Paul A. Pangaro, PhD

Selected Publications

"COLLOQUY 2018 Project", co-authored with TJ McLeish, AISB 2018 Symposium: Cybernetic Serendipity Reimagined, April 2018 "Cybernetics as Phoenix: Why Ashes, What New Life?" in cybernetics: state of the art, edited by Liss C. Werner, Volume 1 of CON-VERSATIONS published by TU Berlin, 2017 "Questions for Conversation Theory or Conversation Theory in One Hour", in Kybernetes, Vol. 46 Issue: 9, 2017 "A Cybernetic Perspective on Design and Creativity: a Conversation with Dr. Paul Pangaro", D. Henriksen & The Deep-Play Research Group (2017), Tech Trends (61)6, 2017 "Why Do We Want To Live In Cybernetics?" published in Cybernetics and Human Knowing. Vol. 23 no. 2, 2016 "How cybernetics connects computing, counterculture,and design", co-authored with Hugh Dubberly, originally published by the Walker Art Center in the catalog for the exhibit Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia, 2015 "Cybernetics and Design: Conversations for Action", co-authored with Hugh Dubberly, published in Cybernetics & Human Knowing, Volume 22, nos. 2-3, 2015 (PDF Preprint) "Capture / Curate </> Touch / Play: Reality is the New Fiction 2014", co-authored with Claudine Boeglin, printed in Vision Anew: The Lens & Screen Arts, edited by Adam Bell & Charles H. Traub, University of California Press, 2015 "Planning and implementing conversation-led marketing", co-authored with Hagen Wenzek in Applied Marketing Analytics, Henry Stewart Publications, Volume One, Number Three, Summer 2015 "Notes on the Role of Leadership and Language in Regenerating Organizations", co-authored with Hugh Dubberly, Michael Geoghegan and Peter Esmonde, revised from its original publication in 2002 by Sun Microsystems and printed in Driving Desired Futures, edited by Michael Shamiyeh and Design Organization Media Laboratory (DOM), Linz (Germany) “Engaging consumers through conversations”, co-authored with Hagen Wenzek, Journal of Digital & Social Media Marketing, Volume 1, Number Four, Spring 2014 "Reframing health to embrace design of our own well-being”, co-authored with Hugh Dubberly, Rajiv Mehta, and Shelley Evenson in Interactions Magazine, publication of the ACM, XVII.3 — May / June, 2010 "Bio-cost: an economics of human behavior ", co-authored with Hugh Dubberly and CJ Maupin, Cybernetics & Human Knowing, Volume 16, nos. 1-2, '10 [PDF preprint] "How Can I Put That? Applying Cybernetics to Conversational Media", Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Cybernetics 2009 [PDF preprint] “What is conversation? How can we design for effective conversation?” [PDF preprint] , co-authored with Hugh Dubberly, in Interactions Magazine, publication of the ACM, XVI.4 — July / August, 2009 “What is Interaction? Are There Different Types?”, co-authored with Hugh Dubberly and Usman Haque, in Interactions Magazine, publication of the ACM, XVI.1 — January / February, 2009 Design for a Self-Regenerating Corporation, co-authored with Michael C. Geoghegan, written for Ashby Centenary Conference 2004, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Reprinted in Special Issue of the International Journal of General Systems, Volume 38(2) 2009 Interview on Innovation, Continuum, monthly online magazine of Instituto Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil, July '08 Sidebar: “Another View”, for the article “Toward a Model of Innovation”, cover story by Hugh Dubberly in Interactions Magazine, publication of the ACM, Volume XV.1, January / February ‘08 “Instruction for Design and Designs for Conversation”, Chapter III in Handbook for Conversation Design for Instructional Applications, edited by Rocci Luppicini, Information Science Reference Publishers, February ‘08 “Brief History of the Gordon Pask North American Archive”, Chapter 10 in Gordon Pask, An Introduction, Edition Echoraum, Vienna, ’07 “Cybernetics and Service-Craft: Language for Behavior-Focused Design”, with Hugh Dubberly, Journal Kybernetes, Volume 36 Number 9/10, ‘07 “Interaction—Cybernetics—Citroëns”, Paper published in Catalog based on Keynote Address for Instituto Itaú Cultural Exhibition 'Interface Cibernética', São Paulo, Brazil '06 Innovation Concept Map, sponsored by Alberta College of Art and Design, co-authored with Hugh Dubberly and Nathan Felde, '07 The Past-Future of Cybernetics, Chapter 8 in An Unfinished Revolution? in honor of Heinz von Foerster, published by edition echoraum, '07 THOUGHTSTICKER: A Personal History of Conversation Theory in Software, Kybernetes, Volume 30, Number 5/6, '01 Cybernetics and Conversation, or, Conversation Theory in Two Pages, Communication and Anti-Communication, American Society for Cybernetics, May '96 Gordon Pask Obituary,The London Guardian Newspaper, April '96 Pask as Dramaturg, in "Gordon Pask, a Festschrift", Systems Research, Volume 10, Number 3, '93 Including the Whys and Wherefores in Procedural Training: Intelligent Training for Emergencies in Nuclear Power Plant (with Lee, Gander, Wilkinson), IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Charlottesville, VA October '91 An Examination and Confirmation of a Macro Theory of Conversations through A Realization of the Protologic Lp by Microscopic Simulation, Brunel University PhD Thesis, May '87 Cybernetic, Associate Editor, published by the American Society for Cybernetics '85 '86 Conversational Technology, Data Training May '85 Deleting the Knowledge Engineer (with J. Nicoll), Conference in Machine Intelligence in Defence (UK) Feb '83 Computer-Based Training, Interchange (Alliance for Arts Education) May '83 Beyond Menus, Harvard Graphics Conference '83 Art Direction Magazine (cover, with A. Patel) '81 Programming and Animating On The Same Screen At The Same Time, Creative Computing, November '80 Entailment Meshes as Representations of Knowledge and Learning (with G. Pask), Conference on Computers in Education, Cardiff, Wales '80 Technology Review Magazine (software for cover) Oct '77 Computers & Art, PLAN, School Of Architecture and Planning, MIT, Cambridge MA '77 Contributions to Architecture Machinations, MIT Cambridge MA '76 '77 Experiments in computer animation (with N. Negroponte), SIGGRAPH Proceedings, ACM July '76 Computers & Art, ARTNEWS, MIT Council for the Arts, Cambridge MA '76 Mediation of impulse conduction in axons by threshold changes (with S Raymond), Society for Neurosciences Volume II:417, '77 Reports of the Research Lab of Electronics (with S. Raymond), #116:273-287 ('74), #119:145-153 ('75) [Return to Pangaro.com]