Izak Benbasat

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.