Current Students - Ph.D. in Information Science
Research Interests: Natural Language Processing (with a focus on extraction of Social Meaning and Sentiment, Morpho-Syntactic Tagging, and Computational Semantics); Web Mining; Social Media; (Large-Scale) Computer-Mediated Communication; Machine Learning. I work on both Arabic and English.
Research Interests: My general research interests are in the areas of representation and semantic web. For my dissertation project, I am interested in investigating the influence of target audience on social tagging. Social tagging is the practice of labeling resources with user-generated words (i.e., tags) in a shared online environment. The collection of tags selected by an individual is known as a folksonomy. Because of the potential use of tags and folksonomy in categorizing and sharing online resources, it is important to identify the factors that influence user participation and tag selection in social tagging systems. Several studies in the social tagging literature showed that the target audience is one of the aspects that motivate social tagging.
In my dissertation project, I intend to further explore the influence of the target audience by focusing on two main aspects; the influence of social and non-social situation, and the influence of the presumably shared knowledge (i.e., common ground) between the tagger and the target audience. By understanding the impact of these aspects on the way people assign tags, useful implications for improving communication and collaboration activities in online environments can be provided.
New SLIS doctoral student beginning Fall 2011.
Research Interests: My broad research interests include human-computer interaction, social informatics, information architecture, web programming, digital humanities, and web design. My current academic work involves exploring the theories, frameworks, and methods used to examine both the management of social relationships in social network sites and the effects of social network site (SNS) use. I'm particularly interested in using Erving Goffman's concepts impression managment and frame analysis as a lens from which I examine the world. My current web application development involves building digital tools for the Chymistry of Isaac Newton Project and other digital humanities/digital library projects.
New SLIS doctoral student beginning Fall 2011.
Research Interests:
My research interest include the use of metadata for representing and organizing resources. Digital Libraries like the National Science Digital Library and several other Museums have now the ability to store large amount of digitized resources that patrons can consult online. But while technology has made it possible to store almost unlimited amount of information, without the proper mechanism to represent and organize digital resources, accessibility to these resources remain a challenge. How best to represent resources? How best to ensure accessibility of resources to users? What are the difficulties faced when representing resources and how can we overcome these problems? These are key questions that I address in my research.
Research Interests: discourse analysis of web content, sentiment analysis, computational linguistics
New SLIS doctoral student beginning Fall 2011.
Research Interests: Emotion research in human-computer interaction, Agent-based modeling of social and information behavior, philosophy of artificial intelligence and computation, epistemology of modeling and simulation.
Research Interests: My research interests cover such areas as knowledge representation and organization, categorization, information architecture, metadata and folksonomies.
Research Interests: My primary research focus is information visualization. Particular interests include: the educational use of knowledge domain visualizations, concept mapping, and the spatial navigation of bibliographic data in which the underlying structural organization of the domain is conveyed to the user. Additional interests include: social network theory, knowledge organization systems, and legal bibliometrics and informatics.
Research Interests:
I am interested in Human-Computer Interaction/Usability, Ebooks, (Textual) Reading Online, Book/Reading History, Content Analysis for the Web, and Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis. I am especially interested in the design of (textual) reading interfaces that enhance users' reading experiences. One particular research interest is how to enhance readers' active (or intensive) reading in digital environments in terms of cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and social aspects.
Research Interests: Areas of interest: Human Computer Interaction and Social Informatics. Specifically, how the visualization and representation of large scale group behavior and system-facilitated interaction influence user behavior. Also interested in using data mining and information visualization techniques to analyze collections of patent grants, in order to facilitate better understanding of this data.
Research Interests: Information arts, AL and AI approaches in dance technology, philosophy of movement and body, spatiality and scenic design,phenomenology of performance, representation in art.
Research Interests: Research interests: Knowledge organization, cognitive categorization, and information architecture
Research Interests: Social and philosophical issues in information science, particularly the uses of terms such as information, knowledge, and technology. Critical ethnography.
