Home Page for Margaret S.
Elliott
Position:
Research Specialist
Area: Software
US mail: Margaret S. Elliott
Institute for Software Research
School of Information and Computer Science
University of California
Irvine, CA 92697-3425 USA
Other: Tel: +1-949-824-7444
Fax: +1-949-824-1715
E-mail: melliott@ics.uci.edu
Web: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~melliott
Research
Interests
-
Computerization Movements and Technology Diffusion in
Organizations and Society
- Studies
of Free/Open Source Software Development Communities
-
Studies of Free/Open Source Software Use in Organizations
- Social
Processes Involved in Free/Open Source Software Development Communities
-
Computing Cultures in Organizations
-
Occupational Communities
- Requirements
Engineering in Large-Scale Institutional Settings
-
Computer-Supported Cooperative Work Environments
-
Organizational Cultures in Typical and Virtual Organizations
-
Computer Games in Education
Previous Research
Projects
- Study of IT
usage and its Influence on the Organizational Culture in the Los
Angeles County Criminal Courts.
- Organizational
Usability of Digital Libraries.
- Organizational
Usability of Manufacturing Systems for the Advanced Integrated
Manufacturing Environments (AIME) project.
- Development of
Artificial Intelligence Systems to Assist in Fault Tree Analysis.
Selected
Publications and
Working Papers
- Multi-Modal
Modeling, Analysis and Validation of Open Source Software Development
Processes, (with Walt Scacchi, Chris Jensen, and John Noll), Intern.
J. Internet Technology and Web Engineering, 1(3), 49-63, 2006.
Previous version appeared in Proc. First Intern. Conf. Open Source
Software, 1-8, Genova, Italy, July 2005. Received Best Paper
Award. Reprinted in G. Alkhatib and D. Rine, (Eds.), Integrated
Approaches in Information Technology and Web Engineering: Advancing
Organizational Knowledge Sharing, Information Science Reference,
Hershey, PA, 51-65, 2009.
- Examining
The Success Of Computerization Movements In The Ubiquitous Computing
Era: Free And Open Source Software Movements, revised version
in M. Elliott & K. Kraemer (eds.), Computerization
Movements and Technology Diffusion: From Mainframes to Ubiquitous
Computing, 359-380,
- Computerization
Movements and Technology Diffusion: From Mainframes to Ubiquitous
Computing, (co-editor with Ken Kraemer),
- Computerization
Movements and the Diffusion of Technological Innovations, (with Ken
Kraemer), revised version in M. Elliott & K. Kraemer (eds.), Computerization
Movements and Technology Diffusion: From Mainframes to Ubiquitous
Computing, 3-42,
- Comparative
Perspective on Computerization Movements: Implications for Ubiquitous
Computing, revised
version in M. Elliott and K. Kraemer (eds.), Computerization
Movements and Technology Diffusion: From Mainframes to Ubiquitous
Computing, 3-42,
- Mobilization
of Software Developers: The Free Software Movement, (with Walt
Scacchi), Information, Technology &People, 21(1),
4-33, 2008.
- Knowledge
Work Artifacts: Kernel Cousins for Free/Open Source Software Development,
(with W. Scacchi and M. Ackerman), In Proceedings ACM Supporting
Group Work (Group07),
- A
Common Information Space In Criminal Courts: Computer-Supported
Cooperative Work (CSCW) Case Management Systems, (with John
King), Proceedings of
- Communicating
and Mitigating Conflict in Open Source Software Development Projects,
(with Walt Scacchi), Projects & Profits, IV(10), 25-41,
October 2004.
- Free
Software Development: Cooperation and Conflict in A Virtual
Organizational Culture, (with Walt Scacchi), revised version in S.
Koch (ed.), Free/Open Source Software Development, 152-172,
Idea Publishing, Pittsburgh, PA, 2004.
- Free Software Developers as an Occupational Community: Resolving Conflicts and Fostering Collaboration, (with Walt Scacchi), Proc. ACM Intern. Conf. Supporting Group Work (Group'03), 21-30, Sanibel Island, FL, November 2003.
- Free
Software: A Case Study Of Software Development In A Virtual
Organizational Culture, (with Walt Scacchi), Technical Report
- The
Virtual Organizational Culture of a Free Software Development Community,
Taking Stock of the Bazaar: The 3rd Workshop on Open
Source Software Engineering, held at 25th International
Conference on Software Engineering,
- Final
Report on Case Management Evaluation SJI-98-T-007, (with John
King), Institute for Software Research, Department of Information and
Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, 1999.
- Organizational
Usability of Digital Libraries: Case Study of Legal Research in Civil
and Criminal Courts, Journal of the American Society for
Information Science, 48(11), 1023-1035, 1997.
- Moving
from Paper-based to Digital Documents: Case Study of Public
Defenders Using Case Management and Legal Research Tools, Proceedings
of the Thirtieth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
(HICSS-30), Maui, HI, January, 1997.
- Organizational
Usability of Digital Libaries in the Courts, (with Rob Kling), In Proceedings
of
- Digital
Library Design for Usability, (with Rob Kling), In Proceedings
of Digital Libraries '94 Conference
Invited Talks
- "Examining
the Success of Computerization Movements in the Ubiquitous Computing
Era: Free and Open Source Software Movements", Social
Informatics Workshop for Professor Rob Kling,Center for Research on
Information Technology and Organizations (CRITO), The Paul Merage
School of Business,
- "The
Virtual Organizational Culture of a Free Software Development Community”,
3rd Workshop on Open
Source Software,
- "The
Role of the Free Software Movement in the Mobilization of Free Software
Developers", CRITO Hour talk, Center for Research on Information
Technology and Organizations, University of California, Irvine, January
21, 2004.
- "A
Common Information Space In Criminal Courts: Computer-Supported
Cooperative Work (CSCW) Case Management Systems", (HICSS-30),
- "Free
Software Developers as an Occupational Community: Resolving
Conflicts and Fostering Collaboration", Proceedings of ACM
International Conference on Supporting Group Work (Group'03),
School of Information and Computer Science
University of
Irvine, CA 92697-3425
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