CIS ALUMNI

The CIS program has had an international impact as evidenced by the placement of graduates in various positions around the world. Graduates are faculty or are in industry positions in Australia, German, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Nepal, New Zealand, and Taiwan, as well as organizations throughout the United States.


Kaveh Abhari

Affiliation: Professor of Information Systems, Fowler College of Business at San Diego State University. Affiliate faculty at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa.

Dissertation:
Modeling Actor Behavior in Collaborative Innovation Network: The Case of Social (New) Product Development  (2014)

Chair: Dr. Elizabeth Davidson

Kumiko Aoki

Affiliation: Professor of Informatics, Open University of Japan. Adjunct Professor, Kanda University of International Studies.

Dissertation: Intercultural telecollaboration : a field experiment based upon a heuristic telecollaboration model for collaborative writing through the Internet (1996)

Chair: Dr. Andrew R. Arno

CIS compas PhD Hawaii

Weranuj Ariyasriwatana

Affiliation: Assistant Professor of Communication, Marist College.

Dissertation: “Healthy Deliciousness”: Discovering The Secret To Healthy Eating Via Social Media (2018)

Chair: Dr. Wayne Buente

Salvatore Aurigemma

Affiliation: Instructor of Information Technology Management, Shidler College of Business, University of Hawaii at Manoa. Edward E. and Helen T. Bartlett Associate Professor of Computer Information Systems College of Business Accounting and Computer Information Systems

Dissertation: From the Weakest Link to the Best Defense: Exploring the Factors that Affect Employee Intention to Comply with Information Security Policies (2013)

Chair: Raymond R. Panko

donna Bair-Mundy

Affiliation: Retired, Library and Information Science Program, University of Hawai’i at Manoa

Dissertation:
A Theoretical Model for the Evolution of Law Relating to Telecommunication Privacy Vis-a-Vis Law Enforcement Surveillance in America (2009)

Chair: Dr. Rebecca Knuth

Jennifer Beamer

Affiliation: Senior Assistant Professor and Scholarly Communications Librarian, California State University, San Bernardino; Fulbright Researcher, 2023 – 2024.

Dissertation: Examining Open Access Information Infrastructures: A Sociotechnical Exploration Of Institutional Repository Models In Japan And The United States (2021)

Chair: Dr. Rich Gazan

Alexander Bergo

Affiliation: Director Innovation Norway San Francisco and Palo Alto. CEO and Chief Innovation Officer at MeetingSift

Dissertation:
Fostering the Creation of Futures Data and Simulating Subsequent Future Event and Trend Interactions: Early Identification of Opportunities and Threats for High-Speed Broadband Development in Hawaii (2013)

Chair: Dan J. Wedemeyer

Kelly Burke

Affiliation: Professor, Management Information Systems, College of Business and Economics, University of Hawai’i at Hilo

Dissertation: Development processes and performance in groups using an electronic meeting system : a comparison of face-to-face, synchronous and asynchronous meeting environments (1994)

Chair: Laku Chidambaram

Jennifer Campbell-Meier

Affiliation: MIS Programme Director School of Information Management Victoria University of Wellington

Dissertation: Case Studies on Institutional Repository Development: Creating Narratives for Project Management and Assessment – Jennifer L Campbell-Meier (2008)

Chair: Rebecca Knuth

Gregory Carlton

Affiliation: Professor at Computer Information Systems Department, College of Business Administration, Cal Poly Pomona.

Dissertation:
A protocol for the forensic data acquisition of personal computer workstations (2006)

Chair: Raymond R. Panko

Sophea Chea

Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Business and Information Management, Delaware Valley University

Dissertation: Understanding the Roles of Emotion in Technology Acceptance (2006)

Chair: William E. Remus

Jeng-Chung (Victor) Chen

Affiliation: Distinguished Professor, International Master of Business Administration Program; Institute of International Management, National Cheng Kung University.

