CIS ALUMNI

    The CIS program has had an international impact as evidenced by the placement of graduates in various positions around the world. Graduates are faculty or are in industry positions in Australia, German, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Nepal, New Zealand, and Taiwan, as well as organizations throughout the United States.

 


 

Kaveh Abhari

Affiliation: Professor of Information Systems, Fowler College of Business at San Diego State University. Affiliate faculty at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa.

Dissertation:
Modeling Actor Behavior in Collaborative Innovation Network: The Case of Social (New) Product Development  (2014)

Kumiko Aoki

Affiliation: Professor of Informatics, Open University of Japan. Adjunct Professor, Kanda University of International Studies.

Dissertation: Intercultural telecollaboration : a field experiment based upon a heuristic telecollaboration model for collaborative writing through the Internet (1996)

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Weranuj Ariyasriwatana

Affiliation: Assistant Professor of Communication, Marist College.

Interests: I am interested to combine Communication Theory, especially Intercultural Communication, with Biomedicalinformatics. My interests also include Swarm Intelligence, ICT Policy & Planning, Communication Rights, and Participatory Development Communication.

Dissertation: “Healthy Deliciousness”: Discovering The Secret To Healthy Eating Via Social Media (2018)

 

Salvatore Aurigemma

Affiliation: Instructor of Information Technology Management, Shidler College of Business, University of Hawaii at Manoa. Edward E. and Helen T. Bartlett Associate Professor of Computer Information Systems College of Business Accounting and Computer Information Systems

Dissertation: From the Weakest Link to the Best Defense: Exploring the Factors that Affect Employee Intention to Comply with Information Security Policies (2013)

donna Bair-Mundy

Affiliation: Retired, Library and Information Science Program, University of Hawai’i at Manoa

Dissertation:
A Theoretical Model for the Evolution of Law Relating to Telecommunication Privacy Vis-a-Vis Law Enforcement Surveillance in America (2009)

Jennifer Beamer

Affiliation: Head of Scholarly Communications and Open Publishing Services, The Claremont Colleges Services

Dissertation: Examining Open Access Information Infrastructures: A Sociotechnical Exploration Of Institutional Repository Models In Japan And The United States (2021) [Chair: Richard Gazan]

Website: ORCID page

Alexander Bergo

Affiliation: Director Innovation Norway San Francisco and Palo Alto. CEO and Chief Innovation Officer at MeetingSift

Dissertation:
Fostering the Creation of Futures Data and Simulating Subsequent Future Event and Trend Interactions: Early Identification of Opportunities and Threats for High-Speed Broadband Development in Hawaii (2013)

Kelly Burke

Affiliation: Professor, Management Information Systems, College of Business and Economics, University of Hawai’i at Hilo

Dissertation: Development processes and performance in groups using an electronic meeting system : a comparison of face-to-face, synchronous and asynchronous meeting environments (1994)

Jennifer Campbell-Meier

Affiliation: MIS Programme Director School of Information Management Victoria University of Wellington 

Dissertation: Case Studies on Institutional Repository Development: Creating Narratives for Project Management and Assessment – Jennifer L Campbell-Meier (2008)

Gregory Carlton

Affiliation: Professor at Computer Information Systems Department, College of Business Administration, Cal Poly Pomona

Dissertation:
A protocol for the forensic data acquisition of personal computer workstations(2006)

Sophea Chea

Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Business and Information Management, Delaware Valley University

Dissertation: Understanding the Roles of Emotion in Technology Acceptance (2006)

Jeng-Chung (Victor) Chen

Affiliation: Professor and Chairman, Institute of International Management, National Cheng Kung University

Dissertation:
Trust and privacy in electronic monitoring workplaces (2001)

Jeng-Her (Alex) Chen

Affiliation: Assistant Professor, College of Management, Yuan Ze University

Dissertation: Personal Factors and Efficiency of Web Searching (2011)

Ruobing Chi

Affiliation: Educator at Intercultural Communication, Shanghai International Studies University (SISU)

Dissertation: From a Typological to Network Understanding of Acculturation (2014)

Sungwon Cho

Dissertation: Design of a trading mechanism in electronic marketplaces: online multidimensional auction mechanism with enhanced negotiation support (2001)

