Dr Linda Dawson joined the University of Wollongong as Head of School of Information Systems & Technology (SISAT) in May 2010 from Monash University where she held an appointment since 2000. She has over 20 years experience in information systems and information technology and has worked as a programmer, systems analyst, and as an academic at several Universities including Monash University, the University of Sydney, the University of Tasmania and Deakin University Field of Study: Understanding and supporting work practices in the application of mobile and wireless technologies in healthcare, particularly in nursing. Other research interests include ICT in e-business & e-government and information systems development in practice Professional Activities and Affiliations: Director, Centre for e-Health, Faculty of Informatics One of four Australian members of the IFIP Working Group 8.6 Transfer and Diffusion of Information Technology Member of the Association of Information Systems (AIS) Member (2008-2011) of the executive of the Australian Chapter of AIS. Reviewer on international journals such as: Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems (SJIS) Information Technology and People (IT&P) Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application (JITTA) Journal of Association of Information Systems (JAIS) Co-editor of a special issue of the Information Systems Journal on New Trends in Information Systems Development Associate Editor on international program committees including: European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), since 2007 Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS) Australian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS) Program Co-Chair for ACIS 2011 Chief Investigator or Investigator on several research projects awarded over $1m in research funds (internal and external) since 2001 Australian Research Council (ARC) Reader Current Research Students: Kenneth Masters : Workflow Analysis and Solutions for Optimising Patient Interactions when using Ongology Information System at the Bedside David Holloway : The use of virtual environments in clinical nursing simulation Madeleine Roberts : Understanding the antecedents of attrition from ICT degrees in Australia
Health Informatics
Laptops on Trolleys: Lessons from a Mobile-Wireless Hospital Ward (with Stephen Weeding), Journal of Medical Systems (2012)
Most hospital-based staff can be considered to be mobile but many hospital information systems (HIS)...
Building a System for managing clinical pathways using digital pens (with Robert M Ribbons, Terri Harlem, Virginia Plummer, David Waterhouse, and Stephen Weeding), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2010)
Implementation Issues For Mobile-Wireless Infrastructure And Mobile Health Care Computing Devices For A Hospital Ward Setting (with Liza Heslop, Stephen Weeding, Julie Fisher, and Andrew Howard), Journal of Medical Systems (2010)
mWard is a project whose purpose is to enhance existing clinical and administrative decision support...
Action Research in Emerging Technologies in Health Information Systems: Creating a Mobile Information Environment in a Hospital Ward (with Julie Fisher, Stephen Weeding, Liza Heslop, and Andrew Howard), European Conference on Business Research Methods (2009)
Wireless networks, mobile devices and associated applications are key emerging technologies ideal for nomadic workers...
A Means To An End – A Web-Based Client Management System In Palliative Care (with Margaret O'Connor and Trudi Erwin), Health Informatics Journal (2009)
Home-based palliative care (hospice) services require comprehensive and fully integrated information systems to develop and...
Information Systems Development
A Social-Creative-Cognitive (SCC) Model for Requirements Engineering, ISD Conference, 2012 (2012)
This paper describes a research project and the findings from a set of six cases...
Cognitive Processes in Object-Oriented Requirements Engineering Practice: Analogical Reasoning and Mental Modelling, Information Systems Development (ISD) (2011)
This paper presents a background in cognitive processes such as problem solving and analogical reasoning...
Active exploration of emerging themes in a study of object-oriented requirements engineering: the 'Evolutionary Case' approach, Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2008)
Active exploration of emerging themes in a study of object-oriented requirements engineering: the "Evolutionary Case" approach, The Electronic Journal of Business Research Methods (2008)
The evolutionary case approach provides a framework for qualitative case study research in information systems...
An Examination of Information Systems Development Methodologies Research in Australia (with Marcus Gibson), Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems (2007)
This paper assesses the current state of Information Systems Development Methodologies (ISDM) research in Australia,...
e-business and e-government
Understanding IT adoption and consumption within the social structure of a consumer’s economy (with Sherman Ting and Chris Dubelaar), AMCIS 2009 Proceedings (2009)
Research into adoption, acceptance and consumption of Information Technology (IT) within its diffusion cycle has...
Doing it Tough: Factors Impacting on Local e-Government Maturity (with Peter Shackleton), BLED 2007 Proceedings (2007)
As growing numbers of citizens seek to use the Internet to do business, governments across...
E-government services in the local government context: an Australian case study (with Peter Shackleton and Julie Fisher), Business Process Management Journal (2006)
Purpose - To examine the progress local governments in Victoria. Australia have made utilizing the...
Victorian local government websites: tracking information provision and e-service maturity (with Peter Shackleton and Julie Fisher), ACIS 2006 Proceedings (2006)
Local and municipal governments worldwide are embracing and using the Internet to deliver services and...
Factors influencing paradoxes of technology adoption and consumption (with Sherman Ting and Chris Dubelaar), Business papers (2005)
With the rise of the internet and mobile telephony, many agree that Mobile-Business is the...
Other
WOMEN IN ICT: GUIDELINES FOR EVALUATING INTERVENTION PROGRAMMES (with Annemieke Craig and Julie Fisher), ECIS 2011 Proceedings (2011)
Many intervention programmes to increase the number of women in theInformation and Communications Technology (ICT)...
Understanding IT adoption and consumption within the social structure of a consumer's economy (with Sherman Ting and Chris Dubelaar), 15th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2009) (2009)
Research into adoption, acceptance and consumption of Information Technology (IT) within its diffusion cycle has...
RQF Publication Quality Measures: Methodological Issues (with John W. Lamp, Simon K. Milton, and Julie Fisher), ACIS 2007 Proceedings (2007)
The Research Quality Framework uses Thomson-ISI citation benchmarks as its main set of objective measures...