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Dr. Kuanchin Chen's Homepage
Department of Business Information Systems Western Michigan University Phone: (269) 387-5795 Email: kc.chen@wmich.edu |
Welcome to Dr. Kuanchin
Chen's home page. Dr. Chen is an Associate Professor of
Computer Information Systems at
Department of Business Information
Systems, Western Michigan University. He received
his Master of Science (MS) degree in Information Systems
from the University of Colorado and his Doctor of
Business Administration (D.B.A.) in Information Systems
from Cleveland State University. Dr. Chen is an active
researcher. He currently serves on the editorial or
advisory boards of Information Resources Management
journal,
International Journal of Information Systems and Change
Management, Journal of Website Promotion,
Communications of the ICISA, IGI Global (formerly
Idea Group), eWeek, and CMP. He is also
Editor-in-Chief of the Communications of ICISA
journal.
Dr. Chen recently received the
2008-2009 Emerging Scholar Award.
The following is quoted from the objective of the award:

"The award recognizes the scholarly
or creative achievements of outstanding colleagues whose accomplishments are evidence of great
potential for scholarship or creative work."
More details about this award is available at
WMU news or
Prism.
Dr. Chen's research interests include electronic
business, privacy & security, online behavioral issues
(e.g., interactivity, dependency, and
tracking/protection), Internet frauds, usability, data
mining, and human computer interactions.
Dr.
Chen's recent book
Online Consumer Protection: Theories of Human Relativism
is published in September of 2008. The cover page
created by the publisher is shown on the right. A
PDF
brochure is also available for download.
He has published numerous articles in journals and other academic publication outlets, such as Decision Support Systems, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Information & Management, Communications of the Association for Information Systems (CAIS), IEEE Transactions on Education, and many others. He has also given research lectures or talks at several organizations, such as NASA Lewis Research Center, University of South Dakota, Western Michigan University, Center of Excellence - Dakota State University, National Central University, National Cheng Kung University,, National Chung Cheng University and several major academic conferences.