Sara Kiesler
Professor of Computer Science and Human Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University

The Internet has successfully adapted to commericalization, to the widespread adoption in work organizations of Internet connectivity, to mobile communication, and to new forms of community that connect the online world to the real world. These changes have led to a blurring of the boundaries between the real world (RW) and the online world. This blurring challenges our previous understanding of Internet processes and culture, and calls for new designs that leverage the Internet's domestication.

Sara Kiesler is Hillman Professor of Computer Science and Human Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University. Prof. Kiesler applies behavioral and social science to technology design and to understanding how technology changes individuals, groups, and organizations. She conducted among the first scientific studies of computer-mediated communication. With Lee Sproull, she authored "Connections: New Ways of Working in the Networked Organization" (MIT Press). She has collaborated extensively on social aspects of the Internet ("Culture of the Internet," Erlbaum). She continues to study the social impact of the Internet on families, problems associated with multidisciplinary and complex forms of collaboration, geographically dispersed science and project work ("Distributed Work," MIT Press), information sharing, and the design of human-robot interaction.

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