Ronald M. Baecker: Selected Publications

These publications may be cited or briefly quoted in line with the usual academic conventions. You may also download one for your own personal use. The numbering system corresponds to Professor Baecker's Curriculum Vitae.

Books
Articles in Books
Papers in Refereed Journals
Full Papers in Refereed Conference Proceedings
Refereed Conference Short Papers, Posters, and Demonstrations
Invited and Non-Refereed Publications
Films and Videotapes
Theses, Technical Reports and Unpublished Papers and Talks
Published Abstracts
Other Films and Videos
Articles And Interviews
Patents

Books

[A4] Baecker, R.M., Grudin, J., Buxton, W., and Greenberg, S. (1995). Readings in Human Computer Interaction: Toward the Year 2000, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 950 pages, including 190 pages of original material
[A3] Baecker, R.M. (1993). Readings in Groupware and Computer Supported Cooperation Work: Software to Facilitate Human-Human Collaboration, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 882 pages, including 60 pages of original interpretive material
[A2] Baecker, R.M. and Marcus, A. (1990). Human Factors and Typography for More Readable Programs, ACM Press, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 346 pages
[A1] Baecker, R.M. and Buxton, W. (1987). Readings in Human Computer Interaction: A Multidisciplinary Approach, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 738 pp. Including 150 pp. of original interpretive material.

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Articles in Books

[B17] Birnholtz, J., Baecker, R.M., Laughton, S., Mak, C., Causey, R., Ranking, K., and Wolf, P. (2010 To appear). Building Bridges: Combining Webcasting and Videoconferencing in a Multi-campus University Course. In Magoulas, G.D. (Ed), E-Infrastructures and Technologies for Lifelong Learning: Next Generation Environments, IGI Global.
[B16] Massimi, M. and Baecker, R.M., An Empirical Study of Seniors’ Perceptions of Mobile Phones as Memory Aids, Technology and Aging, IOS Press, (2008)
[B15] Baecker, R.M. (2008). Man-Computer Symbiosis by J.C.R.Licklider. In Erickson, T. and McDonald, D. (Eds.), HCI Remixed, MIT Press, in press
[B14] Cohene, T., Baecker, R.M., Marziali, E., and Mindy, S. (2007). Memories of a Life: A Design Case Study for Alzheimer's Disease. In Lazar, J. (Ed.), Universal Usability, John Wiley & Sons, 357-387
[B13] Wu, M., Baecker, R.M., and Richards, B. (2007). Designing a Cognitive Aid for and with People who have Anterograde Amnesis. In Lazar, J. (Ed.), Universal Usability, John Wiley & Sons, 317-356
[B12] Baecker, R.M., Fono, D., and Wolf, P. (2007). Towards a Video Collaboratory. In Goldman, R., Pea, R., Barron, B., and Derry, S. (Eds.), Video Research in the Learning Sciences, Laurence Erlbaum, 461-478
[B11] Zijdemans, A., Moore, G., and Baecker, R.M. (2006). ePresence Interactive Media and Webforum 2001: An Accidental Case Study on the Use of Webcasting as a VLE for Early Child Development. In Weiss, J., Nolan, J., and Trifonas, P. (Eds.), International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments, Kluwer, 1395-1428
[B9] Baecker, R.M. and Posner, I. (1999). Children as Digital Motion Picture Authors. In Druin, A. (Ed.), The Design of Children's Technology, Morgan Kaufman, 169-200
[B8] Baecker, R.M. (1998). The Early History of Software Visualization. In Stasko, J., Domingue, J., Brown, M., and Price, B. (Eds.), Software Visualization: Programming as a Multimedia Experience. MIT Press, 29-34
[B7] Baecker, R.M. (1998). Sorting Out Sorting: A Case Study of Software Visualization for Teaching Computer Science. In Stasko, J., Domingue, J., Brown, M., and Price, B. (Eds.), Software Visualization: Programming as a Multimedia Experience. MIT Press, 369-381
[B6] Baecker, R.M. and Marcus, A. (1998). Printing and Publishing C Programs. In Stasko, J., Domingue, J., Brown, M., and Price, B. (Eds.), Software Visualization: Programming as a Multimedia Experience. MIT Press, 45-61
[B5] Price, B., Baecker, R.M., and Small, I. (1998). An Introduction to Software Visualization. In Stasko, J., Domingue, J., Brown, M., and Price, B. (Eds.), Software Visualization: Programming as a Multimedia Experience. MIT Press, 3-27
[B4] Posner, I.R., Mitchell, A., and Baecker, R.M.(1996). Learning to Write Together. Appears in Computer Supported Cooperative Writing (R. Rada, Editor), Academic Press, 161-185
[B3] Baecker, R.M., and Small, I.S. (1990). Animation at the Interface. Appears in The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design B. Laurel, (Ed.), Addison-Wesley, 251-267
[B1] Baecker, R.M. (1974). GENESYS -- Interactive Computer-Mediated Animation. Appears in Computer Animation (John Halas, Editor), Hastings House, New York, 97-115.

