Biographical Sketch for Bo Xie

www.glue.umd.edu/~boxie

Teaching

l Older Adults’ Information Needs, Behaviors, and Resources

l Information Environments

l Health Informatics

Research Interests

Health informatics; older adults' learning and use of computers and the Internet; computer literacy; lifelong learning; civic engagement; volunteering; social relationships; social support; online communities; health and well-being

Education

l Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, New York

Science and Technology Studies (STS)

Ph.D.: May 2006

l Peking University, Beijing, China

Psychology

M.S.: 1998

l West China University of Medical Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Medicine

B. Med. Sci.: 1995

Doctoral Dissertation

Growing Older in the Information Age: Civic Engagement, Social Relationships, and Psychological Well-being among Older Internet Users in China and the United States (Dr. Kim Fortun, Chair) [Funded by a Dissertation Research Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation, SES #0431373]

Grants, Awards, & Scholarships

l Awarded an Outreach Grant by the National Library of Medicine of the National Institutes of Health, under NO1-LM-6-3502, July 1, 2007 – June 30, 2008 ($40,000)

l Awarded a Community Partners Program Grant by the University of Maryland, College Park; Fall 2007 ($4,600)

l Selected to participate in the National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Aging Summer Institute on Aging Research, Queenstown, Maryland, July 14-20, 2007

l Awarded a General Research Board Faculty Summer Research Grant by the University of Maryland, College Park; Summer 2007 ($8,750)

l Received a pilot research grant through the Center for Research and Education on Aging and Technology Enhancement (CREATE), NIH/National Institute on Aging grant (#1P01AG17211); Sept. 2005 – May 2006 ($5,000)

l Awarded Honorable Mention in the 2005 Margaret Clark Award graduate student paper competition for the outstanding paper in anthropology and gerontology

l Awarded a travel grant from the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), 2005 ($400)

l Awarded a travel grant from the STS Department at RPI, 2005 ($250)

l Awarded the Herman Bouma Award from the Foundation for Gerontechnology, 2005 (EURO 1,000)

l Received a Dissertation Research Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Program in Science, Technology, and Society (SES-0431373); Aug. 2004 – Jul. 2006 ($12,000, with one year no-cost extension)

l Awarded a travel grant from the STS Department at RPI, 2003 ($500)

l Awarded a full tuition scholarship from the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Aug. 2000 – May 2005 ($100,200)

l Received Research/Teaching Assistantships from the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Aug. 2000 – May 2004 ($49,600)

l Selected to participate in the NSF-funded First Annual Graduate WebShop, a workshop for social scientists studying the Internet. This three-week workshop included two weeks at the University of Maryland at College Park and one week at the University of California at Berkeley and Stanford University, Jun. 2001 (all expenses and a stipend paid by the NSF)

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

l Xie, B. (in press). The mutual shaping of online and offline social relationships. Information Research.

l Xie, B., & Jaeger, P. T. (in press). Designing public library computer training programs for older adults to promote technical skills and personal well-being. Public Libraries.

l Jaeger, P. T., & Xie, B. (in press). Developing online community accessibility guidelines for persons with disabilities and older adults. Journal of Disability Policy Studies.

l Xie, B. (in press). Civic engagement among older Chinese Internet users. Journal of Applied Gerontology.

l Xie, B. (2008). Multimodal Computer-Mediated Communication and Social Support among Older Chinese. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13(3), 728-750. [PDF]

l Xie, B., & Jaeger, P. T. (2008). Older adults and political participation on the Internet: A cross-cultural comparison of the United States and China. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 23, 1-15. [PDF]

l Kazmer, M. M., & Xie, B. (2008). Qualitative interviewing in Internet studies: playing with the media, playing with the method. Information, Communication and Society, 11(2), 115-136.

l Xie, B. (2007). Using the Internet for offline relationship formation. Social Science Computer Review, 25(3), 396-404. [PDF]

l Xie, B. (2007). Information technology education for older adults as a continuing peer-learning process: A Chinese case study. Educational Gerontology, 33(5), 429-450. [PDF]

l Xie, B. (2007). Older Chinese, the Internet, and well-being. Care Management Journals: Journal of Long Term Home Health Care, 8(1), 33-38. [PDF]

l Xie, B. (2006). Perceptions of computer learning among older Americans and older Chinese. First Monday, 11(10). URL: http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_10/xie/index.html

l Xie, B. (2003). Older adults, computers, and the Internet: Future directions. Gerontechnology, 2(4), 289-305. [PDF]

l Xie, B., & Qian, M. (2000). Phenomenological differences between shame and guilt among Chinese college students. Chinese Journal of Psychology, 32(1), 105-109.

