• PhD. University of Missouri
• MBA National Institute of Management Calcutta

Academic Positions

Assistant Professor Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode

Awards

Best Dissertation Proposal Award by ASIS&T European Student Chapter

Conferences, Seminars & Talks

• Paul, A. (2019). Transforming Passion into Reality: Building an Ayurvedic Corrective Center For Disable Children, Mar 7-10, 2019, Kozhikode, India.
• Paul, A. & Thompson, K. M. (2018). ICT Self-Regulation and Insights for Businesses: An International Comparative Study of Indian and Chilean Women. Society and Management: Indian Culture Vis-avis Western Culture conference, Dec 3-5, 2018, Kozhikode, India
• Paul, A. & Padhi, S. (2018). Achieving Efficiencies in Service Delivery: Evaluation of a Government Call Center. Digital Innovations, Transformation and Society Conference, Jan 13-14, India Habitat Center, New Delhi, India.
• Krishnan, T.N., Paul, A. & Scullion, H. (2017). Career progression of women in the Indian IT Sector: Matching talent management practices and employee perspectives. The 6th Workshop on Talent Management on Oct 2-3 at Barcelona, Spain.
• Thompson, K. & Paul, A. (2017). Technology Tamers: The influence of women in ICT adoption, use and enjoyment. SIG-III presentation at ALISE 2017 Annual Conference from January 17-20, 2017 at Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
• Paul, A. (2016). ICT Adoption for Health Related Use by Middle Class Indian Women. Presented at Adwitya 2016 - International Conference: Engendering Health by IIHMR Bangalore in association with IIMA at Bangalore, Nov 18-19th, 2016.
• Jayaprakash, P. & Paul, A. (2016). Exploring the Factors Influencing Information Seeking Behaviour and the Role of Social Media in a Doctoral Community of a B-School. To be presented at the 7th International Conference on Excellence in Research and Education IIM Indore, 5th – 8th May 2016.
• Paul, A., Thompson, K. & Heinstrom, J. (2015). Exploring Barriers to ICT Use by Middle Class Indian Women. Second Regional ITS Conference, New Delhi. Connectivity for All: Future Technologies, Markets and Regulation at New Delhi from December 13-15, 2015
• Paul, A., Thompson, K. & Heinstrom, J. (2015). After Access: An inquiry into ICT use factors for Indian women. To be presented in The Association for Information Science & Technology, 2015 Annual Meeting. Information Science with Impact: Research in and for the Community at St. Louis, USA from Nov 6-10, 2015
• Paul, A. (2015). ICT use by Indian Women: Exploring patterns of adoption and use. To be presented at the twelfth Association of Indian Management Scholars (AIMS) International Conference at Kozhikode, January 2-5, 2015
• Paul,A. & Angira, R. (2015). Doctoral Students Information Seeking Behaviour: a Case Study. Twelfth Association of Indian Management Scholars (AIMS) International Conference at Kozhikode, January 2-5, 2015
• Paul, A. (2014 Aug). The Changing Role of Indian Women in the Information Age, Twelfth International Interdisciplinary Conference on Women 2014: Gender in a Changing World. Hyderabad, India
• Paul,A. & Ray, D. (2013). ICT Use and Adaptation by Indian Women: An analysis of two cases. The Second Asian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2013), October 31-Nov 2, Phuket, Thailand.
• Paul, A. (2013). Role of ICT in Indian Women’s Everyday Lives. Presented at the International Conference on
• Paul, A. and Erdelez, S. (2011). Value of Web Analytics for Organizations to Drive Web-Based Strategies. Presented at the 2nd IIMA International Conference on Advanced Data Analysis, Business Analytics and Intelligence, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India, January 8-9, 2011
• Paul, A. (2011, January). The Use of Web Analytics on an Academic Library Website. Talk to IIIT-Bangalore students and faculty.
• Paul, A. (2010, December). Benefits of Usability to Businesses. Talk to Saturday Startup Kolkata, Headstart -A forum where entrepreneurs of Kolkata meet, Kolkata, December 12, 2010.
• Paul, A. (2009, November). Use of Web Analytics for Collaborative Information Behavior Research. Position paper at the 10th Annual Research Symposium, SIG USE 2009: Collaborative Information Seeking and Sharing.
• Yadamsuren, B., Paul, A., Wang, J., Wang, X. and Erdelez, S. (2008, May). Usability of a community college website: Multi-user perspective. Presentation at e-learning conference, Tamkang University, Taiwan.
• Paul, A., Erdelez, S. and Park, K. (2008, April). Information Horizons: Proposing an alternate approach to assessing information architecture of websites. Information Architecture Summit: Experiencing Information 2008, Miami, Fl.
• Paul, A. (2008, October). Web analytics as an evaluation tool. Position paper presented at the 8th Annual Research Symposium, SIG USE 2008: People Transforming Information - Information Transforming People.
• Paul, A., (2008, January). Using Web Analytics for Understanding the Library User’s Online Behavior. Presented to the PhD Forum. BOBCATSSS 2008: Providing Access to Information for Everyone, Zadar, Croatia.