Candace Chien-Tzu Chou

Affiliation: Associate Profesor of Learning TechnologyTeacher Education, University of St. Thomas

Dissertation: Student interaction in a collaborative distance-learning environment: a model of learner-centered computer-mediated interaction (2001)

Kar-Hai Chu

Affiliation: Assistant Professor of Medicine University of Pittsburgh

Dissertation:
Exploring How Technology Mediates the Types of Relationships Formed in Sociotechnical Systems (2012)

Lisa Chuang

Affiliation: Assistant Professor and Program Chair for Integrated Multimedia, College of liberal arts, department of communication, Hawai’i Pacific University

Dissertation: Effective computer-mediated intercultural communication factors: the influence of intercultural communication competence, social cues, and accommodative behavior in intercultural online exchange (2014)

Karen Rebecca Clark-Kraut

Dissertation: A spreadsheet-based decision model for the choice of indexing and abstracting data delivery option for academic libraries (1993)

Michael Cress

Affiliation: Computer science professor at University of Hawaii: Honolulu Community College

Dissertation: Is my computer safe? The role of structural assurances in E-commerce trust building (2006)

Caterina Desiato

Affiliation: Researcher and Consultant, Freelance. Lecturer, University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Dissertation: Online Deliberation Lived Experiences of KĀNAKA MAOLI Women (2018)

Website: https://hawaii.academia.edu/CaterinaDesiato

Kim Chi Diep

Affiliation: VEMBA Program Manager, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Shidler College of Bussiness

Dissertation: A Conceptual Framework for Best Practices in Information Literacy Instruction Based on Stakeholders’ Perceptions: A Case Study of Four Vietnamese Academic Libraries (2011)

Patricia Donohue

Patricia Donohue

Affiliation: Associate Professor in the Instructional Technologies in the Graduate College of Education at San Francisco State University (SFSU)

Dissertation: Cooperative Groups in Practice: An Analysis of Affect and Productivity in Group Interactions (2009)

Yun Du

Dissertation: Developing a Web-Based Learning Environment (2003)

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Pamela Estell

Affiliation: Chaminade University, School of Business and Communication

Dissertation: Employee Engagement, Direct Voice Mechanisms, and Enterprise Social Network Sites (ESNS) (2021) [Chair: Elizabeth Davidson]

Mauricio Featherman

Affiliation: Director of the Data Analytics MBA, Associate Professor of Information Systems, Carson College of Business, Washington State Univarsity

Dissertation: Evaluative criteria and user acceptance of Internet-based financial transaction processing systems (2003)

Stanislava Gardasevic

Interests: I am interested in exploring ways to create and visualize knowledge graph-based information system, in order to facilitate resource discovery and decision making. By applying participatory design research methods, I am aiming to create this technology for a particular user group, in this case- students of an interdisciplinary PhD program.

Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stanislava-gardasevic

Stacia Garlach

Affiliation: Brand Manager, University of Hawai‘i Foundation

Interests: I’ve been studying online advertising and its implications on consumer data privacy, from both a communication policy perspective (regulatory framework), and a human computer interaction perspective (design aspects of usable privacy and security). The working title of my dissertation is Usability of preference-setting tools for online behavioral advertising: Mobile AdChoices and Facebook Ad Preferences. I am also interested in marketing communication, data visualization, and user-centered design. I have more than 20 years’ experience in marketing communication work, mostly for non-profit organizations.

Dissertation: Usability of advertising preference tools on smartphones: AdChoices and Facebook Ad Preferences [Chair: Dan Suthers]

LeAnn Garrett

Affiliation: Department Chair, Systems Librarian, Mt. San Antonio College

Dissertation: Authority control and its influence on recall and precision in an online bibliographic catalog (1997)

Patrick Gilbert

Affiliation: Professor in the Business department at University of Hawaii West Oahu, Kapolei, HI

Dissertation: A Delphi Policy Study on the Futures Use of Distance Education within the University of Hawaiʻi System(2011)

Justin M. W. Goo

Affiliation: Opihi Net LLC

Dissertation: The Effect of Negative Feedback on Confidence Calibration and Error Reduction in Spreadsheet Development (2003)

Kumiko Hachiya

Dissertation: Mobile Phones and Older Japanese Adults (2010)

Richard Halverson

Affiliation: Consultant and President Guide.Net; Lecturer University of Hawaii; Applications Developer

