Iterative Design of a Project Charter
In 2008, my colleague Dr. Stan Ruecker and I published a paper that described our experience with the iterative development and use of a project charter for helping to manage expectations of the various members of interdisciplinary research teams. The paper was based on our experiences working with over a
Mapping Student Journeys to Mental Health Support
2026— The goal of this project is to better understand how students access and navigate mental health supports offered through Wellness Services at Mount Royal University. The Project Team will use journey mapping as a tool to explore and reflect on the steps a person takes when moving through on-campus mental
TAPoR
TAPoR was originally created to be a directory only of tools used for text analysis, but it has evolved to its current iteration where it includes a far greater range of tools including code snippets that can do the work of tools. In 2018 TAPoR absorbed the DiRT project (Digital Research Tools) and now includes tools that work on non-textual data and tools that provide services used by digital humanists. This evolution largely reflects that of the field of digital humanities, and the collection includes the following categories of tools:
Capta by Juxtaposition: a Rich-Prospect Approach to the Visualization of Interpretation Project
2020— In her seminal essay, Humanities Approaches to Graphical Display, Johanna Drucker points out that visualization design for the humanities has still not properly accommodated the nature of humanities scholarship. Given, as she says, that all data is actually capta, current approaches to data visualization are misleading in that they
Design for Peace & Reconciliation Project
2019— Colombia, a country on the North-Western corner of South America, has been facing certain critical challenges—after a 50-year civil war, many Colombians are left suffering the effects of living in a post-conflict zone and the consequences of the displacement of over 3 million persons, and the death of 220,000,
A Speculative Feminist Approach to Project Management Project
2019 We applied a speculative feminist approach to the design of software for project management. As we interpret it, speculative feminist design in human-computer interaction (HCI) demonstrates attention to the following six principles (as defined by Radzikowska, 2015): challenging the status quo; designing for an actionable ideal; searching out the invisible;
Material Data Provocations Project
2018— Materialization (or to materialize) is defined as “to invest or become invested with a physical shape or form”. Materialization is a process of transmutation: more alchemy than construction, with the results uncertain and in flux. I draw my inspiration from the Tangible Bits Group’s “painted bits” as graphical user
Depression is Not a Personal Failure Mini-Project
The ugly version of this poster was shared over 8k times. So, I created this one for slightly more aesthetic joy. Spread the message: depression is one of the consequences of living in toxic social, cultural, and political systems.
Occupation Stress Injury Mini-Project
ID’s Associate Professors Dr. Milena Radzikowska and Dr. D. Scharie Tavcer from the Criminal Justice Degree Program collaborated on a project to synthesize and translate information on occupational stress injury. Senior ID students, Madison Snell and Maria El-Lahib, attended the 2017 Occupational Stress Injury Symposium—a sold-out event organized by MRU’s