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Mark S. Ackerman Professor
BA in history in the social sciences, University of Chicago; MS in computer and information science, Ohio State University; Ph.D. in information technologies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(734) 764-2476
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E-mail: ackerm@umich.edu
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| Specialization(s): HCI,LIS
SI Ph.D. students currently advised:
Mark Ackerman is a professor in the School of
Information and an associate professor in the Division of Computer Science and Engineering in the College of Engineering. He is also coordinator of the Human-Computer Interaction specialization within the SI Master of Science in Information program.
Ackerman's research focuses on such areas as privacy, organizational memory or collaborative information access, collective information reuse, and online communities. He is part of the SocialWorlds research group that studies these areas of interest.
His research group focuses on considering the interplay of the social world with computational systems. Ackerman is interested in co-design spaces -- places where you need to consider how to incorporate elements of the social world within software systems (such as with computer-supported cooperative work systems) and also consider how systems will affect their social settings in return. In some cases, such as privacy, both have to be designed or at least considered simultaneously. This kind of research requires a dual emphasis on both the technology and the social structures of its use.
In 2000-01, while on leave from the University of California at Irvine, he was a principal research scientist at Project Oxygen at the Laboratory for Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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