Publications

Journal Articles and Book Chapters [selected, past 10 years]

Dobson, T., Peña, E. and M. Radzikowska. (In Press). “To Design is To Pretend: Observational Modeling and Analysis by Children.” In Better Futures: How Prototyping Improves the World, Ruecker, S., Radzikowska, M. and J. Roberts-Smith (eds.), Bristol, UK: Intellect Books (forthcoming 2021).

Peña, E. & Dobson, T. M. (2021). The Lost Years of Visual Literacy. Journal of Visual Literacy. Available: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1051144X.2021.1902043

Peña, E. & Dobson, T. (In press). DH & Interdisciplinary Research / HD & Investigación Interdisciplinar in David Dominguez (Ed.) Playlist. Mexico City, Red de Humanidades Digitales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. 17 mss pages

Peña, E., Dobson, T., & Juárez, O. (2019). Visualización en las Humanidades Digitales: El caso de Glass Cast. Revista Digital Universitaria, 20(3), n.p.

Dobson, T. M., Asselin, M., & Abebe, A. (2018). Considerations for Design and Production of Digital Books for Early Literacy in Ethiopia. Language and Literacy, 20(3), 134-158.

Peña, E., Dobson, T. M., & Juárez, O. (2017). Pixualization: Glitch art and Data visualization. InfoDesign – Revista Brasileira de Design Da Informação, 14(1), 89–105.

Peña, E., & Dobson, T. M. (2017). Humanidades digitales y la movilización del conocimiento: el caso de la alfabetización visual. VIRTUalis, 7(14), 206–221.

Dobson, T.M. (2017). Some Approaches in Teaching Reading and Literature. Vancouver, BC: FutureBook. 158 pp. [Textbook; Publication date: 25 March 2017]

Peña, E., Juarez, O., Dobson, T.M. and the INKE Research Team. (June 2016). Glass Cast v. 1.0 [Software.] Vancouver, B.C. Canada.

Dobson, T.M., Brown, M., Grue, D., Pena, E., & Roeder, G. and the INKE Research Team (2015). The Interface Implications of Understanding Readers. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 40(1), 3-16.

Kovacs, S., Roberts-Smith, J., Dobson, T.M., Gabriele, S., Rodriguez-Arenas, O., Ruecker, S., Sinclair, S. and DeSouza-Coelho, S. (2015). An Interactive, Materialist-Semiotic Archive: Visualizing the Canadian Theatrical Canon in the Simulated Environment for Theatre. In Panofsky, R. and K. Kellett, Eds. Cultural Mapping and the Digital Sphere: Place and Space. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, pp. 51-88.

Roberts-Smith, R., DeSouza-Coelho, S., Dobson, T.M., Gabriele, S., Rodriguez-Arenas, O., Ruecker, S., Sinclair, S., Stoesser, P. and Kovacs, A. (2014). SET Free: Breaking the Rules in a Processual, User-Generated, Digital Performance Edition of Richard the Third. The Shakespearean International Yearbook, 14, 69-99.

Michura, P., Ruecker, S., Gerry, D., Radzikowska, M., and Dobson, T. (2014). Documenting subjective interpretations of illustrated book covers for Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Scholarly and Research Communication, 5(2).

Ruecker, S., Adelaar, N., Brown, S., Dobson, T.M., Knechtel, R., Liepert, S., MacDonald, A., Peña, E., Radzikowska, M., Roeder, G., Sinclair, S., and Windsor, J. (2014). Academic prototyping as a method of knowledge production: The case of the Dynamic Table of Contexts. Scholarly and Research Communication, 5(2).

Dobson, T.M. (2013). How might reading emergent genres such as electronic literature benefit secondary and middle school students? In James, K., Dobson, T.M., Leggo, C., Eds. English in Middle and Secondary Classrooms: Creative and Critical Advice from Canada’s Teacher Educators. Toronto: Pearson, pp. 98 – 104.

Dobson, T.M. (2013). Including diverse learners. In James, K., Dobson, T.M., Leggo, C., Eds. English in Middle and Secondary Classrooms: Creative and Critical Advice from Canada’s Teacher Educators. Toronto: Pearson, pp 19-27.