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Papers in Refereed Journals

[C17] Smith, K.L., Crete-Nishihata, M., Damianakis, T., Baecker, R.M., and Marziali, E. (2009). Multimedia Biographies: A Reminiscence and Social Stimulus Tool for Persons with Cognitive Impairment. Journal of Technology in Human Services 27, 287-306.
[C16] Damianakis, T., Crete-Nishihata, M., Smith, K.L., Baecker, R.M., and Marziali, E. (2009 in press). The Psychosocial Impacts of Multipmedia Biographies on Persons with Cognitive Impairments, The Gerontologist doi: 10.1093/geront/gnp104, advanced access published online 10 July 2009.
[C15] Massimi, M., Berry, E., Browne, G., Smyth, G., Watson, P., and Baecker, R.M. (2008). An Exploratory Case Study of the Impact of Ambient Biographical Displays on Identity in a Patient with Alzheimer’s Disease, Neuropsychological Rehabilitation 18(5-6), 742-765.
[C14] McGrenere, J., Baecker, R.M., and Booth, K.S. (2007). A Field Evaluation of an Adaptable Two-Interface Design for Feature-Rich Software, ACM Transactions on CHI, 2007, 1-43
[C13] Baecker, R.M., DiGiano, C., and Marcus, A. (1997). Software Visualization for Debugging. Communications of the ACM 40(4), April, 44-54
[C12] Price, B.A., Baecker, R.M., and Small, I.S. (1993). A Principled Taxonomy of Software Visualization. Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, 4(3), 211-266
[C11] Baecker, R.M., Miller, D., and Reeves, W. (1981). Towards a Laboratory Instrument for Motion Analysis, Computer Graphics, Vol. 15, No. 2, August, pp. 191-197
[C6] Baecker, R.M. (1982). Sizing and Positioning Rectangles, ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol 1, No. 2, April, pp. 184-185
[C4] Baecker, R.M., Hauer, E., and Bunt, P.D. (1977). Computer Animated Simulation of Taxi Dispatching Strategies, Transportation Research Record 657, Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., pp. 14-19
[C3] Baecker, R.M. (1976). A Conversational Extensible System for the Animation of Shaded Images, Computer Graphics, Vol. 10, No. 2, Summer, pp. 32-39
[C2] Baecker, R.M. (1975). and Horsley, T., Computer-Animated Simulation Models: A Tool for Transportation Planning, Transportation Research Record 557, Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., pp. 33-44
[C1] Baecker, R.M. (1974). A Study of Automated Information Processing Systems in Drug Reaction Surveillance and Reaction Prevention, Computers and Biomedical Research, Vol. 7, No. 5, October, pp. 457-488.

