Eytan Bakshy:
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Archer L. Batcheller:
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African Knowledge Infrastructures - this work for the World Bank analyzes African systems of knowledge sharing, generation, and maintenance. I am particularly interested in health knowledge infrastructures in Africa.
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Shu-Yi (Max) Chen:
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Understanding the interplay between human and information, especially how people approach information, and how information presents itself to people
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Benjamin Hak Fung Chiao:
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Using theoretical, empirical and experimental methods to address questions such as why some open source/open innovation processes work, how do disparate entities cooperate through standard setting, and how to partition (or modularize) work in collaborative innovation.
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Ben W. Congleton:
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Prospero is an opensource public display framework designed to simplify the task of building audience-aware public display applications. Prospero provides abstractions for both the social and technical concerns for public display development, including extendable user profiles, recommender systems, context, privacy, and governance.
SSAPP is a Simple Sensor Architecture for Pervasive Prototyping. There are many pervasive computing sensor architectures. However, most of these systems are complex, and not easy for novice users to configure or use. SSAPP is a simple sensor architecture designed to enable developers familiar with internet technologies to rapidly build and deploy pervasive applications.
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Eric Cook:
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Studying the social role of technology in creative arts and cultural production, particularly the shifts in how amateurs produce and disseminate both their work and practices.
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Morgan G. Daniels:
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Gregory K. Gamette:
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Examining incentives and motivations for sharing information online, particularly in the context of P2P systems and user-contributed content systems (wikis, blogs, Digg, etc.)
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Paul B. Hartzog:
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Developing the panarchy meme at the intersection of political theory, information technologies, network culture, and complex systems.
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Libby Hemphill:
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My dissertation focuses on the development of a bridge that uses a new construction material, and I ask, "what work had to be done in order for a specific bridge to be built?" The resulting dissertation will be primarily descriptive in nature. This is the broadest of my three research projects. It will describe the actors - both human and nonhuman - who were involved in the building of the Woods Avenue bridge, the work those actors did (e.g. pouring concrete, providing standards for construction), and the resulting network the actors produced by working together (Latour, 1988 and Latour, 1996 report studies in a similar spirit). Such a description will allow me to develop a substantive theory about collaborative, distributed work that can provide a starting point for future work. I use interviews, observation, and document analysis to collect data in the Woods Avenue bridge project. These data allow me to describe work done by people (e.g. bridge designers), products (e.g. bendable concrete), and policies (e.g. international construction standards) in building the bridge. See Ribes and Finholt (2007) for an example of how such a grounded study can help us identify categories of implications for distributed work.
In another project, Knowledge Networked on a Wiki for SI (KNOW SI), I ask, "how do faculty and students in a graduate school use a wiki to share information about their community with each other and with the public?" In KNOW SI, I use a mixed methods approach (Creswell, 2003) that relies on interviews, quantitative log data analysis, and content analysis. Each of those methods on its own is unable to provide a complete picture of the motivations, behavior, and contributions of the wiki's users but together, they allow us to tell a coherent story. Understanding wiki users and their use can tell us about what might be important for new community members to learn and to understand how people make decisions about what information to share and what to keep to themselves. Understanding the community and its existing information resources provides insights into the way members of those communities interact with one another via social media. My goal is to leverage human and computing resources so that this socio-technical system can use the skills of humans and benefits of computation in service of the community.
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Brian Hilligoss:
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Studying the process of patient handoffs between hospital physicians both to improve patient safety and medical care and to inform our understanding of organizational routines.
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Jina Huh:
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My dissertation investigates user groups that collectively maintain and appropriate discontinued technology.
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Trond E. Jacobsen:
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Examining how archival systems have been used in the oppression and dispossession of marginalized groups and the ways in which those groups are strategically engaging such systems in modern struggles for social justice.
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Lian Jian:
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Incentives centered design on peer-to-peer computing networks and empirical studies of online behaviors.
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Anthea P. Josias:
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Examining the broader social and political issues impacting on -- and being shaped by -- archives. Key questions include: Is there a universal role for archivists, or are there always dimensions located within a specific societal context? What are the main professional and ethical imperatives and who do archives ultimately owe accountability to? What can South African experiences offer other nations undergoing political and social transformation?
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Tapan A. Khopkar:
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Understanding reputation as an indicator of the participant's performance in an online trading environment.
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Jihyun Kim:
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My dissertation examines motivations of and barriers to university faculty participation in self-archiving practices -- the placement of research and/or teaching materials on publicly accessible Web sites.
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Yong-Mi Kim:
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The role of tags in information retrieval interaction.
