Program schedule
Unless otherwise noted, all events are at the iHotel and Conference Center.
See the schedule for Wednesday, February 3
See the schedule for Thursday, February 4
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
- Youth Community Informatics : : Knowledge Room
- Study of Sociotechnical Systems : : Innovation Room
- Doctoral Colloquium : : Chancellor Ballroom
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 amBreakout 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
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
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 amBreakout 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
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

