POST CONFERENCE MATERIALS
POSTER SESSION: PRESENTATIONS
SESSION CHAIR: Jonathan Furner
POSTER #1 • Federal Funding for Information Research
Trudi Bellardo Hahn
University of Maryland; thahn@umd.edu
Topics: Nature and scope of iSchools and iResearch
Keywords: federal funding, research
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POSTER #2 • From Cultural Participation to Information Visualization:
A New Framework for Old Knowledge Management Schemas
Theodore Patrick Milas
Florida State University; pmilas@fsu.edu
Topics: Cultural information systems, information organization, Information technology and services for under-addressed communities, Nature and scope of iSchools and iResearch
Keywords: Knowledge management, non-Western social informatics
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POSTER #3 • “Community Innovativeness”: A New Perspective on Knowledge Creation
Benjamin Addom
Syracuse University; bkaddom@syr.edu
Topics: Community techologies and networking, Information technology and services for under-addressed communities
Keywords: Community Informatics, Innovation, Knowledge Generation
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POSTER #4 • Why Leave Wikipedia?
Lian Jian and Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; ljian@umich.edu
Topics: Community techologies and networking, information organization, Information management, Information policy, ethics and law
Keywords: user-contributed-content community management systems
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POSTER #5 • Beyond the Digital Divide into Computer-Mediated Communications:
A Content Analysis of the Role of Community Weblogs in Building Oldenburg's Virtual Third Places in Black America
Frank Igwe
Pennsylvania State University; frankigwe@hotmail.com
Topics: Community techologies and networking, Cultural information systems, Information technology and services for under-addressed communities
Keywords: HIV/AIDS, blogs, community, third place, social support, content analysis, African-American
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POSTER #6 • Older Adults and Information Technology: The Current State of
Research and Future Directions
Johanna L. H. Birkland and Michelle L. Kaarst-Brown
Syracuse University; jlbirkla@syr.edu
Topics: Information technology and services for under-addressed communities, Other
Keywords: older adults, seniors, elderly, information technology
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POSTER #7 • A Preliminary Consumer Health Information-seeking (CHI-seeking) Behavior Model of Physicians Who Treat Elderly Depressed Patients (Results from
the Pilot Study of a Dissertation Proposal)
Mary Jo Dorsey
University of Pittsburgh; mjd21@pitt.edu
Topics: Information technology and services for under-addressed communities
Keywords: information-seeking behavior, consumer health information, models, physicians, seniors
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POSTER #8 • Developing an Organizational Model and Technical Implementation Plan for Wireless Mesh Networks in Sao Tome and Principe, West Africa
Christopher J. Ritzo
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; critz1@uiuc.edu
Topics: Community techologies and networking, Information infrastructure development, Information technology and services for under-addressed communities
Keywords: wireless mesh networks, community informatics, digital divide, information society, Sao Tome and Principe
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POSTER #9 • Interactive Machine Learning (IML) Markup of OCR Generated Text
by Exploiting Domain Knowledge: A Biodiversity Case Study
Qin Wei and P. Bryan Heidorn
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; qinwei2@uiuc.edu
Topics: Community techologies and networking, Information infrastructure development, Other
Keywords: Interactive Machine Learning, biodiversity informatics, Evaluation of IML, Information Extraction, Automatic Markup
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POSTER #10 • Post-disaster Information Infrastructure: The 1989 Loma
Prieta Earthquake
Megan Finn
University of California, Berkeley; megfinn@ischool.berkeley.edu
Topics: Community techologies and networking, Information infrastructure development, Other
Keywords: disasters; information infrastructure; information ecologies; social studies of information; sociology of information
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POSTER #11 • Towards a Data and Workflow Collaboratory for Research on Free
and Open Source Software and its Development
James Howison, Kevin Crowston, and Megan Conklin
Syracuse University; Elon University; jhowison@syr.edu
Topics: Information infrastructure development, Preserving digital information
Keywords: cyberinfrastructure, repositories
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POSTER #12 • Towards a Model of Determinants of Web Services Platform
Adoption by Complementers
Joseph B. Rubleske
Syracuse University; jrublesk@gmail.com
Topics: Information infrastructure development
Keywords: software platforms, web services, adoption, network effects, complementarities
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POSTER #13 • ChemXSeer: An eScience Web Search Engine and Repository
for Chemistry
C. Lee Giles, Prasenjit Mitra, Karl Muller, James Kubicki, Barbara Garrison, James Z. Wang, Bingjun Sun, Ying Liu, Qingzhao Tan, Levent Bolelli, Xiaonan Lu, Anuj Jaiswal, Kun Bai, Isaac Councill, William Brouwer, Juan Fernandez, and Joel Bandstra
Pennsylvania State University; giles@ist.psu.edu
Topics: Community techologies and networking, Information infrastructure development, information organization, Preserving digital information
