Overview
Administrative Information
Biographical/Historical note
Scope and Contents
Access Terms
Overview
Call Number: SC1192
Creator:
Nass, Clifford Ivar
Title: Clifford I. Nass papers
Dates: 1977-2010
Physical Description:
4.5 Linear feet (3 cartons)
Summary: The papers include Nass' teaching files, research files, and publications related to the social-psychological aspects of human-interactive
media interaction, chronic media multitasking, and automotive interfaces.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
Administrative Information
Provenance
This collection given Stanford University, Special Collections in February 2014.
Information about Access
The materials are open for research use. Audio-visual materials are not available in original format, and must be reformatted
to a digital use copy.
Ownership & Copyright
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94305-6064. Consent
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/spc/using-collections/permission-publish.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.
Cite As
[identification of item], Clifford I. Nass papers (SC1192). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford
University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Separated Materials
The BIG idea: Festival for Automotive Interfaces (CHIMe Lab), CARS, Media at Stanford University, REVS Program at Stanford, 2013, poster. Added to the Stanford University
Poster Collection, SC1030.
Biographical/Historical note
Clifford Ivar Nass, was born in 1958 in New Jersey. He earned a BA in Mathematics from Princeton University in 1981; and his
M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton in 1986. That same year Nass joined the faculty at Stanford University as a professor
of Communications. At the time of his death, Nass was the Thomas M. Storke Professor and had courtesy appointments in Computer
Science, Education, Law, and Sociology. Nass was also affiliated with the programs in Science, Technology, and Society and
Symbolic Systems (cognitive science).
Nass was the co-creator of The Media Equation theory, and a renowned authority on human-computer interaction. He was also
known for his work on individual differences associated with multitasking.
Nass was the director of the Communication between Humans and Interactive Media (CHIMe) Lab, co-director of Kozmetsky Global
Collaboratory (KGC) and its Real-time Venture Design Laboratory (ReVeL), a co-founder of TeachAIDS, the co-Director of the
CARS (Center for Automotive Research at Stanford) Program, and the Director of the Revs Program at Stanford University.
Nass died in 2013 of a heart attack while hiking.
Text excerpted from:
http://www.stanford.edu/~nass/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Nass
Scope and Contents
The papers include Nass' teaching files, research files, and publications related to the social-psychological aspects of human-interactive
media interaction, chronic media multitasking, and automotive interfaces. Also included are materials related to Nass' tenure
as a Resident Fellow at the Stanford University Otero House dorm.
Access Terms
Kozmetsky Global Collaboratory and the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford University (CARS)..
Stanford University. Communication between Humans and Interactive Media (CHIMe) Lab..
Stanford University. Computer Science Department. Faculty.
Stanford University. Department of Communications. Faculty.
The Revs Program at Stanford.
Computer multitasking
Human-computer interaction
Stanford University--Student housing.