Sauder School of Business University of British Columbia

Weiquan Wang
 


Ph.D. Candidate
MIS Division, Sauder School of Business
The University of British Columbia
2053 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2

CANADA

Phone: (604) 822-2822
Fax: (604) 822-0045
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I. Education

II. Research Interests

III. Teaching Interests

IV. Publications

V. Presentations

VI. Teaching Experience

VII. Honors & Awards

VIII. Affiliations / Service


I. EDUCATION
II. RESEARCH INTERESTS
  • Electronic Commerce

  • Recommendation Agents and Online Consumer Decision Support

  • Explanation Facilities for Intelligent Systems

  • Online Trust and Trust in Technological Artifacts

  • Human Computer Interactions

  • Research Methods
III. TEACHING INTERESTS
  • Electronic Commerce

  • Database Design and Implementation

  • Web-based Application Development (e.g., HTML, ASP, ASP.NET, MS .NET)

  • Telecommunication and Networking

IV. PUBLICATIONS

      Refereed Journal Papers
  • Wang, W. and Benbasat, I. (2005) "Trust in and Adoption of Online Recommendation Agents," Journal of the Association for Information Systems (6:3), pp. 72-101.

  • Jiang, Z., Wang, W. and Benbasat, I. (2005) "Multimedia-based Interactive Advising Technology for Online Consumer Decision Support," Communications of the ACM (48:9), 92-98.


  • Komiak, S., Wang, W., and Benbasat, I. (2005) "Trust Building in Virtual Salespersons versus in Human Salespersons: Similarities and Differences," e-Service Journal (3:3), 49-63.


      Refereed Conference Papers
  • Komiak, S.X., Wang, W. and Benbasat, I. (forthcoming) "Comparing Customer Trust in Virtual Salespersons with Customer Trust in Human Salespersons", in The Proceedings of the 38th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Hawaii, USA.
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  • Wang, W. and Benbasat, I. (2004) "Trust and TAM for Online Recommendation Agents", in The Proceedings of the Tenth Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), New York, USA. Best Paper Nominee.
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  • Wang, W. and Benbasat, I. (2003) "An Empirical Investigation of Intelligent Agents for E-Business Customer Relationship Management: A Knowledge Management Perspective" in The Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), Naples, Italy. Best Paper Nominee.
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      Other Publications
  • Wang, W. and Shi, Z. (2000) "China's Electronic Commerce Development Strategies against Global Trends," Journal of the Asian and Pacific Development Center (2:1), Malaysia.

  • Wang, W. (2000) "An Exploratory Study on the Evaluation System of Technology & Education Development Strategies in China," Journal of Tsinghua University (15:4), China, (In Chinese).

  • Wang, W. (1999) "Status Quo of World Electronic Commerce Development and China's Development Strategies of Electronic Commerce," Journal of Tsinghua University (14:4), China, (In Chinese).

VI. PRESENTATIONS

  • "Trust and TAM for Online Recommendation Agents," Presented at the Tenth Americas Conference on Information Systems, New York, USA, August 2004.

  • "Trust and Distrust Building Processes in Online Recommendation Agent: A Process-Tracing Analysis," Presented at MIS Workshop, Sauder School of Business, the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, February 2004.

  • "An Empirical Investigation of Intelligent Agents for E-Business Customer Relationship Management: A Knowledge Management Perspective," Presented at the 11th European Conference on Information Systems, Naples, Italy, June 2003.

  • "The Use of Explanations to Increase Users' Trust in Recommendation Agents in Online Shopping," Presented at MIS Workshop, Sauder School of Business, the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, May 2003.

VII. TEACHING EXPERIENCE
  • Sept. 2004 - Dec. 2005
Co-instructor: Comm335 - Information Systems Tech. & Development
Student Evaluation: Section T07: 4.21*/5; Section T08: 4.72*/5
  • Jan. 2004 - Apr. 2004
Instructor: Comm336 - Introduction to e-Business
Student Evaluation: Section 201: 4.04/5; Section 202: 4.25/5
  • Sept. 2003 - Dec. 2003
Instructor: Comm336 - Introduction to e-Business
Student Evaluation: Section 101: 4.27/5; Section 102: 4.19/5
  • Jan. 2003 - Apr. 2003
Co-instructor: Comm335 - Information Systems Tech. & Development
Student Evaluation: Section T07: 4.46/5; Section T08: 4.26/5
  • Sept. 2002 - Dec. 2003
Co-instructor: Comm335 - Information Systems Tech. & Development
Student Evaluation: Section T01: 4.25/5; Section T02: 4.03/5
  • May 2002 - Jun. 2002
Co-instructor: Comm335 - Information Systems Tech. & Development
Student Evaluation: Section L01: 4.34/5; Section L04: 4.45/5
*: Average of instructor related evaluations

VII. HONORS AND AWARDS
  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) 5-year research grant, student investigator with Dr. Izak Benbasat, 2003.

  • Dean Earle D MacPhee Memorial Fellowship in Commerce and Business Administration, the University of British Columbia, 2001-2002, and 2002-2003.

  • International Partial Tuition Fee Scholarships, Faculty of Graduate Studies, the University of British Columbia, 2000-2001, 2001-2002, 2002-2003, and 2003-2004.

  • Lusztig Fellowship, the University of British Columbia, 2000-2001.

  • "Three-excellent Student" of Beijing City, Beijing China, 1998-1999.

  • First Class Prize, Famatong Fellowship, Tsinghua University, China, 1998-1999.

  • December 9th Fellowship, Tsinghua University, China, 1997-1998.

  • First Class Prize, The Don's Eastern Fellowship, Tsinghua University, China, 1995-1996.

  • First Class Prize, Tsinghua Excellent Student Fellowship, Tsinghua University, China, 1994-1995.

VIII. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS / SERVICE

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