Dissertation: Trust and privacy in electronic monitoring workplaces (2001)

Chair: Dr. Rebecca Knuth

Jeng-Her (Alex) Chen

Affiliation: Assistant Professor, College of Management, Yuan Ze University

Dissertation: Personal Factors and Efficiency of Web Searching (2011)

Chair: Dr. Rebecca Knuth

Ruobing Chi

Affiliation: Educator at Intercultural Communication, Shanghai International Studies University (SISU)

Dissertation: From a Typological to Network Understanding of Acculturation (2014)

Chair: Dr. Daniel Suthers

Sungwon Cho

Dissertation: Design of a trading mechanism in electronic marketplaces: online multidimensional auction mechanism with enhanced negotiation support (2001)

Chair: Dr. Martha E. Crosby

Candace Chien-Tzu Chou

Affiliation: Associate Profesor of Learning TechnologyTeacher Education, University of St. Thomas.

Dissertation: Student interaction in a collaborative distance-learning environment: a model of learner-centered computer-mediated interaction (2001)

Chair: Dr. Martha E. Crosby

Kar-Hai Chu

Affiliation: Assistant Professor of Medicine University of Pittsburgh.

Dissertation:
Exploring How Technology Mediates the Types of Relationships Formed in Sociotechnical Systems (2012)

Chair: Dr. Daniel Suthers

Lisa Chuang

Affiliation: Program Director, Master of Arts in Strategic Communication; Associate Professor of Communication, Hawai’i Pacific University.

Dissertation: Effective computer-mediated intercultural communication factors: the influence of intercultural communication competence, social cues, and accommodative behavior in intercultural online exchange (2014)

Chair: Dr. Daniel Suthers

Karen Rebecca Clark-Kraut

Dissertation: A spreadsheet-based decision model for the choice of indexing and abstracting data delivery option for academic libraries (1993)

Chair: Dr. Carol Tenopir

Michael Cress

Affiliation: Computer science professor at University of Hawaii: Honolulu Community College.

Dissertation: Is my computer safe? The role of structural assurances in E-commerce trust building (2006)

Chair: Dr. Raymond R. Panko

Caterina Desiato

Affiliation: Researcher and Consultant, Freelance. Lecturer, University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Dissertation: Online Deliberation Lived Experiences of KĀNAKA MAOLI Women (2018)

Chair: Daniel D. Suthers

Kim Chi Diep

Affiliation: VEMBA Program Manager, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Shidler College of Business.

Dissertation: A Conceptual Framework for Best Practices in Information Literacy Instruction Based on Stakeholders’ Perceptions: A Case Study of Four Vietnamese Academic Libraries (2011)

Chair: Diane M. Nahl

Soussan Djamasbi

Affiliation: Founder and Director of User Experience and Decision Making Research Lab, Associate Professor, IT, School of Business, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Dissertation:
Does affect influence information overload? (2004)

Chair: Dr. William E. Remus

Patricia Donohue

Patricia Donohue

Affiliation: Associate Professor in the Instructional Technologies in the Graduate College of Education at San Francisco State University (SFSU).

Dissertation: Cooperative Groups in Practice: An Analysis of Affect and Productivity in Group Interactions (2009)

Chair: Dr. Martha E. Crosby

Yun Du

Dissertation: Developing a Web-Based Learning Environment (2003)

Chair: Martha E. Crosby

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Pamela Estell

Affiliation: Assistant Professor of Management, Human Resources, and Organizational Behavior, Chaminade University of Honolulu.

Dissertation: Employee Engagement, Direct Voice Mechanisms, and Enterprise Social Network Sites (ESNS) (2021)

Chair: Dr. Elizabeth Davidson

Mauricio Featherman

Affiliation: Professor of Management Information Systems, Carson College of Business, Washington State University.

Dissertation: Evaluative criteria and user acceptance of Internet-based financial transaction processing systems (2003)

Chair: Dr. Raymond R. Panko

Stanislava Gardasevic

Affiliation: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stanislava-gardasevic”>Metadata Specialist Kawaiahaʻo Church Archives, Project Manager at Hamilton Library, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

Dissertation: Designing Usable Knowledge Graphs: The Case of an Interdisciplinary PhD Program

Chair: Dr. Rich Gazan

Stacia Garlach

Affiliation: Brand Manager, University of Hawai‘i Foundation

Dissertation: Usability of advertising preference tools on smartphones: AdChoices and Facebook Ad Preferences (2022)

Chair: Dr. Daniel Suthers

LeAnn Garrett

Affiliation: Department Chair, Systems Librarian, Mt. San Antonio College

Dissertation: Authority control and its influence on recall and precision in an online bibliographic catalog (1997)

