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Faculty Research Roundup Kelly lyons heather macneil Jens-erik mai rhonda mcewen David Phillips Kelly Lyons Professor Lyons’ paper “New Directions for Social Computing in virtual Worlds: Applications for Business and Social Sciences” was listed as #17 in the “Top 25 Hottest Articles from Science Direct.” She presented two papers, one at iConference 2010 and another at the 15 th Americas Conference on Information Systems, and was also invited by CALIS and SLA to give a special presentation on project management. In addition, she contributed a book chapter titled “A Framework that Situates Technology Research within the Field of Service Science,” which will appear in Service Systems Implementation, as a volume in Service Science: Research and Innovations in the Service Economy. of the evolution of an archival description over a period of eight decades. Jens-Erik Mai Since the end of his term as the vice-Dean in 2009, Professor Mai has been busy preparing papers for publication in Journal of Documentation, Knowledge Organization, and for presentation at the International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science, that all explore authority and trust in knowledge organization systems. He hopes to attract attention to the challenges faced by library and information science professionals to design and maintain systems that are transparent and trustworthy. He has also been giving presentations and will give an invited talk at the National Taiwan University’s International Symposium on the Future of Information Organization Research, in Taipei. He will co-chair the Program Committee for the iConference in 2011 to be held in Seattle, Washington. Rhonda McEwen It was a year of innovation for Assistant Professor McEwen, the first faculty member to offer a class on virtual worlds, addressing issues such as avatar identity and community. She was featured in the national press on several occasions for her cuttingedge research on handheld research on handheld technologies, such as the mobile phone and iPod Touch devices. In addition, she was awarded a MITACS post-doctoral research grant to investigate the mobile phone information seeking practices of young newcomers to Toronto. David Phillips Professor Phillips is currently working on two SSHRC-funded research projects. The first, Spatiality, Identity, and the Infrastructure of Ubiquitous Computing: Directions for Critical Intervention, investigates the political, economic, and technical configuration of “cloud” computing, or ubiquitous computing, and how the infrastructure configures the possibilities for interactions in public space. The second project, Carrier Hotels: Mapping Internet Interconnections, attempts to “ground” the cloud, by revealing exactly where Internet traffic travels on its way from source to destination. Heather MacNeil Professor MacNeil published two articles this year: “Trusting Description: Authenticity, Accountability and the General International Standard for Archival Description” and “Arranging the Self: Literary and Archival Perspectives on Writers’ Archives,” and coedited a book entitled Currents of Archival Thinking. She also began work on a SSHRC-funded research project examining archival description as rhetorical genre in traditional and web-based environments. She completed the data collection and most of the data analysis for a small exploratory study Lynne Howarth Professor Howarth is continuing with her project, “Enhancing Pathways to Memory,” and working with the Alzheimer Society of Toronto to study how individuals with mild cognitive impairment associated with early-stage Alzheimer/Dementia may utilize multi-modal expressions of information such as music, photographs, physical objects, movement, audio recordings, etc., as memory cues for finding, organizing, and using i nformation important to daily living. She also collaborated on Museum Knowledge Worker of the 21 st Century, a project for the Canadian Heritage Information Network, and presented a paper in Rome, Italy at the International Society for Knowledge Organization, exploring cartograms for mapping the diffusion of knowledge globally. In addition, she refereed at the poster session of the OLA Superconference, and served as a guest editor of a special issue of Knowledge Organization and Cataloguing & Classification Quarterly. 18 informed | autumn 2010
Faculty Research Roundup Matt Ratto Professor Ratto received two grants to continue to develop “critical making”—a mode of research practice that uses material prototyping with physical computing to supplement and extend critical thinking on the relations between society, information, and technology. The first project, Critical Making: the Materialization of the Digital, is funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation and the Ontario Research Fund. The project explores how 3D printers and open source hardware changes the nature of expertise and will influence the creative environment. The second project, funded by the Ontario Media Development Corporation, is called Designing Digital Media for the Internet of Things, and will use workshops to create novel possibilities for shared work on the Internet of things (the interconnection of everyday objects through digital technologies). Aviv Shachak Professor Shachak is continuing with his case study research on end-user support for primary care electronic health record implementation, where the first phase of data collection and preliminary analysis of the data has been completed. He has also published two opinion papers, one in JAMA on the potential of incorporating multimedia into electronic health records to improve care, another in Informatics in Primary Care on usability as a critical aspect of assessing the quality of clinical information systems. Brian Cantwell Smith This year marks a milestone for Professor Cantwell Smith as he initiates a seven-volume series publication of his major life work entitled Age of Significance, which provides a sustained, systematic philosophical analysis of the foundation of computation and intentionality. The book will be presented in both English and Chinese in traditional book format, as well as online. In addition, he has completed two volumes of papers on conceptual foundations of computing, to be published by Harvard University Press. Siobhan Stevenson Professor Stevenson has concentrated her research energies on investigating working conditions within the information economy, particularly at public libraries. She has developed a model that attempts to capture the dialectic between the ascendancy of library consumer-producer identity and the diminishment of the public librarian as a skilled, waged, and unionized public service worker, which provides findings for working conditions, careers, and labour processes across the full range of public service occupations. Prof. Stevenson will have the opportunity to share her work at six different conferences, including the Seventh International Conference on Conception of Library and Information Science. She also published an article on one of the SSHRC’s Network of Centres of Excellence Project: DIGILAB, on which she was invited to be a research collaborator. Yuri Takhteyev Professor Takhteyev has completed several papers and has projects underway on topics ranging from open source software development to the globalization of Wikipedia. His main, current project is an ethnography of software development in Brazil, in which he looks at software development as a case of a modern high-tech work and how globalization is experienced in such a context. He has completed his dissertation for this project and is currently converting it to book form. Lynne Teather Professor Teather helped place forty students in museum internships around the world, teaching, gave workshops and lectures in various places, and was a member of the steering committee for the Taking Stock Conference. Other research areas include the history of Canadian museums, contemporary issues in national and international museum development, and the training of museum professionals. She has taught at several international museology schools, including a stint this year at the Slovenian Museology School. Currently, she is working on a project with Professor Roger Simon on difficult history and museums through examining the exhibition Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photographs in America. Eric Yu Professor Yu’s research focuses on the analysis and design of information systems and services in social contexts, and knowledge management. His projects include designing for security and privacy, agile software development, and business modeling for business intelligence. Professor Yu has had three journal papers published or accepted, as well as seven conference papers and five workshop papers, and two book chapters, most in collaboration with the students he supervised. He also co-edited a Festschrift volume, Conceptual Modeling: Foundations and Applications, in honour of his former PhD supervisor and mentor, Professor John Myopolous, and plans to include the book in a conceptual modeling course. Professor Yu’s research focuses on information system analysis and design, and software engineering, emphasized in his current book project “Social Modeling for Requirements Engineering.” matt ratto aviv Shachak Brian cantwell Smith Siobhan Stevenson yuri takhteyev lynne teather eric yu informed | autumn 2010 19
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