Jonathan Grudin | |
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 Jonathan Grudin at Microsoft Research in 2009. | |
| Born | December 31, 1949 Boulder, Colorado |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Reed College Purdue University University of California, San Diego |
| Known for | Grudin number Grudin Paradox |
| Awards | Association for Computing Machinery SIGCHI CHI Academy Association for Computing Machinery Fellow CSCW Lasting Impact Award |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Human-computer interaction Computer-supported cooperative work |
| Institutions | Microsoft Research University of Washington Information School University of California, Irvine Wang Laboratories Aarhus University Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation |
| Doctoral advisor | Donald Norman |
| Doctoral students | Rebecca Grinter Leysia Palen |
Jonathan Grudin (born December 31, 1949) was a researcher at Microsoft from 1998 to 2022 and is affiliate professor at the University of Washington Information School working in the fields of human-computer interaction and computer-supported cooperative work. Grudin is a pioneer of the field of computer-supported cooperative work and one of its most prolific contributors.[1] His collaboration distance to other researchers of human-computer interactions has been described by the "Grudin number".[1] Grudin is also well known for the "Grudin Paradox" or "Grudin Problem", which states basically with respect to the design of collaborative software for organizational settings, "What may be in the managers' best interests may not be in the interests of individual contributors, and therefore not used."[2][3][4] He was awarded the inaugural CSCW Lasting Impact Award in 2014 on the basis of this work. He has also written about the publication culture and history of human-computer interactions.
- ^ a b Horn, Daniel B.; Thomas A. Finholt; Jeremy P. Birnholtz; Dheeraj Motwani; Swapnaa Jayaraman (2004). Six degrees of Jonathan Grudin: a social network analysis of the evolution and impact of CSCW research. ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. ACM Press. pp. 582–591. doi:10.1145/1031607.1031707.
- ^ Grudin, Jonathan (1989). "Why groupware applications fail: problems in design and evaluation". Office: Technology and People. 4 (3): 245–264.
- ^ Ackerman, Mark S.; Christine Halverson (2003). "Sharing Expertise: The Next Step for Knowledge Management". In Wulf, Volker; Huysman, Marlene (eds.). Social Capital and Information Technology. Cambridge, Mass., USA: MIT Press.
Grudin [1989] framed what is sometimes called the Grudin paradox: What may be in the managers' best interests may not be in the ordinary users' interests.
- ^ "SIGCHI 2004 Awards". SIGCHI. 2004. Retrieved 2008-06-28.