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Full Papers in Refereed Conference Proceedings

[D69] Massimi, M. and Baecker, R.M. (2010, to appear). A Death in the Family: Opportunities for Designing Technologies for Bereaved, Proc. ACM SIGCHI 2010.
[D68] Blume, L., Baecker, R.M., Collins, C., and Donohue, A. (2009). A "Communication Skills for Computer Scientists" course, Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE). Paris, July 2009, 65-69.
[D67] Wu, M., Birnholtz, J., Baecker, R.M., Richards, B., and Massimi, M. (2008). Collaborating to Remember: A Distributed Cognition Account of Families Coping with Memory Impairments, Proc. ACM SIGCHI 2008, 825-834.
[D66] Munteanu, C., Baecker, R.M., and Penn, G. (2008). Collaborative Editing for Improved Usefulness and Usability of Transcript-Enhanced Webcasts, Proc. ACM SIGCHI 2008, 373-382.
[D65] Massimi, M., Baecker, Ronald M., and Wu, M. (2007). Using Participatory Activities with Seniors to Critique, Build, and Evaluate Mobile Phones, Proc. Ninth International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, Tempe Arizona, October 2007, 155-162.
[D64] Munteanu, C., Penn, G., and Baecker, R.M. (2007). Web-Based Language Modelling for Automatic Lecture Transcription. Proceedings of the Tenth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology - EuroSpeech / Eighth INTERSPEECH, Antwerp, Belgium, August 2007.
[D63] Baecker, R.M., Birnholtz, J.M., Causey, R., & Laughton, S. (2007). Webcasting Made Interactive: Integrating Real-time Videoconferencing in Distributed Learning Spaces. Proc. HCI International 2007: Human Interface and the Management of Information - Part II, Beijing, P.R. China, Springer, 269-278.
[D62] Baecker, R.M., Fono, D., Blume, L., & Collins, C. (2007). Webcasting Made Interactive: Persistent Chat for Text Dialogue During and About Learning Events. Proc. HCI International 2007: Human Interface and the Management of Information - Part II, Beijing, P.R. China, Springer, 260-268.
[D61] Baecker, R.M., Marziali, E., Chatland, S., Easley, K., Crete, M., and Yeung, M. (2007). Multimedia Biographies for Individuals with Alzheimer's Disease and Their Families, Proc. 2nd International Conference on Technology and Aging, June 2007.
[D60] Baecker, R.M. (2007). A Taxonomy of Technology for Cognition, Proc. 2nd International Conference on Technology and Aging, June 2007. [view poster]
[D59] Munteanu, C., Penn, G., Baecker, R., Penn, G., and Zhang, Yuecheng (2006). Automatic Speech Recognition for Webcasts: How Good is Good Enough and What to Do When It Isn't, Proc. Int'l. Conference on Multimodal Interfaces ICMI 2006, Banff, Alberta, November 2006, 39-42.
[D58] Tohidi, M., Buxton, W., Baecker, R.M., and Sellen, A. (2006). User Sketches: A Quick, Inexpensive, and Effective Way to Elicit More Reflective User Feedback, Proc. NordiCHI 2006, Oslo, Norway, October 2006, 105-114.
[D57] Munteanu, C., Baecker, R., Penn, G., Toms, E., and James, D. (2006). Measuring the Acceptable Word Error Rate of Machine-Generated Webcast Transcripts, Proc. Ninth Intl. Conference on Spoken Language Processing - INTERSPEECH / ICSLP, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 2006.
[D56] Munteanu, C., Baecker, R.M., Penn, G., Toms, El. and James, D. (2006). The Effect of Speech Recognition Accuracy on the Usefulness and Usability of Webcast Archives, Proc. ACM SIGCHI 2006, Montreal, P.Q. (Best Paper Nomination)
[D55] Tohidi, M., Buxton, W., Baecker, R.M., and Sellen, A. (2006). Getting the Right Design and the Design Right: Testing Many is Better than One, Proc. ACM SIGCHI 2006, Montreal, P.Q.
