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Design, Technology, & Society

The DESIGN, TECHNOLOGY, & SOCIETY program area investigates the interrelationship between information technology and social, political, and cultural processes and values. This includes both the analysis of the larger consequences of informatics systems and the criticism, design, and re-design of systems to address public needs and problems. Research may involve design processes, human communication and interaction, the larger contexts of these systems (such as the legal, economic, cultural, educational, or other contexts) and the repercussions of any of these topics.

RESEARCH THEMES

  • Collaborative Learning
  • Social Behavior
  • Digital Environments
  • Sustainability
  • Public Policy
  • Social Networks
  • Human Trust
  • Augmentation
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    Students in the Design, Technology, and Society Area investigate the interrelationship between information technology and social, political, and cultural processes and values.

    This includes both the analysis of the larger consequences of informatics systems and the criticism, design, and re-design of systems to address public needs and problems. Research may involve design processes, human communication and interaction, the larger contexts of these systems (such as the legal, economic, cultural, educational, or other contexts) and the repercussions of any of these topics.

    This program area supports students interested in pursuing informatics research from the intellectual traditions and methods of either the social sciences or the humanities, as well as the domains of community informatics and social informatics.

    People

    Area LeadsFaculty AffiliatesPhD Students

    NameEmailDepartment Karrie Karahalios kkarahal@illinois.edu Computer Science

    NameEmailDepartment Ewa Maslowska ehm@illinois.edu Advertising Sang-Hwa Oh sanghwa2@illinois.edu Advertising Leona Yi-Fan Su lyfsu@illinois.edu Advertising Patrick Vargas pvargas@illinois.edu Advertising Mike Yao mzyao@illinois.edu Advertising Thérèse Tierney tierney@illinois.edu Architecture Eric Benson ebenson@illinois.edu Art & Design Molly Catherine Briggs mbriggs@illinois.edu Art & Design Ben Grosser grosser@illinois.edu Art & Design Kevin Hamilton kham@illinois.edu Art & Design Lisa Mercer lemercer@illinois.edu Art & Design Juan Salamanca jsal@illinois.edu Art & Design Jenny Amos jamos@illinois.edu Bioengineerging Peter Ondish ondish2@illinois.edu Center for Social and Behavioral Science Jeni Hunniecutt jeni@illinois.edu Chez Veterans Center James Rounds jrounds@illinois.edu College of Education Faye Jones fjone@illinois.edu College of Law Harsh Taneja harsht@illinois.edu College of Media William Barley barley@illinois.edu Communications John P. Caughlin caughlin@illinois.edu Communications M. Scott Poole mspoole@illinois.edu Communications JungHwan Yang junghwan@illinois.edu Communications Roy Campbell rhc@illinois.edu Computer Science Karrie Karahalios kkarahal@illinois.edu Computer Science Alex Kirlik kirlik@illinois.edu Computer Science Colleen M. Lewis colleenl@illinois.edu Computer Science Hari Sundaram hs1@illinois.edu Computer Science Hanghang Tong htong@illinois.edu Computer Science Tao Xie taoxie@illinois.edu Computer Science Elhan Ersoz ese@illinois.edu Crop Sciences Mark Dressman mdressma@illinois.edu Curriculum & Instruction Rochelle Gutierrez rg1@illinois.edu Curriculum & Instruction Robb Lindgren robblind@illinois.edu Curriculum & Instruction Emma Mercier mercier@illinois.edu Curriculum & Instruction Michael Tissenbaum miketiss@illinois.edu Curriculum & Instruction Faranak Miraftab faranak@illinois.edu Department of Urban & Regional Planning WenHao David Huang wdhuang@illinois.edu Education Nicholas C. Burbules burbules@illinois.edu Education Policy, Organization & Leadership Nathan Castillo nathanc@illinois.edu Education Policy, Organization & Leadership Jennifer Cromley jcromley@illinois.edu Educational Psychology Cynthia D’Angelo cdangelo@illinois.edu Educational Psychology H. Chad Lane hclane@illinois.edu Educational Psychology Dan Morrow dgm@illinois.edu Educational Psychology Andrew Miller soc1024@illinois.edu Electrical & Computer Engineering John Gallagher johng@illinois.edu English Yi-Cheng Wang ycw@illinois.edu Food Science & Human Nutrition Mei-Po Kwan mkwan@illinois.edu Geography Caroline Cao ccao01@illinois.edu Grainger College of Engineering John Randolph jwr@illinois.edu History Carlos Aguiar chaa@illinois.edu Industrial Design Cliff Shin thecliff@illinois.edu Industrial Design Dan Cermak dcermak@illinois.edu Informatics Rachel F. Adler radler@illinois.edu iSchool Masooda Bashir mnb@illinois.edu iSchool Brandon Batzloff batzloff@illinois.edu iSchool Catherine Blake clblake@illinois.edu iSchool Rachael Bradley rbradley@illinois.edu iSchool Anita Chan achan@illinois.edu iSchool Peter Darch ptdarch@illinois.edu iSchool Yun Huang yunhuang@illinois.edu iSchool Kyungwon Koh kkoh@illinois.edu iSchool Kathryn LaBarre klabarre@illinois.edu iSchool Zoe LeBlanc zleblanc@illinois.edu iSchool Christopher Lueg cplueg@illinois.edu iSchool Emily Maemura emaemura@illinois.edu iSchool Bonnie Mak bmak@illinois.edu iSchool Kate McDowell kmcdowel@illinois.edu iSchool Melissa Ocepek mgocepek@illinois.edu iSchool Judith Pintar jpintar@illinois.edu iSchool Madelyn Sanfilippo madelyns@illinois.edu iSchool Eunice Santos eesantos@illinois.edu iSchool Jodi Schneider jodi@illinois.edu iSchool JooYoung Seo jseo1005@illinois.edu iSchool Linda Smith lcsmith@illinois.edu iSchool Carol Tilley ctilley@illinois.edu iSchool Michael Twidale twidale@illinois.edu iSchool Dong Wang dwang24@illinois.edu iSchool Yang Wang yvw@illinois.edu iSchool Karen Wickett wickett2@illinois.edu iSchool Kate Williams katewill@illinois.edu iSchool Martin Wolske mwolske@illinois.edu iSchool Christopher Ball drball@illinois.edu Journalism Soyoung Choi soyoung@illinois.edu Kinesiology & Community Health Wendy Rogers wendyr@illinois.edu Kinesiology & Community Health Chung-Yi Chiu chiucy@illinois.edu Kinesiology and Community Health Shannon T. Mejía stmejia@illinois.edu Kinesiology and Community Health William Sullivan wcsulliv@illinois.edu Landscape Architecture Arden Rowell karowell@illinois.edu Law Randall Sadler rsadler@illinois.edu Linguistics Jenny Oyallon-Koloski joyallon@illinois.edu Media and Cinema Studies Eli Fieldsteel eli@illinois.edu Music Santiago Núñez-Corrales nunezco2@illinois.edu National Center for Supercomputing Applications Ryan Griffis ryan.griffis@gmail.com New Media Tatsuya Sakurahara sakurah2@illinois.edu Nuclear, Plasma & Radiological Engineering Zahra Mohaghegh zahra13@illinois.edu Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering Scott Althaus salthaus@illinois.edu Political Science Moses Okumu okumu@illinois.edu Social Work

