Rick Alterman

Title

Professor of Computer Science and of the Volen National Center for Complex Systems

Computer Science

Expertise

Computer-Supported Cooperation. Learning and technology. Cognitive engineering and modeling. Communication and discourse. Intelligent user interfaces.

Degrees

University of Texas, Austin, Ph.D.

University of California, Berkeley, B.A.

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Contact

Email:	ralterma@brandeis.edu
Phone:	781-736-2703
Office:	Volen, 212

Awards and Honors

Outstanding Student Paper Award for: Using discourse to measure the representational work of pilots during an approach briefing (2005), Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text & Discourse, Amsterdam (2005)

Courses Taught

COSI	33b	Internet and Society
COSI	111a	Topics in Computational Cognitive Science
COSI	118a	Computer-Supported Cooperation
COSI	125a	Human-Computer Interaction
COSI	215a	Advanced Topics in Computer Supported Cooperation

Scholarship

Larusson, J. and Alterman, Richard. Visualizing Student Activity in a Wiki-mediated Co-blogging Exercise.. Proc. of Proceedings of Computer Human Interaction. 2009. (forthcoming)

Alterman, Richard and Larusson, J.. Modeling Participation within a Community.. Proc. of 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. 2009.

Larusson, Johan. and Alterman, Richard. "Wiki environments for learning." Wired for Learning: An educators guide to Web 2.0. Ed. Kidd, T. and Chen, I.., 2009. 137-153.

Alterman, Richard. "Activity and Convention." Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy 27. (2008): 127-138.

Krisler, Brian & Alterman, Richard. Training towards mastery. Proc. of NordiChi. 2008.

Alterman, Richard & Larusson, J.. Technology in a Context: Enabling students to collaboratively participate at the interface of computation and social science.. Proc. of Proceedings of Computer Supported Coopertative Learning. 2007.

Alterman, Richard. "Representation, Interaction, and Intersubjectivity." Cognitive Science 35. 5 (2007): 815-841.

Larusson, J. & Alterman, Richard. Tracking online collaborative work as representational practice: Analysis and tool.. Proc. of Proceedings of the Third Communities and Technologies Conference. Springer-Verlag, 2007.

Introne, Joshua & Alterman, Richard. "Structuring Coordination to Provide Intelligent Assistance in Groupware." User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction 16. 3:4 (2006): 249-280.

Taneva, Svetlena, Alterman, Richard, and Hickey, Timothy. Collaborative Learning; Collaborative Depth. Proc. of 27th Annual Cognitive Science Society. 2005.

Alterman, Richard & Garland, A.. "Autonomous Agents that Learn to Better Coordinate." Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 8. 3 (2004): 267-301.

Alterman, Richard & Kirsh, David, ed. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003.

Feinman, Alex & Alterman, Richard. Discourse Analysis Techniques for Modeling Group Interaction.. Proc. of Ninth International Conference on User Modeling. 2003.

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