Publications
Journals
[J.12] Sørum, H., Andersen, K.N., & Vatrapu, R. (2011/in press). Public Services and Human Computer Interaction: An Empirical Study of the Relationship between Website Quality and User Satisfaction. Behavior and Information Technology. (doi)
[J.11] Andersen, K.N., Medaglia, R., Vatrapu, R., Henriksen, H,Z., & Gauld, R. (2011/in press). The Forgotten Promise of E-Government Maturity: Assessing Responsiveness in the Digital Public Sector. Government Information Quarterly. (doi)
[J.10] Nardi, B., Vatrapu, R., & Clemmensen, T. (2011). Comparative Informatics. interactions, , 18(2), 28-33. (doi)
[J.09] Vatrapu, R., & Suthers, D. (2010). Intra- and Inter-Cultural Usability in Computer Supported Collaboration. Journal of Usability Studies, 5(4), 172-197. (paper)
[J.08] Robertson, S., Vatrapu, R., & Medina, R. (2010). Off the Wall Political Discourse: Facebook Use in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election. Information Polity, 15(1-2), 11-31. (link)
[J.07] Robertson, S., Vatrapu, R., & Medina, R. (2010). Online Video “Friends” Social Networking: Overlapping Online Public Spheres in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election. Journal of Information Technology & Politics. 7(2), 182-201. (link)
[J.06] Suthers, D., Dwyer, N., Medina, R., & Vatrapu, R. (2010). A Framework for Conceptualizing, Representing and Analyzing Distributed Mediated Interaction. International Journal of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, 5(1), 5-42. (paper)
[J.05] Robertson, S.P., & Vatrapu, R.K. (2010). Digital government. In B. Cronin (Ed.), Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, Volume 44, Chapter 8, pp. 317-364. (link)
Conferences
[C.38] Vatrapu, R., Hussain, A., & Riemann, R. (2012). Repertory Grids for Formative Assessment: Empirical Findings from Classroom Exercises and Eye-tracking Studies. Paper to be presented at the International Conference on the Learning Sciences (ICLS 2012), Sydney, Australia.
[C.38] Vatrapu, R. Seven Challenges in CSCL. (2011). Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Comupter Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL 2011), Hong Kong, July 4-8, 2011. (Pre-Print)
[C.37] Bull, S., & Vatrapu, R. (2011). Supporting Collaborative Interaction with Open Learner Models: Existing Approaches and Open Questions. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Comupter Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL 2011), Hong Kong, July 4-8, 2011. (Pre-Print)
[C.36] Olsen, M., Hedman, J., & Vatrapu, R. (2011). E-Wallet Properties.. In: The 10th International Conference on Mobile Business. IEEE Computer Society Press, 2011. p. 158-165. (Paper)
[C.35] Hedman, J., Vatrapu, R., & Olsen, M. (2011). E-Wallet Prototypes. In Service Oriented Perspectives in Design Science Research : 6th International Conference, DESRIST 2011, Milwaukee, WI, USA, May 5-6, 2011. Proceedings. ed. / Hemant Jain ; Atish P. Sinha ; Padmal Vitharana. Berlin : Springer, 2011. p. 223-237 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science ). (Paper)
[C.34] Vatrapu, R. (2011). Rethinking Affordances. Paper presented at the Horizons venue of the 2011 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2011).
[C.33] Vatrapu, R., Teplovs, C., Fujita, N., & Bull, S. (2011). Towards Visual Analytics for Teachers’ Dynamic Diagnostic Pedagogical Decision-Making. Paper presented at the 1st International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge (LAK 2011), Banff, Canada.
[C.32] Teplovs, Vatrapu, R. (2011). Generating Predictive Models of Learner Community Dynamics Through the Visualization of Networks Based on Social Network Analysis and Latent Semantic Analysis. Paper presented at the 1st International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge (LAK 2011), Banff, Canada.
[C.31] Vatrapu, R. (2011). Cultural Considerations in Learning Analytics. Paper presented at the 1st International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge (LAK 2011), Banff, Canada.
