Biography

Michael Muller is a member of the Collaborative User Experience (CUE) group of IBM Research, and of the IBM Center for Social Software. His research is a blend of social science and computer science, conducted in collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams. Together, these teams have helped to define new opportunities for enterprise social software products, such as the applications within IBM Lotus Connections. Michael's earlier work emphasized participatory design and participatory analysis, leading to several handbook chapters on participatory methods. Michael has helped to organize several of the Participatory Design Conferences, and has served on program committees for numerous ACM conferences. Recently, Michael completed a three-year committee assignment with the National Academy of Science.