Gary Olson

Born: December 24, 1944, Los Angeles, California
Married: Judith S. Olson
Erdos Number: 5

Current Position

Donald Bren Professor of Information and Computer Sciences
University of California, Irvine

Contact

Department of Informatics
Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences
DBH 5202
Irvine, CA 92697-3440

Phone: 949-844-0077

Fax: 949-824-4056

E-mail: gary.olson@uci.edu

Web: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~golson/

Education

1967 University of Minnesota, B.A. summa cum laude in psychology

1968 Stanford University, M.A. in psychology

1970 Stanford University, Ph.D. in psychology

Professional Interests

Human-Computer Interaction -- Collaboration Technology, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Interface Design, Intelligent Tools, Organizational Issues

Cognitive Science -- Cognition in its Social and Physical Settings, Problem-Solving and Reasoning, Communication

Awards

Woodrow Wilson Fellow, 1967
Danforth Graduate Fellow, 1967-70
Research Career Development Award, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, December 1976 to December 1982
CHI Academy, 2003
CHI Lifetime Achievement Award, 2006
Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery, 2007
Fellow, Association for Psychological Science, 2009
Fellow, American Psychological Association, 2009

Professional Experience

Lieutenant, Medical Service Corps, United States Naval Reserve, on active duty from November 1970 to August 1973, stationed at Submarine Medical Research Laboratory, Groton Connecticut, as experimental psychologist
Visiting Lecturer in Psychology, Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut, 1972-1973
Assistant Professor of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, 1973-75
Assistant Professor to Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1975-2008
Co-Director, Joint Program in Cognitive Science, University of Michigan and University of Chicago, 1980-1985
Director, Cognitive Science and Machine Intelligence Laboratory, University of Michigan, 1986-1994
Sabbatical Leave, Rank Xerox Cambridge EuroPARC and the MRC Applied Psychology Unit, Cambridge, England, September 1989-August 1990.
Visiting Professor, Beijing University, China, October 1993.
Professor of Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 1994-present
Director, Collaboratory for Research on Electronic Work, University of Michigan, 1994-1997
Professor of Information, University of Michigan, 1995-2008
Paul M. Fitts Professor of Human-Computer Interaction, School of Information, University of Michigan, 2000-2008.
Associate Dean of Research, School of Information, University of Michigan, 1995-1998, 2000-2006
Sabbatical Leave, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, January-February 1997.
Interim Dean, School of Information, University of Michigan, Sept. 1998 - Dec. 1999
Visiting Researcher, Microsoft Research, September-December 2003.
Donald Bren Professor of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine, 2008-present
Emeritus Professor, University of Michigan, 2008-present

Editorial and Advisory Responsibilities

Member, Editorial Board

Psychological Review, 1977-1982
Developmental Psychology, 1977-78
Memory and Cognition, 1977-85
Journal of Organizational Computing, 1990-
Human-Computer Interaction, 1991-
Computer Supported Cooperative Work: An International Journal, 1992-2004
Cognitive Science, 1996-2001
Universal Access in the Information Society, 2000-2007
Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration, 2005-
Foundations and Trends in Human-Computer Interaction, 2006-

Guest Editorial Consultant

Cognitive Psychology
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied
Journal of Memory and Language
Child Development
Developmental Psychology
Human-Computer Interaction
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Infant Behavior and Development
Perception and Psychophysics
American Psychologist
Journal of Mathematical Psychology
American Journal of Psychology
Merrill-Palmer Quarterly
Cognition and Instruction
Discourse Processes
Nature
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
ACM Transactions on Information Systems
Interacting with Computers
Philosophical Psychology
IEEE Multimedia
ACM Computing Surveys
Communications of the ACM
Journal of Computer Mediated Communication
Empirical Software Engineering
Behavior and Information Technology
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Journal of Medical Internet Research
Journal of Applied Social Psychology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Grants Reviewer (panel & ad hoc)

National Science Foundation
National Institute of Mental Health
National Institutes of Health
Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Office of Naval Research
National Research Foundation (South Africa)
U of California MICRO Program

Professional Associations

American Psychological Association (Divisions 3,14,21)
American Psychological Society
Psychonomic Society
Cognitive Science Society
Association for Computing Machinery (SIGCHI)
Philosophy of Science Association

