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Ackerman's research focuses on such areas as privacy, organizational memory or collaborative information access, collective information reuse, and online communities. He is part of the SocialWorlds research group that studies these areas of interest.
His research group focuses on considering the interplay of the social world with computational systems. Ackerman is interested in co-design spaces -- places where you need to consider how to incorporate elements of the social world within software systems (such as with computer-supported cooperative work systems) and also consider how systems will affect their social settings in return. In some cases, such as privacy, both have to be designed or at least considered simultaneously. This kind of research requires a dual emphasis on both the technology and the social structures of its use.
In 2000-01, while on leave from Irvine, he was principal research scientist of Project Oxygen in the Laboratory for Computer Science  at Massachusetts Institute of Technology .
Mark Ackerman is an associate professor in the School of Information and an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science . Previously, he was an associate professor at the University of California at Irvine . |
