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David Hendry

| Teaching | Research | Contact |      fossil: www.dhendry.org

I'm an assistant professor in the Information School at the University of Washington. My research and teaching interests are in Human-Computer Interaction, especially in these areas:

• Information management
• Search
• End-user programming
• Methods for user-centered design.

Papers | Short CV — includes links to papers | Long CV

I'm especially interested in how designers build up information handling infrastructure to enfranchise stakeholders and to promote productivity and creativity. I call this perspective Design Informatics — Fact Sheet.

TEACHING

• IMT-540: Design Methods for Interaction and Systems

• INSC-540: User-Centered Information System Design

Teaching Methods

• My top ten methods for better learning.

B. S. Informatics

• INFO-440: Information Systems Design | Syllabus (pdf)
  Methods and methodologis for user-centered design (Last taught: Autumn, 2003)

• INFO-340: Database Management and Information Retrieval | Syllabus (pdf)
  Introduction to both relational databases and information retrieval systems (Winter 2007)

• INFO-445: Advanced Database Design, Management, and Maintenance | Syllabus (pdf)
  Study of data models for data representation, storage, and access (Spring 2007)

• INFO-424: Information Visualization and Aesthetics | Syllabus (pdf)
  Introduction to principles and techniques of Information Visualization (Autumn 2005)

Masters of Science in Information Management

• IMT-540: Information Systems, Architectures, and Retrieval | Syllabus (pdf)
  Introduction to Information Systems for students of Masters of Science in Information Management (Winter 2005, taught with Efthimis Efthimiadis)

• IMT-540: Design Methods for Interaction and Systems | Syllabus (pdf)
  Introduction to user-centered design (Autumn 2006)

Masters of Library and Information Science

• LIS-542: Database Applications | Syllabus (pdf)
  Introduction to relational database design and implementation (Autumn 2006)

Ph.D. in Information Science

• INSC-540: User-Centered Information System Design | Syllabus (pdf)
  Graduate seminar class on the foundations of user-centered design (Autumn 2005)

• INSC-598: Theories and Practice of Design for Information Systems | Syllabus (pdf)
  Graduate course on 'design thinking' for students (Winter 2005, taught with Batya Friedman)
  Syllabus and activities available at Human-Centered Computing Digital Library

Teaching Examples

I like teaching with projects:

• Hendry, D. G. (2007). History Places: A case study for relational database and information retrieval system design. ACM Journal on Educational Resources in Computing, 7(1), Article 3. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145.1227846.1227849 | Local copy

• For learning about Relational and Information Retrieval system design
  History Places | Social Bookmarking Project

• For exploring the problem of visualizing archeology data
  Burton Acres

I like structuring classes around student position papers:

• Writing Exercises
  IMT-540: Design Methods for Interaction and Systems, Autumn, 2006

I like constructing classroom activities:

• Hendry, D. G. & B. Friedman (2005). Decomposing Swapping in Microsoft Word . Class activity, selected as "editor's choice" at the Human-Centric Computing Education Digital Library and shown in front page (April 07, 2006 - 10 February 02, 2007).

• Hendry, D. G. (2007). Design Informatics: Information Needs in Design. Converging on a "Science of Design" through the Synthesis of Design Methodologies, CHI 2007 Workshop. Workshop | Position Paper

• Hendry, D. G., K. E. Fisher & Jens-Eric Mai (2006). Building bridges between information behavior research and information architecture. The American Society for Information Science & Technology, 7th Annual Information Architecture Summit. March 23 - 27, Vancouver, BC. Paper | Presentation | Conference

• Hendry, D. G. (2005). Lost in translation: Towards mutual understanding. Panel presentation at ASIST'2005 Annual Meeting: Sparking Synergies: Bringing Research and Practice Together, October 28 - November 2, 2005, Charlotte, North Carolina. Presentation | Conference

  The goal of this panel presentation was to examine the difficulties associated with translating findings from Information Behavior Research for Information System Design. A call is made for mutual understanding. Only then, will translation be efficient. Thus, we must development methods that lead to outcomes that are specific and applicable to both communities.

• Hendry, D. G., Mackenzie, S., Kurth, A., Spielberg, F., and Larkin, J. (2005). Evaluating paper prototypes on the street. In CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1447-1450). New York, NY: ACM Press. Available at http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1056808.1056938 | Local Copy

• Hendry, D. G. (2004). Communication functions and the adaptation of design representations in interdisciplinary teams. In Proceedings of the 2004 conference on Designing interactive systems: processes, practices, methods, and techniques (pp. 123-132). ACM Press. Available at doi.acm.org/10.1145/1013115.1013133 | Local Copy

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Bibliography: A Lens on Information System Design

• Hendry, D. G. (2006). Sketching with conceptual metaphors to explain computational processes. In Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages/Human-Centric Computing 2006, September 4-7, 2006, Brighton, UK (pp. 95-102). IEEE Computer Society Press. http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/VLHCC.2006.44 | Local Copy

• Hendry, D. G. (2006). Workspaces for search. Journal of American Society for Information Science and Technology, 57(6), 800-802.
  10.1002/asi.20296 | Local Copy

• Hendry, D. G. & A. Carlyle (2006). Hotlist or Bibliography? A Case of Genre on the Web. In Proceedings of the 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (CD/Rom), Track 3: Digital Media: Genres of Digital Documents, January 4-7, 2006, Computer Society Press, 2006. Ten Pages. Local Copy | Digital Library

• Hendry, D. G., J. R. Jenkins & J. F. McCarthy (2006). Collaborative bibliography. Information Processing & Management, 42(3), 805-825. 10.1016/j.ipm.2005.05.007 | Local Copy

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