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Milena Radzikowska
Associate Professor

Department
Information Design

office:T275
phone:1-403-440-8941
moc.liamg@akswokizdarm

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Milena Radzikowska

I am a visual communication and interface designer, as well as an associate professor in Information Design, Faculty of Communication Studies, Mount Royal University.
In 2000, I graduated from NSCAD University (BDes Hon.) and, in 2003, from the University of Alberta, with a terminal masters (MDes) degree in visual communication design.


My active research interests are in the areas of decision support systems, visual communication, interface and information design, and text visualization.


In January 2009, I joined a PhD program at the University of Alberta in Computing Science & Humanities Computing, under the supervision of Dr. Walter Bischof and Dr. Stan Ruecker.
Projects
Education
Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary (In Progress), 2009, January 1 - 2012, April 30. University of Alberta. Specialization: Computing Science and Humanities Computing. Dissertation title: "Interactive Decision Support Visualization for Multi-mode Oil Sands Operations". Supervised by: Ruecker, Stan, & Bischof, Walter.
Master of Design in Art and Design, 2004. University of Alberta. Thesis title: "The design of a task-based web application: meeting information seeking, service and support needs of women with breast cancer".
Bachelor of Design Honours in Visual Communication Major: Digital Communication, 2000. NSCAD University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Awards and Distinctions
"mediaFresh, 2007 Digital Media of Association of Alberta Awards". 2007.
"Educator of the Year". Conferred by mediaFresh, 2007 Digital Media of Association of Alberta Awards. 2007.
"Graduate Student Scholarship". Conferred by Alberta Office of the Minister. 2003.
"Master of Design Scholarship". Conferred by University of Alberta. 2001 - 2002.
"Palliative Care Association Identity Design competition". 2000.
"Heart & Stroke Foundation’s 40th Anniversary logo competition". 1999.
"Bag Design competition". Conferred by Atlantic Bag Manufacturers. 1998.
"Ceiling Tile Design competition". 1997.
Recent Publications
Radzikowska, M., Ruecker, S., & Ta, C. (2011, June 1). So, Why is this a Digital Humanities Project: An Interdisciplinary Case Study in Connecting DH, Engineering and Industry. In Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs annual conference at the 2011 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities (University of New Brunswick) (In Print).
Ruecker, S., Radzikowska, M., Giacometti, A., Bieber, M., & INKE Research Group (2011, May 31). Corpora Interface Prototypes. In Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs annual conference at the 2011 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities (University of New Brunswick) (In Print).
Radzikowska, M., Ruecker, S., Brown, S., & Antoniuk, J. (2011, May 30). Slicing, Dicing, and Splicing on the Orlando Breadboard. In Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs annual conference at the 2011 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities (University of New Brunswick) (In Print).
Ruecker, S., & Sinclair, S. (2011, May 25). Visual Interface Design for Digital Cultural Heritage: A Guide to Rich-Prospect Browsing, 1(1). ( , Ed.). London: Ashgate (Status: In Print).
Radzikowska, M., Ruecker, S., & Rockwell, G. (2011, May 1). Seeing, Thinking, Making: Students Experiment with Humanities Data Visualization. In 2011 Pica Design Conference (Banff, Alberta) (In Print).
Radzikowska, M., Ruecker, S., Bischof, W., & Annett, M. (2010, October). Geared Decisions: Experimenting with Decision Support Visualizations. In Design and Emotion Conference (Chicago, Ill) (In Print).
Radzikowska, M. (2010). Nested Gears: Visualizing Decision Support Systems for Manufacturing. In 2010 Hucon Conference.
Ruecker, S., Radzikowska, M., & Sinclair, S. (2009). Designing Data Mining Droplets: New Interface Objects for the Humanities Scholar. Digital Humanities Quarterly.
Ruecker, S., Brown, S., Radzikowska, M., Sinclair, S., Nelson, T.M., Clements, P., Grundy, I., Balasz, S., & Antoniuk , J. (2009). The Table of Contexts: A Dynamic Browsing Tool for Digitally Encoded Texts. In, The Charm of a List: From the Sumerians to Computerised Data Processing. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Michura, P., Ruecker, S., Radzikowska, M., Fiorentino, C., Clement, T., & Sinclair, S. (2009). Slot Machines, Graphs, and Radar Screens: Prototyping List-based Literary Research Tools. In, The Charm of a List: From the Sumerians to Computerised Data Processing. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Brown, S., Antoniuk, J., Farnel, S., Grundy, I., Ruecker, S., Patey, M., Sinclair, S., & Radzikowska, M. (2008, November 1). Making Sense of Literary History: The Dense Associative Web of Orlando. In Paper presented at the third Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) Colloquium (Chicago, IL).
McDonald, A., Kumar, A., Bouchard, M., Giacometti, A., Patey, M., Radzikowska, M., Michura, P., Fiorentino, C., Ruecker, S., Plaisant, C., & Sinclair, S. (2008, November 1). Dozens of Little Radio Stations: Getting Technologies Talking in the MONK Workbench. In Paper presented at the third Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) Colloquium (Chicago, IL).
Radzikowska, M., Derbyshire, P., McNicol, B., Irish, C., Bouchard, M., Quinlan, J., & Ruecker, S. (2008, October 1). There’s a Grizzly Bear in Sector 7: Emotional triggers in an online GIS-based information system for parks management and safety. In Proceedings of the 6th International Design and Emotion Conference (Hong Kong).
Giacometti, A., Ruecker, S., Craig, I., Derksen, G., & Radzikowska, M. (2008, October 1). Introducing the Ripper Interface for Text Collections. In Paper presented at the Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis (CaSTA) Conference: New Directions in Text Analysis (Saskatoon).
Ruecker, S., Radzikowska, M., & Sinclair, S. (2008, June 1). Hackfests, Designfests, and Writingfests:The Role of Intense Periods of Face-to-Face Collaboration in International Research Teams. In Paper presented at the Digital Humanities (Oulu, Finland).
Ruecker, S., & Radzikowska, M. (2008, February 1). The Design of a Project Charter for Interdisciplinary Research. In Designing Interactive Systems (DIS 2007) (Cape Town, South Africa).
Ruecker, S., Radzikowska, M., Michura, P., Fiorentino, C., & Clement, T. (2008). Visualizing Repetition in Text. Reassembling the Disassembled Book, Special Issue of CH Working Papers.
Michura, P., Ruecker, S., Radzikowska, M., & Fiorento, C. (2007, November 1). The Novel as a List of Words. In The Potential and Limitations of a List: an International Transdisciplinary Workshop (Prague, Czech Republic).
Ruecker, S., Radzikowska, M., Brown, S., Nelson, T., Grundy, I., Clements, P., Balasz, S., Antoniuk, J., & Sinclair, S. (2007, November 1). The Dynamic Table of Contents: Extending a Venerable List in a Digital Context. In The Potential and Limitations of a List: an International Transdisciplinary Workshop (Prague, Czech Republic). Czech Republic, Prague. November 2007 (Accepted).
Ruecker, S., Radzikowska, M., Michura, P., & Fiorentino, C. (2007). Visualizing Repetition in Text. CH Working Papers.
Ruecker, S., Sinclair, S., & Radzikowska, M. (2007). Confidence, Visual Research and the Aesthetic Function. Partnership, 2(1).
