Professor, Department of Information Technologies, HEC Montréal
MSc (Management), PhD (Information Systems)
Ann-Frances Cameron is a Professor of Information Technology (IT) at HEC Montréal and holds the Canada Research Chair in Digital Communication and Multitasking Behavior. She received her PhD from the Smith School of Business at Queen’s University. She is credited with over 30 publications—scholarly and professional articles, book chapters, and conference proceedings. These include several publications in high-quality journals such as MIS Quarterly, Organization Science, Information Systems Research, Journal of Small Business Management, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, and Accident Analysis & Prevention.
Professor Cameron is a member of the Information Systems Research Group (GReSI), which brings together 25 researchers from Quebec institutions, including HEC Montréal, McGill, Concordia, the Université du Québec à Montréal, and TELUQ. She is also an active member of the Tech 3 Lab, a multidisciplinary laboratory that uses neuroscience tools to examine the interactions between the technologies used by organizations, their employees and their customers. She has also been an Adjunct Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor at the Smith School of Business at Queen’s University, and serves as an instructor for NEXTAI Montréal, an accelerator developing both entrepreneurs and their AI startups that are in the embryonic or ideation stage.
Her research focuses primarily on the use and impact of emerging technologies on inter- and intra-organizational communication, including their influence on individual task performance, team communication, and inter-organizational partnerships. She is keenly interested in how these emerging technologies foster multitasking in the workplace and its impacts.
