Robert Kraut
Location: (Pittsburgh, PA)
Personal Research Web Page: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kraut/
Keywords: Online communities, Virtual organizations, Social impact of computing, social computing, social media, technology-mediated social participation, HCI, CSCW, Technology and small groups, health support groups
Posted on: Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
Broad Research Area: HCI / CSCW, Information Systems / Information Science, Social Computing / Social Informatics
Research Interests:
Online Communities
Community Lab project conducts research to understand what leads people to become committed and contribute to online communities and how to design these communities to be more successful.
Social impact of computing
I have been investigating the way people use the Internet in their daily lives and the effects it is having on their psychological well-being and on their social relationships.
Virtual organizations
Groups are inherently different from individuals performing the same task because of a need to coordinate. I have been looking at coordination in groups in both laboratory and field settings and in groups as diverse as research collaborations, managerial teams, military crews at NORAD, projects in Wikipedia and software development teams.
