KMDI - Knowledge Media Design Institute
Knowledge media are building blocks of a knowledge society
Students
Collaborative Program in Knowledge Media Design students who are listed below have agreed to be included on this site. Some students have also included profiles.PhD |
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| Research: | Privacy, information, and identity; policy, philosophy, and play | |
| Work: | Information Management & Privacy Strategist, Central Agencies Cluster, Government of Ontario | |
| Contact: | stuart dot bailey at ontario dot ca | |
| Graduated: | 2006 | |
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| Research: | - Development of a computational framework of the influence of DNA on a model of cognition (PhD dissertation topic). |
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| Work: | Big Orbit Inc., The Biographix Corporation | |
| Contact: | sean.bittle@utoronto.ca | |
| Web: | www.bigorbit.com, www.biographix.com | |
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Elise Chien |
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| Research: | Social contexts of information and information technologies; community information and informatics; the role of social institutions in community networking; thesis research involves examining the information behaviours of newcomers to Canada, their formation of community and the use of the Internet to document experience, share knowledge, find information, and invoke change. | |
| Affiliations: | CRACIN; KMDS, Communications Officer | |
| Contact: | elise.chien@utoronto.ca | |
| Graduated: | 2005/6 | |
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| Research: | Business Systems Analysis, e-Health system analysis | |
| Affiliations: | KMDI, Bell University Labs, UTM CCIT Program | |
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Director, Online Media, TELETOON Canada Inc. |
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| Contact: | chungv@fis.utoronto.ca | |
| Graduated: | 2006/7 | |
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| Research: | Information Visualization, Natural Language Processing, Active Learning, Computer Supported Collaborative Work (especially special needs of community organizations and non-profit sector), Speech Recognition and Generation, Social Implications of Computing / Ethics & Philosophy of Computing | |
| Honours: | Adel S. Sedra distinguished graduate scholarship, U of T (one award annually to a graduate student in any field, based on academic contribution and service to the University) | |
| Affiliations: | Member, University Affairs Board of Governing Council (U of T); Chair, Hart House Board of Stewards; Member, U of T Positive Space Committee (LGBTQ Equity) | |
| Contact: | christopher.collins@utoronto.ca | |
| Web: | www.cs.toronto.edu/~ccollins/ | |
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| Research: | Visual information (i.e. graphic illustration) and cognition. My objective is to better understand how ideas are communicated through illustrations (especially relative to descriptive prose), but from a psychological point of view. I intend to use findings to improve educational materials, public policy communication, comprehension, and problem solving. At KMDI, intend to add a (social) scientific dimension to my research and practice that is rooted in visual design and art, including many interdisciplinary projects that applied telepresence/virtual presence, and telerobotics to education (i.e. schools and science museums) and remote science exploration (telescience). | |
| Affiliations: | Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI) | |
| Contact: | act.draw@gmail.com | Web: | http://individual.utoronto.ca/coppin |
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| Research: | Organizational Knowledge Dissemination (Knowledge Management); KM Training and Education; The Dissemination of Knowledge; Group Decision Making; Group Process; Collaborative and Group Decision Support Tools; Emotional Intelligence | |
| Affiliations: | CCIT, KMDS, Co-Founder and Acting Vice President | |
| Contact: | mmaxevans@gmail.com | |
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| Research: | Biometrics, Information Policy, Privacy, Visual Culture, Science and Technology, Identity construction, HCI, Computer-Mediated Communication, and digital identity construction. | |
| Contact: | joseph.ferenbok@utoronto.ca | |
| Web: | http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/~w3cvmc/faculty/ferenbok.htm | |
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| Research: | Community Informatics; thesis research involves studying the feasibility of publicly accessible broadband networks in remote, rural, and semi-urban communities; related political and policy discourses; and community networking models that combine government grant systems, socio-economic partnerships, and local market solutions (e.g., communities as ISPs). Test case: First Nations communities in Ontario. Methodology involves modeling community networks as evolving socially-constructed processes, concepts from actor-network theory and constructive technology assessment | |
| Affiliations: | Student Rep, KMDI Steering Committee; CRACIN; KMDS, Communications Officer | |
| Contact: | fiser@fis.utoronto.ca | |
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| Research: | Operations Management focusing on emerging tools and techniques for product and process design, information management, integrated design/manufacturing and participatory engineering; Computer Aided Design, with particular interest in the interface between art theories and production, and engineering methods and design. Graduate work included: examining the fundamental illusionary nature of painting through the manipulation of iconic post-impressionistic images using basic engineering tools, processes, as well as digital graphic technologies. | |
| Work: | Management Trainee (Operations Stream); Maple Leaf Consumer Foods | |
| Contact: | bfilipiuk@yahoo.com | |
| Graduated: | 2003/4 | |