Selected National Committee Memberships

Member, Executive Committee, Division of Behavioral and Neural Sciences, National Science Foundation, 1980
Conference Chair, Fourth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Ann Arbor, August 1982
Member, Oversight Review Committee for the Cognitive Sciences Programs, Division of Behavioral and Neural Sciences, National Science Foundation, 1984
Committee Member (1984-86), Chair (1987), Forum on Research Management (FORM), Federation of Behavioral, Psychological, and Cognitive Sciences
Liaison with FORM, Committee on Research Support, American Psychological Association, 1984-87
Member, Oversight Committee, DOD Research Roundtable, 1985-87
Co-Organizer, Workshop on Cognition and Programming, University of Colorado, July 1986, Washington, D.C., December 1987
Program Co-Chair, Second Workshop on Empirical Studies of Programmers, Washington, D.C., December 1987
Member, Publications and Communications Board, American Psychological Association, 1987-1988
Conference Committee, Fifth Machine Learning Workshop, Ann Arbor, June 1988.
Member, Board of Visitors, Division of Neural and Cognitive Sciences, Office of Naval Research, 1988-89
Conference Committee, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Detroit, August 1989.
Chair, Search Committee, Editor of Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 1988
Liaison for American Psychological Association to the Federation of Behavioral, Psychological, and Cognitive Sciences, 1988-91
Co-Chair, Third Workshop on Empirical Studies of Programmers, Austin, Texas, May 1989
Co-Chair, Laboratory Reviews, CHI '89, Austin, Texas, 1988-89
Conference Co-Chair, Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Ann Arbor, August 1989.
Technical Program Co-Chair, CHI ‘91, New Orleans
Co-Chair or Chair, NSF Coordination Theory and Collaboration Technology Grantee Workshops, June 1991, July 1992, July 1993, March 1995.
Member, Advisory Committee for Division of Information, Robotics, and Intelligent Systems, Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, National Science Foundation, 1991-92.
Governing Board, Cognitive Science Society, 1993-1999
Conference Committee, ACM Conference on the Design of Interactive Systems, Ann Arbor, Michigan, August 1995
Program Co-Chair, CSCW '96
Co-Chair, Task Force on the Employment of Experimental Psychologists in Non-Academic Settings, American Psychological Association, 1995-1997
Co-Chair, ACM Conference on the Design of Interactive Systems, Amsterdam, August 1997
Member, Russell Sage Foundation Task Force on Work and Learning, 1997-2000
Co-Chair, Doctoral Colloquium, CSCW ‘98
Chair, Doctoral Consortium, CHI 2002
Co-Chair, CSCW 2004
Chair, CHI 2006

