Guide to the Clifford I. Nass papers

Jenny Johnson
Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford, California
2014 February
Copyright © 2015 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved.


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.


 

Teaching files

Box 1, Folder 1

Course reader: Theories of Communication, Technology, and Society (Part A). Communication 371, TVTSS 271, Sociology 371. 1988-1989 Winter

Box 1, Folder 2

Course reader: Digital Media in Society 2009 Spring

Box 1, Folder 3

Course reader: Always Connected. Communication 169/269

Box 1, Folder 4

Course reader: Theory of Communication. Communication 311. 1999 Fall

Box 1, Folder 5

Course reader: Computers and Interfaces. Communications 169/269 2006 Winter

Box 1, Folder 6

Course reader: Theory of Communication (Part IV) 1988 Autumn

Box 1, Folder 11

Otero House-Resident Fellow Information 2006

Box 1, Folder 12

Otero House yearbook 2006-2007

Box 1, Folder 13

Otero House yearbook 2009-2010

Box 1, Folder 16

Notes: Soc 504/PR509

 

Publications

Box 1, Folder 7

REVS it Upp: Robot-Enhanced Vehicles: Safety, Information, Training, and User and Passenger Pleasure.

Box 1, Folder 8

Wired for Speech: How Voice Activates and Advances the Human-Computer Relationship. 2005

Box 1, Folder 9

The Media Equation: How People Treat Computers, Televisions, and New Media as Real People and Places. 1996

Box 1, Folder 10

Office Assistant Introduction: Briefing on Social Interface Research. 1996 Jun 27

Box 2, Folder 14

PASCGRAF and the Haloed Line Effect. BA Thesis, Princeton University. 1981

Box 2, Folder 15

Society as Computer: The Structure and Skill of Information Work in the United States, 1900-1980. Dissertation, Princeton University. 1986

Box 2, Folder 16

The Man Who Lied to His Laptop: What Machines Teach Us about Human Relationships. Clifford Nass with Corina Yen.

Box 2, Folder 17

The Man Who Lied to His Laptop: What Machines Teach Us about Human Relationships. Clifford Nass with Corina Yen.

Box 2, Folder 18

A Dielectric Theory of Gravity. Michael Jay Nass. BA Thesis, Princeton University. 1977

 

Research files

Box 1, Folder 14

HRI 2006: Proceedings of the 2006 ACM Conference on Human-Robot Interaction 2006 Mar 2-4

Box 1, Folder 15

The REVS Institute: 6th Biennial Symposium on Connoisseurship and the Collectible Car 2010 Mar 7-10

Box 2, Folder 1

AVIOS Speech Develepor's Conference & Expo 1999

Box 2, Folder 2

Bob 2.0 1995 Jun 19

Box 2, Folder 3

Cinemania and Rockmania Projects: The Character Evaluation Study 1995 May 5

Box 2, Folder 4

iTV Project: The Platform/Interface Study 1995 Nov 30

Box 2, Folder 5

CAMP Stanford Projects 2001 Oct 10

Box 2, Folder 6

Folk Revel: A Report on the Hyderabad Workshop 2007 Mar 26-31

Box 2, Folder 7

International Workshop on "Ubiquitous Media and Social Infrastructure." 2005 Aug 26

Box 2, Folder 8

Extended Abstracts: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2001 Mar 31-Apr 5

Box 2, Folder 9

Fourth IEEE International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces 2002 Oct 14-16

Box 2, Folder 10

Dare to Dream: Children's Responses to a Computer Game with and without REX Toys 1997 Feb 9

Box 2, Folder 11

CHI '94: Celebrating Interdependence-Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 1994 Apr 24-28

Box 2, Folder 12

CHI '96: Common Ground: Conference Companion 1996

Box 2, Folder 13

Kozmetsky Global Collaboratory 2003-2010

Box 3, Folder 1

Exhibits to the Videotaped Deposition of Clifford I. Nass, Ph.D., Volume 1 (Part 1) 2004 May 3

Box 3, Folder 2

Exhibits to the Videotaped Deposition of Clifford I. Nass, Ph.D., Volume 1 (Part 2) 2004 May 3

Box 3, Folder 3

Videotaped Deposition of Clifford I. Nass, Ph.D., Volume 1 (Index) 2004 May 3