Izak Benbasat

Wall Associate

Title

Professor Emeritus

Department/School

Management Systems Division

Faculty

Sauder School of Business

University

UBC

Dr. Izak Benbasat is Professor Emeritus, Accounting and Information Systems division at the UBC Sauder School of Business. His research interests include: evaluating human-computer interfaces, specifically how to design web-based interfaces to facilitate business-to-consumer electronic commerce; investigating the role of explanations in intelligent support systems in improving user productivity and knowledge transfer to users; and measuring IT-related competencies, namely, IT knowledge in line managers and business competence in IT professionals, and their impact on the effective deployment of IT.