Next month, we welcome visiting researcher Professor Susan P. Williams to Swinburne University of Technology, who will be collaborating with CIRES Chief Investigator Dr Paul Scifleet, and our PhD Researchers Pa Pa Khin and Lufan Zhang.

Sue is a Professor of Enterprise Information Management at the Institute for Information Systems Research, University of Koblenz, Germany, where Paul is also an affiliated researcher. Sue will be visiting Swinburne from the 4^th to 9^th February, and working with Paul on a series of linked projects in Enterprise Social Systems and Information Governance.

Sue will be presenting a guest research seminar Making Work Visible| Discovering and visualising work practices in enterprise collaboration systems on Friday 9^thFebruary from 11am-12:30pm AEDT via Teams, and all CIRES researchers and partners are very welcome to join. There is also an on-campus location for anyone based in Melbourne, please reach out to Paul directly if you’d like to join in person via pscifleet@swin.edu.au

Full details below including Sue’s bio and abstract for the seminar.

Bio: Susan Williams is a Professor of Enterprise Information Management at the Institute for IS Research, University of Koblenz. She is a founder member of the Center for Enterprise Information Research (CEIR) and leads the Enterprise Information Management / Social Informatics Research Group. She is an interdisciplinary researcher with expertise in the areas of social and organisational informatics. Her work focuses on information ecologies and the design of the digital workplace. With an academic background in computer and information science, her research examines complex socio-technical change (STC) and human-centred technology design. Her long-term research programme investigates the challenges associated with understanding how new information infrastructures are shaping work and work practices and the design of digital workspaces and workplaces to support distributed collaborative work.

Abstract: The seminar introduces our long-term research programme into collaboration technologies and the support of distributed collaborative work. Our work brings together researchers and industry practitioners to investigate collaborative work in large-scale enterprise collaboration systems. First, we examine the research motivations and theoretical foundations and how these have shaped our research environment and research infrastructure. We then look at two research projects that illustrate i) aspects of how we engage with our industry partners and ii) how we make use of large-scale, real-world trace data to examine collaborative work in large-scale enterprise collaboration systems.

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