User-oriented information retrieval evaluation methods.
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Cory P. Knobel:
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My current work looks at materiality and embodiment of technological standards and infrastructures, and the ways in which we "live inside" these constructs across varying levels of scale. The dissertation focuses on the macro or historical level, considering the role of TCP/IP selected as a protocol over OSI shaped the development of technological networks, and the way disciplines access today's cyberinfrastructures. I also have a current project looking at the micro or individual level which involves an ethnography of bodybuilders to see how technological standards, metric, and measurements shape routines and lead to various articulations of physicality.
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Magia Krause:
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I am interested in exploring ways to make primary sources relevant to undergraduates by understanding the knowledge and competencies of information literacy for primary sources.
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David Lee:
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John Lin:
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Currently I am studying the effect of social information on people's online behavior.
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Xiao (Tracy) Liu:
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Multiple Game: Investigating individuals' decision behaviors in the context of multiple games, which is an extended framework of game theory.
Social Identity Contract Design: Studying the effect of social identity on individuals' behaviors in organization
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Sean A. Munson:
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Kevin Nam:
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Designing an intuitive HCI application that is supportive of user needs with a focus on Artificial Intelligence, especially under a pervasive computing environment. Some of the projects include Data Visualization, User Interface, Agent System, and Ubicomp Simulator.
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Jinfang Niu:
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Documentation as a knowledge transfer channel for secondary data analysis
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Anna V. Osepayshvili:
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Ricardo L. Punzalan:
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Exploring the role of visual archives in representing, remembering and understanding leprosy, its relationship with the formation and propagation of stigma and its context within the wider discourse of social memory of the disease
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Emilee J. Rader:
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The purpose of my dissertation research is to make it easier for users to find documents in shared repositories, by investigating factors that influence their choices when labeling and organizing documents. At a high level, my hypothesis is that users of shared repository systems make choices about how documents should be labeled and where they should be stored in relation to other documents in the repository, and their choices can be influenced by knowledge, beliefs and assumptions about other users. These choices determine how the information in the repository is structured, and the information structure affects whether or not users can find documents they need. The information structure is co-constructed and evolves over time; early choices of individual users can constrain later choices and thus the ability of others to successfully find information.
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Marianne Ryan:
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Examining the legal and ethical implications of emerging information technologies.
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Nikhil Sharma:
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Exploring how technology might help people build upon sensemaking work done by others before them.
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Xiaodong Shi:
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Exploring how to use Web search engine query logs to enhance Web information retrieval tasks, with diverse techniques including natural language models, information retrieval models, graph theory and social network analysis.
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Maria L. Souden:
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Understanding how the context of the daily experience of chronic illness shapes information needs, seeking and use.
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Beth St. Jean:
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I am investigating what information consumer health information seekers find useful and the processes by which they make these determinations, along with how these both evolve over the course of a person's illness and the course of their information seeking processes.
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Dana M. Walker:
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Exploring the connections between information, democracy, and civic participation, specifically the role of community groups and cultural institutions as information mediators, and grassroots political organizing and the Internet.
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Richard L. Wash:
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Designing software systems that provide incentives for appropriate uses, specifically for improving information security and social software systems
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Jiang Yang:
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People's Participation Structure & Knowledge Distribution in Online Knowledge Sharing Communities.
Key words: CSCW, HCI, SNA
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Xingxing Yao:
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MIRACLE Project;
Storygame Project
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Jude Yew:
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Investigating the use of social software technologies to support learning and group knowledge formation in both classrooms and non-traditional environments.
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Xiaodan Zhou:
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Xiaomu Zhou:
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As part of my dissertation, I am working on two projects. The first one is "A Case Study of CPOE Adoption and Use: Work-arounds and Their Social-Technical Implications". This study applies ethnographically-based methods to investigate the socio-technical issues during and after a CPOE (Computerized Physician Order Entry) system implementation. The research is conducted in an inpatient unit at an academic medical center, where the CPOE is being implemented and clinicians have been found to develop ways to workaround the system. The findings of the study will help improve our understanding of the interaction between people, information, and IT systems in a highly efficient and highly collaborative clinical environment. The second project is "Re-formation of Healthcare Information: An Opportunity for Health IT ". With the increasing adoption of healthcare IT, there is a need to reinterpret what is considered to be medical records. This study also applies ethnographically-based methods to investigate medical information generation and use in an inpatient unit at UM hospital. The findings of this research will help inform the healthcare communities how healthcare IT can provide an opportunity to re-form healthcare information to better share information within and cross institutions, as well as with patients.
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