Grants

"Memory abilities of prelinguistic children," The Grant Foundation of New York, June 1974-December 1976, $25,000
"Infant memory processes," National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, December 1976-November 1982, $376,998
"Determinants of cognitive development in premature infants," The National Foundation--March of Dimes, March 1978-February 1980, $26,000 (w/ Michael E. Lamb)
"Conference on developmental and experimental approaches to memory." National Science Foundation, February 1979-August 1981, $13,298 (w/ Henry M. Wellman)
"Composition and comprehension of simple texts," National Institute of Education, September 1979-September 1982, $150,000
"Joint training program in cognitive science," Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, May 1980-August 1985, $880,000 (w/ David McNeill of University of Chicago)
"Follow-up testing of a sample of premature infants," The Spencer Foundation, June 1980-September 1981, $7,445 (w/ Lorraine Rocissano)
"An exchange program in child development with the Institute of Psychology, The People's Republic of China," The Foundation for Child Development, July 1980-June 1984, $83,778 (w/ Harold W. Stevenson)
"Early cognitive and social development of premature infants," March of Dimes Birth Defect Foundation, March 1981-February 1983, $28,000
"1982 Cognitive Science Society Annual Meeting," Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, June 1982-October 1982, $15,000
"Cognitive and Social Outcomes of Extremely Premature Infants" March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, March 1983-February 1987, $62,000
"Equipment Grant," University Grant Program, Xerox Corporation, August 1985-August 1987, $819,000 (w/ Lynn Conway)
"Transfer from computer programming to algebra word problems," National Science Foundation, January 1986-May 1987, $66,584 (subcontract w/ Elliot Soloway of Yale University)
"Experimental Research in Electronic Submission (EXPRES Project)", National Science Foundation, October 1986-January 1989, $2,300,000 (Co-PI with Dan Atkins, Lynn Conway, Douglas van Houweling)
"Planning for Collaboration Technology Suite," Arthur Andersen & Co., May-August 1988, $85,128
"Collaboration Technology Research", Arthur Andersen & Co., January 1989-June 1990, $300,000. (w/ Judith Olson, Elliot Soloway)
"Technology Support for Collaborative Work Groups," National Science Foundation, June 1989-May 1993, $1,005,229 (w/ Judith Olson, Dan Atkins; in collaboration with Arthur Andersen & Co. & Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation [MCC])
"Support for Panel on Cognitive Neuroscience at 1989 Cognitive Science Society Meeting," $4500, McDonnell Foundation, August 1989
"Equipment Grant," Apple Computer, April 1990, $54,544
"NSF Coordination Theory and Collaboration Technology Grantee Workshop," National Science Foundation, April-October 1991, $73,690 (w/ Tom Malone, MIT)
"Video Equipment to Support Research on Distributed Collaboration", Ameritech, August 1991 - December 1992, $80,000
"NSF Coordination Theory and Collaboration Technology Grantee Workshop," National Science Foundation, June 1992-May 1993, $81,896
"Workshop on Cognitive Activity in Social and Physical Environments," National Science Foundation, March 1992-October 1992, $29,414
"Analysis of the object-oriented design method as a process for designing multimedia information access architecture," US West, July 1992-December 1993, $175,611
"Distributed cognition in a Japanese corporate environment," Center for Japanese Studies & Culture and Cognition Program, U of Michigan, April 1992-April 1993, $13,300
"A scientific group communication and collaboration testbed for upper atmosphere research," National Science Foundation, Sept. 1992-Aug. 1998, $4,450,328 [w/ Dan Atkins, Robert Clauer, & Terry Weymouth]
"How can groups work well at a distance", Ameritech Foundation, June 1993-June 1998, $150,000 [with Judy Olson]