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| Research: | Visual literacy, information visualization, discourse-based interactional models, advanced information and communications technologies, and collaborative media spaces. | |
| Affiliations: | KMDS, Communications officer | |
| Work: | Interaction Designer at Teehan+Lax Inc. | |
| Contact: | david.gillis@utoronto.ca | |
| Web: | http://www.scrappymonkey.com/ | |
| Graduated: | 2004/5 | |
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| Research: | Social Network Analysis / Manymedia analysis, network management, microsociology, multivariate analysis, time use, personal information management. PhD dissertation topic: Managing social networks and personal information | |
| Honours: | 2nd place award for Student Poster at the International Conference of Network Science for my work on social networks and email communication patterns | |
| Affiliations: | Community Technologies Group, Microsoft Research / Netlab; KMDS, Secretary; Graduate Sociology Students Association, President; International Network of Social Network Analysts; American Sociological Association; Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association. | |
| Contact: | bernie.hogan@utoronto.ca | |
| Graduated: | 2003/4 MA (SOC/KMD); PhD ongoing | |
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| Research: | Human-computer interaction, ecological interface design, amusement device operation and safety | |
| Honours: | Ontario Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology (OGSST), ATOP Ryerson Graduate Award, TSSA Safety Education Research Graduate Scholarship | |
| Affiliations: | KMDI, HFIG, THRILL (Ryerson), CIHFR (Ryerson) | |
| Contact: | timothy.hong@ryerson.ca | |
| Graduated: | 2005/6 MEng (MIE), PhD ongoing | |
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| Research: | Knowledge management, performance improvement, elearning, user-centred design, knowledge creation and translation, interactive content production and audience development | |
| Affiliations: | Past-Student Representative, KMDI Steering Committee; Executive Director, Mindful Media Society; Member, International Society of Performance Improvement; Royal Patrons Circle Committee; Royal Ontario Museum | |
| Work: | JUHASZ Development Group Using Media to Build Knowledge, A knowledge media consulting and design company that constructs strategies and content for performance improvement. | |
| Contact: | Kelly@juhaszdevelopment.com | |
| Web: | www.juhaszdevelopment.com | |
| Graduated: | 2005/6 | |
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| Research: | Information technology, civic engagement, culture, political sociology, social networks | |
| Affiliations: | Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI); Netlab | |
| Contact: | jennifer.kayahara@utoronto.ca | |
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| Research: | Visual art produced through collaboration with scientists and engineers that investigates how science and technology affect our perception and understanding of the world. | |
| Honours: | Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS) Master's Scholarship; Project Open Source | Open Access (OS|OA) Student Experience Program to produce an online version of the Image Matter exhibition to be released under a Creative Commons License (http://davekemp.ca/imagematter/); full subsidy awarded to attend the CopyCamp unconference Sept. 2006, Toronto, ON; Magenta Foundation, Emerging Photographers 2006 - Honorable Mention | |
| Affiliations: | OS|OA Student experience program | |
| Work: | Freelance jack-of-all-trades specializing in photography and mechanical engineering | |
| Contact: | davekemp@davekemp.ca | |
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| Research: | Spatialized audio conferencing; interface design for collaborative environments; ecological interface design. PhD dissertation topic: The benefits of visually depicting talker locations in spatialized collaborative audio environments | |
| Affiliations: | IBM Ph.D. Research Fellow; University of Toronto Interactive Media Lab member; Treasurer and Vice President of U of Ts Human Factors and Ergonomics Society student chapter (HFIG) | |
| Work: | Senior Scientist, Charles River Analytics, Cambridge, MA: Interaction design and evaluation for intelligence analysis, collaborative command and control, and unmanned vehicle supervision. | |
| Contact: | ryankilgore@gmail.com | |
| Web: | imedia.mie.utoronto.ca/IML/model/profile.php?id=61 | |
| Graduated: | 2005/6 | |
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| Research: | Privacy, Community Informatics, Information Visualization, Participatory Design | |
| Affiliations: | The Personal Information Protection Toolbar project 'PIPWatch', http://www.pipwatch.ca The Journal of Community Informatics http://www.ci-journal.net |
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| Contact: | david.ley@utoronto.ca | |
| Graduated: | 2005/6 | |
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| Research: | Emotion, Hedonic Affective Responses, HCI, Design Research, Design Methods, Usability, User groups, Medical Applications, Communication | |
| Honours: | OGSST (2004), OGS,(2005), CGSD3 NSERC award (2006-09) | |
| Affiliations: | KMDI, université Paris-Sud, HFES | |
| Work: | Instructor (CSC318, UTM), TA (KMDI1001), Consulting (Vocalage) | |
| Contact: | danielle.lottridge@utoronto.ca | |
| Web: | www.imedia.mie.utoronto.ca/~danielle | |
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| Research: | Knowledge communities in online learning environments for health care learners; user-centered design; design research |
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| Honours: | CIHR Health Research Communications Award | |
| Affiliations: | Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI) | |
| Contact: | michelle.lui@utoronto.ca | |
| Web: | http://www.michellelui.ca/ | |
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| Research: | Information architecture, web site localization | |
| Affiliations: | Member, TUPA Toronto Interacts'; TOrCHI | |
| Work: | User Interface Design Specialist, Amicus Bank (CIBC). | |
| Contact: | ameliam@sympatico.ca | |
| Graduated: | 2004/5 | |