[D54] Schick, R., Baecker, R.M., and Scheffel-Dunand, D. (2005). Bimodal Text and Speech Conversation During On-line Lectures, Proceedings of ED-MEDIA 2005, June 27-July 2, 2005, Montreal, P.Q., 822-829.
[D53] Toms, E.G., Dufour, C., Lewis, J. and Baecker, R.M. Assessing Tools for Use with Webcasts. Proceedings of the ACM-IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2005.
[D52] Wu, M., Baecker, R.M., and Richards, B. Participatory Design of an Orientation Aid for Amnesics. Proceedings ACM SIGCHI 2005.
[D51] Baecker, R.M., Wolf, P. and Rankin, K. (2004). The ePresence Interactive Webcasting System: Technology Overview and Current Research Issues, Proceedings of Elearn 2004.
[D50] Rankin, K., Baecker, R.M., and Wolf, P. ePresence: An Open Source Interactive Webcasting and Archiving System for eLearning. Proceedings of Elearn 2004.
[D49] Wu, M., Richards, B., and Baecker, R.M. Participatory Design with Individuals Who Have Amnesia. Proceedings of PDC 2004, 214-223.
[D48] Baecker, R.M. A Principled Design for Scalable Internet Visual Communications with Rich Media, Interactivity, and Structured Archives. Proceedings of CASCON 2003, 83-96
[D47] Reinventing the Lecture: Webcasting made Interactive. Baecker, R.M., Moore, G., Keating, D., and Zijdemans, A., Proc. HCI International 2003, June 2003, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Volume 1, 896-900.
[D46] Baecker, R.M. and Smith, E. Modularity and Hierarchical Structure in the Digital Video Lifecycle. Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2003, June 2003. 217-224.
[D45] Baecker, R.M. Showing Instead of Telling. Proceedings of ACM SIGDOC 2002, 10-16 .
[D44] McGrenere, J., Baecker, R.M., and Booth, K. An Evaluation of Multiple Interfaces: A Design Solution for Bloated Software. Proceedings of ACM SIGCHI 2002. 163-170.
[D43] Baecker, R.M., Booth, K., Jovicic, S., McGrenere, J., Moore, G. Reducing the Gap Between What Users Know and What They Need to Know. ACM Conference on Universal Usability, 2000,17-23.
[D42] Abrams, D., Baecker, R.M., and Chignell, M. Information Archiving with Bookmarks: Personal Web Space Construction and Organization. Proceedings ACM SIGCHI '98,41-48.
[D41] Long, B. and Baecker, R.M. Agora: Shaping Social Space from Information Space. Proceedings of WebNet'97, AACE, 1997
[D40] Long, B. and Baecker, R.M. A Taxonomy of Internet Communication Tools. Proceedings of WebNet'97, AACE, 1997.
[D39] Posner, I., Baecker, R.M., and Mitchell, A. Evaluating Real Users Using Real Software Performing Real Tasks, in Real Contexts. Design of Computing Systems: Proceedings of HCI International '97, Volume 2, Elsevier, 1997, 597-600.
[D38] Yiu, K., Baecker, R.M., Silver, N., and Long, B. A Time-based Interface for Electronic Mail and Task Management. Design of Computing Systems: Proceedings of HCI International '97, Volume 2, Elsevier, 1997, 19-22.
[D37] Posner, I., Baecker, R.M., and Homer, B. Children Learning Filmmaking with Multimedia Tools. Proceedings of Ed_Media'97, 1997.
[D36] Baecker, R.M., Rosenthal, A., Friedlander, N., Smith, E., and Cohen, A., A Multimedia System for Authoring Motion Pictures, Proceedings of ACM Multimedia'96, November 1996, 31-42. (Reprinted in Jaffay, K. and Zhang, H.J. Readings in Multimedia Computing and Networking. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2002, 836-847.)
[D35] Mitchell, A., Posner, I.R., and Baecker, R.M. Learning to Write Together Using Groupware. Proceedings CHI'95, 1995, 288-295.
[D33] Rosenthal, A.J., and Baecker, R.M. Multimedia for Authoring Motion Pictures.Proceedings Graphics Interface '94, 1994, 133-140.
[D32] Harrison, B., Owen, R., and Baecker, R.M. Timelines: An Interactive System for the Collection and Visualization of Temporal Data. Proceedings Graphics Interface '94, 1994, 141-148.
