Application Domains

  • Bio informatics
  • Community health education
  • Design for an aging population
  • Designing for children and adolescents
  • Electronic voting
  • Financial investing applications
  • Health care screening, promotion, and risk assessments
  • Health care quality and safety
  • Health economics
  • Health informatics
  • Intelligent web applications
  • IT support for education
  • Online communities
  • Online deception detection
  • Open source software
  • Organizational memory and reuse
  • Social computing
  • Social informatics
  • Software testing and maintenance of web applications
  • Usable security and privacy
  • Virtual team collaboration

Faculty with an interest in one or more of these Application Domains

Gerald Canfield (canfield@umbc.edu) [Associate Professor]

medical informatics, networks, databases

Henry Emurian (emurian@umbc.edu) [Associate Professor]

virtual team collaboration, online tutoring systems, information technology education, and internet citizenship

Ashish Joshi (asjoshi@umbc.edu) [Assistant Research Professor]

health care informatics, designing and evaluating tele-health systems for chronic disease management, analyses of large clinical, administrative health care databases

A. Gunes Koru (gkoru@umbc.edu) [Assistant Professor]

Software engineering; mainly in the areas of software measurement, quality, testing, reliability, evolution, design, process improvement, and project management. Open-source development, web engineering, bioinformatics, health-care information systems, and e-voting

Wayne Lutters (lutters@umbc.edu) [Associate Professor]

computer supported cooperative work (CSCW), human-centered computing (HCC), knowledge management (KM), online communities

Ant Ozok (ozok@umbc.edu) [Associate Professor]

human-centered computing, cross-cultural usability, e-commerce, mobile commerce, survey design, online communities

Roy Rada (rada@umbc.edu) [Professor]

evolutionary computation; intelligent agents for financial investing; ontologies

Sreedevi Sampath (sampath@umbc.edu) [Assistant Professor]

software engineering, software testing, testing web applications, software maintenance, program analysis

Andrew Sears (asears@umbc.edu) [Professor]

Department Chair
human-centered computing, universal access to technology, interface design and evaluation techniques

Dongsong Zhang (zhangd@umbc.edu) [Associate Professor]

interactive e-Learning, multimedia content delivery in wireless environment, cross-cultural effect on computer-mediated communication, web services, information retrieval and extraction, knowledge discovery

Lina Zhou (zhoul@umbc.edu) [Associate Professor]

deception detection, computer-mediated communication, intelligent decision support, social network analysis, ontology, and knowledge management