Publications
Journals
[J.3] Paul, S.A., and Morris, M.R. (2011). Sensemaking in Collaborative Web Search. In Human Computer Interaction Special Issue on Sensemaking (Special Issue Eds. Daniel Russell and Peter Pirolli). 26(1), 38-71. ([Impact factor 6.19][J.2] Paul, S.A., Reddy, M., and deFlitch, C.J. (2010). A Systematic Review of Simulation Research Investigating Emergency Department Overcrowding. Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International Special Issue on Modeling and Simulation in Healthcare, 86(8-9), 559-571. [Impact factor 0.78]
[J.1] Reddy, M., Paul, S.A., Abraham, J., McNeese, M.D., deFlitch, C.J., and Yen, J. (2009). Challenges to Effective Crisis Management: Using Information and Communication Tools to Coordinate Emergency Medical Services and Emergency Department Teams. International Journal of Medical Informatics (IJMI), 78(4), 259-269. [Impact factor 1.5] 2010 Diana Forsythe Award.
Conferences
[C.6] Paul, S.A., Hong, L., and Chi, E.H. (2011) Is Twitter a Good Place for
Asking Questions? A Characterization Study. Poster paper to be
presented at the AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2011). [C.5] Paul, S.A., and Reddy, M. (2010). Understanding Together: Sensemaking in Collaborative Information Seeking. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2010). [Acceptance rate 20%]. Best Paper Nominee
[C.4] Paul, S.A., and Morris, M.R. (2009). CoSense: Enhancing Sensemaking for Collaborative Web Search. In Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2009), Boston, MA. [Acceptance rate 24%]. Best Paper Nominee
[C.3] Paul, S.A., Reddy, M. and deFlitch, C.J. (2008). The Usefulness of Information and Communication Tools in Crisis Response. In Proceedings of the Fall Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA 2008), Washington, DC. [Acceptance rate 20%]
[C.2] Paul, S.A., Reddy, M., and deFlitch, C.J. (2008). Information and Communication Tools as Aids to Collaborative Sensemaking. In Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2008) Extended Abstracts, Florence, Italy. [Acceptance rate 38%]
[W.11] Paul, S.A., Hong, L., and Chi, E.H. (2011). What is a
Question? Crowdsourcing Tweet Categorization. Position paper to be
presented at the CHI 2011
workshop on Crowdsourcing and Human
Computation: Systems, Studies and Platforms.[W.10] Sarcevic, A., Paul, S.A., Hilligoss, B., Scupelli, P. (2011). Assessing the Practical Benefits of Healthcare Research. Panel at iconference 2011, Seattle, WA.
[W.9] Paul, S.A. and Reddy, M. (2010) A Framework for Sensemaking in Collaborative Information Seeking. Position paper at the 2nd International Workshop on Collaborative Information Seeking at CSCW 2010 , Savannah, GA.
[W.8] Paul, S.A., Reddy, M., Jansen, B.J., and Foster, J. (2009). Workshop proposal for the Collaborative Information Behavior workshop at GROUP 2009, Sanibel Island, FL.
[W.7] Bernstein, M., Andre, P., Luther, K, Solovey, E.T., Poole, E.S., Paul, S.A., Kane, S.K., and Grudin, J. (2009). CHIstory. In the CHI 2009 Video Showcase. Golden Mouse Award for the Best Entertaining Video.
[W.6] Paul, S.A., and Morris, M.R. (2009). Understanding and Supporting Sensemaking in Collaborative Web Search. Position paper at the CHI 2009 workshop on Sensemaking, Boston, MA. [Acceptance rate 66%].
[W.5] Paul, S.A., Reddy, M., and deFlitch, C.J. (2008). Collaborative Sensemaking: A Field-study in an Emergency Department. Position paper at the CHI 2008 workshop on Sensemaking, Florence, Italy. [Acceptance rate 50%]
[W.4] Paul, S.A. (2008). Supporting Collaborative Sensemaking in the Emergency Department. Poster presented at the Third Annual iConference 2008, Los Angeles, CA.
[W.1] Zhu, S., Abraham, J.,
[N.3] Paul, S.A. (2007) Emergency Response Information Systems: Emerging Trends and Technologies. American Medical Informatics Association Student Working Group News, 4(3), 4-6. Available at http://www.amia.org/mbrcenter/wg/st/news.asp (July 2007 issue)
[N.1] Mitra, P., Purao, S., Bagby J.W., Umapathy, K., and
Presentations
2011Studying Collaborative Information Seeking in Hospitals. Panel presentation at the iConference11 panel: 'Assessing the Practical Impacts of Healthcare Research'. Seattle, WA.
2010
Collaborative Information Seeking and Sensemaking. Invited talk at the USER group seminar at IBM, Almaden.
Understanding Together: Sensemaking in Collaborative Information Seeking. Full-paper presented at CSCW 2010, Savannah, GA.
Towards a Model of Collaborative Sensemaking. Presentation of intern project in the Visualization in Business and Entertainment group at Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA.
2009
CoSense: Enhancing Sensemaking for Collaborative Web Search. Full-paper presented at CHI '09, Boston, MA.
Understanding and Supporting Sensemaking for Collaborative Web Search. Presented at the Sensemaking workshop at CHI '09, Boston, MA.
Being Social on the Internet. Presentation on social media at the IST 440W course on IST Integration taught by Shaun Knight.
Understanding Together: Collaborative Sensemaking in Emergency Care. Presented at the 4th Annual IST Graduate Symposium. Penn State University, University Park, PA.
2008
The Usefulness of Information and Communication Technologies for Crisis Response. Presented at AMIA '08, Washington, D.C.
CoSense: Collaborative Sensemaking Using SearchTogether. Presented at the HCI Intern Lunch Talks, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA.
Collaborative Sensemaking: A Field Study in an Emergency Department. Presented at the Sensemaking workshop at CHI 2008, Florence, Italy.
2007
Collaborative Sensemaking: A Field Study in an Emergency Department. Presented in IST 525 course on Computer Supported Cooperative Work taught by MaryBeth Rosson, College of IST, Penn State University, University Park, PA.