BIOGRAPHY
I am currently the second year doctoral student in the Department of Information Systems at The University of Melbourne. I have been awarded the Melbourne International Scholarship and the Science Faculty Scholarship to undertake my PhD study, and I am under the supervision of Dr. Shanton Chang, Dr. Reeva Lederman, and Dr. Stephen Smith. Prior to transferring to the University of Melbourne, I had been studying in the PhD program in the Department of Business Information Systems and Operation Management (BISOM) at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA, awarded with tuition waiver and graduate assistantship. I hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration majoring in business information technology from Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade, China.
My research primarily focuses on e-commerce, online community, culture, and information systems strategy and management, using a combination of theories from information systems, sociology, and psychology. My research involves both quantitative and qualitative, and accordingly I use regression models and structured equation modeling such as LISREL and PLS to analyze quantitative data, and use Nvivo to analyze interview data.
I am currently working on building and verifying a model that can explain information consumers’ adoption and sharing behaviors in health-related online communities. Prior studies on information adoption take an approach of assessing information credibility that influences the usefulness of the information, and therefore inducing the information adoption intention. This approach overlooks the repeated interactions and relationship building between members. Contrary to this approach, I apply trust concept to investigate the issue and choose the health context to reveal additional factors that have been neglected to contribute to trust building. Moreover, I aim to draw more insights of trust transferring from individual to community and behavioral intentions from the qualitative study and verify the final model by quantitative methods. In practice, the study intends to contribute to online community design and development in a growing and sustainable way. By examining the underlying mechanism, the study can provide guidance and insights in information aggregation strategy, incentive system design, and ways to bring individuals closer to the online community.
Hanmei Fan , PhD Student
Department of Information Systems
University of Melbourne
Room 5.58b
ICT Building, 111 Barry St, Carlton, VIC, Australia
Tel: +61 3 8344 1546
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Email:h.fan@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au
Education
Ph.D., Information Systems,
University of Melbourne, Australia, 2009 - 2012
Ph.D., Business Information Systems, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, U.S.A, 2006 - 2009 (Transferred)
Bachelor in Business Administration (B.B.A),
E-Commerce, Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade, 2002 - 2006
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