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
Carbon-centric Computing: IT Solutions for Climate Change (with A. Ghose and T. Spedding), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2008)
IT has a role to play in the current debate on climate change. The current...
Integrating doing and thinking in a work context: an Australian knowledge management perspective (with H. Linger and F. Burstein), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2007)
This paper aims to provide evidence for the proposition that the Australian Standard creation process...
Demonstrations of the Activity Theory Framework for Research in IS (with K. Crawford), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2006)
The holistic and insightful nature of the (cultural-historical) Activity Theory has led to its use...
Social and Commercial Sustainability of Regional Web-based Communities (with A. Connery), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2005)
New information and communications technologies have disrupted many traditional forms of community but enabled the...
Using OLAP and multidimensional data for decision making (with P. Hyland), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2001)
Managers see information as a critical resource and require systems that let them exploit it...
Presentations
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...
Lessons from Go*Team Simulations on Shared Situation Awareness (with L. Warne and H. Mitchard), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2007)
The ancient game of Go is traditionally played by two opposing players (black and white)...
Australian Online Newspapers: A Website content analysis approach to measure interactivity (with N. H. Hashim and S. Sinnapan), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2007)
This paper addresses the growth and development of the concept of interactivity in online newspapers...
Design as Research: Emergent Complex Activity, Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2006)
There is current interest in design science as a research method in the field of...
Go*Team: A new approach to developing a knowledge sharing culture (with L. Warne and D. Hart), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2006)
In the ideal organisational environment, the voluntary transfer of information and knowledge would be the...
Other
Behavior of Concrete Bridge Decks and Slabs Reinforced with Epoxy Coated Steel (with J. Ramirez), Joint Transportation Research Program (1995)
Thirty-four slab specimens with splices and transverse steel were tested in the laboratory to evaluate...