philip fei wu

email: fwu [at] umd.edu

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the iSchool at the University of Maryland, College Park. I'm affiliated with the Center for Information Policy and E-Government (CIPEG), the Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL), and the newly established Center for the Advanced Study of Communities and Information (CASCI).

Currently, I'm working on the Community Response Grids (CRGs) project. My dissertation work, co-mentored by Dr. Jenny Preece and Dr. Yan Qu, studies motivation for adopting and using emergency response systems in community settings.

I hold an M.A. in instructional technology, another M.A. in aesthetics, and a B.A. in Chinese language & literature.

• Philip Fei Wu, Yan Qu, Ken Fleischmann, Jennifer Golbeck, Paul Jaeger, Jenny Preece, & Ben Shneiderman (2008). Designing a Community-Based Emergency Communication System: A Preliminary Study. Poster to appear at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T 2008), October 2008, Columbus, OH, USA.

• Philip Fei Wu, Yan Qu, Jenny Preece, Ken Fleischmann, Jennifer Golbeck, Paul Jaeger, & Ben Shneiderman (2008). Community Response Grid (CRG) for a University Campus: Design Requirements and Implications. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2008), May 2008, Washington, DC, USA.

• Philip Fei Wu (2008). Motivation for Adopting Community Emergency Response Technologies. Poster presented at the 5th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2008), May 2008, Washington, DC, USA.

• Paul Jaeger, Ken Fleischmann, Jenny Preece, Ben Shneiderman, Philip Fei Wu, & Yan Qu (2007). Community Response Grids: Facilitating Community Response to Biosecurity and Bioterror Emergencies through Information and Communication Technologies. Biosecurity and Bioterrorism, 5(4), 1-11.

• Paul Jaeger, Ben Shneiderman, Ken Fleischmann, Jenny Preece, Yan Qu, & Philip Fei Wu (2007). Community Response Grids: E-government, Social Networks, and Effective Emergency Response. Telecommunications Policy, 31, 592-604.

• Philip Fei Wu, Jenny Preece, Ben Shneiderman, Paul Jaeger, & Yan Qu. Community Response Grids for Older Adults: Motivations, Usability, and Sociability. Proceedings of 13th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2007), August 2007, Keystone, Colorado, USA.

• Jimmy Lin, Philip Wu, Dina Demner-Fushman, & Eileen Abels. Exploring the Limits of Single-Iteration Clarification Dialogs. Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2006), August 2006, Seattle, Washington, USA.

• Jimmy Lin, Eileen Abels, Dina Demner-Fushman, Douglas W. Oard, Philip Wu, & Yejun Wu. A Menagerie of Tracks at Maryland: HARD, Enterprise, QA, and Genomics, Oh My! Proceedings of the 14th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2005), November 2005, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA.

• Ann Fife, Philip Wu, & Richard Lamberski. A Survey of Prerequisite Resources to Distance Learning Courses. Proceedings of the 25th Annual National Educational Computing Conference (NECC 2004), June 2004, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

• movies, movies, movies
• classical music
• photography [my flickr album]