
Total registered participants: 482
Completed Research Papers: 30 (acceptance rate 34%)
Preliminary Results Research Papers: 36 (acceptance rate 51%)
Chinese Papers: 45 (acceptance rate 47%)
Posters: 68 (acceptance rate 82%)
Workshops: 5 (acceptance rate 62%)
Sessions for Interaction and Engagement: 7
Special Panels and iSchool-Related Presentations: 12
Doctoral Colloquium Participants: 21
Reviewer: 268
Participants per Region

Conference Chairs

Qing Fang
Wuhan University

Sam Oh
Sungkyunkwan University

Wonsik Jeff Shim
Sungkyunkwan University

Chuanfu Chen
Wuhan University
Organizers
Local Arrangements Chairs: Lihong Zhou, Wuhan University: School of Information Management; Fei Wang, Wuhan University: School of Information Management: Jie Xu, Wuhan University: School of Information Management
Papers Chairs: Jian Qin, Syracuse University: School of Information Studies; Mika Grundstrom University of Tampere: School of Information Sciences; Jevin West, University of Washington: Information School
Poster Chairs: Ann-Sofie Axelsson, University of Boras: The Swedish School of Library and Information Science; Min Song Yonsei University: Library and Information Science; Esfandiar Haghverdi, Indiana University: School of Informatics and Computing;
Doctoral Colloquium Chairs: Kevin Crowston, Syracuse University: School of Information Studies; Bella Jing Zhang, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou: School of Information Management; Pia Borlund, University of Copenhagen: Royal School of Library and Information Science; Jiangping Chen, University of North Texas: College of Information;
Early Career Colloquium Chairs: Marcia Zeng, Kent State University; Kathy Burnett, Florida State University: College of Communication and Information; Antonio Soares, University of Porto: Faculty of Engineering in cooperation with the Faculty of Arts
Workshops Chairs: Noa Aharony, Bar-Ilan University: Department of Information Science; Daqing He, University of Pittsburgh: School of Information Sciences; Fred Ye, Nanjing University: School of Information Management
Sessions for Interaction and Engagement Chairs: Ryan Shaw, University of North Carolina: School of Information and Library Science; Andrew Cox, University of Sheffield: Information School; Jin Ha Lee, University of Washington: Information School
Doctoral Dissertation Award Chairs: Michael Seadle, Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin; Soo Young Rieh, University of Michigan: School of Information; Masooda Bashir, University of Illinois: Graduate School of Library and Information Science
Chinese Papers Track Chairs: Ruhua Huang, Wuhan University: School of Information Management; Wei Lu, Wuhan University: School of Information Management; Dan Wu, Wuhan University: School of Information Management
iSchool Best Practices Chairs: Gary Marchionini, University of North Carolina: School of Information and Library Science; Shigeo Sugimoto, University of Tsukuba: Graduate School of Library, Information and Media Studies ; Ann-Sofie Axelsson, University of Boras: The Swedish School of Library and Information Science
iSchools and Industry Partnership Chairs: Sean McGann, University of Washington: Information School; Gobinda Chowdhury, Northumbria University: Department of Mathematics and Information Sciences; Joon Lee, Seoul National University, Korea: School of Convergence Science and Technology;
Conference Coordinator: Clark Heideger, iSchools
Conference Administrative Assistant: Molly Sanders, iSchools
Proceedings Editor: Wjatscheslaw Sterzer
Alessandro Acquisti, Carnegie Mellon University
Denice Adkins, University of Missouri
Naresh Agarwal, Simmons
Jim Andrews, University of South Florida
Ann-Sofie Axelsson, University of Boras
Tim Baldwin, University of Melbourne
Dania Bilal, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Leanne Bowler, University of Pittsburgh
Josep Cobarsi Morales, Open University of Catalonia
Constantinos Coursaris, Michigan State University
Gianluca Demartini, University of Sheffield
Stephen Downie, University of Illinois
Karen Fisher, University of Washington
Paul Gandel, Syracuse University
Lisa Given, Charles Sturt University
Sara Grimes, University of Toronto
Lorna Hughes, University of Glasgow
Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam
Robert Kauffman, Singapore Management University
Diane Kelly, University of Tennessee
Kyung-Sun “Sunny” Kim, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Young Seek Kim, University of Kentucky
Lars Konzack, University of Copenhagen
Andy Koronios, University of South Australia
Serap Kurbanoğlu, Hacettepe University
Philippe Lenca, Télécom Bretagne
Claire R. McInerney, Rutgers University
Julie McLeod, University of Northumbria at Newcastle
Ruth Nalumaga, Makerere University
Sanghee Oh, Florida State University
Virginia Ortíz-Repiso Jiménez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Jung-ran Park, Drexel University
Vivien Petras, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin
Nils Pharo, University College Oslo and Akershus
Peter Reid, Robert Gordon University Aberdeen
David Reitter, Penn State University
Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University
Reijo Savolainen, University of Tampere
Kalpana Shankar, University College Dublin
Elizabeth Shepherd, University College London
Antonio Lucas Soares, University of Porto
Martin Souček, Charles University in Prague
Eduardo Vendrell Vidal, Polytechnic University of Valencia
Iris Xie, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
Yong Jeong Yi, Sungkyunkwan University
Yan Zhang, University of Texas Austin
Lihong Zhou, Wuhan University
Program Committee

Sponsors & Partners
⋆ Microsoft Inc
⋆ Journal of Data and Information Science
⋆ Emerald Publishing
⋆ Baidu
⋆ National Science Foundation
⋆ MDPI
⋆ De Gruyter
⋆ Springer Nature
Awards
The organizing team of the iConference 2017 included members from 11 countries.