"NSF Coordination Theory and Collaboration Technology Grantee Workshop," National Science Foundation, July 1993-June 1994, $80,000
"Understanding the group processes in technology supported group work", National Science Foundation, July 1994-June 1999, $780,229 [with Judy Olson]
"Coordination Theory and Collaboration Technology Workshop", National Science Foundation, October 1994-September 1995, $35,000
"Team performance and distributed LEAP authoring", US. West, May 1994-March 1995, $78,916
“Specifying ICARE Net: A Collaboratory for International AIDS Researchers,” John D. Evans Foundation, August 1995 - December 1997, $207,130 [with Thomas Finholt, Stephanie Teasley]
"Collaboration technology testbed", subcontract with National Computational Science Alliance (NCSA), National Science Foundation, October 1997 - September 1999, $150,000 [with Joseph Hardin]
"Organizational Facilitation of Job-Related Learning: A Cognitive Science of Work Force Development", Russell Sage Foundation, September 1997 - August 1998, $29,000
“Collaborative Knowledge Networking Environments for Team Science: Space Physics and Aeronomy Research Colaboratory (SPARC)”, National Science Foundation, October 1998-September 2002, $2,400,000 [with Dan Atkins, Farnam Jahanian, Atul Prakash, Tim Killeen, Tom Finholt, Joseph Hardin]
“Seeing is Believing: The Value of Video for Remote Interpersonal Connections.” National Science Foundation, September 1999 – August 2002, $611,140 [with Judith S. Olson]
"Start-up Funds for the Behavioral Science Component of the Waterford Project", Evans Foundation, September 2000 - August 2001, $56,250
“ITR: Sustainable and Generalizable Technology to Support Collaboration in Science.” National Science Foundation, September 2000-August 2006, $2,580,115 [Project Director; 14 other faculty involved]
“Scientific Knowledge Environment Symposium”, National Science Foundation, Sept. 2002- Nov. 2003 $49,692 [Project Director]
“Workshop: Human-Computer Interaction Doctoral Consortium”, National Science Foundation, $29,997, April 2002-March 2003. [Project Director; support for CHI 2002 Doctoral Consortium]
“Workshop: Human-Computer Interaction Doctoral Consortium”, National Science Foundation, , May 2003-April 2004, $29,936. [Project Director; support for CHI 2003 Doctoral Consortium]
“Workshop on Management Models for Cyberinfrastructure”, National Science Foundation, April 2003-April 2004, $312,893, [Project Director]
“Neesgrid (Network For Earthquake Engineering Simulation): A Distributed Virtual Laboratory For Advanced Earthquake Experimentation And Simulation,” National Science Foundation (via U of Illinois), Aug. 2001-Sept. 2004, $1,814,026 [Co-PI]
“Conferencing Capability Among The Waterford Project Sites”, Waterford Project, Jan. 2001-Dec. 2003, $182,950, [Project Director]
“A Proposal To Intel For An "SI North Lab"”, Intel Corporation, July 2002-June 2003, $53,156. [Project Director]
“Odd Person Out? Studies of Distributed Group Work Where Communicatoin Technologies are Unequal”, National Science Foundation, Sept 2003-Aug. 2006, $574,000 [Co-PI]
“Workshop: Human-Computer Interaction Doctoral Consortium”, National Science Foundation, , March 2004-February 2005, $35,257. [Project Director; support for CHI 2004 Doctoral Consortium]
“Workshop: CSCW Doctoral Colloquium”, National Science Foundation, April 2004-May 2005, $29,870 [Project Director, support for CSCW 2004 Doctoral Colloquium]
“Workshop: Human-Computer Interaction Doctoral Consortium”, National Science Foundation, March 2005-February 2006, $35,000 [Project Director, support for CHI 2005 Doctoral Consortium]
"Steps Toward a Collaboratory for Network Science", Army Research Institute, Sept. 2006-December 2007, $76,988. [Project Director]
“Successful Collaboration at a Distance”, Army Research Institute, August 2007-August 2010, $649,100 [Project Director]

