What is Informatics?
I will be finishing my Undergraduate Informatics degree in May 2010 and people frequently ask me what informatics is. I've put together a quote from SUNY UB, the school that I will be graduating from, and the University of Indiana, which has a great School of Informatics.
"The interdisciplinary study of the design, application, and use of information and communication technologies (ICT's). It goes beyond purely technical aspects to provide a human-centered perspective, which takes into account the social, organizational, and cultural contexts of ICT design and use."
-- http://informatics.buffalo.edu/
"Informatics develops new uses for information technology, is interested in how people transform technology, and how technology transforms us."