SLIS's Information Science Ph.D. Program usually enrolls about 30 students.
The doctoral students are actively involved in research and teaching. In the
list here, several of these advanced students provide research interest
statements and links to their home pages.
Research Interests: Natural Language Processing; Information Retrieval; (Large-scale) Computer-mediated Communication
Research Interests: My research interests are in the area of representation, metadata, ontologies, and knowledge organization. Specifically, I am interested in the creation and implementation of classification schemes for organizational knowledge structure and processes.
Research Interests: Resource description languages, recommender systems, design and implementation of ontologies and metadata schemes.
Research Interests: My broad research interests include human-computer interaction, social informatics, information architecture, networking and information visualization as it pertains to the entire information life cycle. My current work has involved exploring the theories, frameworks, and methods used to examine management of social relationships in social network sites (SNS). I'm particularly interested in Erving Goffman's concept of impression management.
Research Interests: Research interests: Information inequality, social and community
informatics, and democracy.
Research Interests: Quality of service when it comes to information discovery over the Web is unfortunately still lagging behind advances in the technology that supports computer networks today. Various attempts to make the Web a more user friendly or "socialized"/ Human centered service are under way and one such area :the Semantic Web is particularly of interest to me. My research interests (though not limited to) include the study of Human as a community constrained within their limits of social reality and representations in search of resources (information) over the Web. Another major part of my study is in finding ways and methods that will represent web resources in a manner that will make their retrieval more efficient to user queries. Related areas to my research are software agents, artificial intelligence and cognitive science.
Research Interests: I am examining factors that may have contributed to the success or failure of community networks that were part of a statewide community networking initiative. My particular interest is in how, or if, geographically-based community networks can play a role in addressing the "Digital Divide" facing impoverished rural areas.
Research Interests: Research interests include: international transfer of information; scholarly communication.
Research Interests: My research interests deal with the issues of metadata and ontology creation. There are many possible issues to look at, but I am primarily concerned with the role of representation in metadata and ontology creation. A secondary interest is how metadata and ontologies can aid users of electronic search engines.
Research Interests: My research interests cover such areas as open institutional repositories and digital libraries, open software, information organization and social impact of technology. Additionally, I’m interested in organization of knowledge and information for development, digital divide, web programming, semantic web and intellectual property.
Research Interests: CMC, the multilingual Internet, social informatics, computer-mediated discourse analysis, and social network analysis
Research Interests: My primary research focus is information visualization. Particular interests include: the educational use of knowledge domain visualizations, concept mapping, and the spatial navigation of bibliographic data in which the underlying structural organization of the domain is conveyed to the user. Additional interests include: social network theory, knowledge organization systems, and legal bibliometrics and informatics.
Research Interests: I am currently interested in Human-computer Interaction (HCI)/Usability, Content Analysis for the Web (CA), Computer-mediated Discourse Analysis (CMDA), Information Architecture (IA), and Information (Text) Visualization (InfoVis).
More specifically, I am interested in (1) what factors, including non-observable and observable factors, affect readers' seamless reading experiences in diverse reading contexts and (2) how readers' seamless reading experiences can be enhanced.
Research Interests: Documentation and information, science communication, emerging technologies, social theory and modernity
Research Interests: My primary research focus is Digital Libraries. My interests include: digital preservation and repository architectures; system architectures for discovery and delivery systems; digital asset management; and the management of digitization projects.
Research Interests: My general research interests are in the areas of Human-Computer Interaction, Mobile Computing, Pervasive Computing, and Computer-Mediated Communication. My dissertation research focuses on studying the influence aesthetics has on measurable usability components, such as learnability and memorability. Other research projects have been in the areas of: mobile/pervasive computing, computer-mediated discourse analysis, and news filtering and personalization.
Research Interests: Areas of interest: Human Computer Interaction and Social Informatics. Specifically, how the visualization and representation of large scale group behavior and system-facilitated interaction influence user behavior. Also interested in using data mining and information visualization techniques to analyze collections of patent grants, in order to facilitate better understanding of this data.
