Research
NC2IF: Network-Centered Cognition for Information Fusion
Details coming soon.
COHORT Project
I am one of the graduate student researchers on the COHORT project
, an NSF grant aimed at helping non-governmental organizations (NGOs) involved in disaster relief improve their operations through better sharing of information and better coordination of decision-making processes.
The three-year project will involve using intelligent-agent software to simulate how NGOs make decisions so as to determine if different organizational structures can lead to better inter-organizational coordination. Developed by Yen, the agent software will enable the researchers to analyze how organizational characteristics—such as structure and decision-making responsibility—affect coordination and information sharing.
Exploring Design as a Research Activity
EDRA was a workshop held at DIS 2006. We brought together researchers from a wide variety of fields to discuss what exactly constitutes design research, and how it should be evaluated. Based on the success of the first EDRA, a second iteration of the workshop was offered at CHI 2007 in San Jose, and we are also entertaining an invitation from the National Science Foundation to conduct the workshop in Washington, DC. The extended abstract of the CHI workshop can be found in the conference proceedings, and the ongoing discussions of the workshop can be found here.
Outlets for the work are somewhat hard to find, but an experience report has been submitted to GROUP 2007. Other outlets, such as a journal special issue, are forthcoming.
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