PhD candidate, Univ. of Pittsburgh

I study distributed IT development & collaboration (CSCW)

The 'E.' in my name stands for Eirini, which means peace in Greek. 'Ilana' means pine tree in Hebrew.

I am a fifth-year PhD candidate in Information Systems at the Katz Graduate School of Business, at the University of Pittsburgh.

My research involves social and organizational issues in the development of community based Information Systems, such as Cyber-Infrastructures, Collaboratories, and Open-Source Software.
I am also investigating the role of culture in computer-mediated communication.

Here you'll find research updates, and various pointers to contemporary literature and social computing.

What's New

• Aug 2009: Sue Fussell organized a Culture&Tech workshop at INTERACT '09. Trip to Sweden!


• "Conflict in CyberInfrastructure Development" presentation at AoM '09 went great. Interest in faultlines is spreading...


• June 2009: CSST'09 was amazing!


• April 2009: CHI'09 & Digital Science workshop in Boston


• Feb 2009: I'm going to IWIC, which happens to be at Stanford/Palo Alto this year, to present some more findings from the Culture & CMC study. Location couldn't be better for this time of year


• Dec 2008: ICIS'09 (Paris). Too short a stay, too long a trip for a poster. Wish I could go back for a vacation.


• Nov 2007: I'm at CSCW'08 (and San Diego!). I'm presenting the attribution study,and a pre-dissertation idea to the Cyber-Infrastructure workshop.


• Aug 2008: Done teaching BUSMIS 1060. Intro to IS needed a major overhaul out of its frontal learning assumptions.


• Aug 2008: Starting a new CMC study


• Dec 2007: ICIS'07 happens to be at Montreal. We're showing a poster on the Large-Scale Cyber-Infrastructure Development project. Lots of interesting projects presented at the poster session.







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