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The purpose of this study is to understand collaborative sensemaking processes among middle school students in a discovery based hybrid e‐learning environment. Our exploratory study reports interview findings on student experiences, and contributes to our ongoing investigation of this complex social learning system. This paper is also an effort to extend the understanding of Dervin's (1992) sense‐making...
This poster reports preliminary findings from a research project, which attempts to suggest guidelines for developing an older‐adult‐friendly online tutorial for Facebook. An existing online tutorial for Facebook, Facebook 101, was analyzed to provide a more practical discussion. Weaknesses and improvement points of the tutorial were identified based on the literature regarding principles of design...
The Site‐Based Data Curation (SBDC) project is developing a framework of guidelines and processes for the curation of research data generated at scientifically significant sites. SBDC will advance the professional work of curation by articulating principles, workflows and inter‐institutional relationships essential for site‐based curation. Work to date has concentrated on stakeholder analysis, with...
This poster presents empirical findings on gender differences during an inquiry‐ based learning history project at the middle school level. Weekly surveys during the project designed to solicit cognitive and affective responses from students' as well as demographic surveys and exit surveys were conducted. Overall the results show that boys are more confident than girls during inquiry‐ based learning...
This work‐in‐progress methodology poster introduces a research project which aims to investigate college students' use of mobile wellness applications and their perceptions of application quality and usefulness. The poster outlines the overall design of the project and reports on some of the preliminary findings from the first phase of the study. In particular, the poster discusses the findings of...
The poster offers a unique opportunity to learn about the information behavior of a group of medical students using a social networking site (SNS) group over the period of almost three, full, consecutive, academic years without faculty supervision to facilitate their learning. Mixed methods approach to data collection and analysis allowed us to obtain a comprehensive overview of the SNS group usage...
Due to the wide variety of web‐based reading environments, it is important to study reading environment effects on the skimming comprehension of information foragers. New readability applications have been developed to reduce visual clutter on web pages and enhance elements of text. This pilot study explored the effects of one of these new readability applications on skimming comprehension in a low‐clutter...
Humanities scholars increasingly use mobile devices such as laptops, iPhones, and iPads in their professional lives. We are exploring the opportunities for employing such devices for supporting scholarly activities in archive reading rooms. As a first step in this process, we are studying how reading room policies related to the use of technological devices impact scholars' interaction with the source...
Preliminary findings are presented from a secondary analysis of recent Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS) data. HINTS data is collected and made available for public use by the National Cancer Institute. The goal of this analysis was to discover patterns in respondents' health‐related information seeking practices, their confidence in their ability to obtain health information, the...
Worldwide, mental illnesses are extremely prevalent and costly. Help‐seeking and recovery may be facilitated by information and online resources. The aim of this literature review is to examine interest in mental health within Library and Information Science empirical research, published from 2000 onward, with a focus on information behavior. In this preliminary phase, we performed a qualitative content...
The continuity in technologically mediated environments relentlessly reconfigures the temporal nature of disaster impacts and facilitates emergent behavior of ordinary people coming into being as a group for humanitarian efforts. This study looks at forms of remote collaborative action, especially ones among ordinary people with rudimentary knowledge and skills who utilize appropriate technologies...
The universe of available cultural heritage metadata schemas grows more complex every day. Existing schemas are optimized for use in the library, archive, or museum domains and to fit the needs of shared services and applications. Emerging Linked Data approaches introduce additional challenges for metadata designers and creators responsible for implementing these standards. In other domains, design patterns...
An information horizon (IH) is a mental map where individuals position various sources according to their preferences in specific contexts. IH not only highlights the roles of contexts, situations, and social networks in individuals' information behavior, but also emphasizes the importance of examining the relationships among sources used by individuals. This study investigates undergraduate students'...
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