Dobson, T.M. (2013). Engaging diverse knowledge frameworks. In James, K., Dobson, T.M., Leggo, C., Eds. English in Middle and Secondary Classrooms: Creative and Critical Advice from Canada’s Teacher Educators. Toronto: Pearson, pp. 82-88.

Brown, M., Dobson, T.M., Grue, D. and Ruecker, S. (2013). Challenging new views on familiar plotlines: A discussion of the use of XML in the development of a scholarly tool for literary pedagogy. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 28(2), 199-208. Available: http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/01/18/llc.fqs069.abstract

Grue, D., Dobson, T.M., Brown, M. & Ferreira, L. (2013). Reading practices and digital experiences: An investigation into secondary students’ reading practices and XML-markup experiences of fiction. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 28(2), 237-248. Available: http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/01/18/llc.fqs069.abstract

Roberts-Smith, J., DeSouza-Coelho, S., Dobson, T.M., Gabriele, S., Rodrigues-Arenas, O, Ruecker, S., Sinclair, S., Akong, A., Bouchard, M., Hong, M., Jakacki, D., Lam, D., Kovacs, A., Northam, L., So, D. (2013). Visualizing Theatrical Text: From Watching the Script to the Simulated Environment for Theatre (SET). Digital Humanities Quarterly, 7(3). Available: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/7/3/000166/000166.html

Frizzera, L., Radzikowska, M., Roeder, G., Peña, E., Dobson, T.M., Ruecker, S., Rockwell, G. & Brown, S. (2013). Visual workflow interfaces for editorial processes. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 28(4), 615-628.

Roberts-Smith, R., Harvey, K., DeSouza-Coelho, S., Dobson, T.M., Gabriele, S., Kovacs, A., Rodriguez-Arenas, O., Ruecker, S., Sinclair, S. (2013). Is There an Archivist in the Sim?: Literacy as Agency in a Postpositivist, Mixed Media Virtual Theatre Archive. Canadian Theatre Review, 156, 40-45.

Ruecker, S., Grotkowski, A., Gabriele, S., Roberts-Smith, J., Sinclair, S., Dobson, T.M., Akong, A., Fung, S. and Rodriguez, O. (2013). Abstraction and Realism in the Design of Avatars for the Simulated Environment for Theatre. Visual Communication Journal, 12(4), 459-472.

Roberts-Smith, J., Dobson, T.M., Gabriele, S., Rodrigues-Arenas, O, Ruecker, S., Sinclair, S., DeSouza-Coelho, S., Kovacs, A., So, D. (2012). Visualising Theatre Historiography: Judith Thompson’s White Biting Dog (1984 and 2011) in the Simulated Environment for Theatre (SET). Digital Studies, 3(2). Available: http://www.digitalstudies.org/ojs/index.php/digital_studies/article/view/241/303

Ruecker, S., Rockwell, G., Radzikowska, M. Sinclair, S. Vandendorpe, C., Siemens, R., Dobson, T.M., Doll, L., Bieber, M., Eberle-Sinatra, M. Lucky, S. and the INKE Group. (2012). Drilling for Papers in INKE. Scholarly and Research Communication, 3(1). Available: http://src-online.ca/index.php/src/article/view/47/66 .

Dobson, T.M., Michura, P., Ruecker, S., Brown, M. and Rodriguez, O. (2011). Interactive Visualizations of Plot in Fiction. Visible Language. 45(3), 169–191.

Dobson, T.M. & Boyce, M.J. (2011). Introduction to Media : Culture : Pedagogy. Media : Culture : Pedagogy, 15(1), n.p.

Siemens, R., Dobson, T.M., Ruecker, S., Cunningham, R., Galey, A., Warwick, C. and Siemens, L. with the HCI-Book Consultative group and the INKE Research group. (2011). HCI-Book? Perspectives on E-Book Research, 2006-2008 (Foundational to Implementing New Knowledge Environments). Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada / Cahiers de la Société bibliographique du Canada. 49(1), 35-89.

