Social Computing Group

Catalina is a Research Staff Member in the Social Computing Group at IBM’s TJ Watson Research Center. Her current work is in two seemingly unrelated areas: programmer productivity in the field of high performance computing and the use of mobile phones for information and communication purposes by users in the “developing world.” The connective thread through these and other projects she has been involved in since 2000 is an interest in how people use technology to collaboratively accomplish goals. Prior to her focus on Social and Collaborative Technologies, Catalina worked with applications based on Automatic Speech Recognition technology, kiosk applications and internet applications. Catalina holds a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Chicago, where her focus was on language acquisition and the operation of memory in language processing. She has published broadly in the areas of computer supported collaborative work, programmer productivity, automatic speech recognition applications, and human language processing.

Contact Information

Email: danis@us.ibm.com, Catalina Danis/Watson/IBM@IBMUS
Internal Address: 1N-F15, Hawthorne
External Address: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, 19 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, NY 10532 USA

Publications

Danis, C.M. and Singer, D. A.. Wiki Instance in the Enterprise: Opportunities, Concerns, and Reality. Proceedings of ACM CSCW 2008. November 8-12, 2008.

Erickson, T., Danis, C., Kellogg, W. A.,  Helander, M. E.. Assistance: The Work Practices of Human Administrative Assistants and their Implications for IT and Organizations. Proc. CSCW ’08. ACM Press, 2008. ACM SIGCHI Best of CSCW 2008 Award.

Danis, C., Thomas, J, Richards, J., Brezin, J., Swart, C., Halverson, C., Bellamy, R., Malkin, P. Towards Applying Complexity Metrics to Measure Programmer Productivity in High Performance Computing. ICSE 2008 International Conference on Software Engineering – Workshop on SE for Computational Science and Engineering, Leipzig, Germany.

Danis, C. M., Viegas, F. B., Wattenberg, M., and Kriss, J. 2008. Your Place or Mine?: Visualization as a Community Component. Proceedings of ACM CHI 2008. ACM, New York, NY, 275-284.

Ellis, J.., Wahid, S., Danis, C., Kellogg, W.A. “Task and Social Visualization in Software Development: Evaluation of a Prototype.” Proceedings of ACM CHI 2007Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. April 28-May 3, 2007. Honorable Mention – SIGCHI Best of CHI 2007 Award.

Halverson, C.A., Ellis, J.B., Danis, C., Kellogg, W.A. “Designing Task Visualizations to Support the Coordination of Work in Software Development.” Proceedings of CSCW 2006 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, November 4-8, 2006.

Ellis, J.B., Danis, C., Halverson, C., Kellogg, W.A. “Social Visualization in Software Development.” Work in Progress. Proceedings of ACM CHI 2006 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 24-27, 2006.

Danis, C. and Lee, A. Evolution of Norms in a Newly Forming Group. Proceedings of Interact 2005: Tenth IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Rome , Italy , September 2005.

Danis, C., Kellogg, W., and Lau, T., Dredze, M., Stylos, J. and Kushmerick, N. Managers’ Email: Beyond Tasks and To-Dos. CHI ’05 extended abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2005, Portland , OR , USA , April 2005.

Muller, M., Kuchinskaya, O., Minassian, S., Tang, J., Danis, C., Zhao, C., Harrison , B., and Moran, T. Shared Landmarks in Complex Coordination Environments. CHI ’05 extended abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2005, Portland , OR , USA , April 2005.

Erickson, T., Huang, W., Danis, C., and Kellogg, W. A Social Proxy for Distributed Tasks: Design and Evaluation of a Working Prototype. Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2005, Vienna, Austria, April 2004

Danis, C., Lee, A. and Karadkar, U. Function of Social Browsing in Integration into a Workplace. Proceedings of Interact 2003: Ninth IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Zurich , Switzerland , September 2003.

Thomas, J., Lee, A. and Danis, C. Enhancing Creative Design Via Software Tools. Communications of ACM, 45(10), 2002, 112-115.

Thomas, J., Danis, C., and Lee, A. Who Speaks for Wolf? Proceedings of DIAC 2002, Shaping the Network Society: Patterns for Participation, Action and Change, Seattle , WA , USA , May 2002.

Thomas, J., Lee, A. and Danis, C. Reality Check. Proceedings of DIAC 2002, Shaping the Network Society: Patterns for Participation, Action and Change, Seattle , WA , USA , May 2002.