Ruecker, S., & Radzikowska, M. (2006, October 1). Communicating Process with Form: Designing the Visual Morphology of the Nora Data Mining Kernels. In CaSTA 2006: Breadth of Text—A Joint Computer Science and Humanities Computing Conference (Fredericton, NB). University of New Brunswick, Fredericton. October 2006.
Ruecker, S., Roessler, B., Sinclair, S., Gabriele, S., Sapp, A., & Radzikowska, M. (2006, October 1). Watch My Moves: From Digital Plays to the Digital Playbook. In The Ninth IASTED International Conference on Computers and Advanced Technology in Education (CATE 2006) (Lima, Peru). Lima, Peru. October 2006.
Radzikowska, M., & Ruecker, S. (2006, August 1). Design Issues for a Collaborative On-Line Environment. In IASTED conference on Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications (IMSA 2006) (Honolulu, Hawaii).
Ruecker, S., Radzikowska, M., & Sinclair, S. (2006). Communicating Process with Form: Designing the Visual Morphology of the Nora Data Mining Kernels. Digital Humanities Quarterly.
Radzikowska, M., & Ruecker, S. (2005). Content Paradigm Analysis for Web Design. The AGDA Design Research Journal. , Special Issue.
Chow, R., Ruecker, S., & Radzikowska, M. (2003). Reflection and Inaction. In The Good, The Bad, and The Irrelevant. Proceedings from the conference sponsored by COST 269: User Aspects of Information and Communications Technologies. University of Art and Design. Helsinki, Finland. September 2003.
Radzikowska, M., & Ruecker, S. Content Paradigm Analysis for Web Design. Design Research Journal (Accepted).
Radzikowska, M., Ruecker, S., & Sinclair, S. Visualization Research and the Aesthetic Function. (Submitted).
Educational Institution Employment
Associate Professor, Information Design, Faculty of Communication Studies, Mount Royal College / University, Canada, 2003, August 1 - Present (Full Time).
Instructor, Centre for New Media, Grant MacEwan College, 2002 - 2003, April 1.
Teaching Assistant, Visual Communication and Design, Department of Art & Design, University of Alberta, 2001, September 1 - 2003, May 1.
Instructor, Continuing Education Department, NSCAD University, 1999, May - 2001.
Grants
2008, September SSHRC: Major Collaborative Research Initiative, "INKE Implementing New Knowledge Environments". CAD2,500,000. Type: Grant-Competitive (Role: Co-applicant).
Contracts
2006 AACTI, "Live Art & Learning Networks. A Web 2.0 Toolkit". $25,000. Type: Non-Competitive (Role: Co-principal Investigator).
2006 - 2007 The Alberta Association of Colleges and Technical Institutes (AACTI), "Live Art & Learning Networks. A Web 2.0 Toolkit". Type: Non-Competitive (Role: Collaborator).
Research Presentations
2009, May. "Varied Visceral Visualizations: Pattern Finding and Prototyping in the WEME project", EXT 506: Using and Managing Communications Networks, University of Alberta.
2009, February. "Hunters, Tourists, and Bears – O, My!", Pecha Kucha Night. Edmonton, Alberta.
2005, November. "Putting Theory into Practice: Portfolio Design for the Communications Professional". Presented to Society for Technical Communicators, Calgary Chapter. Presented at Society for Technical Communicators, Calgary Chapter, Calgary.
2004, March. "Concepts in Web Site Usability". Presented to Society for Technical Communicators, Calgary Chapter. Presented at Society for Technical Communicators, Calgary Chapter, Calgary.
Event Participation
2007. Interface Design for Humanities Visualization.
2006. Advanced Consultation on the Contexts, Pragmatics and Theory of E-Books.
2006. Grammar and Style Intensive.
2006. Electronic devices and effective pedagogy tools.
2005. Creative CANUX: The Canadian User Experience Workshop.
2005. Large Project Planning and Management.
Other (Teaching, Schol, Service)
(2007). The Calgary Foundation Logo Review. LogoLogic Department, Calgary Inc. Magazine.December 2007.
Projects In Progress
2009 - 2016, "HCI Book".
2009 - 2010, "Six Degrees of Separation in Digital Literary History".
2009 - 2010, "Throwing Bones".