Program schedule

View a pdf of the program.

Unless otherwise noted, all events are at the iHotel and Conference Center.

Posters listed by topic area.

See the schedule for Wednesday, February 3

See the schedule for Thursday, February 4

See the schedule for Friday, February 5

See the schedule for Saturday, February 6

Wednesday, February 3

Breakfast on your own. Buses pick up at hotels beginning at 7:30 am.

7:30 am - 5 pm : : Registration Opens

Participants will pick up their conference packets, final agenda, and name badges

8 am - 5 pm

4 - 5 pm : : Buses pick up at hotels to bring to iHotel.

5 pm - 7 pm : : Opening Reception : : Illinois Ballroom
Welcome from University of Illinois Chancellor Robert Easter and iSchools Chair John Unsworth.

7-8 pm : : Buses return to hotels.


Thursday, February 4

Breakfast on your own.

7:30 - 9 am : : Buses pick up at hotels to bring to iHotel.

8 am - 5 pm : : Conference Registration Opens

Participants will pick up their conference packets, final agenda, and name badges.

9 - 10:30 am
Breakout Sessions

Paper Session 1 : : Diversity 1 : : Quad Room

Session chair: Ricardo Gomez

  • Inviting Success: Factors that contribute to the success of public access computing in developing countries--Ricardo Gomez, University of Washington
  • Reclaiming public spaces: Issues of visibility in ICT training for persons with disabilities in Latin America--Michele Maureen Frix, Joyojeet Pal and Phil Neff, University of Washington
  • Serving Library Users from Low-income Communities: Promoting Digital Literacy to eSociety--Yunfei Du, University of North Texas-Denton

Paper Session 2 : : Information Behavior 1 : : Alma Mater Room

Session chair: Mitchell Weisberg

  • Innovative Technology in the Classroom: A Live, Real-Time Case Study of eReaders Disruption of the Publishing Industry--Mitchell Weisberg, Suffolk University
  • Information Horizons of Taiwanese Graduate Students--Tien-I Tsai, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • The informatics moment: Grassrooting the space of flows in an urban branch library--Kate Williams, University of Illinois

Paper Session 3 : : Information Retrieval 1 : : Knowledge Room

Session chair: Dan Wu

  • Towards Trusted Cloud Computing--Joon S. Park and Jerry Robinson, Syracuse University
  • Exploring the Further Integration of Machine Translation in Multilingual Information Access--Dan Wu, Wuhan University; and Daqing He, University of Pittsburgh
  • IntegraL: The Effective Link-based Search Infrastructure--Shuyuan Mary Ho, Min Song and Michael Bieber, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Roundtable 1 : : Technology Room

  • An Interdisciplinary Research Agenda on Privacy 2.0--Alessandro Acquisti, Carnegie Mellon University; Carleen Maitland, Penn State University; Heng Xu, Penn State University; and Luke Zhang, Penn State University

Wildcard 1 : : Humanities Room

Session Chair: David Ribes

  • Ethnographies of Large-Scale Systems: How to study distributed, emerging and complex sociotechnical systems--David Ribes, Georgetown University; and Steven Jackson, University of Michigan

10:30 - 11 am
Morning Break

11 am - 12:30 pm
Plenary Presentation : : Chancellor Ballroom

Stephen Wolfram, founder & CEO of Wolfram Research, creator of Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha, and author of A New Kind of Science

12:30 - 2 pm
Lunch : : Illinois Ballroom


2 - 3:30 pm
Breakout Sessions

Paper Session 4 : : Information Organization 1 : : Knowledge Room

Session chair: William Moen

  • Building an IT Taxonomy with Co-occurrence Analysis, Hierarchical Clustering, and Multidimensional Scaling--Chia-jung Tsui, Ping Wang, Kenneth R. Fleischmann, Asad B. Sayeed and Amy Weinberg, University of Maryland
  • Name Matters: Taxonomic Name Recognition (TNR) in Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL)--Qin Wei, University of Illinois; P. Bryan Heidorn, University of Arizona; and Chris Freeland, Missouri Botanical Garden
  • Extraction and Parsing of Herbarium Specimen Data: Exploring the Use of the Dublin Core Application Profile Framework--William E. Moen, Jane Huang, Melody McCotter, Amanda K. Neill, and Jason Best, University of North Texas-Denton

Paper Session 5 : : iSchools 1 : : Quad Room

Session chair: Jonathan Grudin

  • Conferences, Community, and Technology: Avoiding a Crisis--Jonathan Thomas Grudin, Microsoft Research
  • Intellectual Diversity in iSchools: Past, Present and Future--Andrea Wiggins and Steve Sawyer, Syracuse University
  • An Operational Definition of the Information Disciplines--Marcia J. Bates, UCLA