Research Interests: Information technology in contemporary dance, spatiality, objective physicality and interactive media, phenomenology of performance, representation in art.
Research Interests: Areas of interest: Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records(FRBR); General cataloging and classification system for libraries, including MARC and AACR; Metadata and semantic structure for cataloging system; Faceted classification system with ontologies; Ontologies on semantic web; Dynamic structure for information architecture; Inter-thesaurus and ontologies as knowledge base; Digital divide and digital opportunity with social capital in knowledge-based society.
Research Interests: Research interests: Knowledge organization, cognitive categorization, and information architecture
Research Interests: Social and philosophical issues in information science, particularly the uses of terms such as information, knowledge, and technology. Critical ethnography.
Research Interests: Research interest is in Music Information Retrieval. Specific areas
of interest include music feature extraction, similarity analysis, music
perception and cognition, music visualization, and evaluation of music IR
systems.
Research Interests: My general research interests include the areas of social and educational informatics, computer-mediated communication (CMC), ICT Literacy, and human-computer interaction (HCI). More specifically, I'm interested in the social, organizational, and educational impacts of information and communication technologies (ICT), emerging technologies for learning, collaboration, and collective action, as well as related issues of interaction design, and information management.
Research Interests: My research interests lie at the intersection of information access and information policy. This involves questions of intellectual freedom, censorship, privacy, and information ethics. I investigate how and why access to information may be restricted or expanded.
Research Interests: Research interests include: Interaction design, information visualization, user interfaces, software engineering, interoperability, complex systems and networks.
Research Interests: Research interests include: Computer-Mediated Communication, Human-Computer Interaction, virtual community, and social network development.
Research Interests: My research interests are primarily focused on computer-mediated communication, virtual communities, and information tools used to facilitate formal and informal learning in online and face-to-face environments.
Research Interests: My research interest is in information accessibility, particularly in alternate media for students with disabilities and how computer mediated communication (CMC) can enhance specific needs of learners while emerging technologies may present barriers to them. In addition, I am also interested in human-computer interaction (HCI) in the realm of accessible interface design.
Research Interests: My research interests involve understanding staff behavior in organizations whose primary product or competitive advantage lies in the production of information. It is my belief that the next area of competitive advantage for these types of organizations, will revolve around the organizations capacity to foster the types of staff behaviors that produce optimal usage of ICTs in acquiring, organizing, and disseminating information.
My research into these behaviors contribute to the field of library and information science by (a) developing the models and methodologies for examining these types behavior within these organizations; (b) identifying the patterned variations that differentiate these types’ organizations from others; and (c) and conducting research into an overlooked area of growing socio-economic importance.
Research Interests: Artifactual studies of online social movements: online information quality, changing modes of media production and consumption, virtual communities and populations, statistical models and quantitative research methods, semiotic and hermeneutic research methods
Research Interests: Theories of community, information diffusion, the Semantic Web, computer-mediated communication, social network analysis, knowledge domains, and the philosophy of science.
Research Interests: My research interest involves social network analysis, scientometrics, and informetrics, with a focus on applying new indicators to scientific evaluation.
Research Interests: Information Retrieval (IR) with an emphasis on knowledge discovery utilizing automatic classification and information visualization of digital objects. To be more specific, I am interested in exploring a fusion approach which combines IR techniques, machine learning approaches and facetted classification to enhance knowledge discovery.
Research Interests: Research interests include: information retrieval, machine learning, and intelligent user interface. Particularly, I am interested in developing an information system which is able to provide users direct and holistic assistance on their information needs, rather than pieces of information or an indirect reference to them. Such a system will require a combination of techniques from areas of natural language process, database, and cognitive science.
Research Interests: My general research interests include large-scale scholarly communication and the development of novel methods for the study of complex social science datasets. I am also interested in the extension of Information Science research to the service of affective or reflective pursuits.