[C.30] Vatrapu, R. (2010). Explaining Culture: An Outline of a Theory of Socio-Technical Interactions. Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Conference on Intercultural Collaboration (ICIC 2010), 19-20 August 2010, Copenhagen, Denmark. (paper)
[C.29] Vatrapu, R., & Suthers, D. (2010). Cultural Influences in Collaborative Information Sharing and Organization. Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Conference on Intercultural Collaboration (ICIC 2010), 19-20 August 2010, Copenhagen, Denmark. (paper)
[C.28] Nielsen, J., Bødker, M., & Vatrapu, R. (2010). Culture and (I)literacy as Challenges to Scandinavian Cooperative Design. Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Conference on Intercultural Collaboration (ICIC 2010), 19-20 August 2010, Copenhagen, Denmark.(paper)
[C.27] Vatrapu, R. (2010). Comparative Informatics: Investigating Cultural and Linguistic Influences in Computer Supported Collaborative Learning. In the Symposium on Internationalizing the Learning Sciences across Formal and Informal Environments, Proceedings of the International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS 2010), Vol 2, Chicago, USA. (pre-print)
[C.26] Vatrapu, R., & Robertson, S. (2010). An Information Foraging Analysis of Note Taking and Note Sharing While Browsing Campaign Information . Proceedings of the 43rd Hawai`i International Conference on the System Sciences (HICSS-43), IEEE Xplore.
[C.25] Vatrapu, R. (2009). Toward a Theory of Socio-Technical Interactions in Technology Enhanced Learning Environments. In U. Cress, V. Dimitrova & M. Specht (Eds.), EC-TEL 2009, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 5794 (pp. 694-699). Berlin Heidelberg Springer-Verlag. (Pre-Print)
[C.24] Vatrapu, R., & Suthers, D. (2009). Is Representational Guidance Culturally Relative? In Claire O’Malley, Daniel Suthers, Peter Reimann, Angelique Dimitracopoulou (eds). Computer Supported Collaborative Learning Practices: CSCL2009 Conference Proceedings, International Society of the Learning Sciences, June 8-13, 2009, Rhodes, Greece, pp.542-551. (Pre-Print)
[C.23] Vatrapu, R., Suthers, D., & Medina, R. (2009). Notational Effects on Use of Collaboratively Constructed Representations During Individual Essay Writing. In Claire O’Malley, Daniel Suthers, Peter Reimann, Angelique Dimitracopoulou (eds). Computer Supported Collaborative Learning Practices: CSCL2009 Conference Proceedings, International Society of the Learning Sciences, June 8-13, 2009, Rhodes, Greece, pp.165-169. (Pre-Print)
[C.22] Medina, R., Suthers, D., & Vatrapu, R. (2009). Inscriptions Becoming Representations. In Claire O’Malley, Daniel Suthers, Peter Reimann, Angelique Dimitracopoulou (eds). Computer Supported Collaborative Learning Practices: CSCL2009 Conference Proceedings, International Society of the Learning Sciences, June 8-13, 2009, Rhodes, Greece, pp.18-27.(Pre-Print) (Best Student Paper Award) (Best Paper Nomination)
[C.21] Robertson, S., Vatrapu, R., & Medina, R. (2009). The Social Life of Social Networks: Facebook Linkage Patterns in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election. Paper presented at the 10th International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2009), May 17-20, 2009, Puebla, Mexico. ACM Digital Library. (Paper)
[C.20] Robertson, S., Vatrapu, R., & Medina, R. (2009). YouTube and Facebook: Online Video Friends Social Networking. Paper presented at the First Annual Journal of Information Technology & Politics Conference:”YouTube and the 2008 Election Cycle in the United States”, April 16-17, 2009, Amherst, MA , USA. (Paper) (Slides) (YouTube Video)
[C.19] Vatrapu, R., & Robertson, S. (2009). Information Foraging in E-Voting. Extended Abstract in the Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2009), April 4-9, 2009, Boston, USA. (Pre-Print)
[C.18] Le Pape, M., & Vatrapu, R. (2009). An Experimental Study of Field Dependency in Altered Gz Extreme Environments. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2009), April 4-9, 2009, Boston, USA. (Pre-Print) (Best Paper Nomination)
[C.17] Vatrapu, R., & Suthers, D. (2009). Technological Intersubjectivity in Computer Supported Intercultural Collaboration. Proceedings of the 2nd ACM International Workshop on Intercultural Collaboration (IWIC 2009). (Pre-Print)
[C.16] Robertson, S., Vatrapu, R., & Abraham, G. (2009). Note Taking and Note Sharing While Browsing Campaign Information. Proceedings of the 42nd Hawai`i International Conference on the System Sciences (HICSS-42), IEEE Xplore. (Pre-Print)