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Online mental health communities (OMHCs) are prominent resources for improving people’s mental wellbeing. An immediate cue of such improvement is support-seekers’ satisfaction expressed in their replies to the received comments. However, the comments ...

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Thomas W. Ferratt, Professor Emeritus at the University of Dayton, is the recipient of the 2020 ACM SIGMIS CPR Lifetime Achievement Award. He served in leadership roles, including Chair, Conference Chair, and Program ...

Over the last two decades, programs in the field of game design and development have emerged and begun to flourish in the collegiate landscape. As academics look toward the next two decades, there is still much to be done in defining what game design ...

Recent declines in the average length of time that U.S. workers spend with a given employer represent an important change in the nature of the employment relationship, yet it is one whose causes are poorly understood. I explore those causes using ...

Tenure is a critical factor for an individual to consider when making a job transition. For instance, software engineers make a job transition to senior software engineers in a span of 2 years on average, or it takes for approximately 3 years for ...

In this paper we describe preliminary results from two ongoing research projects that investigate the dissemination practices surrounding digital STEM learning materials for undergraduates. This research consists of two related studies, : 1) survey ...

We address the question of how male and female computing faculty in the U. S. and Canada perceive research requirements and institutional support for promotion and tenure. Via a survey sent to approximately 7500 computing faculty at the 256 institutions ...

The future of multimedia community depends on how the community effectively and efficiently recruits, nurtures and retains young talents. Students tends to decide on their majors based on job opportunities and the main question in every student mind ...

As a first step in understanding whether computing faculty are receiving the support necessary for them to achieve promotion and tenure at U.S. and Canadian institutions, we address the question of what requirements exist at such institutions. Via a ...

We explore why some employees may be at a disadvantage in searching for information in organizations. The “small-world” argument in social network theory emphasizes that people are, on average, only a few connections away from the information they seek. ...

Interaction design (ID) as a field emerged in the late 1990s with roots in both the HCI and design communities. We ask whether the 'interdisciplinary' agenda of the 3rd paradigm of HCI can be accommodated in the traditional disciplined university. An ...

Studies of career dynamics implicitly claim that government employees are not entrepreneurial. Utilizing longitudinal data from the U.S. Panel Study for Income Dynamics, we investigate the reasons for the low rate of entrepreneurship from the public ...

This paper studies the influence of supply-side and demand-side factors on the compensation of information technology (IT) professionals and considers the human capital and institutional explanations. We focus on returns to an MBA and the IT-related ...

In this special session, the members of the SIGCSE Committee on Models for Evaluating Faculty Scholarship would like to meet with interested SIGCSE members. In particular we would like to give an update on our progress in the last year, as well as ...

More often than not, the previous work experience of college and university information technology staff has been in industry. Another staff demographic is that many are relatively recent graduates. What they have in common is a hierarchical, standards-...

This paper reports an analysis of the proportion of faculty publishing articles in premier business journals (i.e., the ratio of authors of premier business journal articles to total faculty of a discipline) across the disciplines of accounting, finance,...

What constitutes excellence in information systems research for promotion and tenure? This is a question that is regularly addressed by members of promotion and tenure committees and those called upon to write external letters. While there are many ...

The range of journals in which to publish scholarly papers in the management information systems (MIS) field has expanded over the years. The perceived ranking of the journals by those in the field is an important issue to academics. Another question of ...