Dissertation:
Functional memory approach to the design of custom computing machines (1994)

CIS compas PhD Hawaii

Kay Hamada

Affiliation:Faculty Specialist, Advising Center for the Colleges of Arts & Humanities and Languages, Linguistics & Literature, University of Hawai’i at Manoa

Dissertation:Dissertation: A study of factors impacting student use and non-use of advising (2018)

Anis Hamidati

Interests: My dissertation project looks into an e-government-based scholarship program from the perspective of its recipients. It addressed the challenges and the workarounds conducted to obtain and complete the scholarship program. It also discussed the social learning process that recipients undergo as part of communities of practice.

Apart from working on my dissertation, I am part of a team of researchers in my home country of Indonesia that focuses on the Internet facilitated women empowerment through entrepreneurial activities with the use of social media. My other research includes how international students in Hawaii maintain a connection with their family back home, comparing corporate communication cultures in five countries; how online communities support local travel in Indonesia, and discourses in travel accounts.

Jingxiang He

Dissertation: HAT (Hyper Analysis Toolkit) : a tool for hypertext-based dynamic systems analysis (1994)

Jerome Heath

Affiliation: Retired Professor in the Computer Science department at Hawaii Pacific University

Dissertation:
Culture, mindscapes, and technology (1997)

Christina Higa

Affiliation: Associate Director, Telecommunications and Social Informatics Research Program, University of Hawaii

Dissertation: Creating Healthier Communities: Leveraging ‘Ohana (Friends/Family) Support and Information Technology in Chronic Disease Management (2019)

Claire Hitosugi

Affiliation: Leeward Community College, Information & Computer Science

Dissertation:Effects of Culture on Online Initial Trust: Individual Level Analysis (2009)

 

 

Kelly Holden

Affiliation: Faculty Instructor, University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Dissertation: Whose Health Is It Anyway? The Impact of Employee Wellness Programs on Health Engagement (2021) [Chair: Elizabeth Davidson]

Beverly Hope

Affiliation: School of Management, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Dissertation:
Quality improvement in the service sector : an expert support system (ESS) for continuous improvement (1996)

Kelsea Hosoda

Affiliation: Postdoctoral Scholar, Institute for Health & Aging at University of California, San Francisco

Dissertation: Hawaiian Morphemes: Identification, Usage, and Application in Information Retrieval  (2019)

 

Dara Lee Howard

Dissertation: Interacting with information : constructing personal knowledge using written text (1994)

Hai Huang

Affiliation: Principal Engineer at Palo Alto Networks, Inc

Dissertation:
Proud–an integrated reverse engineering system for software maintenance (1994)

Mark Hukill

Affiliation: Principal Consultant, Asia Pacific Electronic Media Communications, LLC

Dissertation: Telematics policy in the ASEAN countries : a base-line data taxonomy of telecommunications and information systems infrastructure and investment for developing planning (1990)

Michelle Ibanez

Affiliation: S&T Policy Fellow, Department of Science & Technology, U. S. Department of Homeland Security.

Dissertation:
Virtual Red Light Districts: Detecting Covert Networks and Sex Trafficking Circuits in the U.S. (2016)

Philipp Jordan

Dissertation: A Meta-Study and Content Analysis of Science Fiction in Computer Science Research (2019)

Websites: ResearchGateGoogle Scholar

Lotus E. Kam

Affiliation: Decision Science & Customer Analytics at Starbucks

Dissertation: A Bayesian decision network model for analyzing biosecurity risk: Using a test-action biosecurity risk framework to develop a decision-theoretic model of white spot syndrome virus (WSSV) import risk for Hawai’i shrimp aquaculture (2006)

T. N. Kamala

Dissertation: Individual differences in the use of CD ROM databases (1991)

Moshe Karabelnik

Interests: I am interested in the practice of using digital images in social media. I want to understand what people are doing with visual media in their everyday lives. Currently working on understanding the use of visual media in the creation of group identities in political conflict.  MA Film & Television you can always find me looking for new television shows and old art movies.

Nyle Sky Kauweloa

Affiliation: Director of Esports, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa

Interests: My research interests sit at the intersection between games cultures and society. In particular, I study the development of college esports in the United States, and how greater institutional support for students’ interests in esports has raised important questions about the role of educational institutions, administration, and educators have in the development of students within this still emerging space of digital games and higher education. I taught two semesters of one of the first courses at UH to take a critical look at esports and its growing presence in society for America’s youth (Spring 2018, 2019).

