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Position/Role: Associate Professor
Schools/Unit:
Information
Systems, Technology and Management
Contact Details:
Qualifications:
- PhD (Information Systems) UNSW
- MCom (Information Systems) UNSW
- BBus (Public Administration and Economics) UTS
- Member of IEEE
Background:
- 1974 - 1977 Commonwealth Banking Corporation, General Classification
- 1980 - 1984 Electricity Commission of N.S.W.; Research Cadet,
Commercial Computing; Research Cadet, Financial/Systems; Systems
Planner, Computer Services Branch
- 1984 - 1985 Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Computer Systems
Officer, Financial Systems.
- 1985 - 1987 Macarthur Institute of Higher Education, Lecturer
(tenured), School of Business and Technology.
- 1987 - 1988 Kuring-gai College of Advanced Education, Lecturer
(tenured), Dept of Information Studies.
- 1988 - 1989 Macarthur Institute of Higher Education, Lecturer
(tenured), School of Business and Technology.
- 1989 - School of Information Systems, Technology and Management,
UNSW
Research Interests:
- Computer-mediated communication
- Interests IS evaluation
- Software Engineering
Publications:
- D'Ambra, J., Rice, R.E., Emerging Factors in User Evaluation
of the World Publications Wde Web, Information and Management
,Vol.38 No.6, pp. 373 - 384.
- D'Ambra, J., Rice, R.E., , More, E., Winter 1998., Cross Cultural
Comparison of Organizational Media Evaluation and Choice, Journal
of Communication, Vol. 48 No. 1, pp. 3 - 26.
- D'Ambra, J., Rice, R.E., O'Connor, M., 1998. Computer-mediated
Communication and Media Preference: An Investigation of the Dimensionality
of Perceived Task Equivocality and Media Richness, Behaviour &
Information Technology vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 164 - 174.
- D'Ambra, J., Rice, R.E. 1994. Multi-method Approaches for the
Study of Electronic Communication, Equivocality, and Media Selection,
IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 37(4), 231-239.
- D'Ambra J., "Measuring the Effectiveness of the WWW as
an Information Resource", accepted for IEEE SMC 2001.
Scott L, Rutherford P., Jeffery R., Carvalho L., D'Ambra J., "Practical
Software Process Improvement - The IMPACT Project", accepted
for ASWEC 2001.
- D'Ambra J., and Jeffery R., "CORONET: An Australian Software
Engineering Experience in Collaborative Research with the European
Community", accepted for ASWEC 2001.
- Zixiu G., and D'Ambra J., "Understanding Cultural Influence
on Media Choice: A Cross-Cultural Study Within a Multinational
Organisation Setting", accepted for PACIS 2001.
- Scott, L., Carvalho L., Jeffery, R., D'Ambra, J., An Evaluation
of the Spearmint Approach to Software Process Modeling, accepted
for 8th European Workshop on Software Process Technology.
Courses Taught:
- Software Engineering Implementation
- MIS
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