[D31] Baecker, R.M., Nastos, D., Posner, I.R., and Mawby, K.L. The User-Centred Iterative Design of Collaborative Writing Software. Proceedings INTERCHI '93, 1993, 399-405, 541.
[D30] Harrison, B.L., Chignell, M.H., and Baecker, R.M., Do Perceptions Match Reality? A Comparison of Objective and Subjective Measures in Video Mediated Communication, Proceedings 25th Annual Conf. Human Factors Assoc. of Canada, Hamilton, Ont., 25-28 Oct. 1992, 35-41.
[D29] Harrison, B.L., Chignell, M.H., and Baecker, R.M., Out of Site, Still in Mind? A Case Study in Video Mediated Communication, Proceedings Human Factors Society 36th Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, 12-16 October 1992, 242-246.
[D28] DiGiano, C.J., and Baecker, R.M., Program Auralization: Sound Enhancements to the Programming Environment, Proceedings Graphics Interface '92, Vancouver, B.C., 11-15 May 1992, 44-52.
[D27] Harrison, B.L., and Baecker, R.M. Designing Video Annotation and Analysis Systems. Proceedings Graphics Interface '92, 1992, 157-166.
[D26] Posner, I.R., and Baecker, R.M. How People Write Together. Proceedings 25th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Vol. IV, 1992, 127-138.
[D25] Price, B.A., Small, I. S., and Baecker, R.M., A Taxonomy of Software Visualization, Proceedings 25th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Vol. II, Jan. 7-10, 1992, 597-606.
[D22] Baecker, R.M., Small, I.S., and Mander, R. Bringing Icons to Life. Proceedings ACM SIGCHI CHI'91, 1991, 1-6.
[D21] Mantei, M.M., Baecker, R.M., Sellen, A.J., Buxton, W.A.S., Milligan, T., and Wellman, B. Experiences In the Use of a Media Space. Proceedings ACM SIGCHI CHI'91, 1991, 203-208.
[D19] Baecker, R.M. and Buchanan, J., A Programmer's Interface: A Visually Enhanced and Animated Programming Environment, Proceedings 23rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Jan. 2-5, 1990, 531-540.
[D18] Baecker, R.M., Enhancing Program Readability and Comprehensibility with Tools for Program Visualization, Proceedings 10th International Conference on Software Engineering, Singapore, April 11-15, 1988, 356-366.
[D17] Baecker, R.M. and Marcus, A., Design Principles for the Enhanced Presentation of Computer Program Source Text, Human Factors in Computing Systems, Proceedings ACM SIGCHI CHI '86, Boston, April 1986, 51-58.
[D16] Baecker, R.M. and Marcus, A., On Enhancing the Interface to the Source Code of Computer Programs, Human Factors in Computing Systems, Proceedings ACM SIGCHI CHI '83, Boston, Dec. 1983, 251-255.
[D15] Marcus, A. and Baecker, R.M., On the Graphic Design of Program Text, Proceedings Graphics Interface 82, Toronto, May 19-21, 1982, 303-311.
[D14] Herot, C.F., Brown, G.P., Carling, R.T., Friedell, M., Kramlich, D., and Baecker, R.M., An Integrated Environment for Program Visualization, Automated Tools for Information Systems Design, Proceedings IFIP Working Conference, New Orleans, USA, Jan. 26-28, 1982, H.-J. Schneider and A.I. Wasserman (Editors), North-Holland, 237-259.
[D4] Baecker, R.M., Two Systems which Produce Animated Representations of the Execution of Computer Programs, SIGCSE Bulletin, Vol. 7, No. 1, February, 1975, 158-167.
[D3] Baecker, R.M., Towards Animating Computer Programs: A First Progress Report, Proceedings Third NRC Man-Computer Communications Conference, May 30-31, 1973, 4.1-4.10.
[D2] Baecker, R.M., Picture-Driven Animation, Proceedings 1969 Spring Joint Computer Conference, May 1969, 273-288 (Reprinted in H. Freeman (Editor), Tutorial and Selected Readings in Interactive Computer Graphics, IEEE Computer Society, 1980, 332-347).

