Associate Professor Julie Fisher 

(BA - La Trobe University, Dip Ed - La Trobe Univ, Grad Dip Computers in Education - Melbourne State College,

Masters in Business (research) - RMIT, PhD - Monash University)

Building H, Room 7.42
Level 7, Dandenong Rd,  
Caulfield East, Victoria, 3145 Australia 
Phone: + 61 3 9903 2621 
Fax: +61 3 9903 1077
email: julie.fisher@infotech.monash.edu.au

Current School/Faculty/University Positions

• Member Academic Board
• Deputy Director Centre for Organisational and Social Informatics (COSI)
• IE Client co-ordinator

Current Professional Engagement

• Co-Editor of the Journal of Information Systems and Small Business (JISSB)
• Secretary and executive member of the Australian Council of Professors and Heads of Information Systems (ACPHIS)

Recent Positions

• Track Chair Information Systems and Small Business ACIS 2007
• Faculty for ACIS 2007 Doctoral Consortium
• Co-editor special edition of the Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems
• Chair, Doctoral Consortium ACIS 2006
• Program Chair AusWIT conference 2006
• Deputy Head of School
• Member Faculty Research Committee
• Member Faculty of IT Board
• Chair School Research Committee
• Co-program Chair ISD Conference 2003
• Head of School Information systems, Faculty of Business and Law, Victoria University
• Deputy Chair, Academic Board, Victoria University

Current Research Activities

My current research interests include the following:

• web based health information
• usability of health information portals and websites
• usability of information systems and web based systems
• SMEs and ecommerce and technology
• use of mobile devices in health care
• women and IT
• systems development particularly in relation to the skills needed on development teams to build better systems for users

 

Recent Publications

Fisher, J, Burstein, F, Lynch, K, Lazeranko, K (2008) “Does Usability + Quality = Trust?: An exploratory study of Australian Health Websites” Internet Research (Accepted July 2008)
Fisher, J, Hirschheim, R and R. Jacobs‘Understanding the outsourcing learning curve: a longitudinal Analysis of a Large Australian company’, Information Systems Frontiers, 10 165-178

Fisher, J., A Craig., J. Bentley (2007) "Moving from a Web presence to e-commerce: The importance of a business–web strategy for small business owners.", Electronic Markets, 17 (4).

Fisher, J ., H. Scheepers and R. Scheepers (2007). "E-Commerce research in Australia: Inviting a comparative analysis." Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems ., 19 (1)

Shackleton, P., Fisher, J. L. , & Dawson, L. L. (2006). 'E-government services in the local government context: An Australian case study'. Business Process Management Journal, 12 (1), 88-100.

Lowry, G,  Turner, R, Fisher, J., (2006)  “The Contribution Of Employment Satisfaction Factors To Recruiting, Retaining And Career Development Of Information Systems And Technology Professionals”  The Review of Business Information Systems, Vol 10, No 1 pgs 137 -150


Fisher, J. and A. Craig (2005). "Developing Business Community Portals for SMEs- Issues of Design, Development and Sustainability." Electronic Markets: International Journal of Electronic Commerce & Business Media Vol 15 No 2

Shackleton P, Fisher, J, Dawson, L (2004) "Internal and external drivers in E-Government Maturity: A Local government case study"., Journal of Information Technology Cases and Applications, vol 6, No 4

Fisher, J., Shanks, G., Lamp, J., (2007) 'A Ranking List for Information Systems Journals', Australiasian Journal of Information Systems, Vol 14, No 2.

Fisher, J. (2001)  'User Satisfaction and System Success: Considering the Development Team', AJIS, Sept, Vol 9, No 1 pp21-29.

Burstein, F. V., McKemmish, S. M., Fisher, J. L. , Manaszewicz, R., & Malhotra, P. (2005). 'A role for information portals as intelligent decision support systems: Breast cancer knowledge on-line experience'. In J. Gupta, G. Forgionne & M. Mora (Eds.), Intelligent Decision-Making Support Systems (i-DMSS): Foundations, Applications and Challenges . New York: Springer.

Lamp, J., Milton., S, Dawson, L., Fisher, J., (2007) 'RQF Publication Quality Measures: Methodological Issues', ACIS, CQUToowoomba

Fisher, J., F. Burstein, K. Lynch, K. Lazarenko and S. McKemmish (2007). "Health information websites: is the health consumer being well served?" AMCIS. Colorado USA, Colorado State Univeristy.

Fisher, J., P. Schubert and U. Leimstoll (2007). "ICT and Innovation in small Companies". ECIS 2007. St Gallen, Switzerland, St Gallen University, Switzerland.


Dattakumar, A.,  J. Fisher  and L. Dawson (2007). "Issues in ICT in Healthcare in Australia and India ". Proceedings of the 8th International Research Conference on Quality, Innovation and Knowledge Management , New Delhi, India, 

J. Fisher ., R. Hirschheim and R. Jacobs (2006). "Delivery of IT Services: A Case Study of Outsourcing at Alpha Corporation". 14th European Conference on Information Systems , Goteborg, Goteborg University (Nominated for best paper)

Full list of Publications

Recent research projects

External Competitive

Beyond Blue (2007) 'Evaluation of /Heart Health Online/: A program to assist GPs to manage depression and related illnesses in patients with coronary heart disease' $150,000

ARC Discovery Awarded (2006) 'Smart Information Portals: Meeting knowledge and decision support needs of health care consumers for quality online information.' $180,000

ARC Linkage Awarded (2004) 'Enhancing patient management and clinical systems in hospital ward settings using mobile, wireless technologies.' $277,400

ARC Linkage grant Awarded (2001) 'An intelligent, user-sensitive portal to breast cancer knowledge online.', $300,000

Internal and Non competitive

Monash Small Grant (Faculty of Medicine) (2007) 'Improving mobile wireless device adoption by nurses in a ward setting to enhance clinical outcomes, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences, School of Nursing and Midwifery Collaborative Grant Scheme' , $20,000.


Monash Small Grant (Faculty of IT) (2005) 'Intelligent Healthcare Information Portal to Support User-centric Information Provision for People with Stress and Anxiety', $19,500

Monash Small Grant (Faculty of Medicine) 2005 ' Evaluation of a computerised intervention for depression and low social support in coronary heart disease patients in general medical practice.' $72,000

Other Research and research projects

Research students and completed theses

Current Teaching

• FIT5152 Interface Design and Development
• FIT3062 Human Computer Interaction