David W. McDonald

http://projects.ischool.washington.edu/mcdonald/
dwmc [at] u.washington.edu
Faculty
Information School

Keywords: CSCW, Digital Living, Digital Home, Wikipedia

Dr. David W. McDonald joined the faculty at The Information School at University of Washington in January 2002. His current research is focused on technology and media use in the home and collaborative issues in large-scale peer production systems. He has published research on collaborative authoring, recommendation systems, organizational memory, and public use of large screen displays. His research interests span Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). David earned his Ph.D. in Information and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. At UC Irvine he was part of the Computing, Organizations, Policy and Society (CORPS) group. David has worked at FX Palo Alto Laboratory in the Personal and Mobile technology group and at AT&T Labs.

Projects


Publications

Locating Patient Expertise in Everyday Life.
Andrea Civan, David W. McDonald, Kenton Unruh and Wanda Pratt
Conference on Supporting Group Work, 2009. Full Paper (PDF)
Using Mobile & Personal Sensing Technologies to Support Health Behavior Change in Everyday Life: Lessons Learned Using Mobile & Personal Sensing Technologies to Support Health Behavior Change in Everyday Life: Lessons Learned
Predrag Klasnja, Sunny Consolvo, David W. McDonald, James A. Landay and Wanda Pratt
Annual Conference of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2009. Full paper (PDF)
Designing for Behavior Change in Everyday Life Designing for Behavior Change in Everyday Life
Sunny Consolvo, James A. Landay and David W. McDonald
IEEE Computer, 2009. Journal Article
Goal-Setting Considerations for Persuasive Technologies that Encourage Physical Activity Goal-Setting Considerations for Persuasive Technologies that Encourage Physical Activity
Sunny Consolvo, Predrag Klasnja, David W. McDonald and James A. Landay
The International Conference on Persuasive Technology, 2009. Full Paper (PDF)
Theory-Driven Design Strategies for Technologies that Support Behavior Change in Everyday Life Theory-Driven Design Strategies for Technologies that Support Behavior Change in Everyday Life
Sunny Consolvo, David W. McDonald and James A. Landay
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2009. Full Paper (PDF) [Video]  [Video
Articulations of WikiWork: Uncovering Valued Work in Wikipedia through Barnstars Articulations of WikiWork: Uncovering Valued Work in Wikipedia through Barnstars
Travis Kriplean, Ivan Beschastnikh and David W. McDonald
Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2008. Full Paper (PDF)
    Honorable Mention
Flowers or a Robot Army? Encouraging Awareness & Activity with Personal, Mobile Displays Flowers or a Robot Army? Encouraging Awareness & Activity with Personal, Mobile Displays
Sunny Consolvo, Predrag Klasnja, David W. McDonald, Daniel Avrahami, Jon E. Froehlich, Louis LeGrand, Ryan Libby, Keith Mosher and James A. Landay
International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, 2008. Full Paper (PDF)
Activity Sensing in the Wild: A Field Trial of UbiFit Garden Activity Sensing in the Wild: A Field Trial of UbiFit Garden
Sunny Consolvo, David W. McDonald, Tammy Toscos, Mike Chen, Jon E. Froehlich, Beverly Harrison, Predrag Klasnja, Anthony LaMarca, Louis LeGrand, Ryan Libby, Ian Smith and James A. Landay
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2008. Full Paper (PDF)
Wikipedian Self-governance in Action: Motivating the Policy Lens Wikipedian Self-governance in Action: Motivating the Policy Lens
Ivan Beschastnikh, Travis Kriplean and David W. McDonald
International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, 2008. Full Paper (PDF)
    Best Paper Award
Community, Consensus, Coercion, Control: CS*W or How Policy Mediates Mass Participation Community, Consensus, Coercion, Control: CS*W or How Policy Mediates Mass Participation
Travis Kriplean, Ivan Beschastnikh, David W. McDonald and Scott A. Golder
Conference on Supporting Group Work, 2007. Full Paper (PDF)