Paper Session 6 : : Associate Deans' Research Track 1 : : Alma Mater Room

Session chair: Martin Weiss

  • (Measuring Research Impact) "I Stay Away from the Unknown, I Guess," Measuring Impact and Understanding Critical Factors for Millennial Generation and Adult Non-Users of Virtual Reference Services--Marie L. Radford, Rutgers University; and Lynn Silipigni Connaway, OCLC
  • Empirically Assessing Impact of Scholarly Research--Jian Qin, Syracuse University
  • Measuring Research Impact: A first Approximation of the Achievements of the iSchools in ISI's Information and Library Science Category -- An Exploratory Study--Judit Bar-Ilan, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Roundtable 2 : : Technology Room

Session chair: Xia Lin

  • Developing a Collaborative Sandbox for Digital Library Research--Xia Lin, Drexel University; Daqing He, University of Pittsburgh; Lorri Mon, Florida State University; Jeffrey Pomerantz, University of North Carolina; and Haozhen Zhao, Drexel University

Wildcard 2 : : Humanities Room

Session chair: Erin Knight

  • Next Generation Teaching and Learning - Technologies and Trends--Erin Beth Knight and Nathan Gandomi, University of California - Berkeley; Charles Severance, University of Michigan; and Brad Koch, Blackboard, Inc.

3:30 - 3:45 pm
Afternoon Break

Poster presenters may set up posters in the Illinois Ballroom at this time.


3:45 - 5:15 pm
Breakout Sessions

Paper Session 7 : : Information Behavior 2 : : Alma Mater Room

Session chair: Brant Chee

  • Sickness and Health: Homophily in Online Health Forums--Brant Chee, University of Illinois
  • Social Support in Online Healthcare Social Networking--Katherine Chuang and Christopher Yang, Drexel University
  • Deconstructing Motivations of ICT Adoption and Use: A Theoretical Model and its Applications to Social ICT--Michael John Scialdone and Ping Zhang, Syracuse University

Roundtable 3 : : Quad Room

Session chair: Maeve Reilly

  • Social Networking and Long-Term Organizational Goals--Maeve Reilly, iSchools; Anthony Rotolo, Syracuse University; Sherry Main, UC Irvine; and Richard Urban, University of Illinois

Roundtable 4 : : Technology Room

Session chair: ShinJoung Yeo

  • Gone today, Here tomorrow: assuring access to government information in the digital age--ShinJoung Yeo, University of Illinois; and James R. Jacobs, Stanford University

Wildcard 3 : : Humanities

Session chair: Chris Coward

  • Impact of Community Technology Centers: Fishbowl Discussion of Methods and Findings--Chris Coward, Mike Crandall and Samantha Becker, University of Washington

5 - 6 pm
Poster Session: Illinois Ballroom

Posters listed by topic area.

5:30 - 6:30 pm
Optional Tour of Wolfram Facilities

5:15 - 7 pm : : Buses return to hotels and to Wolfram (next to Hawthorn Suites). Those going on the tour can take a bus from the Hawthorn Suites to their hotels after the tour.


Friday, February 5

Breakfast on your own.

7:30 - 9 am : : Buses pick up at hotels to bring to iHotel.

8 am - 5 pm : : Registration Opens

Participants will pick up their conference packets, final agenda, and name badges.

8:30 - 10 am
Breakout Sessions

Paper Session 8 : : Diversity 2 : : Quad Room

Session chair: Joyojeet Pal

  • Community Engagement & Infomediaries: challenges to libraries and telecentres facing cybercafés in developing countries--Elizabeth A Gould and Ricardo Gomez, University of Washington
  • Exploring Motives for Collaboration within a Humanitarian Inter-Organizational Network--Louis-Marie Ngamassi Tchouakeu, Kang Zhao, Edgar Maldonado, Carleen Maitland and Andrea Tapia, Pennsylvania State University
  • Of mouse and men: Computers and geeks as cinematic icons in age of ICTD--Joyojeet Pal, University of Colorado

Paper Session 9 : : Information Behavior 3 : : Alma Mater Room

Session chair: Robert B. Allen

  • What to Do With a Million Pages of Digitized Historical Newspapers--Robert B. Allen, Weizhong Zhu and Robert Sieczkiewicz, Drexel University
  • The Usages and Expectations of Multilingual Information Access in Chinese Academic Digital Libraries--Dan Wu and Nanhui Gu, Wuhan University; and Daqing He, University of Pittsburgh
  • Theory and Education: A Case of Structuration Theory--Lai Ma, Indiana University

