Dr. Stephanie D. Teasley is a research professor and director of the doctoral program at the School of Information. She is also director of the Usability, Support and Evaluation Lab in the Digital Media Commons Lab at the Duderstadt Center.

Teasley's current research focuses on the social and cognitive processes in collaboration. She researches technology use to support key aspects of collaboration for both co-located groups and distributed groups. She has extensive experience assessing work practices and user needs, and designing, implementing, and evaluating technology use. She has conducted her work in schools, Fortune 500 companies, and with the biomedical community where she has helped to support the scientific activity in several distributed research centers. She is also involved in the development and evaluation of collaborative tools for academic research and teaching in higher education.

Her work has been published in Science, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Social Science Computing Review, Journal of Medical Internet Research; editions of Discourse, Tools, and Reasoning: Situated Cognition and Technologically Supported Environments and Distributed Work: New Research on Working Across Distance Using Technology; and she is the co-editor of Perspectives on Socially Shared Cognition.

I am currently a doctoral candidate at the School of Information at the University of Michigan, with an expected graduation of Spring 2010. I earned an MSI with a focus on human-computer interaction from Michigan in 2004 and a BA in Interdisciplinary Humanities from Michigan State in 1997.

Broadly construed, my research interests center on emergent social and creative behaviors afforded by technology placed in amateur and informal contexts. This has led me to do work into such topics such as distributed creative practice, distance collaboration, creative toolkit environments, and amateur and professional interactions in online creative communities.

In my dissertation work, I focus on the concept of networked home mode production -- the use of snapshot media in computer-mediated settings for family communication and biography construction. One goal in this endeavor is to develop a more nuanced and theoretically grounded perspective on user-generated content systems, while also contributing to a broader dialogue about technology and well-being.

I am a first year doctoral student at the University of Michigan School of Information and Director of the Office of Enabling Technologies for the University of Michigan Medical School. My research interests include studying the collaborative creation and use of open educational resources (OER). I am the co-investigator with Medical School Dean James Woolliscroft on a Hewlett Foundation-funded project to co-create OER for Health with universities in Ghana and South Africa. I am also a participant in a Gates Foundation Learning Grant that is addressing human resources for health capacity issues in Ghana. My focus in that grant is on assessing learning infrastructures and building and deploying OER. My office manages a site, open.umich.edu, that serves as a portal to U-M's open publishing, open source, open access, and open learning efforts.

I have a B.S. in Biology from Boston College and an MBA from the University of Michigan.

I am a first-year PhD student at SI. Before coming to SI, I was research staff at the Human Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon, where I also received my B.S. in Psychology.

Here at Michigan, I am interested in Computer Supported Collaborative Work and Learning. I also have an interest in assistive technologies for the blind.

I am a Doctoral Candidate at the School of Information, University of Michigan and I expect to graduate in Spring 2010. I have a BA in English Literature and Dip Ed from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. I also attained an MSI with a focus on Human-Computer Interaction in 2005.

My research interests lie at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction, Social Computing and the Learning Sciences.In particular, I am interested in studying and leveraging the potential of "open contribution systems" - online platforms that encourage open sharing and contribution of content - towards helping people to learn and work better with each other.

My current work revolves around employing social network analysis to study the dynamics and patterns of participation in an online music sharing and remixing community - ccMixter (http://ccmixter.org). By examining how individuals participate on this community, I hope to develop models and theories that better explain what motivates individuals to openly share and engage in "open contribution systems".

I’m a Research Fellow at the University of Michigan School of Information. I study the building of bridges, wikis in organizations, and interventions with newly hired employees in order to understand how distributed work gets done and how social computing technologies are engaged in that work. I’m especially interested in learning that takes place when people work together. I aim to contribute new ways of thinking about distributed work, learning in collaboration, and the roles of social computing in both.