KMDI - Knowledge Media Design Institute

Knowledge media are building blocks of a knowledge society




FACULTY

Gale Moore (Ph.D, Toronto)
Director, Knowledge Media Design Institute
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Institute of Communications and Culture

Phone: 416-978-4655
Fax: 416-978-KMDI
Email: gmoore@kmdi.utoronto.ca
Biography
Gale Moore (Sociology) has been the Director of the Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI) since July 2003. Gale teaches KMD1002H - one of the two foundation seminars in Knowledge Media Design (KMD). As a sociologist-designer, Gale’s primary interests for the past 15 years have been the social impacts of ICTs in everyday life, and on bringing an understanding peoples’ experience of technology into the design of technology. From 1992-1995, Gale was head of social science research for the internationally renown Ontario Telepresence Project (OTP), a $6M industry-university cross-disciplinary consortium supported by the Province of Ontario and a number of firms and corporations. More recent research includes: a study of the role of ICTs in the coordination and management of home-based care, including a study of an intensive home-based autism therapy program; a CITO/IBMCAS funded project--The Word Study --on how people experience complex software; and a participatory evaluation for a CANARIE project on telehomecare.. Gale is a co-inventor of KMDI’s ePresence system, an interactive webcasting, archiving and media production technology. In 2004, Moore led KMDI’s successful half-million dollar proposal to the Provost’s Academic Initiatives Fund for Project OS|OA, and in the spring of 2005, KMDI was honoured as a Toronto innovator in the field of information as part of the Massive Change exhibit at the AGO. As a sociologist Moore’s interests have been in understanding collaboration as a nexus of people, practice and technology, and in innovation in the 21 st C organisation, in particular on interdisciplinarity and institutional innovation in the contemporary university. Her research has been funded by SSHRC, CITO, Bell University Laboratories, and other government and industry partners. Gale’s previous careers were as a biochemist, and as an information scientist specializing in health.

Keywords
Interdisciplinarity, institutional innovation, CSCW, the phenomenon of openness

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