Paper Session 10 : : Information Retrieval 2 : : Knowledge Room

Session chair: Scott Warren

  • Mining for Culture: Reaching Out of Range--Wanda Eugene, Auburn University; and Juan E. Gilbert, Clemson University
  • Cultural Heritage Information Dashboards--Richard J. Urban and Mike Twidale, University of Illinois; and Piotr Adamczyk, Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Leveraging PBL and Game to Redesign an Introductory Computer Applications Course--Scott Joseph Warren, University of North Texas-Denton

Roundtable 5 : : Technology Room

Session chair: John Yen

  • iSchools and the DARPA Network Challenge--John Yen, Nick Giacobe, David Hall, Wade Shumaker, Tony Maslowski, Pennsylvania State University; John Unsworth, University of Illinois; Martin Weiss, University of Pittsburgh; Maeve Reilly, iSchools; Jeffrey Stanton, Syracuse University; and Gary Marchionini, University of North Carolina

Wildcard 4 : : Humanities Room

Session chair: M. Kathleen Kern

  • No More Lone Rangers: Setting the research and education agenda for collaborative information work in virtual environments--M. Kathleen Kern, University of Illinois; Marie L Radford, and Joe Sanchez, Rutgers University; Lorri Mon, Florida State University; and Jeffrey Pomerantz, University of North Carolina

10 - 10:30 am
Morning Break : :

10:30 am – 12 noon
Plenary Presentation : : Chancellor Ballroom

Marti Hearst, a professor in the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley, is currently on leave from Berkeley and is working in the Obama administration on e-government with a focus on search.

12 - 1:30 pm
Lunch : : Illinois Ballroom

1:30 - 3 pm
Breakout Sessions

Paper Session 11 : : Information Behavior 4 : : Innovation Room

Session chair: David W. Schweider

  • Backstage or Front Stage with YouTube--Timothy David Bowman, Indiana University
  • Motivated Information Behavior--David W. Schwieder, University of Illinois
  • To Keep, or Not To Keep: or Options In Between?--Hong Zhang and Michael Twidale, University of Illinois

Paper Session 12 : : Information Organization 2 : : Quad Room

Session chair: Kathryn LaBarre

  • A sense of wonder: Enhancing access to folktales through task and facet analysis--Kathryn La Barre and Carol Tilley, University of Illinois
  • The Ontology of Tags--David J Saab, Pennsylvania State University
  • Metadata Realities for Cyberinfrastructure: Data Authors as Metadata Creators--Matthew Stephen Mayernik, UCLA

Paper Session 13 : : Associate Deans' Research Track 2 : : Alma Mater Room

Session chair: Robert Mason

  • The Impact of Outliers: Practice Theory and Bibliometrics--Betsy Van der Veer Martens, University of Oklahoma
  • A conceptual model for scholarly research activity--Agiatis Benardou, Panos Constantopoulos, and Dimitris Gavrilis, Digital Curation Unit-IMIS, Athena Research Centre, Greece; and Costis Dallas, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, Canada and Digital Curation Unit-IMIS, Athena Research Centre, Greece
  • Service Science in iSchools--Kelly A. Lyons, University of Toronto, Canada

Roundtable 6 : : Technology Room

Session chair: Martha Garcia-Murillo

  • Sharing experiences related to developing theories for the information field--Martha Garcia-Murillo, Syracuse University; Martin Weiss, University of Pittsburgh; and Allen Renear, University of Illinois

Roundtable 7 : : Humanities Room

Session chair: Omar Jerome Poler

  • LIS Education and Tribal Libraries, Archives, and Museums--Omar Jerome Poler, Christina Louise Pleck Wickman Johnson and Catherine H Phan, University of Wisconsin-Madison

3 - 3:30 pm
Afternoon Break : :

Poster presenters may set up posters in the Illinois Ballroom at this time.

