Talks

Conferences

Mother Knows Best: Medical Record Management for Patients with Spina Bifida During the Transition from Pediatric to Adult Care. Presented at the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Fall Symposium, Washington DC, October 22-26, 2005.

Combining Documents: The History of an Emergency Room Flowsheet. Presented at DOCAM ’05, SIMS, UC Berkeley, Oct 7-9, 2005

Same Old Thing: Productive & reproductive practices in civic networks, Presented by 1st author Murali Venkatesh at Learning in Community Workshop, University Park, Penn State, August 14-17, 2005.

Indexical Fields: Encoding, communicating and coordinating , Presented at Organizational Knowledge, Learning and Capabilities (OKLC), Bentley College, Mass. March 17-19, 2005.

Does Space have a Place in IS Research? Exploring explicit and implicit notions of space in IS research. Presented at ICIS - OASIS workshop: IFIP Working Group 8.2, Washington DC, December 12-15, 2004.

Two Doctors’ Documenting Practices: How the indexical centering of medical records integrates the encoding, communication and coordination of patient care. Presented at the Annual Meetings of the Document Academy at SIMS, UC Berkeley, October 22-24, 2004.

Where is the Doctor? Locating medical work. Presented at the Annual Meeting for Society for Social Studies of Science, Paris, August 25-28, 2004.

What is Medical Informatics? Brown Bag Presentation with Catherine Arnott Smith at the Information School, Syracuse University, September 17, 2004 .

Situating Medical Documents: NLP and the indexical centering of documents. Presented at Center for Natural Language Processing, Syracuse University, February, 17, 2004.

Situating Documents: Finding context in the text. Presented at ICIS - OASIS workshop: IFIP Working Group 8.2, Seattle, December 15-17, 2003.

Technology, Place, and Practice: An ethnographic perspective. Presented with Mimi Ito at Annual Meeting for Society for Social Studies of Science, Atlanta, October 15-19, 2003.

Electronic Records, Hospital Design, and Medical Rounds: My place or yours? Presented at Annual Meeting for the Society for Social Studies of Science, Atlanta, October 15-19, 2003.

Genre Systems & Documenting Practices: A theoretical perspective. Presented at Workshop for Theoretical Approaches on Information Ecologies, Musashi Institute of Technology, Oct. 1-2, 2003.

Mapping Medical Work: Information practices across multiple medical settings. Presented at Participatory Design of Information: From the Perspective of Information Ecology, Musashi Institute of Technology, Japan, September 27-29.

Practice Matters: Knowledge sharing in communities of practice. Presented at Communities and Technology 2003, Amsterdam, September 19-21.

Documenting Dreams: Patient-centered records vs. practice-centered records. Presented at HICCNY (Health Informatics Consortium of Central New York), Syracuse University, January 14, 2003.

When & Where Matters: Why do people write medical records. Panel Presentation at AOM (Academy of Management), Denver, August 9-14, 2002.

E-Business. Invited as discussant to paper session at AOM (Academy of Management), Denver, August 9-14, 2002.

Documenting Practices Across Time and Space: Diverse approaches and organizational impacts. Panel presentation at ICIS (International Conference on Information Systems), New Orleans, December 16-19, 2001

Locales & Intersecting Information Technologies. Paper presentation at Society for Social Studies of Science conference, Boston, November 1-4, 2001.

Patchworks of Documenting Practices: temporal & spatial analysis of overlapping documenting practices in distributed healthcare work. Paper presentation at Virtual and Distributed Work Conference; Miami, March 1-4, 2001.

The Power of Whiteboards: Boundary objects and the politics of knowledge sharing. Paper presentation at symposium “Sharing Knowledge Across Boundaries,” sponsored by OCIS and OTM divisions at the Academy of Management, Toronto, August 4th-9th, 2000.

Moving Asthmatics: Knowledge sharing across boundaries and the management of patient trajectories. Paper presentation at the Conference on Non-Scholastic Learning, Denmark, June 2- 6, 2000.

Trajectories andMulti-Sited Ethnography: Methodological considerations. Paper presentation at the Conference on Non-Scholastic Learning, Denmark, June 2- 6, 2000.

Watching “E.R.” in the E.R.: Popular and local representations of work in two emergency rooms. Paper presentation at the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, Nov. 17-21, 1999.

From ER to OR: Knowledge creation, boundary crossing, and the management of patient trajectories. Paper presentation at the International Workshop at Center for Activity Theory and Developmental Work Research. Boundary Crossing and Knotworking: Learning and Knowledge Creation as Movements within and Between Communities. Helsinki, Finland, Sept. 2-3, 1999.

Apprenticeship at Work: Learning trajectories, communities of practice, and contexts of action. Paper presentation at Keynote symposium at 8th European Conference for Research on Learning and Instruction. Göteborg, Sweden. August 24-28, 1999.

Into the Black Box of the Whiteboard: Coordination and power at play in the use of information technology. Presentation at Computers & Work Conference, MIT, January 20, 1998.

Sales Apprentices on the Move: A multi-contextual perspective on situated learning. Presentation at 25th Nordic Educational Research Association Conference, Göteborg, Sweden, October 1997.

Learning and Technology at Work in an American High Tech Corporation. Presentation at 24th Nordic Educational Research Association Conference, Lillehammer, Norway, August 1996.

Expenses-paid Invitations, Invited Presentations, Meetings & Work Groups

All expenses paid invitation to speak at the Document Academy’s Summer Workshop in Tromso, Norway, June 27-July2nd, 2005. Forced to cancel trip due to visa problems caused by Syracuse University.

Invited participant at the workshop on “Work in the Era of the Global, Extensible Enterprise” at the IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA, March 24, 2004.

All expenses paid invitation to speak at the Workshop for Theoretical Approaches on Information Ecologies, Musashi Institute of Technology, Title of paper: Genre Systems & Documenting Practices: A theoretical perspective. Japan, October 1-2, 2003.

Invited speaker at the conference Participatory Design of Information: From the Perspective of Information Ecology, Musashi Institute of Technology, Yokohama. Title: Mapping Medical Work: Information practices across multiple medical settings. Japan, Sept. 27-29, 2003.

Invited speaker at the Danish Pedagogical University, Copenhagen. Title: Dokument Drømme: Patient-Centrerede Journaler vs. Praksis-Centrerede Journaler. Copenhagen, Dec. 2002.

Invited speaker at Department of Psychology, University of Aarhus, Denmark. Title of paper: Learning Trajectories Across Health Care Settings: A pedagogical perspective. Nov., 2002.

Human-Centered Product Innovation Conferences. Intel, Portland, 2000- 2001.

Work Practice & Technology Conference: The next 20 years of research. Xerox PARC, June 15-17, 1999.

Network for Situated Learning; Participants from US, UK and Scandinavia including among others Professors Hubert Dreyfus and Jean Lave, UC Berkeley; Yrjö Engeström, U Helsinki; Ole Dreier, U Copenhagen; Cheryl Mattingly, USC. Scandinavia, 1997-2001.

All expenses paid meeting on Workplace Research in the Service Sector; Sponsored by the Sloan Foundation, Sausalito, Oct. 25-28, 1995.

All expenses paid meeting on Workplace Research in the Service Sector; Sponsored by the Sloan Foundation, Cornell University, Ithaca, September 15-18, 1994.

Center for Qualitative Research Method; Annual Workshops; Topics: “Competence and Professional Knowledge. “The Rhetoric of Qualitative Research.” “Narrativity in Social Science Research.” Denmark, 1992-94.