Chair: Larry N. Osborne

Patrick Gilbert

Affiliation: Professor in the Business department at University of Hawaii West Oahu, Kapolei, HI

Dissertation: A Delphi Policy Study on the Futures Use of Distance Education within the University of Hawaiʻi System (2011)

Chair: Raymond R. Panko

Justin M. W. Goo

Affiliation: Opihi Net LLC

Dissertation: The Effect of Negative Feedback on Confidence Calibration and Error Reduction in Spreadsheet Development (2003)

Chair: Dr. Raymond R. Panko

Kumiko Hachiya

Dissertation: Mobile Phones and Older Japanese Adults (2010)

Chair: Dr. Andrew R. Arno

Richard Halverson

Affiliation: Consultant and President Guide.Net; Lecturer University of Hawaii; Applications Developer

Dissertation:
Functional memory approach to the design of custom computing machines (1994)

CIS compas PhD Hawaii

Kay Hamada

Affiliation:Faculty Specialist, Advising Center for the Colleges of Arts & Humanities and Languages, Linguistics & Literature, University of Hawai’i at Manoa

Dissertation:Dissertation: A study of factors impacting student use and non-use of advising (2018)

Anis Hamidati

Dissertation: “Top-Down Approach, Bottom-Up Solution: Overcoming Perceived Challenges of an Indonesian E-Government-Based Scholarship Program”

Chair: Dr. Rich Gazan

Jingxiang He

Dissertation: HAT (Hyper Analysis Toolkit) : a tool for hypertext-based dynamic systems analysis (1994)

Jerome Heath

Affiliation: Retired Professor in the Computer Science department at Hawaii Pacific University

Dissertation:
Culture, mindscapes, and technology (1997)

Christina Higa

Affiliation: Director, Telecommunications and Social Informatics (TASI) Research Program/Pacific Health Informatics and Data Center (PHIDC), University of Hawaii; Associate Specialist, Social Sciences’ Social Science Research Institute (SSRI), University of Hawaii; Co-Director, Pacific Basin Telehealth Resource Center, University of Hawaii.

Dissertation: Creating Healthier Communities: Leveraging ‘Ohana (Friends/Family) Support and Information Technology in Chronic Disease Management (2019)

Chair: Dr. Elizabeth Davidson

Claire Hitosugi

Affiliation: Leeward Community College, Information & Computer Science

Dissertation:Effects of Culture on Online Initial Trust: Individual Level Analysis (2009)

 

 
Dr. Kelly Holden

Kelly Holden

Affiliation: Faculty Instructor, University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Dissertation: Whose Health Is It Anyway? The Impact of Employee Wellness Programs on Health Engagement (2021)

Chair: Dr. Elizabeth Davidson

Beverly Hope

Affiliation: School of Management, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Dissertation:
Quality improvement in the service sector : an expert support system (ESS) for continuous improvement (1996)

Kelsea Hosoda

Affiliation: Postdoctoral Scholar, Institute for Health & Aging at University of California, San Francisco

Dissertation: Hawaiian Morphemes: Identification, Usage, and Application in Information Retrieval  (2019)

 

Dara Lee Howard

Dissertation: Interacting with information : constructing personal knowledge using written text (1994)

Hai Huang

Affiliation: Principal Engineer at Palo Alto Networks, Inc

Dissertation:
Proud–an integrated reverse engineering system for software maintenance (1994)

Mark Hukill

Affiliation: Principal Consultant, Asia Pacific Electronic Media Communications, LLC

Dissertation: Telematics policy in the ASEAN countries : a base-line data taxonomy of telecommunications and information systems infrastructure and investment for developing planning (1990)

Michelle Ibanez

Affiliation: S&T Policy Fellow, Department of Science & Technology, U. S. Department of Homeland Security.