Siemens, L., Siemens, R., Cunningham, R., Dobson, T., Galey, A., Ruecker, S., Warwick, C. (2010 [for 2009]). INKE Administrative Structure, Omnibus Document. New Knowledge Environments, Vol. 1(1). Available: http://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/INKE/article/view/546

Siemens, R., Cunningham, R., Galey, A., Ruecker, S., Siemens, L., Warwick, C., Dobson, T., the INKE Research Group. (2010 [for 2009]). Implementing New Knowledge Environments: Year 1 Research Foundations. New Knowledge Environments, Vol. 1(1). Available: http://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/INKE/article/view/168

Dobson, T.M. & Willinsky, J. (2009). Digital Literacy. In David Olson and Nancy Torrence (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Literacy (pp. 286-312). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Dobson, T.M. and Vratulis, V. (2009). Interrupting Processes of Inquiry: Teaching and Learning with Social Media in Higher Education. Digital Studies / Le Champ Numerique, 1(2). Available: http://www.digitalstudies.org

Dobson, T.M. and Iftody, T. (2009). Consciousness and Complexity in Waking Life. Complicity: And International Journal of Complexity and Education, 6(2), 66-75.

Siemens,R., Warwick,C., Cunningham,R., Dobson,T.M., Galey,A., Ruecker,S., Schreibman,S., The INKE Team. (2009). Codex Ultor: Toward a Conceptual and Theoretical Foundation for New Research on Books and Knowledge Environments. Digital Studies / Le Champ Numerique, 1(2). Available: http://www.digitalstudies.org

Siemens, R., Warwick, C., Cunningham, R., Dobson, T.M., Galey, A., Ruecker, S., Schreibman, S. et L’équipe du projet Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE). (2009). Codex Ultor : Vers des fondations conceptuelles et théoriques pour de nouvelles recherches sur les livres et les environnements documentaires. Érudit. 1(1). Available: http://www.erudit.org/ Dobson, T.M. & Iftody, T. (2009). Consciousness and Complexity in Waking Life. Complicity: An International Journal of Complexity and Education, 6(2), 66-75.

Dobson, T.M. and Vratulis, V. (2009). Interrupting Processes of Inquiry: Teaching and Learning with Social Media in Higher Education. Digital Studies / Le Champ Numerique, 1(2). Available: http://www.digitalstudies.org

Ruecker, S., Rockwell, G., Radzikowska, M., Sinclair, S., Vandendorpe, C., Siemens, R., Dobson, T., Doll, L., Bieber, M., Eberle-Sinatra, M., Lucky, and the INKE Research Group. (2009). Drilling for Papers in INKE. New Knowledge Environments, Vol. 1(1). Available: http://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/INKE/article/view/165/169

Siemens, L., Siemens, R., Cunningham, R., Dobson, T., Galey, A., Ruecker, S., Warwick, C. (2009). INKE Administrative Structure, Omnibus Document. New Knowledge Environments, Vol. 1(1). Available: http://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/INKE/article/view/546

Siemens, R., Cunningham, R., Galey, A., Ruecker, S., Siemens, L., Warwick, C., Dobson, T., the INKE Research Group. (2009). Implementing New Knowledge Environments: Year 1 Research Foundations. Available: http://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/INKE/article/view/168

Siemens, R., Warwick, C., Cunningham, R., Dobson, T.M., Galey, A., Ruecker, S., Schreibman, S., The INKE Team. (2009). Codex Ultor: Toward a Conceptual and Theoretical Foundation for New Research on Books and Knowledge Environments. Digital Studies / Le Champ Numerique, 1(2). Available: http://www.digitalstudies.org

Siemens, R., Warwick, C., Cunningham, R., Dobson, T.M., Galey, A., Ruecker, S., Schreibman, S. et L’équipe du projet Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE). (2009). Codex Ultor : Vers des fondations conceptuelles et théoriques pour de nouvelles recherches sur les livres et les environnements documentaires. Érudit. 1(1). Available: http://www.erudit.org/ [French language translation of above article.]

Vratulis, V. & Dobson, T.M. (2008). Social negotiations in a Wiki environment: A case study with pre-service teachers. Educational Media International, 45(4), 285-294.

