Mark Ackerman is an associate professor in the School of Information and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the College of Engineering.

Current projects:

• Infrastructure for collaborative memory
• Online worlds and social computing
• An ethnographic investigation of chronic disease management
• Resources in CSCW

Jun Zhang is a PhD student in the School of Information. He is interested in expertise sharing, social networks, and CSCW.

Current projects:

• Expertise sharing in online communities
• Social network simulations

Xiaomu Zhou is a PhD student in the School of Information. She is interested in computer-mediated communication, information access and reuse in organizational settings, organizational memory, records management. Xiaomu has a BS in computer science and technology, Shandong University, and a MS in computer science and application, Beijing Institute of Technology.

Current projects:

• A field investigation examining collective practices of memory

Jina Huh is a Ph.D. student in the School of Information. Jina is interested in the coevolution between people and the design of technology. She received MHCI from HCII, Carnegie Mellon University, and a BA in Multimedia design from Korean National University of Arts.

Current projects:

• HP200LX: How people appropriate and maintain technological resources in their everyday lives.

Kevin Nam is a PhD student in the School of Information. He is interested in human-computer interaction; pervasive computing; computer-supported cooperative work. Kevin has an MS in computer science with concentration in artificial intelligence, University of Michigan, 2004, and a BS in computer science, University of Texas at Dallas, 2002

Current projects:

• iDiag/Consolidate, a system to help distill community knowledge

Ben Congleton is a PhD student in the School of Information. He is interested: Ubiquitous Computing, CSCW, HCI, and the design of interactive systems. Ben has interned at the Context, Content, and Community group at Nokia Research Palo Alto. He has a BS in business information technology, a BS in computer science, Virginia Tech, 2005, and a MS in computer science, Virginia Tech, 2006.

Current projects:

• Prospero, a toolkit for Audience Aware Public Displays.
• SSAPP, a simple sensor architecture for simulating and prototyping privacy aware pervasive environments.

Previous projects:

• Skira, a system to explore artifact-based memory in bioinfomatics
• Shimr, a system to explore artifact-based memory in pervassive environments
• Prospero 1, a visual commons framework for community-aware displays