Jason Ellis
Jason Ellis recently joined the Social Computing Group. Prior to joining
the group, Jason was a student in Computer Science at the Georgia Institute
of Technology where he completed his PhD in the Electronic Learning Communities
group in 2003.
Jason's PhD research involved the design and implementation of Palaver
Tree Online, an online community that supports kids interviewing elders
to build up a shared database of oral history. This system is the result
of five years of research, beginning with studies of how e-mail connects
kids and elders. Based on the findings from this early work, he built
a client interface and server infrastructure aimed at helping the process
of doing online oral history go more smoothly. The resulting system was
studied in both formative and summative evaluations.
During his tenure at Georgia Tech, Jason also completed internships at
IBM TJ Watson Research Center and Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. Prior
to his tenure at Georgia Tech, he was a faculty researcher at the Human-Computer
Interaction Lab at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Contact information:
Email: jasone@us.ibm.com, Jason Ellis/Watson/IBM@IBMUS
Phone: 914-784-7253
Internal Address: 1N-M26, Hawthorne
External Address:
 IBM
T.J. Watson Research Center,
19
Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, NY 10532 USA
Publications:
Also see group papers
 Jason
B. Ellis, Amy S. Bruckman. "Encouraging
Attitudinal Change through Online Oral History." Proceedings
of ICLS 2002, International Conference of the Learning Sciences, Seattle,
WA, October 23-26, 2002.
Jason
B. Ellis, Amy S. Bruckman. "Different
Achievement in Online Oral History." Proceedings of CSCL 2002
Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, Boulder, CO,
January 7-11, 2002.
Jason
B. Ellis, Amy S. Bruckman. "What
Do Kids Learn from Adults Online? Examining Student-Elder Discourse in
Palaver Tree." Electronic Proceedings of CSCL 2002 Conference
on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, Boulder, CO, January 7-11,
2002.
Jason
B. Ellis, Amy S. Bruckman. "Designing
Palaver Tree Online: Supporting Social Roles in a Community of Oral History."
Proceedings of ACM CHI 2001
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, March-April 2001, pp.
474-481.
Jason
B. Ellis, Amy S. Bruckman, D. Kevin O'Neill, Nancy B. Songer. "Scaling
Educational Online Communities: The Role of Volunteerism in Doing Large-Scale
Educational Projects Online." Panel discussion in Proceedings
of ICLS 2000, International Conference of the Learning Sciences, Ann Arbor,
MI, June 2000, pp. 362-365.
Jason
B. Ellis, Amy S. Bruckman, Robert C. Satterwhite. "Children
and Elders Sharing Stories: Lessons from Two Online Oral History Projects."
Proceedings of CSCL 99 Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative
Learning, Stanford, CA, December 1999, pp. 151-158.
Jason
B. Ellis. "Kids and Elders Working Together in an Online Community
of History." Doctoral consortium paper in Proceedings of CSCL 99
Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, Stanford, CA,
December 1999, pp. 7-8.
Jason
B. Ellis, Amy Bruckman. "Building
a Community of History." Proceedings of ACM CHI 99 Conference
on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts, May 1999, pp.
37-38.
Elizabeth
D. Mynatt, Maribeth Back, Roy Want, Michael Baer, Jason B. Ellis. "Designing
Audio Aura." Proceedings of ACM CHI 98 Conference on Human Factors
in Computing Systems, April 1998, pp. 566-573.
Jason
B. Ellis, Anne Rose, Catherine Plaisant. "Putting
Visualization to Work: ProgramFinder for Youth Placement." Proceedings
of ACM CHI 97 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, March
1997, pp. 502-509.
Website:
Jason's website
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