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Refereed Conference Short Papers, Posters, and Demonstrations

[E35] Baecker, R.M. (2010, to appear). Technologies for Aging Gracefully: A Systematic Design Space, Workshop on Interactive Systems in Healthcare, April 2010.
[E34] Baecker, R.M., Crete-Nishihata, M., Ptak, D., Brickman, A., Turner, G., Black, S.E., and Steinerman, J. (2009). Assessing the Cognitive and Psychosocial Impact of Two SenseCam Media Formats on Persons with MCI and Mild AD, SenseCam 2009: Clinical and Technical Advances and the Future of SenseCam Research, October 2009.
[E33] Marziali, E., Baecker, R.M., Chatland, S., Crete-Nishihata, M., Smith, K., Damianikis, T., Cohene, T., Easley, K., Yeung, M. (2009). The Psychosocial Impact of Multimedia Digital Biographies (MBs) on Persons with Cognitive Impairment, XIXth IAGG World Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics, July 2009.
[E32] Baecker, R.M., Fenwick, K., Massimi, M., Black, S., Rochon, E., and Ryan, D. (2009). Cell Phone Software to Aid Senior Citizens in Recalling Names, XIXth IAGG World Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics, July 2009.
[E31] Baecker, R.M. (2009). Technology in Support of Healthy Aging -- Innocations in the Design of Electronic Cognitive Prostheses, The Greying Nation Conference, June 2009.
[E30] Fenwick, K., Massimi, M., Baecker, R.M., Black, S., Tonon, K., Muteanu, C., Rochon, E., and Ryan, D. (2009). Cell Phone Software Aiding Name Recall, Proceedings of ACM CHI 2009, 4279-4284.
[E29] Birnholtz, J.B., Mak, C., Greenberg, S., and Baecker, R.M. (2008). Attention by Proxy? Issues in Audience Awareness for Webcasts to Distributed Groups, Proc. CHI 2008, 103-106
[E28] Baecker, R.M., Wolf, P., Rankin, K., Causey, R. (2007). ePresence Interactive Media: An Open Source eLearning Infrastructure and Web Portal for Interactive Webcasting, Videoconferencing, and Rich Media Archiving, Poster Presentation, Proc. HCI International 2007, July 2007. [view poster]
[E27] Baecker, R.M., Marziali, E., Chatland, S., Crete-Nishihata, M., Easley, K., and Yeung, M. (2007). Multimedia Biographies to Enhance AD or MCI Quality of Life. Proc. International Conference on the Prevention of Dementia, Poster, June 2007.
[E26] Marziali, E., Cohene, T., and Baecker, R.M. (2006). Alzheimer's Patient's Response to a Video Family History: A Case Study, Gerontological Society of America's 59th Annual Scientific Meeting, November 2006.
[E25] Munteanu, C., Zhang, Yuecheng, Baecker, R.M., and Penn, G. (2006). Wiki-like Editing of Imperfect Computer-generated Webcast Transcripts, Proc. CSCW2006, Conference Supplement, Nov. 2006, 83-84.
[E24] Causey, R., Birnholtz, J.B., and Baecker, R.M. (2006). Increasing Awareness of Remote Audiences in Webcasts, Proc. CSCW2006, Conference Supplement, Nov. 2006, 59-60.
[E23] Fono, D. and Baecker, R.M. (2006). Structuring and Supporting Persistent Chat Conversations, Proc. CSCW2006, Nov. 2006, 455-458.
[E22] Baecker, R.M., Rankin, K., and Wolf, P. (2006). Interactive Webcasting + Audioconferencing + Media Archiving for Medical eLearning, Proc. MedNet 2006, October 2006.
[E21] Baecker, R.M., Marziali, E., Cohene, T., Mindy, S., Ramdeen, K., and Chatland, S. (2006). Multimedia Biographies for Individuals with Alzheimers Disease and their Families, Proc. MedNet 2006, October 2006.