Dissertation:
Virtual Red Light Districts: Detecting Covert Networks and Sex Trafficking Circuits in the U.S. (2016)

Philipp Jordan

Dissertation: A Meta-Study and Content Analysis of Science Fiction in Computer Science Research (2019)

Websites: ResearchGateGoogle Scholar

Lotus E. Kam

Affiliation: Decision Science & Customer Analytics at Starbucks

Dissertation: A Bayesian decision network model for analyzing biosecurity risk: Using a test-action biosecurity risk framework to develop a decision-theoretic model of white spot syndrome virus (WSSV) import risk for Hawai’i shrimp aquaculture (2006)

T. N. Kamala

Dissertation: Individual differences in the use of CD ROM databases (1991)

Moshe Karabelnik

Dissertation: The Visual Social Media Activism Practice of Opponents to COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates

Chair: Dr. Jenifer Sunrise Winter

Nyle Sky Kauweloa

Affiliation: Director of Esports, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa

Dissertation:The College Esports Experience: Gaming, Identity, and Development (2022) [Chair: Jenifer Winter]

Website: https://www.twitch.tv/kauweloa/profile

Xiangdong Ke

Xiangdong Ke

Affiliation: Sr. Software Engineer, Ke-Meadow, Sacramento, California

Dissertation: GOURD : an object-oriented uncertainty retrieval approach for graphics databases (1997)

Kathleen Kihmm Connolly

Affiliation: Special Projects Business Administrator, JABSOM Central Business Office, University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa

Dissertation:
The Digital Divide and Health Outcomes: A Teleretinal Imaging Study (2013)

Laurel King

Affiliation: Director of Organizational Effectiveness, Lanakila Pacific.

Dissertation: The Influence of Individual Differences on Diagrammatic Communication and Problem Representation (2009)

Hanae Kramer

Affiliation: Associate Professor at School of Communications, University of Hawai’i at Manoa

Dissertation: Marketing a Nation: The Role of Film in Manchoukuo (2010)

Hyosun Kwon

Dissertation: Adoption of cellular telephone technologies and services : user perceptions and motivations in the United States (Hawaii) and South Korea (1996)

Erika Lacro

Affiliation: Former Vice President for Community Colleges, University of Hawaii.

Dissertation: Enhancing Student Learning and Success Through the Use of Social Networking Technologies: A Design-Based Research Approach (2013)

Chair: Dr. Daniel Suthers

David Lassner

Affiliation: President Emeritus, University of Hawaiʻi.

Dissertation: Global telecommunications standardization in transition: impacts on Southeast Asia (1998)

Chair: Dr. Dan J. Wedemeyer

Randall Larsen

Dissertation: Artist’s Rights versus Copyright Owner’s Rights (2005)

Zhi Cheng Li

Dissertation: Generalization of the stable marriage algorithms involving group preferences in resource allocation problems (1992)

Viil Lid

Affiliation: Director of Design Research & Strategy, Adobe.

Dissertation: Investigating the Evolution of Key Member Roles in Socio-Technical Networks: Introducing the Composite Role Framework (2013)

Chair: Dr. Daniel Suthers

Trisha Tsui-Chuan Lin

Ya Liu

Dissertation: GDB : a graphic database indexing and retrieving by visual relations (1996)

Zhengfu Geoffrey Liu

Affiliation: Professor, Library & Information Science, San Hosé State University

Dissertation: Experimental study of incorporating thematic role analysis into VSM-based text information representation and retrieval : design and evaluation of the semantic vector space model (1994)

John Locke

Assiliation: Creative Producer, Immersive xR Experiences. Visionary/Founder, The Mystic Media Group.

Dissertation: Creative Fission: Towards a Communication-Based Paradigm for the Study and Augmentation of Collaboration in Creative Information Ecologies (1998)

CIS compas PhD Hawaii

Lila Loos

Affiliation: Information Technology Administrator, State of Hawaii Department of Land & Natural Resources.

Dissertation: Passphrase Authentication Design: Identifying Locus of Control Personality, Cognitive, and Psychophysiological Variable Influencers (2020)

Joanne Loos (Romero)

Affiliation: Science Writer at School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene; Faculty Lecturer at School of Communication and Information, University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Dissertation: Examining the Influence of Wearable Health Monitors on Patients and Physicians in a Filipino Community (2019)

Chair: Dr. Elizabeth Davidson

Margaret Meiling Luo

Maureen MacLeod

Maureen MacLeod

Affiliation: Program Director and Dean of Students, Master of Education in Private School Leadership, University of Hawai’i, Mānoa, and Teaching Faculty – English and Ke Kilohana at Punahou School.

