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People: Ph.D. Student Profile
Xiaomu Zhou
xmzhou@umich.edu
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Background:
BS in Computer Science, Shandong University, 0
MS in Computer Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, 0
Advisor(s):
Research Tags:
- HCI/CSCW
- Health Informatics
- Information Use in Organizational Settings
Bio/Research Statement:
I am a doctoral candidate at the School of Informationat University of Michigan. I work with Professor Mark S. Ackerman. My work lies at the intersection of HCI/CSCW and health informatics. I have a special interest in understanding long-term information use stemming, in part, from my first two years of doctoral work in archives and records management. My recent research examines people's information gathering, recording, and behavior in organizations, particularly in hospital settings. My original training is computer science and technology. I also translated John Holland's book on complexity "Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity? into Chinese.
Current Research:
Currently, I am working on my doctoral thesis with "persistence and enthusiasm" [quote from my adviser Mark]. This is an ethnographic study in a hospital where I have been shadowing doctors and nurses since January, 2008. I am investigating gaps in clinicians' recorded medical information, with a special focus on patient psychosocial information. Recorded knowledge objects raise privacy and liability concerns. While these concerns are modest for medical orders and prescriptions, they are significant for interpreting patient motives, their emotional states, and social histories. Missing information can result in a high number of inappropriate patient admissions, delayed diagnoses, ineffective treatments, prolonged hospitalization, and ultimately higher costs of medial care. The findings of my thesis work have both significant practical and theoretical implications. Read more about my thesis work and other ongoing projects on my personal webpage.
Recent Publications:
- 2009: Xiaomu Zhou, Mark S. Ackerman, and Kai Zheng, I just don't know why it's gone: Maintaining Informal Information Use in Inpatient Care, Proceeding of the SIGCHI on Human factors in computing systems (CHI 2009), ACM Press, 2061-2070.
- 2008: Xiaomu Zhou, Student Archival Research Acitivity: An Exploratory Study. Journal of American Archivists, Fall/Winter, 71(2), 2008, 476-498.
- 2007: Batcheller, A., Hilligoss, B., Nam, K., Rader, E, Rey-Babarro, M., Zhou, X,Testing the technology: Playing Games with Video Conferencing, Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI2007), ACM Press.
Profile last updated Nov 05, 2009.
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Cal Lee (MSI '99, Ph.D. '05) is now an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina. At SI he distinguished himself with his research in the archives and records management field. In 2002, Lee was the first winner of the Paul Evan Peters Fellowship for graduate study in the information sciences or librarianship. The award is sponsored by the Coalition for Networked Information and "recognizes not only outstanding scholarship and intellectual rigor, but also civic responsibility, democratic values, and imagination, honoring the memory of CNI founding executive director Paul Evan Peters."
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