Introduction
This is the personal website of Dr. Sean P. Goggins. I am an assistant professor at Drexel University’s College of Information Science and Technology in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. My research focuses on what I and others call the socio-technical, which is what it sounds like – social interactions and organization that is supported by or occurs exclusively through the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). I am an experienced collaborative software designer. My industry experience includes leadership of software engineering and design teams at Fortune 500 and Global 50 corporations, small startups and firms in between. Creativity and engineering are often at odds. My experience and research enables me to help companies large and small improve the coexistence of creativity and engineering.
The original "Goggins Group", who no doubt fed my fascination with small group research. {I am second from the right.}
I pursue my research and my work side by side. This includes my adventures in graduate school as both a full time student and full time interaction designer, technologist and leader of small software development teams. Now that I am in the academy, my research incorporates questions about the intersection of technology and small groups within organizations, social networks and communities – online or otherwise. Socio-technical systems development, dabbling in research are my past. Socio-technical systems teaching, research, and service are my future.