Dissertation: Talking Story: Using Narrative Analysis to Explore Identity in Middle School Technology Innovation (2011)

Chair: Dr. Elizabeth J. Davidson

Leorey Marquez

Affiliation: Senior Research Scientist with the Digital Productivity Flagship at CSIRO, Australia’s federal research agency

Dissertation: Function approximation using neural networks : a simulation study (1992)

Paulo Maurin

Affiliation: National Education Coordinator and Fellowship Manager, NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP).

Dissertation: Informational Exchanges Among Hawaii Marine Stakeholders (2008)

Chair: Dr. Daniel Suthers

Misa Maruyama

Affiliation: Lecturer, University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Dissertation: Social watching” to learn about and discuss a civic issue: How receiving positive social media feedback while watching a broadcast instills a sense of community (2016)

Johannes Meier

Affiliation: Founder and Managing Director of Xi GmbH

Dissertation: A Formal analysis of costs and benefits of interorganizational systems (1990)

Miwa Merz

Affiliation: Professor of Marketing, Department of Marketing and Decision Sciences, College of Business, San José State University.

Dissertation: The Effect of Message Framing on Attitudes and Intentions Toward Diabetes Mellitus Type II Prevention (2009)

Carleton Moore

Affiliation: Instructor at Information and Computer Science, University of Hawai’i at Manoa

Dissertation: Investigating individual software development: an evaluation of the leap toolkit (2000)

John F. Morton

Affiliation: Vice President for Community Colleges Emeritus, University of Hawai’i.

Dissertation: Effects of computer-mediated communication on faculty-student interaction outside the classroom (1997)

Chair: Dr. Laku Chidambaram

CIS compas PhD Hawaii

Julie Motooka

Affiliation: Adjunct Instructor and Instructional and Student Support Specialist, University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Dissertation: Mindful Serendipity: A Model of Information Search Behavior & Strategies in Producing Serendipitous Outcomes (2020)

Website: http://www.linkedin.com/in/juliemotooka

Diane M. Nahl

Affiliation: Professor Emerita of Library and Information Science, University of Hawai’i at Manoa

Dissertation: CD-ROM point-of-use instructions for novice searchers : a comparison of user-centered affectively elaborated and system-centered unelaborated text (1993)

Junghyun Nam

JungHyun Nam

Affiliation: Visiting assistant professor, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea

Dissertation: Perceived Quality and Motivations on Intention-To-Use of a General Web Portal (2008)

Dr. Ryota Ono

Ryota Ono

Affiliation: Professor, Business Management, Aichi University, Japan

Dissertation: Worldwide probe of the telecommunications development gap from developing country and developed country perspectives : the nature of the gap, the obstacles and the strategies to close the gap (1996)

David Pai

Dissertation: The Role of Cognitive Absorption in Technology Acceptance: Not All Dimensions are Created Equal (2006)

Sunyeen Pai

Sunyeen Pai

Affiliation: Associate Professor, Digital Initiatives Librarian, Kapi’olani Community College, University of Hawai’i

Dissertation: The Role of Cognitive Absorption in Technology Acceptance: Not All Dimensions are Created Equal (2000)

Marc Le Pape

Affiliation: Assistant Professor Adjunct, Department of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology John A. Burns School of Medicine.

Dissertation: Human-Computer Interaction In Extreme Environments: Interaction Effects Between Field Dependency-Independency And Altered ±Gz Accelerations On End-User Performance (2009)

Chair: Dr. Daniel Suthers

Phuaphanthong-Thayanan

Thayanan Phuaphanthong

Affiliation: Lecturer, Department of IT Management, Program Coordinator, PhD Program in Business Administration, Program Coordinator, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Shidler College of Business, University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Dissertation: A Memetic Theory of Interorganizational Information Systems (IOIS) Emergence and Evolution: A Longitudinal Case Study of IOIS for Trade Facilitation (2014)

Blanca Polo

Affiliation: Associate Professor CC, Information and Computer Science, Leeward Community College, University of Hawai’i

Dissertation: The Virtual Critical Studio: Implementing Studio-Based Learning Techniques in an Online Introductory Programming Course to Address Common Programming Errors and Misconceptions (2013)

Asanga Porage

Affiliation: Software Development at Policy Studies/Barclay Card USA/Echostar/T-Mobile/TIAA-CREF/AMDOCS/Federal Express/Oracle