Keywords: e-science, chemistry, cyberinfrastructure, Information retrieval, Data extraction
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POSTER #14 • Stability and Change in Self-organizing Technology-supported Groups: Evidence from Genres of Communication in Free and Open Source Software Development
James Howison
Syracuse University; jhowison@syr.edu
Topics: Community techologies and networking, Other
Keywords: genres of online communications, distributed teams, organizational change
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POSTER #15 • The Impacts of Gender and Initial Social Activities on Trust
and Performance in CMC
Xiaoning Sun
Drexel University; xiaoning.sun@ischool.drexel.edu
Topics: Other
Keywords: Gender, computer-mediated communication, trust, Instant Messaging
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POSTER #16 • Healthcare Informatics: Supporting Collaborative Sensemaking
in the Emergency Department
Sharoda A. Paul
Pennsylvania State University; spaul@ist.psu.edu
Topics: Other
Keywords: Healthcare informatics, ICTs in healthcare, computer-supported cooperative work, collaborative systems, sensemaking
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POSTER #17 • Support Sense-making with Tools for Structuring a Conceptual Space
Pengyi Zhang
University of Maryland; pengyi@umd.edu
Topics: information organization, Information management
Keywords: sense-making tools, conceptual structure, user-centered design and evaluation
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POSTER #18 • Deriving Ontology from Folksonomy and Controlled Vocabulary
Miao Chen and Jian Qin
Syracuse University; mchen14@syr.edu
Topics: information organization
Keywords: Ontology, folksonomy, tag, controlled vocabulary, vector space
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POSTER #19 • The Impact of Documentation on Secondary Data Use
Jinfang Niu
University of Michigan; niujf@umich.edu
Topics: information organization
Keywords: secondary data use, documentation, data sharing, metadata
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POSTER #20 • Proposal of Document Classification with Word Sense Disambiguation
Xiaozhong Liu
Syracuse University; xliu12@syr.edu
Topics: information organization, Other
Keywords: Document classification, WSD, NLP
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POSTER #21 • Group Maintenance Behaviors in Self-organizing Distributed Teams
Na Li, Michael John Scialdone, Robert Heckman, and Kevin Crowston
Syracuse University; nli@syr.edu
Topics: Community techologies and networking
Keywords: Group maintenance, self-organizing distributed team, FLOSS, politeness theory, content analysis
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POSTER #22 • Longitudinal Analysis of Freshman Adoption of Facebook.com
Frederic Stutzman
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; fstutzman@gmail.com
Topics: Community techologies and networking, Other
Keywords: Facebook, Social Networks, Identity, Friendship, Data
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POSTER 23# • Cyber Java Monopoly: Game-based Approach of Collaborative Programming Language Learning
I-Han Hsiao and Yi-Ling Lin
University of Pittsburgh; ihh4@pitt.edu
Topics: Community techologies and networking
Keywords: game-based learning, collaborative learning, programming language learning
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POSTER 24# • The Collaborative Information Behavior of Middle School Students
in Online Learning Environments: An Exploratory Study
Nan Zhou and Denise Agosto
Drexel University; nan.zhou@ischool.drexel.edu
Topics: Community techologies and networking, Other
Keywords: collaborative information behavior, computer-supported collaborative learning
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POSTER #25 • A Visual Map of Public Mementos and Conjectures
Alberto Pepe
University of California, Los Angeles; apepe@ucla.edu
Topics: Cultural information systems, information organization, Information policy, ethics and law
Keywords: information visualization, mood analysis, data mining
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POSTER #26 • To Catch a Predator? The MySpace Moral Panic
Alice E. Marwick
New York University; alice.marwick@nyu.edu
Topics: Community techologies and networking, Information policy, ethics and law
Keywords: social networking, information policy, moral panics, internet filtering
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POSTER #27 • Conversation Repository for Participatory Librarianship
Keisuke Inoue
Syracuse University; kinoue@syr.edu
Topics: Community techologies and networking, information organization
Keywords: information seeking behavior, information retrieval, Web 2.0, discourse analysis, conversation theory
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POSTER #28 • Watching Organizational Opinion via Social Tagging
Terrell Russell
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; unc@terrellrussell.com
Topics: Community techologies and networking, information organization, Information management
Keywords: expertise, organizations, tagging, folksonomy
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POSTER #29 • Behavorial Parameters of Trustworthiness for Countering
Insider Threats
Shuyuan Mary Ho
Syracuse University; smho@syr.edu
Topics: Information assurance and security
Keywords: trustworthiness, insider threats, personnel anomaly detection
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POSTER 30# • Incentive Design for Home Computer Security
Rick Wash and Jeffrey King MacKie-Mason
University of Michigan; rwash@umich.edu
Topics: Information assurance and security
Keywords: security incentives economics design
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