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Guide to the Clifford I. Nass papers
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  • 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.