Designing the information architecture for Blockchain applications is Irni Eliana Khairuddin’s specific area of Ph.D. research at Lancaster University, United Kingdom (December 2015 - May 2019). She was awarded with the research grant from the Institute of Social Futures, Lancaster University as Co-Principal Investigator of a project entitled Bitcoin Practices in Isle of Man. She also had published papers related to bitcoin and blockchain at the top HCI conferences including ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) and ACM Conference on Designing Interactive System (DIS).

In Ph.D. her research, Irni had conducted 9 different but interrelated studies involving interviews and workshops with 152 bitcoin’s and blockchain’s stakeholders and experts across Malaysia and United Kingdom. Some of the novel contributions from the studies are the framework of trust for bitcoin’s stakeholders, materializations of blockchain’s key entities for learning and designing work, blockchain’s algorithm for trust in peer to peer bitcoin transactions and the trust prototype for bitcoin mobile application.

Irni had successfully defended her viva in May 2019 and resumed her position as a senior lecturer at Faculty of Information Management, UiTM Puncak Perdana.