Ping Zhang (information scientist) explained

Ping Zhang (张苹)
Birth Place:Hohhot, China
Nationality:American
Work Institution:Syracuse University School of Information Studies
Doctoral Advisor:Andrew B. Whinston

Ping Zhang is an American scholar in information systems and human–computer interaction. She is notable for her work on establishing the human–computer interaction community inside the information systems field,[1] bridging various camps of human–computer interaction research[2] and exploring intellectual characteristics of the information field.[3] [4] She co-authored with Dov Te’eni and Jane Carey the first HCI textbook for non-computer science students.[5]

Zhang is the co-founding EIC of AIS Transactions on Human–Computer Interaction. She was a senior editor of Journal of the Association for Information Systems, where she is also the author of the inaugural article.[6]

During 2013–2015, Zhang was the first historian for the Association for Information Systems.

In 2015, Ping Zhang was named as a fellow of the American Council on Education (ACE) for the 2015–2016 academic year.

Ping Zhang received her PhD in information systems from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, and M.Sc. and B.Sc. in computer science from Peking University, Beijing, China.

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  1. Human–Computer Interaction Research in the MIS Discipline. . Zhang . Ping . Izak Benbasat . Jane Carey . Fred Davis . Dennis Galletta . Diane Strong . Communications of the Association for Information Systems . 9 . 2002 . 334–355 .
  2. HCI and MIS: shared concerns. . Zhang . Ping . Andrew Dillon . International Journal of Human–Computer Studies . 59 . 4 . 2003 . 397–402 . 10.1016/s1071-5819(03)00109-5. 10.1.1.67.1793 .
  3. Understanding information related fields: A conceptual framework. . Zhang . Ping . Robert Benjamin . Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology . 58 . 13 . 2007 . 1934–1947 . 10.1002/asi.20660. 10.1.1.77.4621 .
  4. The Intellectual Characteristics of the Information Field: Evidence from Heritage and Substance. . Zhang . Ping . J. Liew . K. Hassman . Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology . 64 . 12 . 2013 . 2468–2491 . 10.1002/asi.22941 . free .
  5. Book: Te’eni, Dov . Human–Computer Interaction: Developing Effective Organizational Information Systems . Jane Carey . Ping Zhang . 2007 . John Wiley. .
  6. The Effects of Animation on Information Seeking Performance on the World Wide Web. Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 1. 1. 2013-10-28. March 2000. Zhang. Ping.