Dov Te'eni is a professor of computer systems. For over twenty years he has studied how computers can support communication between people and between people and computers. His research has been published in 100 scientific articles and an academic book. For the past four years his passion and energy are in creative writing. Dov writes about life and work in academia, exposing and critically analyzing the milieu of conferences.

He studies several related areas of IS: human-computer interaction, computer support for communication, knowledge management, systems design and non-profit organizations. His research usually combines model building, laboratory experiments and development of prototypes like Spider and kMail.  Dov is co-author of Human-Computer Interaction: Developing effective organizational systems (Wiley).