[E20] Baecker, R.M., Marziali, E., Ramdeen, K., and Chatland, S. (2006). Dementia Patients' Responses to Videoed Family Histories, Proc. Alzheimer Society of Canada National Conference, October 2006.
[E19] Massimi, M. and Baecker, R.M. (2006). Participatory Design Process with Older Users, Proc. Ubicomp 2006 Workshop on Future Networked Interactive Media Systems and Services for the New-Senior Communities, September 2006.
[E18] Baecker, R. (2006). Designing Electronic Memory Aids: A Research Framework, Workshop on Designing for People with Cognitive Impairments, Proc. ACM CHI 2006, Montreal, P.Q.
[E17] Baecker, R.M., Baran, M., Birnholtz, J., Chan, C., Laszlo, J., Rankin, K., Schick, R., and Wolf, P. (2006). Enhancing Interactivity in Webcasts using VoIP, Proc. ACM CHI 2006, Montreal, P.Q.
[E16] Baecker, R.M. (2005). Open Source Strategies for Educational Multimedia, Proceedings of ED-MEDIA 2005, June 27-July 2, 2005, Montreal, P.Q.
[E15] Cohene, T., Baecker, R.M., and Marziali, E. Designing Interactive Life Story Multimedia for a Family Affected by Alzheimer's Disease: A Case Study. Proceedings of ACM CHI 2005, April 2-7, 2005, Portland, OR.
[E14] Dufour, C., Toms, E.G., Lewis, J. and Baecker, R.M. User Strategies for Handling Information Tasks in Webcasts. Proceedings of ACM CHI 2005, April 2-7, 2005, Portland, OR.,1343-1346.
[E13] Dufour, C., Toms. E.G., Bartlett, J., Ferenbok, J., and Baecker, R.M. Exploring User Interaction with Digital Videos. Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2004.
[E12] Cohene, T., Baecker, R.M., and Marziali, E. The Design of Personalized Multimedia Biographies for Persons with Alzheimer's Disease. CHI 2004 Home Technologies to Keep Elders Connected Workshop 2004.
[E11] Moore, G., Baecker, R.M., Zjidemans, A., and Spero, L., The Four Faces of ePresence, Association of Internet Researchers Annual Meeting, Toronto, 16 October 2003
[E10] Baecker, R.M., Highly Interactive Webcasting with Structured Archives, Proceedings of CSCW2002, Conference Supplement, 175-176.
[E9] Baecker, R.M., Electronic Memory Prostheses. International Conference on Technology and Aging, Toronto, September 2001.
[E7] Baecker, R.M., Posner, I., Jevans, I., Homer, B., Cohen, A., and Poplar, S., A Study of Children Learning to Create Motion Pictures. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, March 1997.
[E6] Baecker, R.M., Movie Authoring and Design for Telelearning. First Annual Meeting of the Telelearning Research Network, Montreal, November 1996.
[E5] Abrams, D. and Baecker, R.M., Human Factors of a Personal Web Information Space. Conference on Designing for the Web: Empirical Studies, Microsoft, October 1996.
[E4] Cohen, A., Friedlander, N., Baecker, R., and Rosenthal, A. MAD: A Movie Authoring and Design System — Making Classroom Process Visible. Proceedings of ICLS 96 International Conference on the Learning Sciences, July 1996.
[E3] Friedlander, N., Baecker, R.M., Rosenthal, A., Smith, E., and Posner, I., MAD: A Movie Authoring and Design System, Proceedings of CHI '96, Vancouver, April 1996.
[E1] DiGiano, C.J., Baecker, R.M., and Owen, R.N., LogoMedia: A Sound-Enhanced Programming Environment for Monitoring Programming Behaviour, Proceedings of InterCHI '93, Amsterdam, May 1993, 301-302.

