Find the iSchool at iConference 2016!

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PHILADELPHIA, PA – The iConference series is presented by the iSchools, a worldwide association of Information Schools dedicated to advancing the information field, and preparing students to meet the information challenges of the 21st Century. iConference 2016 takes place Sunday, March 20 through Wednesday, March 23, 2016, in historic Philadelphia, PA. This year’s theme of “Partnership with Society” examines the dynamic, evolving role of information science and today’s iSchool movement, and the benefits to society.

Presentations 

Warren Allen, Assistant Professor, Florida State University, School of Information
Workshop Presentation: Advanced Topics in Sociotechnical Systems: Methods and Concepts of Trace Data
This workshop will refine the methods and concepts of sociotechnical systems. Through interactive training the organizers will provide the workshop participants a mix of qualitative interpretation with quantitative, data driven approaches.

Zhe He, Assistant Professor, Min Sook Park, doctoral candidate, Zhiwei Chen, Graduate Research Assistant. Florida State University, School of Information
UMLS-Based Analysis of Medical Terminology Coverage for Tags in Diabetes-Related Blogs
Using the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS), this study explores an exploratory study on the terminology usages of laypeople, focusing on diabetes.

Gary Burnett, Professor, Jonathan M. Hollister, Julia Skinner, Jisue Lee,
Exploring Information Worlds: A Codebook and Theory Development Session for Interaction and Engagement
This two-part session is designed to introduce the theory of information worlds and discuss current and potential applications of the theory as well as host a hands-on event where participants are invited to bring their own data and try out the theory.

Poster Sessions

Abigail Phillips, doctoral candidate, Florida State University, School of Information
The Empathetic Researcher: Applying Research Methods from Anthropology to LIS
Florida State University, United States of America
This poster will present an instrumental case that reflects the data collection activities and early results to illustrate innovative LIS research. Throughout the study, I maintained a written auto-ethnography that allowed me to reflect upon interview and video prompt design; participant interactions; and capture self reflections during data collection.

Shuyuan Mary Ho, Assistant Professor, Cheryl Lynn Booth, doctoral candidate, Florida State University School of Information
Get a Clue! Some Truths about Online Deception
This poster describes a study conducted using an interactive online game designed and developed on a University campus that mimics interpersonal deception scenarios. We applied different analytical models to the data collected as a step towards developing an automated process for detecting deception in online communication.

Jisue Lee, doctoral candidate, Florida State University School of Information
e-Participation: Systems, Actors, Policy and Research
This SIE aims at providing a platform for members of the iSchools community who are interested in the intersection of ICTs, political participation, and organizations in order to discuss unique contribution of information scholars to the research of e-Participation, and to determine next steps for the research.

Information Sources Cited and Relayed in Political Conversations on Twitter
Jisue Lee, doctoral candidate, Florida State University School of Information
Using the Twitter data collected prior to the Presidential Election in Korea in 2012, we ask questions regarding influential sources of information in public political discourse. The result shows that people rely on various sources of information beyond the traditional news media, but the pattern of sharing differ by sources.

Health Information Seeking Behavior of Individuals with Hearing Loss in an Online Community
Biyang Yu, Jongwook Lee, doctoral candidates, Florida State University School of Information
This study can contribute to our understanding of health information behavior of people with hearing loss, and provides useful implications for the improvement in, and development of, health information services that are customized to their information needs. The findings showed that ear problems and mental health issues were the

Shuheng Wu, Assistant Professor Queens College, NY (alumna, Florida State University, School of Information)
Studying Bibliographic Enhancement Data for Library Catalogs
The purpose of this study is to identify the types and sources of bibliographic enhancement data used by libraries, online booksellers, and social cataloging sites. This study also found that libraries no longer count on catalogers to supply all the bibliographic data, but invite their staff and users to contribute data to their catalogs and incorporate data from external resources.

Adam Worrall, Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alberta
(alumnus, Florida State University, School of Information)
Information Values, Sharing, and Cultural Memory: Interactions with ICT Use in an Online Immigrant Community
This poster presents qualitative, multi-method research in its early stages that will examine how the ICTs used by members of Expat Forum, an online immigrant community, interact with the information values and information sharing of community members and the cultural memory established by the community.

Biyang Yu, Jongwook Lee, doctoral candidates, Florida State University, School of Information
Health Information Seeking Behavior of Individuals with Hearing Loss in an Online Community
To address the dearth of research on the behavior of individuals with hearing loss who seek health information, this pilot study was designed to explore their health concerns and information needs in an online community, AllDeaf. The findings showed that ear problems and mental health issues were the main health concerns of people with hearing loss, and they tended to seek factual information about other members’ similar experiences.

Wade Bishop, Assistant Professor, University Tennessee, (alumnus, Florida State University, School of Information)
Community Partnerships to Further the Role of Rural Public Libraries in Small Business Economic Development:
This poster identifies the community partnerships being developed in a planning grant entitled “The Role of Rural Public Libraries in Small Business Economic Development in the Appalachian Region: A Case Study of Tennessee” (PLSB-TN) recently awarded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services’ National Leadership Grants for Libraries (Research Category) (October 2014 – September 2016).

Mega Subramaniam, University of Maryland, (alumnae, Florida State University, School of Information)
There’s a Creepy Guy on the Other End at Google: Tweens’ Mental Models of Google’s Inner Workings
Twenty-six middle school students who attend the HackHealth weekly after-school program (hackhealth.umd.edu) were asked to draw a picture of how they think Google works. Through a combination of open and axial coding, each drawing was assigned one or more codes from a 14-item coding dictionary, as well as one or more entries from a 6-item typology. In this poster, we will share a selection of students’ drawings, as well as our central findings from this research.

Jung Hoon Baeg, doctoral candidate, Florida State University, School of Information
The Analysis of Journals Topics and Trend: Text Mining and Word Cloud
The objective of this study is to identify the major topics over time of 4 selected journals in the field of Information Science and Library Science by analyzing word usage and the frequency with which certain words are used in the journal. A further objective is to determine the future direction of research in related subject areas. The basis of the study uses the program R to collect, text mine, and analyze a published article’s word usage and concepts that are represented in a word cloud.

Laura-Edythe Sarver Coleman, doctoral candidate, Florida State University, School of Information
The Socially Inclusive Role of Curatorial Voice: A Qualitative Comparative Study of the Use of Gatekeeping Mechanisms and the Co-Creation of Identity in Museums
This poster visually represents new work within museum informatics: a qualitative exploratory study of the ways in which museum professionals promote or hinder the social inclusivity of a museum through curatorial voice. This research seeks to broaden the understanding of curatorial voice, as viewed through the theoretical lenses of gatekeeper theory and co-creation of identity, with the explicit purpose of aiding in the development of professional guidance to help make museums more socially inclusive.

Doctoral Colloquium, Preliminary Papers 5: Social & Health Informatics. The Doctoral Colloquium is limited to students who applied for and were accepted as participants.

Min Sook Park, doctoral candidate, Florida State University, School of Information
The Promise and Peril of Learning Analytics in P-12 Education: An Uneasy Partnership?

Mega Subramaniam
Applying learning analytic approaches in the P-12 context could radically change the nature of elementary and secondary education. Yet, there are great hurdles to overcome in implementing such approaches at this level, including: the lack of technical infrastructure and human capital to collect and analyze data; the ability to make sense of the analytics collected for teaching and learning improvement,; the ethical challenges related to data collection and retention for minors; the unanticipated or unintended uses of this data in the future, etc.