Research Interests: My general research interests include the areas of social and educational informatics, computer-mediated communication (CMC), ICT Literacy, and human-computer interaction (HCI). More specifically, I'm interested in the social, organizational, and educational impacts of information and communication technologies (ICT), emerging technologies for learning, collaboration, and collective action, as well as related issues of interaction design, and information management.
Research Interests: My primary research focus is the utilization of informetrics methods in scholarly communication and science studies.
Research Interests: My research interests lie at the intersection of information access and information policy. This involves questions of intellectual freedom, censorship, privacy, and information ethics. I investigate how and why access to information may be restricted or expanded.
Research Interests: Computer-Mediated Communication, Human-Computer Interaction, virtual community, and social network development.
Research Interests: My research interest is in information accessibility, particularly in alternate media for students with disabilities and how computer mediated communication (CMC) can enhance specific needs of learners while emerging technologies may present barriers to them. In addition, I am also interested in human-computer interaction (HCI) in the realm of accessible interface design.
Research Interests: digital humanities; history and philosophy of science; communication networks; scientometrics/bibliometrics/webometrics/funometrics; natural language processing; information visualization; history of circus arts; republic of letters; network analysis; modeling & complex systems
Research Interests: My research interest involves social network analysis, scientometrics, and informetrics, with a focus on
* new indicators for scientific evaluation
* integrated models for scientific evaluation
* measures of prestige and popularity
Research Interests: Research interests include: information retrieval, machine learning, and intelligent user interface. Particularly, I am interested in developing an information system which is able to provide users direct and holistic assistance on their information needs, rather than pieces of information or an indirect reference to them. Such a system will require a combination of techniques from areas of natural language process, database, and cognitive science.
Research Interests: My research interests include human-computer interaction and computer-mediated communication. I am also interested in philosophical issues related to cyberspace and online communication. My current research focuses on cyberspace and social impacts of “new media”. I want to study how individuals/groups/communities interact with one another in cyberspace, or “online worlds” (online games, forums, and so forth).
Research Interests: I am interested in the effective design of information systems to convey analyses of and trends within large, complex data sets. I am also interested in developing standardized visualization practices that can be applied mechanistically to diverse datasets in order to create a body of comparable and replicable visualization research. This is essential for the development of appropriate evaluation techniques for visualizations.
Recent Graduates - Ph.D. in Information Science
2011 Stacy Kowalczyk
Dissertation Title: e-Science Data Environments: A View from the Lab Floor
2011 Tuai, Cameron
Dissertation Title: A Structural Contingency Theory Model of Library and Technology Partnerships Within an Academic Library Information Commons
2011 Buente, Wayne
Dissertation Title: Modeling Citizenship Offline and Online: Internet Use, Information, and Political Action during the 2008 Election Campaign
2011 Honeycutt, Courtenay
Dissertation Title: Examining the Diffusion of CMC Technologies in Minority Languages: A Case Study of Welsh Language Blogging and Twittering
2011 Kouper, Inna
Dissertation Title: The Meanings of (synthetic) Life: A Study of Science Information as Discourse
2011 Yu, Ning
Dissertation Title: Semi-Supervised Learning for Identifying Opinions in Web Content
2011 Warren, Jonathan
Dissertation Title: TV in the Age of the Internet: Information Quality of Science Fiction TV Fansites
2010 Collins, Catherine
Dissertation Title: Knowledge and Information Sharing: A Multiple Case Study of the Information Culture of the British Columbia Salmon Fishery
2010 Lee, Seungmin
Dissertation Title: Building Bridges: An Integrated Approach to Metadata Interoperability using Concept Meta-Framework Interoperability Schema (CMF)
2010 Kurtz, Andrew
Dissertation Title: The Influence of Aesthetics on the Learnability and Memorability of Website Interfaces
2010 Stoerger, Sharon
Dissertation Title: Pedagogical Practices in a Virtual World: An Ethnographic and Discourse Analysis Approach