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Invited and Non-Refereed Publications

[F6] Rankin, K. and Baecker, R.M. (2007). ePresence Interactive Media: Evolution of an Open Source Strategy. The Open Source Business Resources, Talent First Network, http://www.osbr.ca/ojs/index.php/osbr/issue/view/36, October 2007.
[F5] Baecker, R.M. and Rankin, K. (2005). Open Source Webcasting and Media Archiving Software for E-learning, ACM eLearn Magazine, http://elearnmag.org, posted 12 October 2005.
[F4] New Paradigms for Computing in the 90's. Baecker, R.M. Proceedings Graphics Interface '91,1991, 224-229.

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Films and Videotapes

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[G4] Baecker, R.M., Glass, G., Mitchell, A., and Posner, I.R., SASSE: The Collaborative Editor, 8 minute refereed video tape presented at the 1994 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, May 1994, also published in the SIGGRAPH Video Review 97, 1994.
[G2] Sorting out Sorting. Summary (speed x12) Last Scene
Baecker, R.M., with assitance of Dave Sherman. 30 minute colour sound film, Dynamic Graphics Project, University of Toronto, 1981. (Excerpted and "reprinted" in SIGGRAPH Video Review 7, 1983.) (Distributed by Morgan Kaufmann, Publishers.)
[G1] Baecker, R.M., Tilbrook, D., and Tuori, M., NEWSWHOLE -- An Interactive Newspaper Pagination System, 10 minutes, Dynamic Graphics Project, University of Toronto, 1976, refereed and presented at Siggraph 79 (“Reprinted” in SIGGRAPH Video Review 1, 1980).

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Theses, Technical Reports, Unpublished Papers & Talks

[H8] McGrenere, J., Baecker, R., and Booth, K. Learning to Use Complex Technology: The Importance of User Interface Design. Technical Report CSRG-403, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Toronto, 1999.
[H7] Baecker, R.M. The Web of Knowledge Media Design (1997). Unpublished speech given 23 January 1997.
[H5] Baecker, R.M., Marcus, A., Arent, M., Longarini, J., Macintosh, A., and Tims, T., Enhancing the Presentation of Computer Program Source Text, Final Report of the Program Visualization Project to DARPA, Human Computing Resources Corp. and Aaron Marcus and Assoc., 6 volumes, 1985.
[H4] Baecker, R.M., Interactive Computer-Mediated Animation, Ph.D. Thesis, M.I.T. Department of Electrical Engineering, April 1969. Reprinted as M.I.T. Project MAC TR-61. Also available as AD 690 887 from the Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information.

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Published Abstracts

[J9] Baecker, R.M., Designing Technology to Aid Cognition, Proceedings ACM Assets 2008, 1-2.
[J8] Baecker, R.M., Forty Years of Human-Computer Interaction and Knowledge Media Design: Twelve Challenges to Meet in Fewer than the Next Forty Years, to appear (Abstract only) in Proceedings Graphics Interface 2005, Victoria, B.C., May 2005.
[J7] Baecker, R.M., Research Issues in Program Visualization, Contribution to Panel on “Multi-dimensional Interfaces for Software Design,” Proceedings Interact '90, Aug. 1990, 1064-1065.
[J6] Baecker, R.M., Miller, D., and Reeves, W., A Prototype Laboratory Instrument for Motion Analysis, Proc. 7th Canadian Man-Computer Communications Conference, June 1981.
[J5] Baecker, R.M. and Sherman, D., A Computer Animated Explanation of Internal Sorting Methods, Proceedings 7th Canadian Man-Computer Communications Conference, June 1981.

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