Current Projects

• Women and their use of ICT in the Kerala Region
• Social Media in Education

Other Professional Appointments

Associate Professor in IT & Systems

Recent Consulting / Other Assignments

• The Impact of the Optical Fibre Infrastructure Being Created and Utilized in the State of Kerala
• Performance Analysis of Kerala CM Call Center

Research Areas

• Interaction Design (e-learning, e-government), Design Research
• ICT for Development, Women and ICT use
• Social Media in Education, Internet use and abuse

Significant Publications

• Paul, A. (2019). Assessing the Value of a Government Call Center in India: A Case Study. IIM Kozhikode Society & Management Review, 2277975218817403.
• Paul, A., & Thompson, K. (2018). Negotiating digital spaces in everyday life: A case study of Indian women and their digital use. First Monday, 23(11). doi:https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v23i11.9325
• Paul, A. (2017). The Changing Role of Indian Women in the Information Age. In S. Vanka (Ed.). Gender and Management: International Perspectives.
• Thompson,K. & Paul, A. (2016). “I am not sure how much it will be helpful for me”: Factors for digital inclusion among middle-class women in India. Library Quarterly Special Issue on Information and social justice: Connecting Values, Ethics, and Human Rights.
• Chen, W., Paul, A., Kibaru, F., Ma. Y. & Saparova, D. (2016). Navigating practical trade-offs during prototype testing. In I. Lee (Ed.). Encyclopedia of E-Commerce Development, Implementation, and Management.
• Paul, A., Thompson, K. & Heinstrom, J. (2015). After access: An inquiry into ICT use factors for Indian women. Proceedings of the 78th ASIS&T Annual Meeting. Accessed on 28/12/2015 from https://www.asist.org/files/meetings/am15/proceedings/openpage15.html
• Chen, W., Paul, A., Kibaru, F., Ma, Y., & Saparova, D. (2015). Two-Phase Usability Evaluation of Insurance Website Prototypes. International Journal of E-Business Research (IJEBR), 11(1), 1-22. doi:10.4018/ijebr.2015010101
• Paul, A. (2015). Use of ICT in the Everyday Lives of Indian Women: a normative behaviour perspective. Information Research, 20 (1).
• Paul, A. and Erdelez, S. (2013). Implementation and Use of Web Analytics for Academic Library Websites. World Digital Library, 6(2).
• Paul, A., Yadamsuren, B. and Erdelez, S. (2012). An experience with measuring multi-user online task performance. In A Abraham, S. M. Thampi, S. Pal, E. Corchado, V. Snasel, S. Abraham, S. Ramakrishnan (Eds) Proceedings of the 2012 World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies (639-644). IEEE.
• Wang,X., Yadamsuren, B., Paul, A., Adkins, D., Laur, G., Tawfik, A., Erdelez, S. (2010) Iterative Usability Evaluation for an Online Educational Web Portal. International Journal of Multimedia Data Engineering and Management, 1 (4), 31-49.
• Alexander, G.L., Rantz, M., Skubic, M., Aud, M.A., Wakefield, B., Florea, E., and Paul, A. (2008). Sensor systems for monitoring functional status in assisted living facility residents. Research in Gerontological Nursing, 1(4), 238-244.
• Bossaller, J. E., Paul, A., Erdelez, S., Hill, H. L. and Wang, J. (2008, October). Conferences as Information Grounds: Website Evaluation with a Mobile Usability Laboratory. Journal of Web Librarianship, 2 (2/3).
• Yadamsuren, B., Paul, A., Erdelez, S. and Moore, J. (2010). Multiple-User Simultaneous Testing: A comparison of implementation methods. In T. Spiliotopoulos, P. Papadopoulou, D. Martakos and G. Kouroupetroglou (Eds) Integrating Usability Engineering for Designing the Web Experience: Methodologies and Principles.
• Yadamsuren, B., Paul, A., Erdelez, S. and Moore, J. (2010). Multiple-User Simultaneous Testing: A comparison of implementation methods. In T. Spiliotopoulos, P. Papadopoulou, D. Martakos and G. Kouroupetroglou (Eds) Integrating Usability Engineering for Designing the Web Experience: Methodologies and Principles.