Foundation
My experience as an information technology consultant taught me that the implementation of Information Technology is more than just the management of the client, scope, and technology. I believe it is as important, if not more important, to understand the people using the technology, the work supported by the technology, and the information needs of the end users - leading to a complete solution. This belief has led me to the following: applying a social informatics perspective on collaborative systems.
Additionally, I am interested in how organizational teams work together to find needed information. I am currently working on a National Science Foundation funded research project, under the supervision of Madhu Reddy, to identiy charactertistics of collaborative information behavior and how team members work together to search for and retreive information in the context of information technology teams of a large teaching hospital.
Interests
| Collaborative Information Behavior | Computer-Supported Cooperative Work |
| Organizational Influences on Work | Ethnographic Study |
| Teams | Medical Informatics |
| Social Informatics | Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) |
Research Communities
Because my research interests cross disciplinary boundaries, I find outlets for my work in several communities: