Doctoral Colloquium

Instructions to Presenters

You are asked to make a 10 minute presentation. Please focus your presentation on conveying four key ideas: what you are doing, why it is interesting, how you are doing it, and the major hurdles you are facing. We are hoping to have a very thought-provoking, interactive day, so be as provocative as possible!

We encourage the use of Powerpoint presentations. However, please use them to provide visual emphasis for key ideas rather than reading from them directly.

Your poster should be a maximum of 3 feet wide and 4 feet high. Push pins and tape will be provided. Note that there will NOT be tables. If you need Internet access, you must e-mail ess2007posters-at- umich -dot- edu  to make arrangements ahead of time.

Posters will be displayed throughout the day on Monday October 8th, and you are asked to be available from 10.30 - 11.00 a.m. and 3:00 - 3:30 p.m., to meet with delegates interested in your poster.

The ACM magazine Crossroads has a useful resource on putting together a research poster .

Doctoral Colloquium Schedule

(Updated September 24, 2007)

Details and times of individual papers are shown below this time schedule. Each of the three sessions will feature ten-minute paper presentations and will close with ten minutes of general discussion.

• Sunday, October 7:
  • 8:30 - 9:00 a.m.: Coffee and Breakfast
  • 9:00 - 9:15 a.m.: Welcoming Remarks: Mark Birkin and Julia Lane
  • 9:15 - 9:45 a.m.: Opening Keynote: Mike Batty
  • 9:45 - 11:00 a.m.: Simulation and Visualization
  • 10:45 - 11:00 a.m.: Coffee
  • 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.: Virtual Collaboration
  • 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.: Lunch
  • 1:30 - 3:00 p.m.: Social Shaping
  • 3:00 - 3:15 p.m.: Coffee
  • 3:15 - 3:45 p.m.: Closing Keynote: Nosh Contractor
  • 3:45 - 4:30 p.m.: Closing Comments and Synthesis: Mark Birkin and Julia Lane
• Monday, October 8:
  • Conference technical program all day
  • Posters on display all day with an interactive hour before the Conference Dinner
• Tuesday, October 9:
  • Conference technical program until noon
  • Posters on display all morning
  • Colloquium lunch to share feedback

Accepted Papers by Theme

Simulation and Visualization

• 9:45: Belinda Wu (University of Leeds)  Planning for the next generation: developing a generic social science model for UK planning in the next 10-15 years
   Full Paper
  
  
• 9:55: Edaordo Pignotti (University of Aberdeen)  Semantic Workflow Management
   Full Paper
  
  
• 10:05: Daragh Sibley (George Mason University)  Large scale modelling of lexical processes
   Full Paper
  
  
• 10:15: Anna Barford (University of Sheffield)  Communicating World Data?
   Full Paper
  
  
• 10:25: Christian Castle (University College London)  Agent-Based Modelling of Pedestrian Evacuation: A Study of London’s King’s Cross Underground Station
   Full Paper
  
  

Virtual Collaboration

• 11:00: Grace de la Flor (University of Oxford)  Embedding e-Science Applications
   Full Paper
  
  
• 11:10: Saira N. Haque (Syracuse University) Coordinating Across Boundaries: Improving Patient Care Teams
   Full Paper
  
  
• 11:20: Marianne Promberger (University of Pennsylvania) An online tutorial teaching social science researchers how to use a simple free tool for conducting research online
   Full Paper
  
  
• 11:30: Daphna Schwarts-Asher (Tel Aviv University)  Improving the Performance of Virtual Teams through Team Structure
   Full Paper
  
  
• 11:40: Jennifer Thom-Santelli (Cornell) Expressing Territoriality within Distributed Communities
  Full Paper
  
  
• 11:50: David Huffaker (Northwestern) Leadership and Diffusion in Online Communities: Features of Language Use, Identity and Social Structure
   Full Paper
  
  
• 12:00: Sadat Shami (Cornell University) Mild Positive Affect and Computer Mediated Group Decision Making
   Full Paper
  
  

Social Shaping

• 1:30: Theresa Heyd (Heinrich Heine University, Dusseldorf)  Form and functional characteristics of e-mail hoaxes: A genre study
   Full Paper
  
  
• 1:40: Zack Kertcher (University of Chicago)  Following the Grid Path
   Full Paper
  
  
• 1:50: Emmanouil Tranos (Newcastle)  The geography of the internet infrastructure in Europe
   Full Paper
  
  
• 2:00: Ramsi Watkins (Arizona State University)  The Belly Dancer Project: A Radical Inquiry into the Self
   Full Paper
  
  
• 2:10: Heshan Sun (Syracuse University) How does IT Matter? A New Construct of Adaptive IT Use
   Full Paper
  
  
• 2:20: Cory Knobel (University of Michigan) NSFNET to Cyberinfrastructure: Polity, Path Dependence, and Scientific Practice
   Full Paper
  
  
• 2:30: Tobias Escher (Oxford) Researching the Geography of Social Relations: Analysis of the Spatial Distribution of Friendship Networks on Social Network Sites
   Full Paper
  
  
• 2:40: Amy Voida (Georgia Tech) Influences on the Interpretation of Computer-Mediated Messaging Systems
   Full Paper
  
  

About the Doctoral Colloquium

The Doctoral Colloquium at the Third International e-Social Science Conference will bring together 20 dissertation stage doctoral students in the field of e-social science for one day of talks and interaction with faculty members selected from among distinguished social science researchers. The students will represent a variety of subfields and will include mainstream social scientists as well as those doing e-social science.

We expect participants to give a talk at the Colloquium, prepare a poster for display at the conference, and write a two-page description of their work (including their photograph), to be bound into a booklet available to everyone at the conference.

The Colloquium formally convenes Sunday, October 7 and will be preceded by a Saturday evening dinner for participants.

Accepted students will have their conference registration, travel, and hotel paid for the entire conference. Dinner and meals on Sunday are also covered.

Doctoral Colloquium Co-Chairs

Doctoral Colloquium co-chairs for e-Social Science 2007 are

• Mark Birkin
  Chair, Centre for Spatial Analysis and Policy
  School of Geography
  University of Leeds
• Julia Lane
  Senior Vice President
  Director, Economics, Labor and Population
  National Opinion Research Center
  University of Chicago

Goals of the Doctoral Colloquium

The goals of the Colloquium are as follows:

1. Build a cohort group of new researchers who will then have a network of colleagues spread out across the world.
2. Guide the work of the new researchers by having experts in e-social science give advice.
3. Provide encouragement and support for the selection of e-social science research topics.
4. Make it possible for promising new entrants in the field to attend the Conference.
5. Illustrate the interrelationship and diversity of the field of e-social science.
6. Make the new entrants’ experience at the Conference an enjoyable and rewarding experience, encouraging them to return and submit papers, panels, posters, etc. to future conferences.