Dissertation:The College Esports Experience: Gaming, Identity, and Development (2022) [Chair: Jenifer Winter]

Website: https://www.twitch.tv/kauweloa/profile

Xiangdong Ke

Xiangdong Ke

Affiliation: Sr. Software Engineer, Ke-Meadow, Sacramento, California

Dissertation: GOURD : an object-oriented uncertainty retrieval approach for graphics databases (1997)

Kathleen Kihmm Connolly

Affiliation: Special Projects Business Administrator, JABSOM Central Business Office, University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa

Dissertation:
The Digital Divide and Health Outcomes: A Teleretinal Imaging Study (2013)

Laurel King

Affiliation: Director of Organizational Effectiveness, Lanakila Pacific.

Dissertation: The Influence of Individual Differences on Diagrammatic Communication and Problem Representation (2009)

Hanae Kramer

Affiliation: Associate Professor at School of Communications, University of Hawai’i at Manoa

Dissertation: Marketing a Nation: The Role of Film in Manchoukuo (2010)

Hyosun Kwon

Dissertation: Adoption of cellular telephone technologies and services : user perceptions and motivations in the United States (Hawaii) and South Korea (1996)

Erika Lacro

Affiliation: As vice president for community colleges, Erika Lacro is responsible for executive leadership, policy decision-making, resource allocation and development of support services for the University of Hawaiʻi’s seven community colleges. A key focus of her work is to further support the community college student success agenda.

Dissertation: Enhancing Student Learning and Success Through the Use of Social Networking Technologies: A Design-Based Research Approach (2013)

David Lassner

Affiliation: President at University of Hawaii

Dissertation: Global telecommunications standardization in transition : impacts on Southeast Asia (1998)

Randall Larsen

Dissertation: Artist’s Rights versus Copyright Owner’s Rights (2005)

Zhi Cheng Li

Dissertation: Generalization of the stable marriage algorithms involving group preferences in resource allocation problems (1992)

Viil Lid

Affiliation: Director of Design Research & Strategy at Adobe

Dissertation: Investigating the Evolution of Key Member Roles in Socio-Technical Networks: Introducing the Composite Role Framework (2013)

Trisha Tsui-Chuan Lin

Ya Liu

Dissertation: GDB : a graphic database indexing and retrieving by visual relations (1996)

Zhengfu Geoffrey Liu

Affiliation: Professor, Library & Information Science, San Hosé State University

Dissertation: Experimental study of incorporating thematic role analysis into VSM-based text information representation and retrieval : design and evaluation of the semantic vector space model (1994)

John Locke

Assiliation: Creative Producer, Immersive xR Experiences. Visionary/Founder, The Mystic Media Group.

Dissertation: Creative Fission: Towards a Communication-Based Paradigm for the Study and Augmentation of Collaboration in Creative Information Ecologies (1998)

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Lila Loos

Affiliation: Information Technology Administrator, State of Hawaii Department of Land & Natural Resources.

Dissertation: Passphrase Authentication Design: Identifying Locus of Control Personality, Cognitive, and Psychophysiological Variable Influencers (2020)

Joanne Loos (Romero)

Affiliation: Science Writer and Lecturer, University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Dissertation: Examining the Influence of Wearable Health Monitors on Patients and Physicians in a Filipino Community (2019) [Chair: Elizabeth Davidson]

Interests: Science Writer, School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene
University of Hawaii at Manoa

Margaret Meiling Luo

Maureen MacLeod

Affiliation: Department Chair – Support & Wellness at Punahou School.

Dissertation: Talking Story: Using Narrative Analysis to Explore Identity in Middle School Technology Innovation (2011)

Leorey Marquez

Affiliation: Senior Research Scientist with the Digital Productivity Flagship at CSIRO, Australia’s federal research agency

Dissertation: Function approximation using neural networks : a simulation study (1992)

Paulo Maurin

Affiliation: National Education Coordinator and Fellowship Manager, NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP)

Dissertation: Informational Exchanges Among Hawaii Marine Stakeholders (2008)

Misa Maruyama

Affiliation: Lecturer, University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Dissertation: Social watching” to learn about and discuss a civic issue: How receiving positive social media feedback while watching a broadcast instills a sense of community (2016)

Johannes Meier

Affiliation: Founder and Managing Director of Xi GmbH

Dissertation: A Formal analysis of costs and benefits of interorganizational systems (1990)

Miwa Merz

Affiliation: Professor of Marketing, Department of Marketing and Decision Sciences, College of Business, San José State University.

Dissertation: The Effect of Message Framing on Attitudes and Intentions Toward Diabetes Mellitus Type II Prevention (2009)

Carleton Moore

Affiliation: Instructor at Information and Computer Science, University of Hawai’i at Manoa

Dissertation: Investigating individual software development: an evaluation of the leap toolkit (2000)

John F. Morton

Affiliation: Vice President for Community Colleges, University of Hawai’i

Dissertation: Effects of computer-mediated communication on faculty-student interaction outside the classroom (1997)

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Julie Motooka

Affiliation: Adjunct Instructor and Instructional and Student Support Specialist, University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Dissertation: Mindful Serendipity: A Model of Information Search Behavior & Strategies in Producing Serendipitous Outcomes (2020)

Website: http://www.linkedin.com/in/juliemotooka

Diane M. Nahl

Affiliation: Professor Emerita of Library and Information Science, University of Hawai’i at Manoa

Dissertation: CD-ROM point-of-use instructions for novice searchers : a comparison of user-centered affectively elaborated and system-centered unelaborated text (1993)

Junghyun Nam

JungHyun Nam

Affiliation: Visiting assistant professor, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea

Dissertation: Perceived Quality and Motivations on Intention-To-Use of a General Web Portal (2008)

Dr. Ryota Ono

Ryota Ono

Affiliation: Professor, Business Management, Aichi University, Japan

Dissertation: Worldwide probe of the telecommunications development gap from developing country and developed country perspectives : the nature of the gap, the obstacles and the strategies to close the gap (1996)

David Pai

Dissertation: The Role of Cognitive Absorption in Technology Acceptance: Not All Dimensions are Created Equal (2006)

Sunyeen Pai

Sunyeen Pai

Affiliation: Associate Professor, Digital Initiatives Librarian, Kapi’olani Community College, University of Hawai’i

Dissertation: The Role of Cognitive Absorption in Technology Acceptance: Not All Dimensions are Created Equal (2000)

Marc Le Pape

Affiliation: Assistant Professor Adjunct, Department of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology John A. Burns School of Medicine

Dissertation: Human-Computer Interaction In Extreme Environments: Interaction Effects Between Field Dependency-Independency And Altered ±Gz Accelerations On End-User Performance (2009)

Phuaphanthong-Thayanan

Thayanan Phuaphanthong

Affiliation: Lecturer, Department of IT Management, Program Coordinator, PhD Program in Business Administration, Program Coordinator, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Shidler College of Business, University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Dissertation: A Memetic Theory of Interorganizational Information Systems (IOIS) Emergence and Evolution: A Longitudinal Case Study of IOIS for Trade Facilitation (2014)

Blanca Polo

Affiliation: Associate Professor CC, Information and Computer Science, Leeward Community College, University of Hawai’i

Dissertation: The Virtual Critical Studio: Implementing Studio-Based Learning Techniques in an Online Introductory Programming Course to Address Common Programming Errors and Misconceptions (2013)

Asanga Porage

Affiliation: Software Development at Policy Studies/Barclay Card USA/Echostar/T-Mobile/TIAA-CREF/AMDOCS/Federal Express/Oracle

Dissertation: Framework for the interactive customization of products and services (1999)

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Ashiyan Rahmani-Shirazi

Affiliation: Lecturer, California State University (East Bay and San Jose). Fellow, UN-mandated University for Peace.

