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Accepting PhD Students
This faculty member is NOT currently accepting Ph.D. studentsJoel Chan
Assistant Professor, Assistant Director of the PhD in Information Studies, Associate Director of the HCILjoelchan@umd.edu
301-405-5628
Hornbake 2118E
http://joelchan.me/
Dr. Chan’s research and teaching explore systems that support creative knowledge work. He conceives of “systems” very broadly, from individual cognitive skills, interfaces, tools and practices, to collaborative and organizational dynamics and tools, collective intelligence and crowdsourcing, social computing, all the way to sociotechnical infrastructures within which knowledge work is done. Dr. Chan is also broadly interested in creative work across many domains, although he spends most of his time considering the disciplines of design and scientific discovery. His long-term vision is to help create a future where any person or community can design the future(s) they want to live in.
Before coming to the College of Information Studies, Dr. Chan was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Project Scientist in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Chan received his Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh.
Associated Research Centers
- Organization Teams & Technology Society (OTTRS) Interest Group
- The Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL)
Research & Focus Areas
- Computational Linguistics, Machine Learning, and Information Retrieval
- Future of Work
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Library and Information Science
- Smart Cities and Connected Communities