[Asis-l] 23 March: Dr Mansourian leads research session in SL

[Sheila Webber]

On Wednesday 23rd March 12 noon Second Life time (same as Pacific time, 7pm UK
time, see http://tinyurl.com/6hcltz5 for other times) Dr Yazdan Mansourian
(Assistant Professor, Tarbiat Moallem University, Iran) will be introducing his
"information visibility" model of information searching. This is a one hour
event.

After his introduction we will be discussing: Mansourian, Y., Ford, N., Webber,
S. and Madden, A. (2008). "An integrative model of 'information visibility' and
'information seeking' on the Web". Program, 42 (4), 402-417. (abstract only is
free, see e.g. http://dis.shef.ac.uk/sheila/mansourianCILR2008.pdf for more
open access information) 
Then we will visit the 3D version of Dr Mansourian's model.

The venue is the virtual world, Second Life at 
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Infolit%20iSchool/129/238/21/
You need a SL avatar and the SL browser on your computer to participate. 

-- 
Sheila Webber
Senior Lecturer, Information School, University of Sheffield, 
211 Portobello Street, Sheffield S1 4DP, UK
0114 222 2641
s.webber at sheffield.ac.uk
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