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| Research: | Effect of synchronous and asynchronous communication media on students' learning; sustainability of online learning communities; online collaborative writing | |
| Contact: | hedieh.najafi@utoronto.ca | |
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| Research: | Knowledge communities; scaffolded inquiry; wikis in education; design research; electronic discourse |
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| Honours: | SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship; James C. Cummings Graduate Fellowship | |
| Affiliations: | Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI); Technology Enhanced Learning in Science (TELS - http://www.telscenter.org/); University of Trinity College | |
| Work: | Research Assistant (OISE/UT) | |
| Contact: | vlpeters@gmail.com | |
| Web: | http://homespace.oise.utoronto.ca/~petersv | |
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| Research: | Technology-enhanced curriculum for history education (K-12); knowledge building in online environments; immersive learning environments; instructional design | |
| Affiliations: | Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI) | |
| Contact: | monica.resendes@utoronto.ca | |
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| Research: | Knowledge Management; Knowledge Research; Human/User-centered Design; Consultations; Organizational Ecology; Communities of Practice; Lessons Learned Methodology; Planning and Project Management | |
| Affiliations: | Ontario Government IM/KM Community of Practice; Organizational Development Community of Practice; Community of Interest Model Governance Working Group; Lessons Learned/ After Action Learning Working Group | |
| Work: | Ministry Knowledge Management Lead and Business Transformation Consultant, Ministry of Consumer and Business Services, Government of Ontario | |
| Contact: | salyn@fis.utoronto.ca or through KMDI | |
| Graduated: | 2004/5 | |
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| Research: | Software user interface design with theories of knowledge media design; cooperated with R&D department of COTA Health in user interface design for caregivers with special needs; presented two posters on User interface design in an e-Health symposium in Toronto, 2005, and Medinfo conference in Brisbane, Australia, 2007 | |
| Affiliations: | COTA Health, a leading provider of comprehensive rehabilitation, mental health and support services in Ontario | |
| Contact: | reza.samavi@utoronto.ca | |
| Graduated: | 2007 Ph.D. candidate in Information Engineering Center, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto |
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| Research: | Patient Safety issues in interface design, supporting performance and error detection through representation and visualization. Tools for interface evaluation and exploring information seeking behaviours. | |
| Work: | Information Architecture, Interaction Design, Usability | |
| Affiliations: | ACM SIGCHI, HFES | |
| Contact: | kate.sellen@utoronto.ca | |
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| Research: | Communication technology and issues of social empowerment, particularly less-advantaged social groups and those engaged in producing social capital; evolution of the blogging community | |
| Contact: | n.simpson@utoronto.ca | |
| Web: | www.natesimpson.com/ | |
| Graduated: | 2003/4 | |
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| Research: | eHealth, digital democracy, participatory design and evaluation | |
| Honours: | CGS SSHRC award | |
| Work: | Media Generator @ UTM | |
| Contact: | karen.louise.smith@utoronto.ca | |
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| Research: | User-centred information system design; Usability and Knowledge Transfer of Learning Management Systems; information visualization; Computer-Mediated Learning and Communication | |
| Affiliations: | University of Toronto – Sakai Users Group; Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity | |
| Work: | Program Coordinator – Interactive Multimedia Post Graduate Program – Sheridan College (http://imm.sheridanc.on.ca) | |
| Contact: | andrew@andrewsmyk.com | |
| Web: | http://www.andrewsmyk.com | |
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John Stevenson PhD (FIS) |
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| Research: | Knowledge sharing in international development; Community media (networks/informatics and radio); Intimate and personal media (blogs and wikis); Canadian media policy and regulation; Hacking | |
| Affiliations: | CRACIN; Advisory Board, National Community Radio Association | |
| Work: | Information Technology Officer, International Development Research Centre (Ottawa) | |
| Contact: | john.stevenson@utoronto.ca | |
| Web: | http://tranquileye.com/ | |
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| Research: | Interface design, storytelling in immersive online environments, information visualization, interactive design and youth. Marketing and business applications of interface design. Current research involves bridging the gap between creative interface design and evidence based research. | |
| Affiliations: | Association for Computing Machinery, FIS-DSA Web Committee Co-Chair, New Media Business Alliance | |
| Work: | Director, Online Media, TELETOON Canada Inc. | |
| Contact: | steves@teletoon.com> | |
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| Research: | Graduate education, synchronous communication, distance learning, collaborative writing | |
| Affiliations: | Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI); OISE/UT | |
| Work: | Manager, Accenture | |
| Contact: | joant@ieee.org | |
| Web: | http://www.atypical.net | |
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| Research: | Designing memory aids for amnesic individuals and their families | |
| Affiliations: | Dynamic Graphics Project; Health Care, Technology and Place | |
| Contact: | mchi@dgp.toronto.edu | |
| Web: | http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mchi/ | |
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