[Siguse-l] 2016 Joint SIG-USE/SIG-SI Symposium program available now!!

[Koh, Kyungwon]

Dear all,

This year’s SIG USE symposium focuses on information issues at work. It acknowledges social, individual and technological perspectives on the roles and flows that information takes as part of physical and digital work. The broad approach relates to the conference theme with a focus on information behavior (IB) or on information practices (IP) in connection to workplaces.

The program is available now. For more information, visit the SIG USE website at http://tinyurl.com/siguse16sym

Program Schedule
Getting-Started featuring the SIGUSE posters: 12.45-13.45

• 13.45-14.45  USE – opening keynote
• Hazel Hall, University of Napier, UK – Watching the workers: researching information behaviours in, and for, workplace environments
• 14.45-15.45  Short Paper Session
• Diane Pennington, University of Strathclyde, UK – Supporting Workplace Information Needs of People with Dementia
• Morten Hertzum, University of Copenhagen, Denmark – Information Behavior and Workplace Procedures: the case of emergency-department Triage
Helena Vallo Hult, University West, Sweden – The Emergence of Sharing and Gaining Knowledge: Towards Digital Collaboration in Everyday Work
• 15.45-16.00  Break
• 16.00-17.30  Roundtable discussions based on papers & posters, including summary in plenum:
• 17.30-17.45  SIG USE Awards session
• 2014 Award Winner Diane Sonnenwald, University College Dublin, Ireland – Visioning a New Future for Rare Historic Books and Manuscripts
• 2015 Award Winner Debbie Rabina, Pratt University, USA – Information needs of people in prisons and jails: A discourse analytic approach
• Presentation of 2016 Award Winners
• 17.45-18.00  USE – closing remarks

SIG USE posters:

• David Allen, A. Norman, Carly Lightowlers, Fiona McLaughlin & Nicolas Malleson, Leeds University, UK – Collaboration,  Information Behaviour, Information Systems and Activity Theory:  Building a Data Clearing House
• Katriina Byström, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway – Work in progress: The notion of peopleless offices or digital work
• Emma Forsgren, Leeds University, UK – Finding a Place for Social Media at Work
• Isto Huvila, Uppsala University, Sweden – Informational Metagames and their Implications in Workplace
• Anna Sigridur Islind, Livia Norström & Helena Vallo Hult, University West, Sweden – From Digital Fight to Digital Pride in Public Sector
• Aleksandra Irnazarow, Leeds University, UK – Application of Activity Theory to study information behaviour and decision making in development of complex engineering systems
• Wade Kelly, Charles Sturt University, Australia – Information Behaviour of Community-Engaged Scholars in Academia
• Anita Nordsteien, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway – Workplace learning: transition of nursing practices
• Natalie Pang* & Stan Karanasios**, Nanyang Technological University*, Singapore; RMIT University**, Australia – Helping the left behind: Understanding information practices and ICT use of the elderly from the eyes of first responders during crises
• Sarah Polkinghorne & Thane Chambers, Charles Sturt University, Australia – Embodied information in workplace contexts
• Diane H Sonnenwald, University College Dublin, Ireland – A darker side of human information behavior in the workplace: a call for research on workplace bullying information behavior
• Ella Schwab, Ben Heuwing, Christa Womser-Hacker & Thomas Mandl, University of Hildesheim, Germany – Challenges of Digital Workplaces in practice: A Focus Group with middle mangers
• Eric Thivant, University of Lyon, France: Diversity of Information Workplace: the cross-cultural question in Information Behaviour The case study of French ITES rural firms
• Åse Kristine Tveit, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway – The impact of digital information and online discussion fora on translators’ work
• Gunilla Widén*, Jannica Heinström*, Thomas Mandl** & Christa Womser-Hacker**, Åbo Akademi University*, Finland; University of Hildesheim**, Germany – Exploring intergenerational information practices and knowledge sharing
• Barbara Wildemuth, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA – Social Dimensions of Information Practices in an Academic Workplace

SIG-USE symposium chairs

• David Allen, Leeds University, UK
• Katriina Byström, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway
• Nicole A. Cooke, The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
• Luanne Freund, University of British Columbia, Canada

FEES
• Members – SIG-SI session: $100 – $120 after Sept. 2, 2016
• Members – SIG-USE session: $100 – $120 after Sept. 2, 2016
• Members – attending both SIG-SI and SIG-SI sessions: $180 – $200 after Sept. 2, 2016
• Non-members – SIG-SI Session: $120 – $140, after Sept. 2, 2016
• Non-members – SIG-USE Session: $120 – $140, after Sept. 2, 2016
• Non-members – attending both SIG-SI and SIG-SI sessions: $230 – $250 after Sept. 2, 2016

Kyungwon Koh, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
School of Library and Information Studies
The University of Oklahoma
http://slis.ou.edu/kyungwonkoh

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