Michael Nilan

Mike was a researcher and lecturer on user-based information system design and cognitive information seeking and information use behaviors. Mike’s most recent efforts were directed towards the development and maintenance of “virtual communities” using the World Wide Web as a medium to organize resources for collaborative work according to temporal and spatial analysis of patterns in users’ perceived problem structures. Mike was also involved in several projects which are focused on understanding the perceptions of virtual community members associated with WWW-based communication sites, including research in user-based interaction design approach that employs end-user understandings of processes as the starting point for system design.