Gerhard Fischer

About:

Gerhard Fischer is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Colorado at Boulder and member of the Institute of Cognitive Science.  He is currently directing the Center for Lifelong Learning and Design




He is a member of the following organizations:

• ACM
• American Association for Artificial Intelligence
• Cognitive Science, GI (Gesellschaft fuer Informatik)
•   Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
•  Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility

His current research work includes:

• enTWIne
  Social Creativity and Meta-Design in Lifelong Learning Communities
• CLever: Building Cognitive Levers to help people help themselves
  The mission of the Cognitive Lever, or CLever project is to provide computationally enhanced environments to assist people with a wide range of cognitive disabilities and their support community.
• The Envisionment and Discovery Collaboratory
  The focus of this is to develop a framework for integrating physical games, computer simulations, and dynamic information spaces for the support of collaborative learning and design.
• Organizational Memory and Organizational Learning
  This work investigates computer support for learning, working, and collaborating in information-intensive organizations.

From:  Gerhard Fischer’s Home Page/Biography at The University of Colorado Boulder

Link:  http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/

Article and Video Link(s): 

1.    Supporting Learning on Demand with Design Environments

Proceedings of the International Conference on the Learning Sciences 1991 (Evanston, Illinois, August), 1991 pp. 165-172.

Link:  http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/Scanned/1991-Supporting-LOD-InternatlConfLearnSci.pdf

2.    User Modeling in Human-Computer Interaction, User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction 11: 65-86, 2001.

Link:  http://sistemas-humano-computacionais.wdfiles.com/local--files/capitulo%3Amodelagem-e-simulacao-de-sistemas-humano-computacio/user%20modeling.pdf

Article Abstract:

“Abstract. A fundamental objective of human-computer interaction research is to make systems more usable, more useful, and to provide users with experiences fitting their specific background knowledge and objectives.  The challenge in an information-rich world is not only to make information available to people at any time, at any place, and in any form, but specifically to say the ``right'' thing at the ``right'' time in the ``right'' way. Designers of collaborative human-computer systems face the formidable task of writing software for millions of users (at design time) while making it work as if it were designed for each individual user (only known at use time).

User modeling research has attempted to address these issues. In this article, I will first review the objectives, progress, and unfulfilled hopes that have occurred over the last ten years, and illustrate them with some interesting computational environments and their underlying conceptual frameworks. A special emphasis is given to high-functionality applications and the impact of user modeling to make them more usable, useful, and learnable. Finally, an assessment of the current state of the art followed by some future challenges is given.”

3.    Transcending the Individual Human Mind—Creating Shared Understanding through Collaborative Design, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, Vol. 7, No. 1, March 2000 pp. 84-113

Link:  http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=345015

4.    Communities of Interest:  Learning through the Interaction of Multiple Knowledge Systems,  Proceedings of the 24th IRIS Conference. Department of Information Science, Bergen, 2001 pp1-14.

Link:  http://home.himolde.no/~molka/in765/Communities-of-Interest.pdf

5.    Cultures of Participation , Summer Social Webshop 2012 from YouTube

Link:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-uAIph08Rg

Other Notable Web Activity:

Fischer’s LinkedIn profile:  http://www.linkedin.com/pub/gerhard-fischer/a/409/865