Dan Suthers

Director, Laboratory for Interactive Learning Technologies

Professor, Department of Information and Computer Sciences

Chair, Communication and Information Sciences Ph.D. Program

Dr. Suthers obtained his Bachelor of Fine Arts (1979) from Kansas City Art Institute, studied Psychology at the graduate level at Northern Arizona University, 1982-1985, and then earned M.S. (1988) and Ph.D. (1993) degrees in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts. Subsequently he was a researcher at the Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh, where he developed the first version of the Belvedere software. He came to the University of Hawaii in 1998.

Dr. Suthers' research is generally concerned with cognitive, social and computational perspectives on designing and evaluating software for learning, collaboration, and community. His current focus is on social affordances--how software interfaces influence collaborative learning and problem solving processes in small groups and the formation of relationships and social capital in online communities. In addition to selected laboratory studies, he has worked with diverse applications including middle to high school geosciences, post-secondary computer science distance education (via asynchronous learning networks), collaborative professional development of adult educators engaged in systemic reform, and informal science education.

Office: POST 309B
Email: suthers (at) hawaii (dot) edu
Telephone: 1-808-956-3890
Fax: 1-808-956-3548

Personal web site: http://lilt.ics.hawaii.edu/~suthers/.

Publications: http://lilt.ics.hawaii.edu/lilt/research/pubs.html

Department of Information and Computer Sciences
University of Hawai`i at Manoa
1680 East West Road, POST 309B
Honolulu, HI 96822