For the last several years,
Ping Zhang has been an indefatigable proponent for HCI in the IS discipline. She has organized tracks at the major IS conferences, published research in prominent journals, and is now pushing to add the course to the required IS curriculum. She has become the face of HCI in the IS community. Ping earned her PhD in MIS at UT-Austin and teaches at the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University.
Her co-authors Dov Te eni and Jane Carey have been writing in the area for many years. Te eni received his PhD in MIS from Tel Aviv University and teaches at Bar Ilan University in Israel. He spent several years teaching at Case Western and has been a visiting professor at Yale and NYU, Oxford and Warwick in the UK, and Waterloo in Canada. He is well connected to the worldwide IS community and attends all major IS conferences. Carey received her PhD at the University of Mississippi and teaches at ASU-West after four years at Texas A&M.