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Dr. Yunjie Xu (Calvin)I am an assistant professor at the Department of Information Systems, School of Computing, National University of Singapore. I got my B.Sc. from Harbin Institute of Technology, China, M.S. from Fudan University, China, and Ph.D. from Syracuse University, NY, USA. My major research interests include knowledge management and e-commerce, but I am also interested in exploring other related areas. In the area of knowledge management, My focus is on knowledge and information seeking behavior both in offline and online contexts. In the offline context, I am particularly interested in further developing psychological and sociological research on human information seeking behavior. Research topics in this direction include:
In the online context, I am interested in the design of information/knowledge retrieval systems. With a recognition of the difference between knowledge and information, my focus of research in on how to improve the design of search engine and information retrieval systems to meet personal information need. In this area, my research interests include:
The extant research in information science has recognized the lack of integration between behavioral research of human information behavior (known as user-centered studies) and information retrieval system design (known as system-centered studies). In knowledge management research, there is a similar gap between the managerial side of knowledge management (known as personal approach) and the knowledge management systems (known as system approach). Therefore, it is my research objective to bridge the gap between research in knowledge/information seeking behavior and knowledge/information seeking systems. In the area of e-commerce, I am interested in e-commerce system design and online consumer behavior. Topics in this area include:
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Yunjie
Xu (Calvin)
Department of Information Systems,
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