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.

Socio-technical Organization of Cyber-Infrastructure and Collaboratory Systems

Kirsch L.J., Slaughter, S., Diamant, E.I., Ma, L., Haney, M (2009) Understanding Conflict in Large Multi-Party Information Systems Development: The Role of Faultlines. Organizational Communication and Information Systems (OCIS) Division, Academy of Management Annual Meeting (AoM' 09) ,Chicago, IL

Diamant, E. I. (2009). How Stakeholders’ Translation Work and Professional Identity Shape the Development of Cyber-Infrastructure. Workshop on The Changing Face of Digital Science, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '09), Boston, MA.

Diamant, E. I., Kirsch L. J., Slaughter, S. A., Ma, L., Haney, M. (2008). Building Cyber-Infrastructure across Disciplinary and Institutional Boundaries: Stakeholder Emergence and Alignment. Workshop on Designing Cyberinfrastructure to Support Science, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW '08), San Diego, CA.

Slaughter, S., Kirsch L.J., Ma, L., Diamant, E.I., Haney, M. (2007). The Formation and Evolution of Faultlines in Large Scale, Multi-Party Information Systems Development. International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS '07) ,December 2007.

Intercultural Computer-Mediated Communication

Diamant, E. I., Echenique, A., Lim, B. Y., Leshed, G., Fussell, S. R. (2009). Supporting Intercultural Collaboration with Dynamic Feedback Systems: Preliminary Evidence from a Creative Design Task. Extended Abstracts of ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '09), Boston, MA, ACM.

Diamant, E. I., Fussell, S. R., Lo, F. (2009).Collaborating across Cultural and Technological Boundaries: Team Culture and Information Use in a Map Navigation Task. Proc. of the 2nd ACM International Workshop on Intercultural Collaboration (IWIC '09) , Stanford University, CA, ACM.

Diamant, E. I., Fussell, S. R., Lo, F. (2008)."Where did we turn wrong?" Unpacking the effects of Culture and Technology on Attributions of Team Performance. Proc. of Computer-Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW '08) , San Diego, CA. ACM.

User Participation & Membership Dynamics in Online Communities

Daniel S., Diamant, E.I., Dabbish, L., Collier, B. (under review). The Role of Users in Open and Distributed Innovation: Cross-Project Participation, Interactivity and Open-Source Software Project Performance.

Butler, B., Bateman, P. J., Diamant, E. I. (under 2nd round of review). Communication Costs, Benefit Expectations, and Structural Change: An Attraction-Selection-Attrition Model for Online Community Systems. Management Information Systems Quarterly (MISQ).

Daniel S., Diamant, E. I. (2008). Network Effects in OSS Development: the Impact of Users and Developers on Project Performance. Research-in-Progress, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS '08), Paris, France.