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Current Projects

Technological Aptitude Instructional Technology Other

A. Technological Aptituden

Computer-email-web (CEW) fluency and CMC competence

  • meta-analysis of CEW fluency and CMC competency, and gender; manuscript received R&R; changes currently in process; please contact author for copy
  • comparison between students and seniors; data analysis and writing in process
  • beyond CEW fluency and toward the development of an overall aptitude inventory; project in process

Medium choice

  • medium choice: influence of CMC competence, relationship, richness, and social/contextual factors; manuscript received R&R; changes currently in process; please contact author for copy
  • choice of communication medium in the grandchild/grandparent relationship (based on a study by Jake Harwood); writing in process

Cell phones

  • seniors' perceptions and use of cell phone technology (with Scott Campbell); writing in process

Computer Problems

  • Problems people experience, complains they raise, and others' reactions to those human-computer difficulties (with Howard Sypher); project in process

Conceptual/Theoretical approaches to the topic

  • precedents of technological aptitude (with Katie Lever); paper presented at NCA 2005

Website usability

  • Visual approaches to website analysis; book chapter received R&R; changes made and manuscript re-submitted; please contact author for copy

B. Instructional Technologyign

Currently no projects.

C. Otherign

Wireless Computing

  • wireless Internet access in Manhattan and information mobility; manuscript submitted; please contact author for copy

Internet Research

  • emerging topics based on AoIR conference presentations; data analysis in process
  • relationship between themes of internet research, and gender, and geographic location; project in process