Guide to the Clifford I. Nass papers
Jenny Johnson
Stanford University. Libraries.
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
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
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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.
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 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
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 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