Dr.
Oren Zuckerman joined IDC’s school of communications in 2007,
immediately after completing his PhD at MIT Media Lab. During the
past three years, Zuckerman founded IDC’s Media Innovation Lab,
developed the Interactive Communication program in the school’s BA
program, and received several research grants in the field of Human
Computer Interaction, Media Innovation, and Social
Media.
Zuckerman’s
research areas are at the cross section of HCI (Human Computer
Interaction) and CMC (Computer Mediated Communication), including
research topics such as participation patterns in online & mobile
communities, engagement in location-based media, and Human-Centered
Computing.
At
MIT Media Lab, Zuckerman completed his Masters and PhD in the field
of tangible interfaces for learning. Prior to MIT (1999-2001),
Zuckerman was the co-founder of an Internet startup that created a
“decentralized blogging community” on top of the Web. On
2001, the World Economic Forum recognized Zuckerman as a “Technology
Pioneer” at the annual forum in Davos, Switzerland. Zuckerman is
a program committee member of ACM’s TEI 2010 and IDC 2010
conferences, and reviews regularly for the “Communications of
the ACM” journal and the CHI conference.
