[Siguse-l] Reminder: SIG-USE Symposium at ASIS&T Saturday, Oct. 25

[Vondracek, Ruth]

8th Annual Research Symposium of Special Interest Group:  Information
Needs, Seeking & Use (SIG USE)

Future Directions: Information Behavior in the Design & Making of
Relevant Research

Saturday, October 25, 2008, 1:30pm-6pm, Hyatt Regency, Columbus, Ohio


ASIS&T 2008's conference theme, People Transforming Information -
Information Transforming People, provides an important opportunity for
the SIG USE symposium to offer guided reflection on the big questions
around which information behavior researchers and practitioners can (or
should) be making a difference. Our people-centred approach has enabled
us to deepen our understanding of the ways in which people interact with
information, information systems, and other people. Communicating these
insights to researchers and practitioners in related areas of study and
design, however, continues to pose a challenge for our community. Thus,
the reflective moment to be offered by this year's Symposium will be
used to consider one particular challenge: communicating the
significance of information behaviour research to designers of products,
systems and services.



The symposium consists of two keynote speeches and seminar discussions:

*       Keith Instone, Information Architecture Leader, IBM.com. Keith
will share some of the IA challenges he faces every day working on a
large and distributed corporate web site.
*       Professor Mike Thelwall, Leader of the Statistical Cybermetrics
Research Group, University of Wolverhampton, UK.  Mike has developed
tools for gathering and analysing web sites, blogs and social networking
sites.



Symposium Organizers:

Yungrang Laura Cheng, School of Library and Information Science, Kent
State University, Columbus, Ohio.  Email: yrcheng at kent.edu

Theresa Dirndorfer Anderson, Creative Practices, University of
Technology, Sydney, Australia Email:  theresa.anderson at uts.edu.au



Ruth Vondracek, Research & Innovative Services, Oregon State University,
Corvallis, Oregon. Email: Ruth.Vondracek at oregonstate.edu




 

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