Publications

Olson, G.M., Bibelheimer, D.J., & Stevenson, H.W. (1967). Incentive effects in children's probability and discrimination learning. Psychonomic Science, 9, 459-460
Olson, G.M., Miller, L.K., Hale, G.A., & Stevenson, H.W. (1968). Long-term correlates of children's learning and problem-solving behavior, Journal of Educational Psychology, 59, 227-232.
Olson, G.M. (1969). Learning and retention in a continuous recognition task. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 81, 381-384.
Olson, G.M. (1971). Memory for prenominal adjectives in ordinary English sentences. Cognitive Psychology, 2, 300-312.
Olson, G. M. (1973). Developmental changes in memory and the acquisition of language. In T.E. Moore (Ed.), Cognitive development and the acquisition of language (pp. 145-157). New York: Academic Press.
Olson, G.M., & Laxar, K. (1973). Asymmetries in processing the terms "right" and "left." Journal of Experimental Psychology, 100, 284-290.
Olson, G.M., & Laxar, K. (1974). Processing the terms "right" and "left': A note on left-handers. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 102, 1135-1137.
Olson, G.M. (1975). Unfulfilled promise (Review of H.R. Pollio's The psychology of symbolic activity ) Contemporary Psychology, 20, 6-8.
Olson, G.M., & Clark, H.H. (1976). Research methods in psycholinguistics, In E.C. Carterette & M.P. Friedman (Eds.), Handbook of perception: Vol. 7: Language and Speech (pp. 25-74). New York: Academic Press.
Olson, G.M. (1976). An information processing analysis of visual memory and habituation in infants. In T.J. Tighe & R.N. Leaton (Eds.) Habituation: Perspectives from child development, animal behavior and neurophysiology (pp. 239-277). Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Friedenberg, L. & Olson, G.M. (1977). Children's comprehension of simple descriptions of vertical arrays, Child Development, 48, 265-269.
Olson, G. M. (1978). Review of P. Oleron, Language and mental development. Intelligence, 2, 74-77.
Laxar, K. & Olson G.M. (1978). Human information procession in navigational displays. Journal of Applied Psychology, 63, 734-740.
Olson, G.M. (1979). Review of R. W. Cole (Ed.), Current issues in linguistic theory. American Journal of Psychology, 92, 167-172.
Olson, G.M. (1979). Infant recognition memory for briefly presented stimuli. Infant Behavior and Development, 2, 123-134.
Olson, G.M., Duffy, S.A., & Mack, R.L. (1980). Applying knowledge of writing conventions to prose comprehension and composition. In W. J. McKeachie (Ed.), Learning, cognition, and college teaching (pp. 67-84). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Olson, G.M. (1980). Prototypical for the series (Review of H.W. Reese & L.P. Lipsitt (Eds.), Advances in child development and behavior (Vol. 12). Contemporary Psychology 24, 756-757.
Olson, G.M. (1981). The recognition of specific persons. In M.E. Lamb & L.R. Sherrod (Eds.), Infant social cognition (pp. 37-59). Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Olson, G.M., Mack, R., & Duffy, S. (1981). Cognitive aspects of genre, Poetics, 10, 283-315.
Olson, G.M. (1981). Experimental study on perception, memory and cognition of infants (in Chinese). Shinli Kexue Tonxuin, 3, 36-38.
Olson, G.M. (1981). On language understanding process (in Chinese). Shinli Kexue Tonxuin, 3, 70-74.
Olson, G.M., & Lamb, M.E. (1982). Premature infants: Cognitive and social development in the first year of life. In J.M. Stack (Ed.), The special child (pp. 71-89). New York: Human Sciences Press.
Olson, G.M. (1982). A necessarily personal view (Review of J.R. Anderson, Cognitive psychology and its applications). Contemporary Psychology, 27, 99-101.
Olson, G.M. (1982). Discussion of Elliot Soloway's Presentation. In R.J. Seidel, R.E. Anderson , & B. Hunter (Eds.), Computer literacy: Issues and directions for 1985 (pp. 187-192). New York: Academic Press.
Olson, G.M., & Sherman, T. (1983). Attention, learning and memory in infants. In M.M. Haith & J.J. Campos (Eds.), Handbook of child psychology Vol. 2: Infancy and developmental psychobiology (pp. 1001-1080). New York: Wiley.
Olson, G.M. (1983). Discussion: The past ten years. In M.T.H. Chi (Ed.), Trends in memory development (Contribution to Human Development, Vol. 9) (pp. 108-115). New York: S. Karger.
Paris, S., Olson, G.M., & Stevenson, H.W. (Eds.) . (1983). Learning and motivation in the classroom. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Olson, G.M., Duffy, S.A., & Mack, R.L. (1984). Thinking-out-loud as a method for studying real-time comprehension processes. In D. Kieras & M. Just (Eds.), New methods in the study of immediate processes in comprehension (pp. 253-286). Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Olson, G.M. (1984). Learning and memory in infants. In J.R. Anderson & S.M. Kosslyn (Eds.), Tutorials in learning and memory: Essays in honor of Gordon Bower (pp. 1-29). San Francisco: W. H. Freeman.
Olson, G.M., & Strauss, M.S. (1984). The development of infant memory. In M. Moscovitch (Ed.), Infant memory (pp. 29-48). New York: Plenum.
Olson, G.M., Duffy, S.A., & Mack, R.L. (1985). Question-asking as a component of text comprehension. In A. Graesser & J. Black (Eds.) The psychology of questions (pp. 219-226). Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Olson, G.M., Rocissano, L., Sherman, T., Yatchmink, Y., Zimmerman, B.L. Donn, S.M. & Roloff, D.W. (1985). The early development of premature infants treated with phenobarbital to prevent intracranial hemorrhage. In Proceedings of the Sixth Special Ross Conference, Ross Laboratories, Columbus, Ohio, 1985, pp. 29-50.
