平特五不中

The 平特五不中 School of Information Studies (SIS) is strongly represented at the Nov. 1-5 in Montreal.

The conference is co-chaired by Dr. France Bouthillier, SIS Director and faculty member. Faculty, affiliated researchers, and students are participating in panels and workshops and presenting papers and posters.

The ASIS&T Annual Meeting brings together research on advances in the information sciences and related applications of information technology, serving as a venue for dissemination. This year鈥檚 theme, "Beyond the Cloud: Rethinking Information Boundaries," encourages reflection on changes in the use of information and means of accessibility which impact human information interaction and the potential implications of these changes for information science and technology.

Pre-Conference Workshop

• PIM 2013: Breaking Out to More Practical Progress in Personal Information Management. Workshop participants include PhD students Robert Douglas Ferguson &补尘辫;听Jesse David Dinneen.

Panels & Papers

• Questioning the Visual: Research Methods and the Problem of Perception. Panelists include faculty member Dr. Elaine M茅nard.
• Information Representation and Browsing. Paper: "Exact versus Estimated Pruning of Subject Hierarchies". Faculty member Dr. Charles-Antoine Julien with Pierre Tirilly, Universit茅 de Lille, France.
• Making Publics 2.0: Humanities Data Linked through a Topical Repository. Panelists include聽faculty member Dr. Eun Park & PhD student Qing Zou.
• Digital Liaisons: Engaging with Digital Curation Theory and Practice: Panelists include聽faculty member Dr. Elaine M茅nard.
• Enabling Systems for Inquiry-Based Learning. Panelists include聽faculty member Dr. Jamshid Beheshti听&补尘辫; Research Affiliate Dr. Charles Cole.

Posters

• "If I Could Read Your Mind: an Exploration of Online Image Searcher's Behaviors". PhD students Nouf Khashman听&补尘辫; Jonathan Dorey & faculty member Dr. Elaine M茅nard.
• "Bonded Design: Children as Co-designers of an Educational Tool for Students Involved in an Inquiry-based Project". PhD student Mohammed Al Ghamdi,聽faculty member Dr. Jamshid Beheshti,聽Research Affiliate Dr. Charles Cole,听&补尘辫; PhD student Isabelle Lamoureux.
• "Applying the Stratified Model of Relevance Interactions to Music Information Retrieval." PhD student聽David Weigl听&补尘辫; faculty member/William Dawson Scholar Dr. Catherine Guastavino.
• "Gender Differences in Inquiry-Based Learning at the Middle School Level." PhD student Isabelle Lamoureux,聽faculty member Dr. Jamshid Beheshti,聽Research Affiliate Dr. Charles Cole, PhD student Dhary Abuhimed,听&补尘辫; PhD student Mohammed Al Ghamdi.
• "Knowledge Artifacts: Lessons Learned and Stories as a Means to Transfer Knowledge amongst Cohort of High School Students Working on an Inquiry-based Project." PhD student Dhary Abuhimed,聽faculty member Dr. Jamshid Beheshti, PhD student Isabelle Lamoureux,听&补尘辫; PhD student Mohammed Al Ghamdi.
• "Mental Health in Library and Information Science Research: Preliminary Results of a Literature Review Focusing on Information Behavior." PhD student聽Julie Mayrand聽&补尘辫;听faculty member Dr. Joan Bartlett.

Special Event

The School will be hosting a dinner for registered conference guests at the 平特五不中 Faculty Club on Tuesday at 7:30 pm, co-sponsored by the Canadian Association for Information Science.