Dissertation: Framework for the interactive customization of products and services (1999)

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Ashiyan Rahmani-Shirazi

Shakti S. Rana

Affiliation: Professor, SAIM college, Nepal

Dissertation: Product development model : case study of high definition television (1994)

Chamil Rathnayake

Affiliation: Lecturer In Journalism, Media and Communication, The University of Strathclyde

Dissertation: Carrying forward the Uses and Grats 2.0 agenda: Developing an affordance-based measure of social media uses and gratifications, and applying it across political actors and attributes (2016)

Chair: Dr. Jenifer Sunrise Winter

John Lee Reardon

Dissertation: A Study of the Assimilation of Electronic Medical Records by Independent Physician Practices (2007)

Wiebke Reile

Affiliation: Manager of Insights at Zenith and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Brooklyn College

Dissertation: Activist Organizations and Strategic Utilization of Information and Communication Technologies: An Exploration of CODEPINK: Women for Peace (2019)

Chair: Dr. Jenifer Sunrise Winter

Stephanie Rolfe

Affiliation: Principal Advisor National Security, New Zealand Police.

Dissertation: Conceptualizing ICTs for Development: A Comparison of Four Pacific Island Countries and New Zealand as Donor (2007)

Terence Rose

Terence Rose

Affiliation: Librarian IV, Hawai`i Library for the Blind.

Dissertation: Library Services to Special Populations (focusing on Issues of Access to Information, Communication Rights, and the Right to Read), Assistive/Adaptive Technologies, the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, and NLS’s Digital Talking Book Program (2021) [Chair: Wayne Buente]

Matthew James Sharritt

Affiliation: President of Situated Research, Founder at Situated Research & CueCamp.

Dissertation: Students’ Use of Social and Cognitive Affordances in Video Game Play Within Educational Contexts: Implications for Learning (2008)

Chair: Dr. Daniel Suthers

Dan Smith

Affiliation: Principal Engineer – Avionics, Hawaiian Airlines; Lecturer, University of Hawai`i at Manoa

Dissertation: Social Media Correlates of Organizational Climate (2009)

Lai Kuen So

Dissertation: Automatic code generation for simulation programs using Petri net models (1997)

David Stone

David Stone

Dissertation: One channel at-a-time multichannel autoregressive modeling : applications to stationary and nonstationary covariance time series (1993)

Dr. Rajib Subba

Rajib Subba

Affiliation: Assistant Professor and Coordinator, Digital Technology Program; Coordinator, Public Affairs and Resource Mobilization, Madan Bhandari University of Science and Technology, Nepal.

Dissertation: The Institutionalization Process of Non-Binding Virtual Communities: A Case Study of Haiti Earthquake Response Facebook Groups (2014)

Chair: Dr. Tung Bui

Yinan SUN

Yinan Sun

Dissertation: Exploring Cultural Affordances on Wechat (2024)

Chair: Dr. Daniel D. Suthers

Steve Takaki

Dissertation: Self-efficacy, confidence, and overconfidence as contributing factors to spreadsheet development errors (2005)

CIS compas PhD Hawaii

Alicia Takaoka

Affiliation: Postdoctoral Researcher, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

Dissertation: Across the Generational Divide: Exploring Stigmas About Voluntarily Childless Women in Hawai’i  (2021) [Chair: Martha Crosby]

Website: http://linkedin.com/in/aliciatakaoka  &  https://www.aliciatphd.com/

Koji Takeda

Dissertation: Design of a uniform language for client-designer communication in software development (1998)

Siong Meng Tay

Dissertation: A study of coordination and communication in distributed information technology support (2006)

Danurahardjo Tjahjono

Dissertation: Exploring the Effectiveness of Formal Technical Review Factors with CSRS, A Collaborative Software Review System (1996)

Zach Tomaszewski

Affiliation: Professor at Palantir Technologies

Dissertation: Marlinspike: An interactive drama system (2011)

Louis Tomsic

Dissertation: Effectiveness of Blog Response Strategies to minimize Crisis Effects (2010)

Kauwela

S. Kauwela Valeho-Novikoff

Dissertation: Aloha ʻĀina in the Library and Information Science Program: Understanding and Being a Hawaiian Place of Learning

Chair: Dr. Rich Gazan

Ravi K Vatrapu

Affiliation: Loretta Rogers Research Chair in Digital Enterprise, Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University. Professor at Department of IT Management, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. Professor, Kristiania University College.

