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Professor of New Media
Phone: 812-877-8107
E-mail: Patricia.Carlson@Rose-Hulman.edu
Degrees:
- A.B., College of William & Mary
- M.A., Duke University
- Ph.D., Duke University
Areas of Specialization:
- Proposal Writing
- New tools for knowledge workers
- HyperMedia applications
- Systems documentation
- Document Design/Instructional Technologies
- Risk Communication
Research Activities:
- Empirical Evaluation of Advanced Media in the workplace
- Online documentation
- Writing for the computer industry (user support, teaching materials, documentation libraries)
- Writing and problem solving
- Invention, creativity and writing
- Scientific writing/science journalism
- Technology transfer
- Information Technology and Organizational Change
Industrial Experience:
- NSF Summer Faculty Fellowship, Army Research Laboratory, Corporate Information and Enterprise Computing, Aberdeen, MD. Summer 1998.
- Program Manager - Advanced Educational Technologies, Brooks AFB, Armstrong Laboratory (1990-1995) Instructional Design and Adaptive Pedagogies for Computer-Supported Multimedia
- NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center and NASA/Langley Research Center (1979-1989), Documentation libraries and user support for large computer systems, seminars in document design, human factors in graphical user interfaces, online documentation, profiles of user communities
- Republic Management Service, Washington, D.C., (1984) - senior documentation specialist
- International Centers for Telecommunications Technology, Terre Haute, (1989) - senior associate, Center for Advanced Media Studies, research in computer-oriented document engineering (CODE)
- Human Resources Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB (1987 and 1988): Hypertext, knowledge engineering, and expert systems
- National Research Senior Fellow, Brooks AFB (1989), Intelligent tutor system (ITS), computer-aided composition of engineering reports. Hypertext and neural networks.