Research
 Current Research Interests

Primary Research Interests

My current primary research interests focus on consumer-based information technology (e.g., online decision aids, social computing, virtual worlds and consumer cloud services). Most of my research is based on design science, a well-established problem-solving paradigm that has been widely adopted in information systems research.

Secondary Research Interests

My current secondary research interests focus on information systems education.

 Research Honours and Awards
Faculty Level
  • 2012 - Research Achievement Award - School of Computing, National University of Singapore
International
  • 2009 - ACM SIGMIS (Association for Computing Machinery - Special Interest Group on Management Information Systems) 2009 Magid Igbaria Outstanding Conference Paper of the Year Nominee
 Research Grants
Local Grants
  • 2017-2019: Towards Sustainable Research Excellence in Health Informatics – Design and Implementation of an Internet-of-Thing (IoT) Platform for Healthcare Analytics
    • Amount: SGD $1,100,000
    • Type and Source: Faculty Strategic Initiatives, National University of Singapore

  • 2012-2013: Next Generation Cloud Computing-based Electronic Commerce Platform
    • Grant Number: T1 251RES1117
    • Project Number: R-253-000-094-112
    • Amount: SGD $48,000
    • Type and Source: Academic Research Fund (AcRF) Tier 1, Academic Research Council, Ministry of Education, Singapore
 Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

  1. Tan, W. K., Tan, C. H., and Teo, H. H. "Conveying Information Effectively in a Virtual World: Insights from Synthesized Task Closure and Media Richness," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) (63:6), June 2012, pp. 1198-1212. [Abstract | Link]

  2. Tan, W. K., Tan, C. H., and Teo, H. H. "Consumer-based Decision Aid that Explains Which to Buy: Decision Confirmation or Overconfidence Bias?," Decision Support Systems (DSS) (53:1), April 2012, pp. 127-141. [Abstract | Link]

  3. Tan, W. K., and Tan, C. H. "Teaching Information Systems Development via Process Variants," Journal of Information Systems Education (JISE) (21:2), Summer 2010, pp. 159-172. [Abstract | Link]

  4. Tan, C. H., Tan, W. K., and Teo, H. H. "Designing an Information Systems Development Course to Incorporate Agility, Flexibility, and Adaptability," Communications of the Association for Information Systems (CAIS) (26), March 2010, Article 10, pp. 171-194. [Abstract | Link]

Refereed Conference Proceedings

  1. Tan, W. K., Teo, H. H., Tan, C. H., and Yang, Y. "The Social Dimension of Mobile Commerce – Engaging Customers through Group Purchase," in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 9751, HCI in Business, Government, and Organizations: eCommerce and Innovation, Nah, F. F.-H. and Tan, C. H. (Eds), Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 2016, pp. 468-479. (Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Toronto, Canada, July 17-22, 2016) (ICHCI) [Abstract | Link]

  2. Tan, W. K., and Teo, H. H. "Productpedia – A Collaborative Electronic Product Catalog for Ecommerce 3.0," in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 9191, HCI in Business, Nah, F. F.-H. and Tan, C. H. (Eds), Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 2015, pp. 370-381. (Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction , Los Angeles, California, United States, August 2-7, 2015) (ICHCI) [Abstract | Link]

  3. Tan, W. K., Tan, C. H., and Teo, H. H. "When Two is Better than One - Product Recommendation with Dual Information Processing Strategies," in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 8527, HCI in Business, Nah, F. F.-H. (Ed), Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 2014, pp. 775-786. (Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Creta Maris, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 22-27, 2014) (ICHCI) [Abstract | Link]

  4. Tan, W. K., and Teo, H. H. "Impact of Blog Design Features on Blogging Satisfaction: An Impression Management Perspective," in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 6778, Online Communities and Social Computing, Ozok, A. A. and Zaphiris, P. (Eds), Springer Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011, pp. 130-139. (Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Orlando, Florida, United States, July 9-14, 2011) (ICHCI) [Abstract | Link]

  5. Tan, W. K., Nguyen, T. T. D., Oo Tha, K. K., and Yu, X. "Designing Groupware that Fosters Social Capital Creation: Can Facebook Support Global Virtual Team?," in Proceedings of the 15th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), San Francisco, California, United States, August 6-9, 2009, Paper 525. [Abstract | Link]

  6. Tan, W. K., Tan, C. H., and Teo, H. H. "Would I Use My Personal Blog for Commercial Exchange?," in Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), Verona, Italy, June 8-10, 2009, Paper 78. [Abstract | Link]

  7. Tan, W. K., and Teo, H. H. "Blogging to Express Self and Social Identities, Any One?," in Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), Verona, Italy, June 8-10, 2009, Paper 42. [Abstract | Link]

  8. Tan, W. K., and Teo, H. H. "Training Students to be Innovative Information Systems Developers: Synergizing Project-based Learning with Problem-based Learning," in Proceedings of the 47th ACM SIGMIS Computer Personnel Research Conference (SIGMIS-CPR), Limerick, Ireland, May 28-30, 2009, pp. 19-32. [Abstract | Link] [2009 Magid Igbaria Outstanding Conference Paper of the Year Nominee]

  9. Tan, W. K., Tan, C. H., and Teo, H. H. "Understanding the Exchange Intention of an Individual Blogger," in IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, Volume 267, Information Technology in the Service Economy: Challenges and Possibilities for the 21st Century, Barrett, M., Davidson, E., Middleton, C. and DeGross, J. (Eds), Springer, Boston, United States, 2008, pp. 375-378. (IFIP Technical Committee 8 Working Group 8.2 International Working Conference, August 10-13, 2008, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) (IFIP WG8.2) [Abstract | Link]

  10. Tan, C. H., Tan, W. K., and Teo, H. H. "Training Students to be Agile Information Systems Developers: A Pedagogical Approach," in Proceedings of the 46th ACM SIGMIS Computer Personnel Research Conference (SIGMIS-CPR), Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, April 3-5, 2008, pp. 88-96. [Abstract | Link]

Non-Refereed Conference Proceedings

  1. Ng, W. J., Chong, W. Y., Ek, K. S., Tan, W. K., and Teo, H. H. "Blogshop as a Viable Ecommerce Tool," in Proceedings of the 17th Youth Science Conference, Ministry of Education, Singapore, September 17, 2011, Paper NUS-CMP04. [Co-author and co-supervisor of junior high school students' research project]

  2. Lim, W. S., Gong, C., Kwok, S. G., Ng, S. H., Tan, W. K., and Teo, H. H. "Social Computing and Health Communication," in Proceedings of the 15th Youth Science Conference, Ministry of Education, Singapore, September 19, 2009, Paper NUS-CMP02. [Co-author and co-supervisor of junior high school students' research project]

  3. Chua, J. X., Lee, F. Y., Tan, W. K., and Teo, H. H. "Individual Blogging Behaviour and Blog Identity," in Proceedings of the 14th Youth Science Conference, Ministry of Education, Singapore, September 13, 2008, Paper NUS-CMP05. [Co-author and co-supervisor of junior high school students' research project]
 Bibliography and Citations
 PhD Dissertation

The title of my PhD dissertation is "Cloud Commerce - A Design Science Endeavor Towards Next Generation Electronic Commerce". My research advisor is Professor Teo Hock Hai. It is also my privilege to have Associate Professor Chan Hock Chuan and Associate Professor Heng Cheng Suang advising me as members of my dissertation committee.