jude yew

Curriculum vitae: full pdf version

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Information, University of Michigan (degree expected Dec. 2010)
Concentration in Human-Computer Interaction

Masters of Science, Information, University of Michigan (2005)
Concentration in Human-Computer Interaction

Diploma in Education, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University (1998)
Specialization in the Teaching of Drama and Performance

Bachelors of Arts (Hons.), English Literature, Nanyang Technological University (1998)
Majors in English Literature and Theater Studies

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Research Assistant, School of Information University of Michigan (2007-present)

Research Intern, Internet Experiences Group, Yahoo! Research (2010)
Project with Ayman Shamma & Elizabeth Churchill using the social affordances of online video sharing for content classification.

Visiting Student Researcher, Participatory Media Lab, National University of Singapore (2008)
Collaborated with PI of lab, Giorgos Cheliotis, on a Social Network Analysis of an online remixing community - ccMixter

Research Assistant, College of Engineering, University of Michigan (2006)
Devised and conducted research experiences for underrepresented undergraduates on behalf of the George E. Brown Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Research (NEESR)

User Experience Research Intern, TechSmith Coroporation, MI (2005)
Conducted User Experience research for the next generation of SnagIt and Morae.

Research Assistant, Science of Collaboratories project, University of Michigan (2004-2005)
Conducted and analyzed interviews in project that sought to understand the technological and behavioral principles that enable distributed scientific collaborations to take place..

AWARDS

National Science Foundation - East Asian Pacific Summer Institute (EAPSI) fellowship (2008)
Fellowship awarded to conduct research with the Communications and New Media Dept., National University of Singapore.
Proposal: Social Performances - Understanding the motivations for online participatory behavior

Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies (ICOS) Small grants (2008)
Proposal: Socio-political group blogging in Singapore

Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant -Pre-candidacy Award, University of Michigan (2007)
Pre-candidacy Research Award to conduct field study of Political blogging in Singapore.

Rackham Merit Fellowship, University of Michigan (2005)
3-year merit based fellowship for underrepresented minority doctoral students..

PUBLICATIONS

Dawood, R., Yew, J., & Jackson, S. J. (2010). "Location Aware Applications to Support Mobile Food Vendors in the Developing World." In Proc. of the 28th international conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems (CHI 2010). Atlanta, GA. Cheliotis, G. & Yew, J. (2009). "An Analysis of the Social Structure of Remix Culture". In Proc. Fourth International Conference on Communities and Technologies 2009, Penn. State Univ., USA, June 2009. Springer Verlag, Berlin.

Bos, N.D., Zimmerman, A., Olson, J., Yew, J., Yerkie, J., Dahl, E. & Olson, G. (2008). From Shared Databases to Communities of Practice: a taxonomy of Collaboratories, in Olson, G.M., Zimmerman, A., and Bos, N., (Eds.) Scientific Collaboration on the Internet. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Hemphill, L. and Yew, J. (2007). "Twiki and WetPaint: Two wikis in academic environments." Proceedings of the 2007 International ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work, Sanibel Island, FL.

Yew, J. , Gibson, F. P., & Teasley, S. (2007). "Learning by tagging: The role of social tagging in group knowledge formation". Proc. of the Workshop " BOF - Between Ontologies and Folksonomies" held in conjunction with the International Conference Communities and Technologies 2007, Michigan State University 28 June 2007, Michigan, USA, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, ISSN 1613-0073

Bos, N., Zimmerman, A., Olson, J., Yew, J., Yerkie, J., Dahl, E., et. al. (2007). From shared databases to communities of practice: A taxonomy of collaboratories. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 12(2), article 16.

Yew, J., J., Gibson, F. & Teasley, S. (2006). "Learning by Tagging: The Role of Social Tagging in Group Knowledge Formation". In, MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching, Vol. 2, No. 4, December 2006.

Yew, J., Gibson, F. & Teasley, S. (2006). "Learning by tagging: Group knowledge formation in a self-organizing learning community". In, Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Learning sciences (Bloomington, Indiana, June 27 - July 01, 2006). International Conference on Learning Sciences. International Society of the Learning Sciences, 1010-1011.

Yew, J. (2005). "Collaborative Narratives: Collaborative Learning in the Blogosphere". In, C. K. Looi, D. Jonassen & M. Ikeda (Eds.) , Towards Sustainable and Scalable Educational Innovations Informed the Learning Sciences: Sharing Good Practices of Research, Experimentation and Innovation. Volume 133, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications. (pp. 1023 – 1024). Amsterdam, NL: IOS Press.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). Savannah, GA. (2010).
Doctoral Colloquium Presentation “Social Performances: Understanding Open Sharing and Remix Culture"

ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work, Sanibel Island, Florida (2009)
Doctoral Colloquium Poster/Presentation "Social Performances: Understanding the Motivations for Online Participatory Behavior"

3rd International Conference on Communities and Technologies, Lansing, Michigan (2007)
Presentation "Learning by tagging: The Role of Social Tagging in Group Knowledge Formation", Between Ontologies and Folksonomies Workshop

Connections 2007, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (2007)
Presentation "Blogging and the challenge of technological and social infrastructure in Singapore"

International Conference on the Learning Sciences, Bloomington, Indiana (2006)
Poster presentation "Learning by Tagging: Group Knowledge Formation in a Self-organizing Learning Community"

International Conference on Computers in Education, Singapore (2005)
Doctoral Student Consortium presentation "Collaborative Narratives: Collaborative Learning in the Blogosphere"

National Arts Council, Singapore - Arts Elective Program Drama Conference (2001)
Conducted workshop "The use of Role Play in Problem-Based Learning"

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Graduate Student Instructor, School of Information, University of Michigan (Fall 2007)
Course title: Information in Social Systems: Collections, Flows and Processing
Faculty Instructors: Michael D. Cohen, Jeff Mackie-Mason & Gary M. Olson

Graduate Student Instructor, School of Information, University of Michigan (Fall 2006)
Course title: Collections and Social Systems
Faculty Instructors: Michael D. Cohen & Paul Edwards

Lecturer/Tutor, Catholic Junior College, Singapore (1998 - 2003)
General Paper and English Literature

SERVICE ACTIVITIES

Co-president, School of Information Doctoral Student Organization 2007 - 2008

Student coordinator, Sensemaking Interdisciplinary Forum 2006 - present

Journal Reviewer
MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) - JOLT (Journal of Online Learning and Teaching) 2007

Conference Submission Reviewer
Computer Human Interaction (CHI) 2006, 2007, 2008
Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) 2008
International Conference on the Learning Sciences (ICLS) 2007, 2008
World Wide Web International Conference (WWW) 2008

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Secretary, Michigan Ohio Computer Human Interaction (MOCHI) 2004 -2008

Member, Association for Computing Machinery (SIGCHI) 2004 - present

Member, American Sociological Association (ASA) 2008