Daphne R. Raban, PhD Room 610, Jacobs Building U. of Haifa Tel: 04-8288492, 054-4837670 email

I am a Senior Lecturer at the Graduate School of Management and Head of the Department of Information & Knowledge Management, University of Haifa.  I am also a Fellow of The Caesarea Edmond Benjamin de Rothschild Foundation Institute for Interdisciplinary Applications of Computer Science (C.R.I.) where I organized a series of seminars entitled: Games are Serious Business .   

I received my doctorate, Summa Cum Laude, at the Graduate School of Management, U. of Haifa, Israel. The title of my research was "Ownership and Subjective Value in the Trading and Sharing of Information". Some information on my research can be found in this link.
My advisor was Prof. Sheizaf Rafaeli, who is also the director of the Sagy Center for Internet Research where I am a regular participant and a member of the Executive Committee.

The doctoral students I advise are:

Dorit Geifman (proposal approved Aug. 2009): Online Information Markets and Judgment Self-Efficacy.  See also the PM Wiki.

Hila Koren (Hila also has a business link here):  Reinvention in the Process of Critical Mass Formation

Ganit Richter: Scoring Functions in Serious Games

The Master's students I advise are:

Noam Danan: Self Presentation Versus Perception by Others in an Enterprise People Tagging System

Benny Bornfeld: Influence in Social Networks

Amit Peled: Social Graph Auctions

Maya Mazor: Incentives in Amazon's Mechanical Turk

Nurit Mendelovich: Reputation in Information Exchanges

Michal Gaziel-Yablowitz: The Influence of Financial Blogs on Venture Capitalists' Decision Making

My Research Interests are:
 

• The subjective value of information
• Economics of information goods
• Information markets (fee-based, free, social,  public goods, prediction, aggregation)
• Social networks
• Serious games and crowd computing (in collaboration with IBM's Social Computing group)
• Information business models
• Voluntary payments for information
• Motivations for information sharing
• Information overload

I am a member of the Socios project.

My publications, my Facebook Profile, my Twitter Profile. This link goes to an old list of bookmarks which I like to visit.

Teaching:

• Online Competitive Intelligence: This course has another site within the HighLearn system (password needed!). I'm very proud of my students who worked on two collaborative resources (in Hebrew): one is a textbook on competitive intelligence and the other is a resource about education in Northern Israel. 
• Workshop for new doctoral students on information handling for research purposes (document, presentation).
• Leading a course linking between our students and CXO level executives.
• Online virtual communities and business models.
• A full-year course in information retrieval at the Technion Continuing Education unit in Haifa and in Tel-Aviv. 
  
  I am also the proud mother of three terrific kids, Amit, Noga, Shelly!