Laura Dabbish
Location: (Pittsburgh, PA)
Personal Research Web Page: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dabbish
Keywords: Changing nature of work, human attention, productivity, awareness, interruption, knowledge work, distributed collaboration, computer-mediated communication, computer-supported cooperative work
Posted on: Friday, May 14th, 2010
Broad Research Area: HCI / CSCW, Information Systems / Information Science, Social Computing / Social Informatics, Technology Policy
Research Interests:
Technology is rapidly changing the nature of work as we know it. These changes have made possible a variety of new organizational forms but increased the demands on human attention.
We are interested in understanding and optimizing allocation of attention in networked organizations. Our research includes: qualitative study of attention and coordination in networked knowledge work, experiments on task and social influences on direction of attention, quantitative analysis of log data on communication and task-switching behaviors in information centric work settings, and development of novel tools for self-regulation, productivity support, communication management, and coordination in creative work.
Contact Information:
dabbish@cmu.edu
