This is my thirteenth year teaching at DePaul.  This Fall I am teaching HCI 201. 

CDM students can schedule an advising appointment with me here. I host a blog for each of my classes. See them in the left margin. Current and former students are invited (nay, beseeched!) to participate in my course blogs. Everyone is invited to IHOP for a little polemics.  I am also on the faculty for the Certificate Program in Group Facilitation taught out of  DePaul University Continuing and Professional Education.

My background

I moved to Chicago in 1997 after living in Tucson for nine years.  I was a student and a  researcher at The University of Arizona.   Prior to that I was Corporate Director of Systems Support at Ticketmaster.  If you want to know more, feel free to link to me on LinkedIn or friend me on Facebook.   

My research interests are around the areas of physical and virtual collaboration.  They tend to meld the fields of group support systems (GSS), computer supported  cooperative work (CSCW), and architecture. 

There are two principal thrusts to my research work.  First, I am interested in building collaborative  software to support the process of gathering and organizing user information in architecture. This includes processes in group ideation (think: brainstorming), knowledge acquisition (think: focus groups), and collaborative writing (think: wikis).   And second, I am interested in the planning and design of computer-supported meeting and classroom environments.  I have been involved with the architectural planning and design of several spaces including the Global Conference Center Classroom at Cholla High Magnet School in Tucson, and the Civil Military Operations Center aboard the USS CORONADO,  the Management  Information Systems Center at San Diego State University, and the Millennium Boardroom at CDM

My research interests also include facilitating or leading teams using GSS technologies, both in a local and in a distributed or virtual setting,  and in the use of information technologies to support collaborative and distance learning. 

I am currently Past-Chair of the Board of Directors of EDRA, the Environmental Design Research Association.  I am also the webmaster.

Away from school, I have been active with The Holocaust History Project (THHP). THHP exists to provide web-based Holocaust education while combating anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial.  I encourage you to look at our site.  I have also worked with the David L. Fisher Memorial Foundation (Intranet designed by an ECT 359 project team), which has raised over $300,000 in support of One Step At A Time, a summer camp for children with cancer and leukemia.  

My two athletic activities these days are cycling (my bike) and broomball (my club team, The Glaciers--our name refers to our team speed-- completed its seventh season of play last winter. We won two games - not our best season.