3:30 - 5 pm
Breakout Sessions

Paper Session 14 : : e-Government and e-Science : : Alma Mater Room

Session chair: Julio Ortiz

  • Re-Gaming the Digital Divide: Broadband, MMOGs and U.S. Latinos--Julio Angel Ortiz, Rutgers University
  • Collaboration in Open Data eScience: A Case Study of Sloan Digital Sky Survey--Jian Zhang and Chaomei Chen, Drexel University
  • Broadband Deployment as Technological Innovation: Planning and Evaluation--Charles Hinnant, Charles McClure, Lauren Mandel and Nicole Alemanne, Florida State University

Paper Session 15 : : Information Behavior 5: : Innovation Room

Session chair: Xinru Page

  • Incentives in the Wild: Leveraging Virtual Currency to Sustain Online Community--Yang Wang, UC Irvine; and Scott Mainwaring, Intel Labs
  • Navigating the social terrain with Google Latitude--Xinru W Page and Alfred Kobsa, UC Irvine

Roundtable 8 : : Quad Room

Session chair: Patrick Kielty

  • Mapping the Intersections of Information Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies--Patrick Keilty and Rebecca Dean, UCLA

Roundtable 9 : : Technology Room

Session chair: Kelly Caine

  • The Role of iSchools in Shaping the Future of Health Informatics--Kelly Caine and Kay Connelly, Indiana University; Barbara Hayes, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis; and Julie Kientz, University of Washington

Roundtable 10 : : Humanities Room

Session chair: Eliza Dresang

  • Measuring IMPACT of Early Childhood Information Literacy Programs on Children--Eliza T. Dresang, University of Washington; and Kathleen Burnett and Janet Lee Capps, Florida State University

Wildcard 5 : : Knowledge Room

Session chair: Jeff Allen

  • Creating a New College: Merging Information, People and Technology - A Case Study--Jeff M. Allen, Herman Totten, University of North Texas-Denton

5 - 6 pm
Poster Session: Illinois Ballroom

Posters listed by topic area.

6 - 8:30 pm
Awards Banquet: Illinois Ballroom

8 - 9:30 pm : : Buses return to hotels.


Saturday, February 6

Breakfast on your own.

7:30 - 9 am : : Buses pick up at hotels.

8:30 - 10 am
Breakout Sessions

Paper Session 16 : : Diversity 3 : : Technology Room

Session chair: Martin Wolske

  • Effective ICT use for Social Inclusion--Martin Wolske, Noelle Sheree Williams, Safiya Noble, Eric O. Johnson and Robin Yoerger Duple, University of Illinois
  • Net Generation in Organizations: Perceptions and Strategies--Karine Barzilai-Nahon and Robert Mason, University of Washington

Paper Session 17 : : Information Organization 3 : : Alma Mater Room

Session chair: Steven Jackson

  • The Role of Informatics in Software Engineering: Literature Reviews, Roadmaps and Software Informatics--Ira Alan Monarch, Sheila Rosenthal and Rachel Callison, Software Engineering Institute
  • Exploring Collaborative Rhythm: Temporal Flow and Alignment in Collaborative Scientific Work--Steven James Jackson and Ayse Buyuktur, University of Michigan; and David Ribes, Georgetown University
  • Music and Mood: Where Theory and Reality Meet--Xiao Hu, University of Illinois

Roundtable 11 : : Knowledge

Session chair: Kate Williams

  • Research Methods in Community Informatics at the Broadband Moment--Kate Williams, University of Illinois

Roundtable 13 : : Innovation Room

Session chair: Marisa Duarte

  • Native Systems of Knowledge: Indigenous Methodologies in Information Science--Marisa Elena Duarte, Miranda Belarde-Lewis and Ally Krebs, University of Washington

10 - 10:30 am
Morning Break : :

10:30 - 12 noon
Breakout Sessions

Paper Session 18 : : iSchools 2 : : Alma Mater Room

Session chair: Gerald Knezek

  • Making an IMPACT on the environment: Sustainability Science and the I-School Movement--Fred Fonseca and James Martin, Pennsylvania State University; Clodoveu Davis, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; and Gilberto Camara, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais
  • Going Green with IT: A Study of Energy Consumption by Home and School Information Technology Systems in the College of Information at the University of North Texas--Gerald Knezek, Rhonda R. Christensen, Tandra Tyler-Wood, Okyoung Lim and William E. Neaville, University of North Texas-Denton
  • Curation in the Curriculum: Equipping the Profession to Ensure the Preservation of Information--Ross Harvey, Simmons Colleg

Roundtable 12 : : Technology Room

Session chair: Ian MacInnes

  • Games in the iSchools--Ian MacInnes, Syracuse University; and Andrea Tapia, Pennsylvania State University

Wildcard 6 : : Knowledge Room

Session chair: Suzanne Im

  • Teach, Learn, Engage: Reflections on Community Informatics Curriculum Development--Suzanne Im, Aaisha Nafeesah Haykal and Aiko Takazawa, University of Illinois