Dissertation: Gender Praxis: Rural Fiji Radio and Mobile Devices (2019)

Website: www.ashrahmani.info

Shakti S. Rana

Affiliation: Professor, SAIM college, Nepal

Dissertation: Product development model : case study of high definition television (1994)

Chamil Rathnayake

Affiliation: Lecturer In Journalism, Media and Communication, The University of Strathclyde

Dissertation: Carrying forward the Uses and Grats 2.0 agenda: Developing an affordance-based measure of social media uses and gratifications, and applying it across political actors and attributes (2016)

John Lee Reardon

Dissertation: A Study of the Assimilation of Electronic Medical Records by Independent Physician Practices (2007)

Wiebke Reile

Affiliation: Manager of Insights at Zenith and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Brooklyn College

Dissertation: Activist Organizations and Strategic Utilization of Information and Communication Technologies: An Exploration of CODEPINK: Women for Peace (2019)

Website:https://www.linkedin.com/in/wiebkereile

Stephanie Rolfe

Affiliation: Principal Advisor National Security, New Zealand Police.

Dissertation: Conceptualizing ICTs for Development: A Comparison of Four Pacific Island Countries and New Zealand as Donor (2007)

Terence Rose

Terence Rose

Affiliation: Librarian IV, Hawai`i Library for the Blind.

Dissertation: Library Services to Special Populations (focusing on Issues of Access to Information, Communication Rights, and the Right to Read), Assistive/Adaptive Technologies, the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, and NLS’s Digital Talking Book Program (2021) [Chair: Wayne Buente]

Matthew James Sharritt

Affiliation: President of Situated Research, Founder at Situated Research & CueCamp

Dissertation: Students’ Use of Social and Cognitive Affordances in Video Game Play Within Educational Contexts: Implications for Learning (2008)

Dan Smith

Affiliation: Principal Engineer – Avionics, Hawaiian Airlines; Lecturer, University of Hawai`i at Manoa

Dissertation: Social Media Correlates of Organizational Climate (2009)

Lai Kuen So

Dissertation: Automatic code generation for simulation programs using Petri net models (1997)

David Stone

David Stone

Dissertation: One channel at-a-time multichannel autoregressive modeling : applications to stationary and nonstationary covariance time series (1993)

Rajib Subba

Affiliation: Director of Communication Directorate, PHQ, Kathmandu, Nepal and Lead Faculty, Kings College-Kathmandu, an affiliate of Westcliff University, Irvine, CA, USA.

Dissertation: The Institutionalization Process of Non-Binding Virtual Communities: A Case Study of Haiti Earthquake Response Facebook Groups (2014)

Yinan SUN

Yinan Sun

Interests: My research interests center around the broad areas of social informatics, cultural studies, and posthuman studies, specifically cultural affordance, cultural identities, and health informatics. In addition, my research methodology includes ANT (actor network theory), phenomenology, grounded theory, and community engagement. My research aims to examine how technology, people, and culture as practices influence each other.

Steve Takaki

Dissertation: Self-efficacy, confidence, and overconfidence as contributing factors to spreadsheet development errors (2005)

CIS compas PhD Hawaii

Alicia Takaoka

Affiliation: Postdoctoral Researcher, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

Dissertation: Across the Generational Divide: Exploring Stigmas About Voluntarily Childless Women in Hawai’i  (2021) [Chair: Martha Crosby]

Website: http://linkedin.com/in/aliciatakaoka  &  https://www.aliciatphd.com/

Koji Takeda

Dissertation: Design of a uniform language for client-designer communication in software development (1998)

Siong Meng Tay

Dissertation: A study of coordination and communication in distributed information technology support (2006)

Danurahardjo Tjahjono

Dissertation: Exploring the Effectiveness of Formal Technical Review Factors with CSRS, A Collaborative Software Review System (1996)

Zach Tomaszewski

Affiliation: Professor at Palantir Technologies

Dissertation: Marlinspike: An interactive drama system (2011)

Louis Tomsic

Dissertation: Effectiveness of Blog Response Strategies to minimize Crisis Effects (2010)

Kauwela

S. Kauwela Valeho-Novikoff

Interests: Hawaiian Librarianship; Hawaiian knowledge systems for LIS education; Indigenous Ecology within LIS education; Hawaiian culture and protocols; Social justice; Indigenous Knowledge and culturally responsive methods in information research; Indigenous Knowledge and the Library and Information Service sector and protocols; The impact of IT on Indigenous peoples; Digital technologies and cultural collections; Indigenous knowledge systems and digital ethics; Indigenous knowledge and database management.

Ravi K Vatrapu

Affiliation: Loretta Rogers Research Chair in Digital Enterprise, Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University. Professor at Department of IT Management, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. Professor, Kristiania University College.

