Bruce Kingma – "iSchool Entrepreneurship and Innovation"
Wednesday, October 16, 11:30 pm – 12:30 pm, Dodson Room (Rm 302), Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
JonArno Lawson – A Talk from the Bottom of the Box: Reflections of an Award-winning Poet for Youth
Wednesday, September 25th, 2013, 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Philip Kent – Challenges for the Research Library in the 21st Century
Friday, September 20th, 2013 at 10:00AM – 11:30AM, Dodson Room (Rm 302), Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
William Wong – Make It Visible: Applying Cognitive Systems Engineering to Intelligence Analysis
In this presentation, Dr. William Wong discusses how principles from Cognitive Systems Engineering, CSE, might be used to design Visual Analytics systems to support intelligence analysts. In designing systems to control processes such as nuclear power generation, CSE has been used to determine and model a priori the functional relationships that relate the performance of […]
Anabel Quan-Haase – Serendipity Models: How We Encounter Information and People in Digital Environments
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies (SLAIS). Much of the research on how we encounter information tends to focus on linear models of intentional information search. Recently a number of studies and frameworks have suggested that not all information individuals encounter […]
Jack Lohman – iSchool@UBC Research Day Keynote
Live Webcast – begins at 11.00AM on March 8, 2013. Tune in and view the lecture here on this page — for full screen view, click on upper right hand.
Anatoliy Gruzd – Automated Discover and Visualization of Communication Networks from Social Media
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies (SLAIS). As social creatures, our online lives just like our offline lives are intertwined with others within a wide variety of social networks. Each retweet on Twitter, comment on a blog or link to a […]
Carol Tilley – Children, Comics, Critics, and the Researcher
In April 1953, eleven-year old Brian McLaughlin wrote to psychiatrist Fredric Wertham in response to the latter’s article in Reader’s Digest, “Comic Books – Blueprints for Delinquency.” The boy asserted confidently: “Anybody that goes out and kills someone because he read a comic book is a simple minded idiot. Sound silly? So does your item.” […]
Anthony Grafton – Apocalypse in the stacks? The research library in the age of Google
March 20, 2013, 12.00 to 2.00PM at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre’s Victoria Learning Theatre (Room 182)
George Buchanan – Finding Information: Effects of Collaboration and Place
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by SLAIS. When seeking information, either within a document or in a large collection of materials, the contexts of collaboration and place have a strong influence on user performance. While those studying human behaviour have noted these factors, there is at present only a […]