Gugerty, L., & Olson, G.M. (1986). Debugging by skilled and novice programmers. Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Association for Computing Machinery, Boston, pp. 171-174.
Gugerty, L., & Olson, G.M. (1986). Comprehension differences in debugging by skilled and novice programmers. In E. Soloway & S. Iyengar (Eds.), Empirical studies of programmers (pp. 13-27). Norwood, N.J.: Ablex.
Olson, G.M., Sheppard, S., & Soloway, E. (Eds.) . (1987). Empirical studies of programmers: Second workshop. Norwood, N.J.,: Ablex.
Olson, G.M., Catrambone, R., & Soloway, E. (1987). Programming and algebra word transfer: A failure to transfer. In Olson, G.M., Sheppard, S., & Soloway, E. (Eds.) Empirical studies of programmers: Second workshop (pp. 1-13). Norwood, N.J.,: Ablex.
Lewis, C., & Olson, G.M. (1987). Can principles of cognition lower the barriers to programming? In Olson, G.M., Sheppard, S., & Soloway, E. (Eds.) Empirical studies of programmers: Second workshop (pp. 248-263). Norwood, N.J.,: Ablex.
Olson, G.M. (1988). Putting the spotlight on the user of computer systems [Review of D.A. Norman & S. W. Draper (Eds.), User centered system design.]. Contemporary Psychology, 33, 295-297.
Olson, G.M. (1988) Intellectual development. In A. Lesgold & R. Glaser (Eds.), Foundations for a psychology of education (pp. 51-86). Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Olson, G.M. (1988). Some thoughts about mental models in human interactions with computing systems: Reflections on the Breckenridge Workshop. In A.A. Turner (Ed.), Mental models and user-centered design (pp. 55-59). Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Colorado.
Olson, G.M. (1989). The nature of group work. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Human Factors Society. Denver.
Cornell, P., Luchetti, R., Mack, L.A., & Olson, G.M. (1989). CSCW anecdotes and directions. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Human Factors Society, Denver.
Olson, G.M., & Atkins, D. (1990). Supporting collaboration with advanced multimedia electronic mail: The NSF EXPRES Project. In J. Galegher, R.E. Kraut, & C. Egido (Eds.), Intellectual teamwork: Social and technological foundations of cooperative work. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Olson. J.S., Olson, G.M., Mack. L.A., & Wellner, P. (1990) Concurrent editing: the group's interface. In D. Diaper (Ed.), INTERACT '90 - Third IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 835-840) Elsevier
Olson, J.R., & Olson, G.M. (1990) The growth of cognitive modeling in human computer interaction. Human-Computer Interaction. 5, 221-265. [Reprinted in R.M. Baecker, J. Grudin, W.A.S. Buxton & S. Greenberg (Eds.), Readings in Human-Computer Interaction: Toward the Year 2000. (2nd. Ed.) San Francisco: Morgan Kaufman, 1995]
Olson, G.M., & Olson, J.R. (1991). User-centered design of collaboration technology. Journal of Organizational Computing. 1, 61-83. [Reprinted in D. Marca & G. Bock (Eds.), Groupware: Software for computer-supported cooperative work. IEEE Press, 1992]
Robertson, S., Olson, G., & Olson, J. (Eds.) (1991) CHI '91: Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley.
Olson, G.M. (1992). Islands of knowledge from the British Isles. [Review of J. Long & A. Whitefield (Eds.), Cognitive ergonomics and human-computer interaction]. Contemporary Psychology, 37, 130.
Olson, G.M., & Olson, J.S. (1992) Defining a metaphor for group work. IEEE Software, 9(3), 93-95.
Olson, G.M., Olson, J.S., & Kraut, R.E. (1992) Introduction to this special issue on computer-supported cooperative work. Human-Computer Interaction, 7, 251-256.
Olson, G.M., Olson, J.S., Carter, M., & Storrøsten, M. (1992) Small group design meetings: An analysis of collaboration. Human-Computer Interaction, 7, 347-374.
Olson, J.S., Olson, G.M., Storrøsten, M., & Carter, M. (1992) How a group editor changes the character of a design meeting as well as its outcome. In Proceedings of the Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work pp. 91-98 New York: ACM.
Hymes, C.M., & Olson, G.M. (1992) Unblocking brainstorming through the use of a simple group editor. In Proceedings of the Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, pp. 99-106, New York: ACM.
McGuffin, L., and Olson, G. M. (1992) ShrEdit: A shared electronic workspace. CSMIL Technical Report #45, The University of Michigan.
Olson, G.M., Olson, J.S., Killey, L., Mack, L.A., Cornell, P., & Luchetti, R. (1992). Flexible facilities for electronic meetings (pp. 183-196). In R.P. Bostrom, R.T. Watson, & S.T. Kinney, (Eds.), Computer Augmented Teamwork: A Guided Tour. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.
Olson, J.S., Olson, G.M., Storrøsten, M., & Carter, M. (1993) Groupwork close up: A comparison of the group design process with and without a simple group editor. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 11, 321-348.
Olson, J.S., Card, S., Landauer, T., Olson, G.M., Malone, T., & Leggett, J.. (1993) Computer-supported cooperative work: Research issues for the 90s. Behavior and Information Technology, 12, 115-129.
Olson, G.M., McGuffin, L.S., Kuwana, E., & Olson, J.S. (1993) Designing software for a group's needs: A functional analysis of synchronous groupware. In L. Bass & P. Dewan (Eds.), User interface software (pp. 129-148). New York: Wiley.
Olson, G.M. (1994) Situated cognition (pp. 971-973). In R.E. Sternberg (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Intelligence. New York: Macmillan
Olson, G.M. (1994) Who is going to want to do design? Commentary on Brown & Duguid. Human-Computer Int