Guo, R. X., Dobson, T. & Petrina, S. (2008). Digital natives, digital immigrants: An analysis of age and ICT competency in teacher education. Journal of Educational Computing Research, 38(3), 235-254.

Dobson, T.M. (2007). Constructing (and deconstructing) reading through hypertext: Literature and the new media. In Antony Adams and Sue Brindley (Eds.), Teaching Secondary English with ICT (pp. 80-97). Maidenhead: Open University Press.

Dobson, T.M. (2007) In medias res: Reading, writing, and the digital artifact. Journal of E-Learning, 3(7), 266-272.

Kentel, J.A., & Dobson, T.M. (2007). Beyond myopic visions of education: Revisiting movement literacy. Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 12(2), 1-19.

Dobson, T.M. (2006). For the love of a good narrative: Digitality and textuality. English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 5(2), 56-68. Available: http://education.waikato.ac.nz/research/journal/index.php?id=1

Luce-Kapler, R., Dobson, T., Sumara, D., Iftody, T. & Davis, B. (2006). E-Literature and the digital engagement of consciousness. In James Hoffman, Diane Schallert, Colleen Fairbanks, Jo Worthy, and Beth Maloch (Eds.), 55th Yearbook of the National Reading Conference, 171-181.

Dobson, T.M. (2005). Technologies of text: Reflections on teaching, learning and writing with/in digital environments. Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies, 3(1), 123-137. Available: http://www.csse.ca/CACS/JCACS/V3N1/jcacs_V3N1.html

Dobson, T.M., & Luce-Kapler, R. (2005). Stitching texts: Gender and geography in Frankenstein and Patchwork Girl. Changing English, 12(2), 265-277.

Luce-Kapler, R., & Dobson, T.M. (2005). In search of a story: Reading and writing e-literature. Reading Online, 8(6), np. Available: http://www.readingonline.org/

Edited Book

James, K., Dobson, T.M., Leggo, C., Eds. (2013). English in Middle and Secondary Classrooms: Creative and Critical Advice from Canada’s Teacher Educators. Toronto: Pearson.

Conference Proceedings

Ruecker, S., Nadine, A., Brown, S., Dobson T., Knechtel, R., MacDonald, A., Peña, E., Radzikowska M., Roeder, G., Sinclair, S., Windsor J., and the INKE Research Group. (2013). The Pace of Academic Prototyping. Proceedings of Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age: E/Merging Reading, Writing, and Research Practices. Sept 26-27, 2013. NYU, NY, NY.

Peña, E., Dobson, T., and the INKE Research Group. (2013). Visualizing Knowledge Networks: The Glass Cast Prototype. Proceedings of Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age: E/Merging Reading, Writing, and Research Practices. Sept 26-27, 2013. NYU, NY, NY.

Roeder, G., Dobson, T., Peña, E., Brown, S., Dergacheva, E., Knechtel, R., and the INKE Research Group (2013). Collaboration by Design: Institutional Innovation through Interface Aesthetics. Proceedings of the 3rd Conference of Japanese Association for Digital Humanities. Sept 19-21, 2013, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan.

Peña, E., Dobson, T., Roeder, G., Brown, S., Dergacheva, E., Knechtel, R., and the INKE Research Group (2013). Why is it doing that? Usability and interface metaphors in Workflow. Proceedings of the 3rd Conference of Japanese Association for Digital Humanities. Sept 19-21, 2013, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan.

Dergacheva, E., Brown, S., Grundy, I., Knechtel, R., Dobson, T., Peña, E., Roeder, G., and the INKE Research Group (2013). Prospects and Pitfalls of Workflow Management in Born-digital Projects. Proceedings of the 3rd Conference of Japanese Association for Digital Humanities. Sept 19-21, 2013, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan.

Dobson, T., Roeder, G., Peña, E., Dergacheva, E., Brown, S., Heller, B., and the INKE Research Group (2013). Managing the Editorial Process: A Study of Workflow. Paper presented in the panel “The Design of New Knowledge Environments”. Proceedings of Digital Humanities (DH2013). July 16-19, 2013. University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Nebraska, US.

