Units in Text Editing Behavior. In: Smith, Raoul N., Pew, Richard W., Janda, Ann (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 83 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conferenc December 12-15, 1983, Boston, Massachusetts, United States. pp. 217-221.

Robertson, Scott P., Olson, Gary M., Olson, Judith S. (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 91 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 28 - June 5, 1991, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Koenemann-Belliveau, Jurgen, Moher, Thomas G., Robertson, Scott P. (eds.) Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Workshop on Empirical Studies of Programmers , 1991, Norwood, New Jersey, USA.

Carpenter, Keri, Nardi, Bonnie A., Moore, James, Robertson, Scott P., Drezner, Daniel, Benson, Ian, Foot, Kirsten, Jett, Quintus (2004): Online political organizing: lessons from the field. In: Proceedings of ACM CSCW04 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work , 2004, . pp. 59-62. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1031607.1031618

Robertson, Scott P., Jitan, Sherif, Reese, Kathy (1997): Web-Based Collaborative Library Research. In: DL97: Proceedings of the 2nd ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries , 1997, . pp. 152-160. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/dl/263690/p152-robertson/p152-robertson.pdf

Robertson, Scott P., Koizumi, David, Marsella, Stacy C. (1988): Constraints on Training: Informativeness and Breadth in Procedural Skill Learning. In: Proceedings of the Human Factors Society 32nd Annual Meeting , 1988, . pp. 377-380.

Robertson, Scott P., Achananuparp, Palakorn, Goldman, James L., Park, Sang Joon, Zhou, Nan, Clare, Matthew J. (2005): Voting and political information gathering on paper and online. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2005 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2005, . pp. 1753-1756. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1056808.1057014

Vatrapu, Ravi K., Robertson, Scott P. (2009): Information foraging in E-voting. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2009 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2009, . pp. 3799-3804. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1520340.1520574

Robertson, Scott P. (2000): The Digital City\'s Public Library: Support for Community Building and Knowledge Sharing. In: Ishida, Toru, Isbister, Katherine (eds.) Digital Cities - Technologies Experiences and Future Perspectives September, 2000, Kyoto, Japan. pp. 246-260. https://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/bibs/1765/17650246.htm

Robertson, Scott P., Wania, Christine E., Park, Sang Joon (2007): An Observational Study of Voters on the Internet. In: HICSS 2007 - 40th Hawaii International International Conference on Systems Science 3-6 January, 2007, Waikoloa, Big Island, HI, USA. pp. 90. https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/HICSS.2007.70

Robertson, Scott P., Wania, Christine E., Abraham, George, Park, Sang Joon (2008): Drop-Down Democracy: Internet Portal Design Influences Voters\' Search Strategies. In: HICSS 2008 - 41st Hawaii International International Conference on Systems Science 7-10 January, 2008, Waikoloa, Big Island, HI, USA. pp. 191. https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/HICSS.2008.131

Robertson, Scott P., Vatrapu, Ravi K., Abraham, George (2009): Note Taking and Note Sharing While Browsing Campaign Information. In: HICSS 2009 - 42st Hawaii International International Conference on Systems Science 5-8 January, 2009, Waikoloa, Big Island, HI, USA. pp. 1-10. https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2009.326

Robertson, Scott P. (2006): Digital deliberation: searching and deciding about how to vote. In: Fortes, José A. B., MacIntosh, Ann (eds.) DG.O 2006 - Proceedings of the 7th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research May 21-24, 2006, San Diego, California, USA. pp. 195-196. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1146598.1146656

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