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(2009-02-08)Information privacy has received significant attention in past years. The shift from physical to online interaction entails a change in privacy paradigms. Yet, most of the attention has been directed at forms of self-identifying ...
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(2009-02-08)This poster presents an on-going study, which attempts to implement an automated detection of the subject area of digital reference questions for the purpose of question triage. The study attempts to show that automated ...
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(2009-02-08)Various barriers to socio-economic opportunities in Africa are explored though e-Government as a lens of study. Using grounded theory methodology, scholarly literature on e-Government in Africa has been analyzed to model ...
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(2009-02-08)In a society with a fluid flow of information across and between multiple mediums, digital games are a curious entity to many. Interest in researching games and its possible connection to learning spans decades of work in ...
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(2009-02-08)Describes a possible agenda for exploring the use of boundary objects in hybrid commercial/open-source software development firms.
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Bringing a More Accurate User's Perspective into Web Navigation: Facet Analysis of Folksonomy Tags (2009-02-08)Faceted navigation is useful for finding information on the Web, but facets created by professionals do not represent users' preferences and understandings of concepts. To make faceted navigation more suitable for users ...
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(2009-02-08)In this research, we investigate how we can build ontologies that are suitable to Information Systems design. We analyzed methodologies for building ontologies from scratch. Preliminary results show that the process of ...
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(2009-02-08)Developments in digital technologies are making it more possible for previously neglected and buried communities to document themselves, allowing diverse peoples to (re)discover and (re)claim their identities and experiences ...
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(2009-02-08)This research considers the nature of organizing information resources in a shared, open content encyclopedia. While the organization of information resources entails many complementary phenomena (cf. Wilson, 1978; Taylor, ...
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(2009-02-08)Communities Connect Network(CCN)* is a statewide coalition of public and private organizations working to ensure that Washington State is a leader in “Digital Inclusion”–that all individuals have access and the skills to ...
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(2009-02-08)Ranking is an important subject in information retrieval, and a variety of techniques and algorithms have been developed to rank the retrieved documents and web pages for a given query. However, ranking is also a ...
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(2009-02-08)Craft involves the application of human skill and invested time. Some have argued technology has undermined human expertise by replacing craftwork with automation, disposing of human ingenuity and proficiency. Can new ...
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(2009-02-08)The iSchool at the University of Pittsburgh has designed a new learning experience that will allow future leaders of the iProfession to gain critical skills and to experience working in culturally diverse teams. The iSchool ...
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(2009-02-08)The Internet Public Library (IPL) is crosswalking its metadata to Dublin Core compliant metadata. This involves several research activities, including: quantitative and qualitative analyses of the existing IPL metadata; ...
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(2009-02-08)I propose to present findings from two in-depth ethnographic studies on online and mixed reality gaming in China. During the immersive participatory field research I collected data and image recordings from conversations ...
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(2009-02-08)Community Archives “are the grassroots activities of documenting, recording, and exploring community heritage in which community participation, control, and ownership of the project is essential” (Flinn, 2007). It is the ...
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(2009-02-08)Research has repeatedly shown that computer-mediated communications (CMC) lead to higher levels of disclosure of personal information (Tidwell and Walther 2002). Recent studies have examined the role of increasingly common ...
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(2009-02-08)The purpose of my study is to find out if the construction of personal meaning from museum artifacts change with contextual variation. From this statement the question I am asking is “How do children construct personal ...
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(2009-02-08)Visualization methods such as node-link trees and space-filling representations expose semantic relationships using spatial arguments to communicate information in ways that text cannot. In this paper, we describe a prototype ...
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