Dr. Helen Hasan is an Associate Professor in the School of Economics at the University of Wollongong. She has a Masters in Physics followed by a PhD in Information Systems, is a member of the Australian Standards Committees on Knowledge Management and Small-Medium Enterprises, and chairs the board of CTC@Ulladulla, part of the Networking the Nation initiative. She has published extensively in the areas of Human Computer Interaction, Decision Support Systems (DSS) and Knowledge Management (KM), including a new book “Australian Studies in Knowledge Management, and is currently supervising, 12 research students in these areas. Helen is Director of the Activity Theory Usability Laboratory at the University of Wollongong, Director of the Eureka Connection, a not-for-profit network that provides a forum for generating, sharing, developing and testing new ideas and Director of the cross-institutional Socio-Technical Activity Research (STAR) Group on Knowledge Management that is funded, for the three years, by a Discovery Grant from the Australian Research Council.
Articles
An activity-theory analysis of corporate wikis (with Charmaine C. Pfaff), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive) (2012)
Purpose: Wiki technologies, which are popular in social settings, are beginning to contribute to more...
Corporate governance and corporate finance practices in a Kuwait Stock Exchange market listed firm: a survey to confront theory with practice (with Mohammad Al Mutairi, Gary Tian, and Andrew Tan), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive) (2012)
Purpose – This paper aims to explore the issue of corporate governance mechanisms by including...
Emergent solutions for global climate change: lessons from green IS research (with Catherine Dwyer), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive) (2012)
In the emerging field of Green IT/IS, 2% is often quoted as the percentage of...
Usability testing of the New Assessment System for Aged Care (with Alan G. Owen, Peter D. Samsa, and Janet E. Sansoni), Australian Health Services Research Institute (2012)
This report provides a stand-alone description of how the national model for assessment in aged...
Internet savvy users of online news using the Q-methodology approach (with Nor Hazlina Hashim and Joseph A. Meloche), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2011)
Presentations
IS for government climate change adaptation activities: an exploratory case study (with Stephen Smith, Donald Winchester, and Patrick Finnegan), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2011)
his paper reports a case study of climate change adaptation activities of the New South...
A subjective evaluation of attitudes towards E-health (with S. Banna and J. Meloche), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2010)
E-health, the provision of healthcare services via the Internet, has the potential to address the...
The unit of analysis in IS theory: The case for activity (with Sumayya Banna), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2010)
In the field of IS, researchers use and adapt existing theories to make sense of...
IS solution for the global environmental challenge: an Australian initiative (with Trevor A. Spedding and Aditya K. Ghose), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2009)
There is a complex range of interrelated environmental issues that currently challenge decision-makers across the...
Emergent cooperative activity in distributed team performance in Go*Team (with L. Warne and K. Crawford), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2007)
The need to cooperate in self-directed, distributed teams is fundamental to the concepts of Network...