    NameEmailArea Kyra Abrams kyrama2@illinois.edu Design, Technology and Society
    Abdulaziz Alkhonin asa15@illinois.edu Design, Technology and Society
    John Bambenek bambenek@illinois.edu Design, Technology and Society
    Minrui Chen minruic2@illinois.edu Design, Technology and Society
    Julian cchin6@illinois.edu Design, Technology and Society
    Eugene Cox emcox3@illinois.edu Design, Technology and Society
    Daniela Delgado Ramos dd6@illinois.edu Design, Technology and Society
    Alvarez Dixon alvarezd@illinois.edu Design, Technology and Society
    Olulcan Durmaz odurmaz2@illinois.edu Design, Technology and Society
    Sarvin Eshaghi eshaghi2@illinois.edu Design, Technology and Society
    Ziyang Gong ziyangg2@illinois.edu Cognitive Science and Language Processing
    Design, Technology and Society
    Claudia Grisales clg3@illinois.edu Design, Technology and Society
    Moazam Hakim mihakim2@illinois.edu Data Analytics and Information Visualization
    Design, Technology and Society
    Spatial Informatics
    David Hopping davidah3@illinois.edu Design, Technology and Society
    Muhammad Hussain mh93@illinois.edu Design, Technology and Society
    Maryam Jahadakbar maryamj3@illinos.edu Design, Technology and Society
    Susan Liepert liepert@illinois.edu Design, Technology and Society
    Daniela Markazi dmarkaz2@illinois.edu Design, Technology and Society
    Eunmi Moon ekmoon@illinois.edu Design, Technology and Society
    Rodrigo Morais rmorais2@illinois.edu Design, Technology and Society
    Bruno Nagel Tejada bn12@illinois.edu Design, Technology and Society
    Mahira Narwari mahira2@illinois.edu Art and Cultural Informatics
    Design, Technology and Society
    Shawn Shao junqis3@illinois.edu Design, Technology and Society
    Robbie Sieczkowski rms6@illinois.edu Design, Technology and Society
    Emmy Tither mtither2@illinois.edu Art and Cultural Informatics
    Design, Technology and Society
    Spatial Informatics
    Dejan Trencevski dtren2@illinois.edu Design, Technology and Society
    Ke-Rou Wang kerourw2@illinois.edu Design, Technology and Society
    Olivia Wang ohw2@illinois.edu Design, Technology and Society
    Colter Wehmeier wehmeie2@illinois.edu Art and Cultural Informatics
    Design, Technology and Society
    Mengke Wu mengkew2@illinois.edu Design, Technology and Society
    Pingjing Yang py2@illinois.edu Design, Technology and Society
    Aziz Zeidieh azeidi2@illinois.edu Design, Technology and Society

    Courses

    Application CoursesFoundation Courses

    NumberTitleNotes CMN 529 CS Communication Technologies CMN 529 SP Theory and Research on Collaboration Technologies INFO 555 Adv Educational Tech for Engagement & Interactive Learning IS 520 (formerly taught as IS 518) Community Informatics IS 578 (formerly taught as IS 590DH) Digital Humanities IS 586 (formerly taught as IS 555) Usability Engineering IS 590 DK Distributed Knowledge IS 590 EL E-Learning: Social and Technical Issues in E-learning IS 590 SD Digital Social Sciences IS 594D (formerly taught as IS 549) The Economics of Information MDIA 590 New Media Theory

    NumberTitleNotes CMN 529 MS Social Network Analysis CS 598 KGK Social Computing IS 507 (formerly taught as IS 542) Data, Stat and Info IS 586 (formerly taught as IS 555) Usability Engineering IS 590 DEL Design of Digitally Mediated Information Services IS 590 IML Information Modeling IS 590 IN Information Networks IS 590 IS Information in Society IS 590 MD Metadata in Theory and Practice IS 590 OI Organizations, Information & Technology IS 590 SN Social Networks and Information PS 519 SA Content Analysis