Margaret H. Szymanski
Workscapes & Organization Area
Computer Science Laboratory
Palo Alto Research Center
3333 Coyote Hill Road
Palo Alto, CA 94304-1314
Education
University of California, Santa Barbara
(Gene H. Lerner and Giorgio Perissinotto, co-chairs)
Specialization: LISO (Language, Interaction and Social Organization) is the interdisciplinary study of naturally occurring interaction from multiple approaches including ethnography, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis of language in use, and the conversation analytic interest in sequentially organized activities carried out through the medium of language. LISO emphasizes the crucial role that detailed description of real-time human activity plays in building a knowledge base adequate for the scientific study of language, human interaction and social organization.
Representative Publications
(A more complete list of publications is available here.)
M.H. Szymanski, P.M. Aoki, E. Vinkhuyzen and A. Woodruff (2005). Organizing a Remote State of Incipient Talk: Push-to-Talk Mobile Radio Interaction. Language in Society, to appear.
P.M. Aoki, M. Romaine, M.H. Szymanski, J.D. Thornton, D. Wilson, and A. Woodruff (2003). The Mad Hatter’s Cocktail Party: A Social Mobile Audio Space Supporting Multiple Conversations. Proc. ACM SIGCHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 425-432. [PDF]
M.H. Szymanski (2002). Producing Text through Talk: Question-Answering Activity in Classroom Peer Groups. Linguistics & Education, 13 (4), 533-563. [→ Elsevier]
P.M. Aoki, R.E. Grinter, A. Hurst, M.H. Szymanski, J.D. Thornton and A. Woodruff (2002). Sotto Voce: Exploring the Interplay of Conversation and Mobile Audio Spaces. Proc. ACM SIGCHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Minneapolis, MN, 431-438. [PDF]
M.H. Szymanski (1999). Re-engaging and Dis-engaging Talk in Activity. Language in Society 28 (1), 1-23. [→ Cambridge Univ. Press]
Peggy dot Szymanski at parc dot com