Book Chapters

l Xie, B. (2005). Getting older adults online: The experiences of SeniorNet (USA) and OldKids (China). In B. Jaeger (Ed.), Young Technologies in Old Hands - An International View on Senior Citizen’s Utilization of ICT (pp. 175-204). Copenhagen, Denmark: DJOF Publishing. [PDF]

l Caporael, L., & Xie, B. (2002). Breaking time and place: Mobile technologies and reconstituted identities. In J. E. Katz (Ed.), Machines That Become Us: The Social Context of Personal Communication Technology (pp. 219-231). New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers.

Refereed Conference Presentations

l Paquette, S. & Xie, B. (2008). Making Elderly Users Relevant in Healthcare Technological Design and Development: Lessons Learned from a Case Study of a Medical Alarm Company. Paper to be presented at the International Federation on Ageing (IFA) 9th Global Conference on Ageing, September 4-7, 2008, Montréal, Canada.

l Piper, D., Yerushalmi, R., Palmer, S., & Xie, B. (2008). Integrating Learning, Research, and Practice: Findings from a MLS Community Engagement Project on Public Library Services for Older Adults. Paper presented at the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Annual Conference, January 8-11, 2008, Philadelphia, PA.

l Kazmer, M. & Xie, B. (2007). Qualitative interviewing in Internet studies: Playing with the media, playing with the method. Paper presented at The Association of Internet Researchers Annual Conference, October 17-20, 2007, Vancouver, Canada.

l Xie, B. “Public Libraries as Computer Training Sites for Older Adults.” Posted at the Annual Conference of the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE), January 15-18, 2007, Seattle, Washington.

l Xie, B., & Charness, N. “Technology Use among Older and Younger Chinese: A Pilot Study.” Posted at the 59^th Annual Scientific Meeting of Gerontological Society of American (GSA), November 16-20, 2006, Dallas, TX.

l Xie, B. “Learning IT Offline with Peers: How Computer Clubs Increase Information Access for Older Adults in China and the US.” Posted at the Annual Conference of the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE), January 16-19, 2006, San Antonio, TX.

l Xie, B. “An STS Study of Older Chinese’s and Americans’ Use of the Internet.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), October 20-22, 2005, Pasadena, CA.

l Xie, B. “Older Chinese in the Information Age: The OldKids Internet Community in Shanghai, China.” Presented at the Fifth International Conference of the International Society for Gerontechnology, May 25-27, 2005, Nagoya, Japan.

l Xie, B. “Growing Older in the Information Age: Identity and Internet Community in Shanghai, China.” Presented at the Fourth Annual Conference of the Association for Anthropology and Gerontology (AAGE), March 4-6, 2005, University of Texas at Austin.

l Xie, B. “Growing Older in the Information Age: A Symbolic Interactionist Study of Stigma and Online Community in China and the United States.” Presented at the HumaniTech Graduate Student Conference, April 24, 2004, State University of New York at Albany.

l Xie, B, “Growing Old in the Information Age: A Symbolic Interactionist Approach to Older Adults’ Experiences On and Off the Internet.” Presented at the MIT-RPI-Cornell STS Graduate Student Conference, February 13-14, 2004, Troy, New York.

l Xie, B, “The Impact of Information Technology on Older Chinese: A Preliminary Study.” Posted at the International Conference on Aging, Disability and Independence, December 4-6, 2003, Washington DC.

l Xie, B, “Learning IT: Seniors' Experiences in the US and China.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), October 15-18, 2003, Atlanta, Georgia.

l Xie, B, “Older People, Computers, and the Internet: A Cross-Cultural Study.” Presented at the HumaniTech Graduate Student Conference, April 26, 2003, State University of New York at Albany.

l Xie, B, “The Internet & Democracy in China.” Presented at the First Annual Graduate Webshop, June 2001, University of Maryland at College Park.

l Caporael, L, Xie B. “Breaking Time and Space: Mobile Technologies and Reconstituted Identities.” Presented at the Machines That Become Us Conference, April 18-19, 2001, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.

l Hsieh, S-J, Xie B, Riley, N. “People's Republic of China: Neuropsychological Performance of Elderly, Educated Adults.” Posted at The 106^th Convention of the American Psychological Association (APA), August 14-18, 1998, San Francisco, California.

Last updated on June 6, 2008