Agnieszka Bachfischer (nee Zmijewska)

	Research Associate CoCo Research Centre Education Building, A35 University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia Tel. +61 29351 4107 azmijewska@usyd.edu.au

I joined CoCo in February 2007, just days before handing in my PhD thesis at the Faculty of Information Technology of the University of Technology, Sydney. My PhD research (started in March 2004) looked into mobile technology adoption factors. I officially graduated in September 2007.

I hold a Bachelor's Degree in Teaching (from the University of Wroclaw in Poland), a Diploma of Information Technology (Intl School of Business and Technology, Sydney), and a Master of Information Systems (Australian Catholic University, North Sydney).

From 2003-2005 I worked as a lecturer at the Australian Catholic University, and in 2006 I was a lecturer at the University of Ballarat (Sydney campus) - both included unit coordination. Since 2004 I have also been doing some casual teaching at UTS. I've taught a variety of Information Systems and Information Technology subjects. In 2004-2005 I worked as a Local Organizing Chair for the Fourth International Conference on Mobile Business (Sydney, July 2005).

During my PhD studies I also worked as a research assistant for Associate Professor Elaine Lawrence, my supervisor at UTS. During this time, I published over 20 papers (including several journal publications, and a conference paper that won a Best Student Paper Award). I've served as a reviewer for several conferences, and have been a Program Committee member for IADIS International Conferences on E-Society since 2006.

I'm now working as a researcher on two ARC Discovery & Linkage projects led by Peter Goodyear and Rob Ellis - "Learning through online and co-present discussion in higher education: expectations, experiences and outcomes" and "Blended learning in schools, TAFE and universities: experience, principles, patterns and practice".

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Bachfischer, A., Lawrence, E., Litchfield, A., Dyson, L. E. & Raban, R. (2008) 'Student perspectives about using mobile devices in their studies', IADIS International Conference on Mobile Learning, Algarve, Portugal, 11-13 April, pp. 43-50.
• Lawrence, E., Bachfischer, A., Dyson, L. E. & Litchfield, A. (2008) 'Mobile learning and student perspectives: An mReality check!', 7th International Conference on Mobile Business, July 7-8, 2008, Barcelona, Spain, pp. 287-295.
• Dyson, L. E., Lawrence, E., Litchfield, A. J. & Zmijewska, A. (2008) 'M-Fieldwork for Information Systems students', Proceedings of the Forty-First Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Waikoloa, Hawaii, January 7-10, 2008, pp. 1-10.
• Litchfield, A., Dyson, L., Lawrence, E. & Zmijewska, A. (2007) 'Directions for mLearning research to enhance active learning', ascilite 2007 , 2-5 December 2007, Singapore
• Bachfischer, G., Robertson, T. & Zmijewska, A. (2007) 'Understanding influences on the typographic quality of text', Journal of Internet Commerce, Volume 6, Number 2, 23 July 2007 , pp. 97-122(26)
• Dahlberg, T., Mallat, N., Ondrus, J. & Zmijewska, A. 'Mobile payments: a review of past, present, and future research', to appear in the ECRA (Electronic Commerce Research and Applications) Journal's Special Issue on Mobile Payments
• Al-khamayseh, S., Zmijewska, A., Lawrence, E. & Culijak, G. (2007) 'Mobile learning systems for digital natives', 6th IASTED International Conference on Web-Based Education, March 2007, Chamonix

For 2004-2006 publications, please see my UTS webpage.

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