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(iSchools, 2017)This study analyzes student postings on Facebook and blogs in the same internship course across six years in an Information Management program. A two-level coding scheme on knowledge management and socio-emotional support ...
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(iSchools, 2017)This paper examines how people manage activity tracker-generated personal health information. A pilot web survey study was conducted to understand healthy activity tracker users’ personal health information management ...
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(iSchools, 2017)This paper is part of an ongoing South Australian research project examining the knowledge creation and sharing practices of Indigenous people. This paper details the theoretical aspects underpinning a pilot study conducted ...
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(iSchools, 2017)Social media reports of accessibility problems can document accessibility issues encountered in situ. We analyzed 200 posts about discussions around accessibility and 166 posts that describe accessibility problems from ...
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(iSchools, 2017)Sensemaking could be carried out individually or collaboratively. Collaborative sensemaking is a process where a group of people seek or create a shared representation collaboratively to accomplish a shared task. We conduct ...
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(iSchools, 2017)The Catalogue of Life (CoL) and the Unicode Standard are examples of information systems that aim toward universals: the goal of the CoL is to provide a “single integrated species checklist and taxonomic hierarchy''; the ...
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(2017)Literature reviews are vital parts of research studies. They describe previous studies in their methods and designs, their samples and results, and link these to the authors' own new study. This preliminary study analyzes ...
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Applying motivational design to support informal learning of universal design for web applications (iSchools, 2017)We introduce CAN (Composable Accessibility Infrastructure), a framework to support learning Universal Design for web applications. We present how the ARCS (Attention, Relevancy, Competence, and Satisfaction) Model of ...
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(iSchools, 2017)Question & Answer websites, such as Yahoo! Answer and Stack Exchange, are widely used to look for and exchange information in different knowledge domains. Question-answer pairs extracted from social Q&A sites can be ...
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(iSchools, 2017)The Lanna region in Upper Northern Thailand has a distinct cultural heritage, one of the most important aspects of which are palm leaf manuscripts. These are seen at one and the same time as forms of sacred writing, ...
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(iSchools, 2017)In scholarly communication, researchers not only express their evaluative opinions towards peer work in citation statements, they retrieve and summarize these opinions by following citation links. Aggregated citation ...
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(iSchools, 2017)In an interdisciplinary learning environment, students are facing difficulties to locate the right education opportunities, e.g., campus courses or MOOCs, to achieve their career goals. In this paper, we propose a novel ...
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(iSchools, 2017)In the domain of academic search engines and research-paper recommender systems, CC-IDF is a common citation-weighting scheme that is used to calculate semantic relatedness between documents. CC-IDF adopts the principles ...
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(iSchools, 2017)Social media is an increasingly important source for tourists seeking information about their intending holidays. Tourists obtain travel related information by interacting with their social networks. However, social media ...
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(iSchools, 2017)Human-assisted OCR is a common approach for transcribing books and has been used for many digital library projects. This paper reports our project for transcribing the book collections of National Diet Library in this ...
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(iSchools, 2017)This article reports on an empirical study which examined information resources provision to people with visual impairments in five Tanzanian academic libraries. A pragmatism paradigm and Oliver’s social model of disability ...
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(iSchools, 2017)Location-based augmented reality games that blend the real-world experience with virtual world gameplay are becoming increasingly popular. We aim to improve our understanding of how these new types of games will impact ...
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(iSchools, 2017)Information communication technology continues to extend the reach of sexual human traffickers. Interactive dark web sites provide victim photographs to facilitate “shopping” on a global level. Commercial payment and ...
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(iSchools, 2017)This study compares the master’s degree curricula of 10 iSchools in the US and 10 iSchools in China by categorizing and analyzing the text of 667 course titles harvested from publicly available websites. The results show ...
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(iSchools, 2017)As social media platform not only provide infrastructure but also actively perform algorithmic curation for profit and user experience, it leads to an information filter bubble phenomenon: users are trapped in their own ...
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