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Research
My research focuses on social judgment in electronic Personal Identity Displays, especially electronic profiles. I am interested in the impact of reduced social cues in such environments on the social judgment process. Some of the questions that interest me are:
- What are the different kinds of social cues present in electronic environments?
- How are these social cues organized in electronic profiles?
- Does the structure of profiles affect the judgment process? If so, how?
- What is the impact of these social cues on an individual's judgment of others?
- What are the various theories of impression formation and interpersonal attraction that are applicable to online environments?
- How does social judgment in electronic environments differ from face-to-face (FtF) social judgment?
- What is the impact of objectively irrelevant information contained in electronic profiles on decision-making in social contexts?
Some of the research projects that I have conducted include:
- The impact of physical appearance and attribute similarity on first-impression formation in online matchmaking
- The impact of structure of profiles and medium of presentation on choice and recall in profiles assessment
- The impact of structure of profiles and medium of presentation first-impression formation in electronic profiles
- The impact of irrelevant information on social judgment using electronic profiles
Dissertation
For my thesis, I am working under the guidance of Prof. Lee Sproull on first-impression formation in electronic environments using electronic profiles. I focus on electronic profiles in expert-finder systems.
The main questions that I address are:
- What are the various factors involved in first-impression formation, i.e, what aspects of a person does a perceiver consider when forming an impression about him/her?
- What is the effect of context on the way a perceiver looks at information about another person?
- What is the impact of physical appearance and attribute similarity on first-impressions?
- How fast are first-impressions formed?
Click here for a brief of my dissertation.
Publications
2006
Bajaj, S. & Sproull, L. (2006). The impact of structure and medium on choice and recall in profile assessment. Paper presented at the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Montreal, Canada.
2003
Bajaj, S. & Sproull, L. (2003). First impressions in online matchmaking. Paper presented at the IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet 2003, Algarve,
Portugal.
Presentations
IADIS 2003 - Paper presented at the IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet 2003, Algarve, Portugal
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Information Systems Group
IOMS Department
Leonard N. Stern School of Business
New York University
44 West 4th Street, Suite 8-181
New York, NY 10012 |
Phone 212-998-0390
Fax 212-995-4228
E-mail sbajaj@stern.nyu.edu |
Sameer Bajaj
| Education |
2000 – to date: Stern School of Business, New York University, New York, USA
Ph.D. Information Systems
Dissertation: “Social judgment using electronic profiles”
In my thesis, I study the first-impression formation process based on static profile data. The methodology I use is as follows:
- Designing and conducting lab-based, experimental user research studies
- Material development - creating and testing hypothetical profiles
- Experimental manipulation development - identifying independent and dependent variables
- Recruiting participants, explaining the cover story to them, and debriefing them after the experiment
- Organizing, coding and analyzing data
- Statistical techniques like ANOVA, MANOVA, Regression (Simple and Logistic) and Repeated Measures using SPSS software
- Questionnaire design and data collection techniques like Likert Scales and Recall
- Compiling results and writing them up in papers, with a focus on submission to academic journals
1995 – 1999: Netaji Subhas Institute of Tech., Delhi University, New Delhi, India
B.Engg. Computer Engineering
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| Professional Experience |
Summer 2001: IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, USA
Summer Intern – Programmer
Web-based project with the Discovery-based Learning Group
- Collaborative project with Museum of Modern Art
- XML and dHTML programming
1999 – 2000: Riverrun Software Group, NOIDA, India
Software Engineer
Web-based Intranet application development
- Projects
- Development of the company's Intranet to enable document publishing and integration of intra-company services
- Automating the complaint registration process as an extension of Helpdesk facility
- Design and development of a web-based Problem Tracking Database
- Site administration for the company's Internet site (www.riverrun.com)
- Programming with
- CGI programming with Perl
- Javascript, HTML and dHTML
- Lotus Notes
1998 – 1999: National Informatics Centre, New Delhi, India
Intern – Programmer
Web-based Mail User Agent Project
- Design and development of a Hotmail like Mail User Agent
- Developed using C, HTML and IMAP
- Development environment was Solaris 2.5.1
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| Publications |
Conference Papers
Bajaj, S. & Sproull, L. S. (2006). First-impressions in online profiles: Psychological processes in knowledge management systems. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Atlanta, Georgia.
Bajaj, S. & Sproull, L. S. (2006). The impact of structure and medium on choice and recall in profile assessment. Paper presented at the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Montreal, Canada.
Bajaj, S. & Sproull, L. S. (2003). First impressions in online matchmaking. Paper presented at the IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet 2003, Algarve, Portugal.
Work in Progress
"Irrelevant information and first-impression formation: The effect of physical appearance and interpersonal similarity" with Prof. Lee Sproull
"First-impression formation using profiles: A case study of programmers selling expertise online" with Prof. Lee Sproull
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| Teaching |
New York University
Instructor
- Fundamentals of Computer Systems, Undergraduate IS elective, Fall 2005
- Fundamentals of Computer Systems, Undergraduate IS elective, Fall 2004
- Fundamentals of Computer Systems, Undergraduate IS elective, Fall 2003
Teaching Assistant
- Designing and Developing Web-Based Systems, Undergraduate, MBA, MIS IS elective, Spring 2003
- Computer Based Systems for Management Support, Undergraduate IS Core, Fall 2002
- Fundamentals of Computer Systems, Undergraduate IS elective, Spring 2002
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| Honors and Awards Received |
- Attended the Second Annual TJ Watson Research HCI Symposium, 2005 (Hawthorne, NY)
- Participated in the Organizational Communications and Information Systems (OCIS) Doctoral Consortium in the Academy of Management, 2004 (New Orleans)
- Participated in the 3rd Annual Webshop organized by the Sociology Department of the University of Maryland, College Park
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| Academic Service |
Reviewer: AoM (2006), CHI (2006), Journal of Consumer Psychology (2005), ICIS CoRE (2005), ICIS (2003)
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| References |
Lee S. Sproull (Thesis advisor)
Professor of Business
44 West 4th Street, Room 11-55
New York, NY 10012
lsproull@stern.nyu.edu
212-998-0804
James S. Uleman
Professor of Psychology
6 Washington Place, Room 753
New York, NY 10003
jim.uleman@nyu.edu
212-998-7821
Norman H. White
Clinical Associate Professor, IS
44 West 4th Street, Room 8-79
New York, NY 10012
nwhite@stern.nyu.edu
212-998-0842
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