Aldo de Moor

Aldo de Moor is owner of CommunitySense, a research consultancy firm on community informatics. In 1999, he got his PhD in information management from Tilburg University (Netherlands). From 1999-2004, he was an assistant professor at Infolab, Department of Information Systems and Management, Tilburg University. In 2005-2006, he was a senior researcher at the Semantics Technology and Applications Research Laboratory (STARLab) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Aldo’s research interests include the evolution of virtual communities, communicative workflow modeling, argumentation support technologies, language/action theory, conceptual graph theory, and socio-technical systems design. Aldo has been a visiting researcher at the University of Guelph (Canada) and the University of Technology (Sydney, Australia). Aldo has been Program Co-Chair of the International Conference on Conceptual Structures, the Language/Action Perspective Working Conference on Communication Modeling, and the Pragmatic Web Conference. Key publications have appeared in journals like Communications of the ACM, Data and Knowledge Engineering, Group Decision and Negotiation, Information Systems, Information Systems Frontiers, and Information Systems Journal.

Publications

Handbook of Research on Socio-Technical Design and Social Networking Systems
Handbook of Research on Socio-Technical Design and Social Networking Systems
Brian Whitworth, Aldo de Moor. © 2009. 1034 pages.
The focus of this book is not how to make technology more efficient, nor even how technology harms or helps society, but rather how to successfully combine society and technology...
A Social Context Model for Discussion Process Analysis
A Social Context Model for Discussion Process Analysis
Aldo de Moor, Rolf Kleef. © 2005. 18 pages.
Computer-mediated discussion processes play an important role in achieving sustainable development. However, when part of authoring complex documents, these discussions have so...