Dissertation: Technological Intersubjectivity and Appropriation of Affordances in Computer Supported Collaboration (2007)

Chair: Dr. Daniel Suthers

Rita Michele Vick

Dissertation: Development of shared mental models: structuring distributed naturalistic decision making in a synchronous computer-mediated work environment (2003)

Dadong Wan

Affiliation: Senior Researcher and Innovation Executive at Accenture Technology Labs

Dissertation: CLARE : a computer-supported collaborative learning environment based on the thematic structure of scientific text (1994)

Hsiao-Hui Wang

Affiliation: Associate Professor at Infomation Communication Yuan Ze University, Taiwan

Dissertation: Value of information technology : an empirical study of the impact of IT capabilities and IT use on economic growth and on organizational performance in Taiwan (1997)

Xiaobo Wang

Affiliation: Dadong is a Senior Scientist and Fellow with Accenture Technology Labs.

Dissertation: Generating Customized Layouts Automatically (1996)

Yiting Wang

Dissertation: Multimodal Analysis: The Performativity of Short-Form Videos and Their Affordances

Chair: Dr. Daniel D. Suthers

Website: https://yiting.world

Laura Welsh

Dissertation: The Effect of Espoused National Cultural Values, the Five-Factor Model of Personality, and the Context of Travel on Technology Acceptance Across Two Levels of Structured Tourism Websites (2011)

Sonja Wiley-Patton

Affiliation: Associate Professor at EJ Ourso College of Business, Louisiana State University

Dissertation: A Test of the Extended Technology Acceptance Model for Understanding the Internet Adoption Behavior of Physicians (2003)

Joel Wilf

Joel Wilf

Dissertation: Technically Utopia: Technology and Control in Utopian Fiction

Chair: Dr. Jenifer Sunrise Winter

Jenifer Sunrise Winter

Affiliation: Professor, Communication Program, School of Communication and Information, University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Dissertation: Early identification and evaluation of slowly emerging problems related to the ubiquitous networked computing & communications environment in the State of Hawaii (2003)

Dissertation Committee: Dr. Dan J. Wedemeyer (chair); Dr. Roberta Lamb; Dr. Peter Jacsó; Dr. Colin Macdonald; Dr. Jim Dator

CIS compas PhD Hawaii

Taunalei Wolfgramm (Kau)

Dissertation: Bridging Formal and Informal Roles in Workgroups: Moving beyond Followership towards Supportership, a Case Study (2019)

Anthony Wong

Affiliation: Assistant Professor at MUST

Dissertation: Information and Communication Technology in Professional Organizations: An Empirical Investigation of the Social Actor Model(2007)

Su-Chin Wu

Affiliation: Lecturer at University of Hawai’i at Manoa and Hawaii Pacific University

Dissertation: An individual differences learning model (IDL) for asynchronous distributed learning (ADL) preferences: Gender, cultural backgrounds, learning styles, and attitudes toward collaborative learning(2006)

Lisa Yoda

Affiliation: Senior Data Analyst at AlohaCare

Dissertation: Toward an understanding of college women’s decisionmaking regarding the human papillomavirus vaccine (2012)

CIS compas PhD Hawaii

Jonathan Young

Affiliation: Librarian II, Science and Technology Reference, Public Services Division, Hamilton Library, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa 

Dissertation:  Interdisciplinarity in Translational Medicine: A Bibliometric Case Study- Jonathan Young (2017)

Joyce Yukawa

Affiliation: Associate Professor at Master of Library and Information Science Program, St. Catherine University
Dissertation: Hearts and Minds Through Hands Online: A Narrative Analysis of Learning Through Co-Reflection in an Online Action Research Course (2005)

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Vichianin Yudthaphon

Affiliation: Associate Professor and Head, Department of Radiological Technology, Faculty of Medical Technology, Mahidol University. Director of Public Relations and Communication, ISRRT.

Dissertation: How do healthcare information and communication technology (HICT) interventions affect access to public sector healthcare delivery in a developing country? A case study of professionals’ perception in Saraburi Province, Thailand (2007)