• March 23, 2007
  • Archived Webcast
  • Title: The Library's Diminishing Market Share: Rethinking What We Do
  • Presenter: Dr. William Moen, Texas Center for Digital Knowledge, School of Library and Information Sciences, University of North Texas
  • Description: Eppes Lecture
  
  
• November 18, 2006
  • Archived Webcast
  • Title: Directing a Library System: What I Didn't Learn in Library School
  • Presenter: Raymond Santiago , Director, Miami-Dade Public Library System President, Florida Library Association 2003 Librarian of the Year, Library Journal
  • Description: Guest Speaker at the FSU College of Information 2006 Homecoming & Awards Ceremony.
  
  
• October 27, 2006
  • Archived Webcast
  • Title: World Community Grid
  • Presenter: Pete Martinez, Vice President of IBM's Global Business Services
  • Description: A joint project with IBM and World Community will demonstrate how the idle power in millions of home and office computers can be harnessed to create a “virtual” supercomputer to help scientists fight AIDS, malaria and Alzheimer’s.
  
  
• January 12, 2006
  • Archived Webcast
  • Title: Prospective Faculty Member Research Presentation
  • Presenter: Jeremy Hunsinger
  • Description: Jeremy Hunsinger manages the Center for Digital Discourse and Culture at Virginia Tech where he is also completing his Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies. He is an instructor of political science and teaches courses centered on political theory, political economy, and Internet policy. He has been appointed to the executive committee of the Association of Internet Researchers since its beginning, and was the program chair of that organization’s first conference. He has worked on and advised several international projects and written several pieces of software.
  
  
• December 9, 2005
  • Archived Webcast
  • Title: Dean's State-of-IT Address
  • Presenters: Nolia Brandt and Dr. Larry Dennis
  • Description: A State-of-IT address by Dean Dennis along with the CEO of a Tallahassee Technology company.
  
  
• November 9, 2005
  • Archived Webcast
  • Title: Brown Bag Lunch: Interaction Design Group Seminar
  • Presenters: Connor Graham
  • Description: This seminar will present an overview of the research taking place at the Interaction Design Group at the University of Melbourne, Australia. It is an interdisciplinary group focused on understanding and improving interactive technology for people. In doing so we research use to support and envisage technology design with and without prototypical technology. Our research is clustered around the following main themes:
    
    • Use and usability 'in the wild' Non-organisational settings, primarily mobile (phones, PDA's etc.) and domestic (IT in the home).
      Studying ‘use in context’ (using multi-method research including observation, interviews, diaries, scrapbooks etc) in order to seed scenario-based envisagement of future technologies.
    • Use Centred Innovation Stretching our tools (user needs analysis, participatory design, usability evaluation) into ‘out of the office’ contexts. How can we ground design in a detailed analysis of current practice, whilst intentionally ‘taking flight’ from that practice to create something new?
    • Mixed-media interactive systems Trying to understand how best to employ multimedia and multi-modality in interactive systems
      How can we sensibly deploy multi-modal technologies and interaction in out-of-the-office contexts?
      A project will also be described with a specific research question, process and outcome corresponding to each of these themes. These projects will include: envisaging technology to support intimate relationships; methods and models supporting design for customers of the future; an automated tool for usability testing; understanding the use of the voice channel in computer gaming; the development of public display technology for a residential care setting. A common thread throughout the description of these projects will be the consideration of how to move from studying use to supporting design.

  Some projects planned for the future will be described, including: a study of intergenerational play, Grand-Parenting at a Distance: Smart Support for Intergenerational Play; a study of technologies for creating and publishing personal memories Digital Memories: Personal Stories for Living and Learning; and a project designing technology to help smokers quit, Using New Technology to Facilitate Smoking Cessation.

• October 14, 2005
  • Archived Webcast
  • Title: Scholarly Writing in Information Studies
  • Presenters: Dr. Gary Burnett, Paul T. Jaeger, and Kim M. Thompson
  • Description: Dr. Gary Burnett, Paul T. Jaeger, and Kim M. Thompson presented a workshop entitled “Scholarly Writing in Information Studies” on October 14, 2005. The goal is to help doctoral students, and other interested graduate students, understand the process of preparing papers for seminars, publishable papers, and other research related publications. Topics covered include the roles of research and writing in Information Studies, developing a research focus, creating a literature review, organizing papers, writing papers, rewriting and revising, seeking feedback on papers, differences between class papers and publishable papers, and publishing and the referee process.
  • Search Terms: Papers, Publications, Research, Scholarship, Writing

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