Dissertation: Technological Intersubjectivity and Appropriation of Affordances in Computer Supported Collaboration(2007)

Rita Michele Vick

Dissertation: Development of shared mental models: structuring distributed naturalistic decision making in a synchronous computer-mediated work environment (2003)

Dadong Wan

Affiliation: Senior Researcher and Innovation Executive at Accenture Technology Labs

Dissertation: CLARE : a computer-supported collaborative learning environment based on the thematic structure of scientific text (1994)

Hsiao-Hui Wang

Affiliation: Associate Professor at Infomation Communication Yuan Ze University, Taiwan

Dissertation: Value of information technology : an empirical study of the impact of IT capabilities and IT use on economic growth and on organizational performance in Taiwan (1997)

Xiaobo Wang

Affiliation: Dadong is a Senior Scientist and Fellow with Accenture Technology Labs.

Dissertation: Generating Customized Layouts Automatically (1996)

Laura Welsh

Dissertation: The Effect of Espoused National Cultural Values, the Five-Factor Model of Personality, and the Context of Travel on Technology Acceptance Across Two Levels of Structured Tourism Websites (2011)

Sonja Wiley-Patton

Affiliation: Associate Professor at EJ Ourso College of Business, Louisiana State University

Dissertation: A Test of the Extended Technology Acceptance Model for Understanding the Internet Adoption Behavior of Physicians (2003)

Joel Wilf

Joel Wilf

Interests: For the past ten years, UH professor Dan Port and I have been studying how NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) provides assurance (i.e., confidence) in the quality, reliability, and safety of its mission systems. We came to focus on the role of assurance in mission decision-making – for example, deciding whether the guidance and control software was ready for testing on the integrated flight system and, later, if it was ready for launch and cruise operations. We examined how assurance reduced the uncertainty – and ultimately the risk – inherent in these decisions. Over the years, we developed a decision-based theory of assurance and its value to NASA. Through several research grants and papers, we applied this theory to better understand NASA mishaps and the mission decision-making factors that led to them. I’ve also applied these insights in my work at JPL, developing a new program for assuring the cybersecurity of mission systems. My current interest is in summarizing our theory of assurance, with supporting evidence, and illustrating one or more of its applications in my CIS dissertation.

Jenifer Sunrise Winter

Affiliation: Professor and Graduate Chair at School of Communications. University of Hawaii at Manoa

Dissertation: Early identification and evaluation of slowly emerging problems related to the ubiquitous networked computing & communications environment in the State of Hawaii (2003)

CIS compas PhD Hawaii

Taunalei Wolfgramm (Kau)

Dissertation: Bridging Formal and Informal Roles in Workgroups: Moving beyond Followership towards Supportership, a Case Study (2019)

Anthony Wong

Affiliation: Assistant Professor at MUST

Dissertation: Information and Communication Technology in Professional Organizations: An Empirical Investigation of the Social Actor Model(2007)

Su-Chin Wu

Affiliation: Lecturer at University of Hawai’i at Manoa and Hawaii Pacific University

Dissertation: An individual differences learning model (IDL) for asynchronous distributed learning (ADL) preferences: Gender, cultural backgrounds, learning styles, and attitudes toward collaborative learning(2006)

Lisa Yoda

Affiliation: Senior Data Analyst at AlohaCare

Dissertation: Toward an understanding of college women’s decisionmaking regarding the human papillomavirus vaccine (2012)

CIS compas PhD Hawaii

Jonathan Young

Affiliation: Librarian II, Science and Technology Reference, Public Services Division, Hamilton Library, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa 

Dissertation:  Interdisciplinarity in Translational Medicine: A Bibliometric Case Study- Jonathan Young (2017)

Joyce Yukawa

Affiliation: Associate Professor at Master of Library and Information Science Program, St. Catherine University
Dissertation: Hearts and Minds Through Hands Online: A Narrative Analysis of Learning Through Co-Reflection in an Online Action Research Course (2005)

Vichianin Yudthaphon

Affiliation: Director of Public Relations and Communication, ISRRT. Associate Professor, Mahidol University.

Dissertation: How do healthcare information and communication technology (HICT) interventions affect access to public sector healthcare delivery in a developing country? A case study of professionals’ perception in Saraburi Province, Thailand (2007)