Simplexity!
I'm a Second Year PhD Student at College
of Information Sciences
and Technology
in The Pennsylvania State
University. I work with Dr. Madhu Reddy in
the Socio-Technical Systems Lab. Like many other Second year PhD students in all parts of the world who are working towards their proposal and trying to "figure out" things along the way, I'm deeply confused. As a consequence, I tend to juggle between two broad paradigms of 'Organizational Science' and 'Design Science'. My research interests lie within the fields of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), Medical informatics, Information Sciences, and Organizational Studies.
In general, I'm interested at the interplay between identity, collaboration, knowledge, and work practices within organizations, and its relationship to technology design. Specifically, I'm interested in understanding how patient-care teams collaboratively identify problems, sensemake & evaluate information, and create & manage knowledge-via-practice.
I believe that many fundamental social phenomena is characterized by a certain simplexity - a mutually reinforcing quality between the simple and the complex, the sequential and the recursive, and between the rhythmic and the ergodic.
Recent Updates
[22/Sep/2009]
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