Dr Philip Fei Wu

Biography

Dr. Wu joined University of Surrey in March 2009, shortly before he received his Ph.D. in information studies from University of Maryland, College Park, USA. From 2003 to 2004, he worked as a technology designer for MetLife and developed computer-based employee training programs for its Quality Assurance department. 

Research Interests

• ICT-mediated collective actions
• Online communities
• Technology acceptance
• Consumer behavior & psychology
• Research methodology

Publications

Journal Articles

• Philip Fei Wu and Nikolaos Korfiatis (forthcoming). You Scratch Someone’s Back and We’ll Scratch Yours: Collective Reciprocity in Social Q&A Communities. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. [SSCI, SCI]
  
• Bingchun Meng and Fei Wu (2012). Commons/Commodity: Peer Production Caught in the Web of the Commercial Market. Information, Communication & Society, 16(1), 125-145. [SSCI]
  
• Philip Fei Wu (2012). A Mixed Methods Approach to Technology Acceptance Research. Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS), 13(3), Article No. 1. [SSCI, SCI]
  
• Jimmy Lin, Philip Wu, and Eileen Abels (2009). Toward Automatic Facet Analysis and Need Negotiation: Lessons from Mediated Search. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 27(1), Article No. 6. [SCI]
  
• Paul Jaeger, Ben Shneiderman, Kenneth Fleischmann, Jenny Preece, Yan Qu, and Philip Fei Wu (2007). Community Response Grids: E-government, Social Networks, and Effective Emergency Response. Telecommunications Policy, 31(10-11), 592-604. [SSCI]

Refereed Conference Papers

• Anne Massey, Mitzi Montoya, and Philip Wu (2013). Virtual Environments and Corporate Learning: An Empirical Investigation of Benefits. Proceedings of the 46th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-46), Maui, Hawaii, USA.
  
• Philip Fei Wu, Hans van der Heijden, and Nikolaos Korfiatis (2011). The Influences of Negativity and Review Quality on the Helpfulness of Online Reviews. Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2011), Shanghai, China.
  
• Philip Fei Wu (2009). Opening the Black Boxes of TAM: Towards a Mixed-Methods Approach. Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2009), Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
  
• Philip Fei Wu (2009). User Acceptance of Emergency Alert Technology: A Case Study. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2009), Gothenburg, Sweden.
  
• Yan Qu, Philip Fei Wu, and Xiaoqing Wang (2009). Online Community Response to Major Disaster: A Case Study of Tianya Forum in the 2008 China Earthquake. Proceedings of the 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-42), Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA. 
  
• Philip Fei Wu, Yan Qu, Jenny Preece, Kenneth Fleischmann, Jennifer Golbeck, Paul Jaeger, & Ben Shneiderman (2008). Community Response Grid (CRG) for a University Campus: Design Requirements and Implications. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2008), Washington, DC, USA.
  
• Philip Fei Wu, Jenny Preece, Ben Shneiderman, Paul Jaeger, & Yan Qu (2007). Community Response Grids for Older Adults: Motivations, Usability, and Sociability. Proceedings of the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2007), Keystone, Colorado, USA.
  
• Jimmy Lin, Philip Wu, Dina Demner-Fushman, & Eileen Abels (2006). Exploring the Limits of Single-Iteration Clarification Dialogs. Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2006), Seattle, Washington, USA.

Teaching

• Management Information Systems (UG L2)
• e-Business (PG) 
• Strategic Information Management (PG)

Departmental Duties

Affiliations

Member of :

Association for Information Systems (AIS)
British Academy of Management (BAM)

Reviewer for:

Management Information System Quarterly (MISQ)
Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS)
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
ICIS (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012)
ECIS (2011, 2012 Associate Editor)
CHI (2012)
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada