Senior Student Dejin Zhao in CSCL

Dejin Zhao is a fourth year Ph.D candidate in the CSCL lab, working with Dr. Mary Beth Rosson. Currently, he is working on his Ph.D dissertation. He developed his interests in examining the effect micro blogging has on collaboration work, like information sharing and group awareness.

So far, Dejin has attended many very good conferences, for example, he has attended CHI2007, HICSS 2007. What is more, he is going to attend the CSCW2008 next month in San Diego.

Dejin has also published many papers. Here are some of the papers that he published in the year 2007:

1. Gregorio Convertino, Dejin Zhao, Craig H. Ganoe, John M. Carroll, Mary Beth Rosson: A Role-Based Multiple View Approach to Distributed Geo-Collaboration. HCI (4) 2007: 561-570

2. Dejin Zhao, Mary Beth Rosson, Sandeep Purao: The Future of Work: What Does Online Community Have to Do with It? HICSS 2007: 180

3. Mary Beth Rosson, Hansa Sinha, Mithu Bhattacharya, Dejin Zhao: Design Planning in End-User Web Development. VL/HCC 2007: 189-196

4.John C. Grundy, John G. Hosking, Shuping Cao, Dejin Zhao, Nianping Zhu, Ewan D. Tempero, Hermann Stoeckle: Experiences developing architectures for realizing thin-client diagram editing tools. Softw., Pract. Exper. 37(12): 1245-1283 (2007)

The paper "Design Planning in End-User Web Development" won the best paper award, which is really a great achievement for him.

Dejin view himself as a HCI researcher and designer for collaborative software technology. He believes that the informal communication afforded by enterprise 3.0 would have great impact on collaborative work.

Dejin and I are similar in that we both have some interests in studying IT's role enterprises. Recently, we are brain storming some ideas in studying how micro blog can facilitate the informal collaboration within enterprises. Dejin is very smart, and also he works very hard.