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Bio
Quentin Jones is an Assistant Professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology in the Department of Information Systems. His research interests are primarily in the area of Social Computing and Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). Specifically, he is interested in how various social computing system designs can both enable and constrain interpersonal and group interactions, and how the use of such systems can lead to the expansion of social ties/capital. He directs the SmartCampus (NSF Funded) initiative to explore these challenging research questions. His work experience and educational training cross many international borders and disciplines.
Before coming to NJIT, he was a Research Scientist in the Human Computer Interaction Group at ATT Labs-Research, USA. He built the first public web site for the Israeli Defense Forces and in Australia worked as a Research Scientist for QUIT (a federally funded national public health program) and as a Research Psychologist in the Medical Psychology Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Sydney. He holds a Ph.D. in Information Systems from University of Haifa, Israel, a M.P.H. (Bio Statistics) from the Department of Medicine, University of Sydney and a B.A. Hons in Psychology from University of Sydney.