Thomas, J., Danis, C., and Lee, A. Support Conversation at the Edges. Poster presented at DIAC 2002, Shaping the Network Society: Patterns for Participation, Action and Change, Seattle , WA , USA , May 2002.

Thomas, J., Lee, A. and Danis, C. Small successes early. Poster presented at DIAC 2002, Shaping the Network Society: Patterns for Participation, Action and Change, Seattle , WA , USA , May 2002.

Thomas, J., Danis, C., and Lee, A. Community of communities. Accepted paper but not presented at DIAC 2002, Shaping the Network Society: Patterns for Participation, Action and Change, Seattle , WA , USA , May 2002.

Danis, C. and Lee, A. Contemplating Electronic Mediation: What Makes CBOT Face-to-Face Trading Work? Poster presented at CSCW 2002, the Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, November 16-20, 2002 , New Orleans , LA , USA .

Lee, A., Danis, C., Miller, T. and Jung, Y. Fostering Social Interaction in Online Spaces. Proceedings of Interact 2001: Eight IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Tokyo , Japan , July, 2001.

Danis, C. Extending the concept of awareness to include static and dynamic person information. ACM SIGGROUP Bulletin, 21 (3), December 2000.

Danis, C. and Boies, S. Using a Technique from Graphic Designers to Develop Innovative System Designs. Symposium on Designing Interactive Systems, New York , NY , USA , August 2000.

Danis, C., Jones, L., Thompson, R. and Levy, S. Issues and Concerns in Internet based Financial Applications: An Example from an Auto Finance System. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Maui , HI , 1999.

Jones, L., Danis, C., and Boies, S. Avoiding the Mistake of Cloning: A Case for User-Centered Design Methods to Reengineer Documents. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Maui , HI , 1999.

Karat, J., Lai, J., Danis, C., & Wolf, C. (1999). Speech user interface evolution. In D. Gardner-Bonneau (Ed.), Human factors and voice interactive systems (pp. 1-35). Boston : Kluwer Academic.

Danis, C. and Karat, J. Technology-Driven Design of Speech Recognition Systems. Proceedings of the conference on Designing Interactive Systems, August 1995, Ann Arbor , MI .

Danis, C., Comerford, L., Janke, E., Davies, K., De Vries, J. and Bertrand, A. Storywriter: a speech oriented editor. Conference companion on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI ’94, Boston , MA , April 1994.

Danis, C. Methods for Formatting Text Produced with a Speech-based Editor. Proceedings of the Human Factors Society, 35th Annual Meeting, Santa Monica , CA , 1991.

Danis, C., Kanevsky, D., Daggett, G., Gopalakrishnan, P., Epstein, E., and Nahamoo, D. Strategies for Conversations Between Hearing Impaired and Hearing Individuals Mediated by an Automatic Speech Recognition System. Poster presented at Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 1991, New Orleans , LA USA , April 1991.

Kanevsky, D., Danis, C., Daggett, G., Gopalakrishnan, P., Hodgson, R., Jameson, D., and Nahamoo, D. A Communication Aid for the Hearing Impaired Based on an Automatic Speech Recognizer. European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 1990.

Danis, C. Developing Successful Speakers for and Automatic Speech Recognition System. Proceedings of the Human Factors Society 33rd Annual Meeting, 1989.

Treiman, R. and Danis, C. 1988. Short-term memory errors for spoken syllables are affected by the linguistic structure of the syllables. J. of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 14, 145-152.

Treiman, R. and Danis, C. 1988. Syllabification of intervocalic consonants. Journal of Memory and Language, 27, 87-104.

Danis, C. and Monsell, S. Phonological Codes in the Processing of Single Printed Words. Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago , IL , USA , May 1985.

Danis, C. and Levine, S. Object-intrinsic and Gravitational Rules for Comprehending “Top” and “Bottom”. Society for Research in Child Development. Toronto , Canada , April 1985.

Bradburn, N. and Danis, C. 1984. Potential Contributions of Cognitive Research to Survey Questionnaire Design. In Cognitive Aspects of Survey Methodology: Building a Bridge Between Disciplines, T. B. Jabine, M. L. Straf, J.M. Tamur and R. Tourangeau (Eds.). National Academy Press, Washington , D.C .

Danis, C. On Children’s Understanding of Relative Adjectives. Society for Research in Child Development. Boston , MA , USA , April 1981.