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: 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. Moreover, I am interested in understanding the impacts technology and technology use will have on our organizations, our education and most importantly our culture.
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 include the representation of communal identity (especially of historically under-resourced and marginalized communities) in the public sphere, specifically in museum spaces (both 'real' and online), in the creation of historical narratives and the evocation of memory. I am also interested in the ways in which communication and information technologies complicate (enhance?) collaborations, and educational projects, between schools, museums, and libraries. A third point in this constellation of interests involves developing effective ways to 'unteach' racism and prejudice, and foster effective community building at various levels. A common thread running through all these interests is the 'stories people tell' as focused through the lens of place, space, material culture and technology.
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, online communities, and computer-mediated discourse 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: My research interests center on the use of new information and communication technologies (ICTs), especially the Internet, and examine the extent to which ICTs influence changes in social & organizational action and individual behavior. Meanwhile, I am interested in how ICTs facilitate information and knowledge sharing for groups and organizations to solve their unique problems. Several specific areas of research include: 1)How the Internet facilitates or hinders mobilization in social movements 2)How the Internet strengths the integrity of a globally-dispersed community. 3)How the overseas Chinese parents use the Internet to educate their children Chinese heritages with respect to language, customaries, and culture.
Besides the above interests I have some research interests regarding to online business. They are: 1)The use of the Web for personal investing and business information 2)Online customer service 3)The issue of trust in online business 4)Online privacy
Research Interests: I am currently interested in HCI/Usability, Information Architecture (IA), Information Visualization (InfoVis), and Content Analysis for the Web. In particular, I am interested in how to make digital content more usable and enjoyable to improve the usability of systems from the perspective of content. One particular interest is "how memorability/learnability can be enhanced" and "what factors affect memorability/learnability" in all possible learning contexts ( e.g., e-learning applications, search engines, interactive devices, and etc.).
Research Interests: My interests are quite diverse and include evolution of information and communication technologies generally described as social or participatory media (such as blogs, wikis, podcasts, etc.); media literacy and construction of knowledge in the mediated world; relationships between postmodern self and everyday information behavior.
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: 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: Information Architecture, Metadata, Classification, and the creation, sharing, and use of cognitive categories.
Research Interests: Representation, organization and retrieval of documents, information seeking behavior, philosophy of science.
Research Interests: Research interests include: intersections between gender, human-computer interaction and social informatics; also feminist theories of technology, and gendered uses of public spaces such as the Internet.
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 social and educational informatics, and human-computer interaction. More specifically, I'm interested in the social, organizational, and educational impacts of Information and Communication Technologies utilization, emerging technologies for learning, collaboration, and collective action, and interface design and user experience issues.
Research Interests: My research interests lie at the intersection of information access and information policy. This involves questions of intellectual freedom, privacy, and information ethics.
Research Interests: Research interests include: The area of statistical analysis and modeling of
information diffusion using agents. He also works as a software
consultant and team lead for projects in the InfoVis lab. Research
interests include: information visualization, game theory, programming
languages and software engineering.
Research Interests: Areas of Interest: Theories of Information, Autopoiesis, Information Systems, Visual Communication, Film, Digital Media, Intercultural Communication, Community and Development Informatics
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 interests involve library organizational planning. Specifically, how do the definitions of our professional boundaries affect the library's ability to plan and practice managerial initiatives.
Research Interests: An "archaeology of the contemporary digital past", my research uses mixed-methods to study large-scale social structure and agency from the "digital detritus" left behind by contemporary societies. The work incorporates exploratory statistical modeling, Web and data mining techniques, social practice and semiotic theories, and hermeneutic and content analytic methods. It most often addresses social science literature in information science, socio-linguistics, archaeology, and sociology.
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: 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.