Peña, E., Dobson, T., and the INKE Research Group. (2013). El libro como interfaz. Proceedings of II Congreso Internacional de tipografía al libro-arte. Apr 22-26, 2013. UACJ, Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, México.

Dobson, T. M., Ruecker, S., Brown, M., and Grue, D. (2012). Neither bicycles or sheep: Crowdsourcing semantic encoding for elements of plot. In The Proceedings of Interedition 2012, The Hauge, Netherlands, 19-22 March, n.p. http://www.interedition.eu/wp-content/bestanden/2012/03/7_3.pdf

Dobson, T. M. and Ruecker, S. (2011). Beyond the Cartesian Graph: 3D Visualization in Literary Classrooms. In The Proceedings of the International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED2011), Valencia Spain, 7-9 March, 1805-1814.

Dobson, T.M., Asselin, M. and Miller, J. (2011). The Ethiopia-Canada Educational Research Collaborative: Possibilities for and Barriers to Digital Technology Implementation. In The Proceedings of the International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED2011), Valencia Spain, 7-9 March 2011, 1488-1497.

Dobson, T. M., Ruecker, S., Brown, M., Rodriguez, O., Michura, P. and Grue, D. (2011). The theory and design of PlotVis. In The Proceedings of the Digital Humanities 2011, Stanford University, 19-22 June, n.p.

Dobson, T.M., Michura, P. & Ruecker, S. (2010) Visualizing Plot in 3D. In The Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Digital Society. St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles, 10-16 February 2010 (pp. 285-289). Washington, DC: IEEE Computer Society. Available: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/ICDS.2010.67

Dobson, T.M., Eberle-Sinatra, M., Ruecker, S., Lucky, S., and the INKE Research Team. Citation Rhetoric Examined. Proceedings of the 2010 Digital Humanities Conference, King’s College London, 7-10 July 2010. Available: http://dh2010.cch.kcl.ac.uk/academic-programme/abstracts/papers/html/ab-829.html

Roberts-Smith, J., Dobson, T.M., Gabriele, S., Ruecker, S., Sinclair, S., Bouchard, M., DeSouza-Coelho, S., Kong, Annemarie, Lam, D., Rodriguez, O., Taylor, K. Literary Theory and Theatre Practice: A Comparative Study of Watching the Script and the Simulated Environment for Theatre. Proceedings of the 2010 Digital Humanities Conference, King’s College London, 7-10 July 2010. Available: http://dh2010.cch.kcl.ac.uk/academic-programme/abstracts/papers/html/ab-855.html

Dobson, T.M., Michura, P. & Ruecker, S. (2010) Visualizing Plot in 3D. In The Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Digital Society. St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles, 10-16 February 2010 (pp. 285-289). Washington, DC: IEEE Computer Society.

Dobson, T. (2009) Rethinking narrative logic: Contemporary literature in contemporary classrooms. In The Proceedings of the 7th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education. Honolulu, Hawaii, 4-7 January 2009 (pp. 2311-2323). Honolulu, HI: Hawaii International Conference on Education.

Boskic, N., Dobson, T., & Rusnak, P. (2008). Play it Seriously: Juxtaposing AR and RW Crises. In Proceedings of the 2nd European Conference on Games Based Learning, Barcelona, Spain, 16-17 October 2008 (pp. 43-50). Reading, UK: Academic Conferences.

Rusnak, P., Dobson, T. & Boskic, N. (2008). Articulation of ecological values in alternate reality gaming: A case study of World Without Oil. Proceedings of the 2nd European Conference on Games Based Learning, Barcelona, Spain, 16-17 October 2008 (pp. 383-392). Reading, UK: Academic Conferences.

Siemens, R., Warwick, C., Cunningham, R., Dobson, T., Galey, A., Ruecker, S., Shreibman, S. (2008). Codex Redux: Books and New Knowledge Environments. Proceedings of the 2008 ACM Conference on Research advances in large digital book repositories (pp. 29-32). New York, NY: ACM.

Iftody, T., & Dobson, T.M. (2007). Consciousness and Complexity in Waking Life. Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Complexity Science and Educational Research, 255-260.

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