Fifteen I School students, faculty, and researchers are preparing to present their work at the upcoming iConference 2011 in Seattle, Washington.
Berkeley I School students will help lead two workshops on the conference's opening day:
- “Socio-technical Research: Conecting Disciplines in the iSchools,” co-led by doctoral student Christo Sims
- “Participatory media for Education,” led by Erin Knight and Nathan Gandomi (both MIMS 2010), co-directors of the I School’s Center for Next Generation Teaching and Learning
A variety of conference sessions will feature I School faculty, students, and researchers:
- The panel discussion “The Informational State: Paradigm or Paradox?” will feature adjunct professor Paul Duguid and doctoral students Megan Finn, Ashwin Jacob Mathew, and Janaki Srinivasan.
- The roundtable discussion “The Creativity Agenda in the iSchool Context” will include doctoral student Dan Perkel.
- The panel discussion “Information Organization meets Information Retrieval: Rethinking the iSchool core” will include adjunct professor Robert Glushko and master’s student Jess Hemerly.
- Erin Knight and Nathan Gandomi will lead a birds-of-a-feather session on “Education Redesign.”
- In the session on social inclusion, researcher Kentaro Toyama will present his paper “Technology as Amplifier in International Development.”
- Doctoral student Joshua Blumenstock will present his paper “Using Mobile Phone Data to Measure the Ties Between Nations” in another session on social inclusion.
- In a session on design, doctoral student Yiming Liu and adjunct professor Erik Wilde will present their paper “Personalized Location-Based Services.”
I School faculty and students will also be presenting three posters of their research:
- Doctoral student Megan Finn will present the poster “1857 California Post-Earthquake Information Practices.”
- Associate professor Coye Cheshire, Andrew Fiore (Ph.D. 2010), and co-authors will present the poster “Predicting relationship outcomes in online dating: A longitudinal survey.”
- Master’s student Daniel Perry will present the poster “Developing Standards for Embedded Devices.”
In addition to those presenting their research, the conference program committee includes I School faculty Jenna Burrell, Coye Cheshire, Geoffrey Nunberg, and Tapan Parikh and alumnus Andrew Fiore (Ph.D. 2010).
The annual iConference is sponsored by the iSchools Caucus, a coalition of leading information schools from across the US and Canada. The iConference brings together information researchers and professionals who share a passion for making a difference through the study of people, information, and technology. It attracts faculty, students, and researchers, as well as government and private-sector professionals.
The 2011 conference will be hosted by the University of Washington School of Information in Seattle, Washington, February 8–11. Future iConferences are scheduled to be held in Toronto, Canada; Denton, Texas; and Berlin.
