Library and Information Science
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 [...]
Fred Wah – Standing in the Doorway – the Hyphen in Chinese-Canadian Poetry
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Richmond Public Library as part of the “The Joy Of Reading: Chinese Literature Appreciation” lecture series. This talk focuses on living and writing between two cultures, Chinese and Canadian. Racial hybridity has informed most of Prof. Wah’s writing and that of many Chinese-Canadian [...]
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 [...]
Literature between Bookspace and New Literacy Space: Towards a Connective Ethnography of Children’s Literature and Digital Media by Dr. Helene Høyrup
Wednesday, March 20, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m, Lillooet Room (Rm 301), Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Dr. Paul Marty – Habitat Tracker: Engaging Students with the Nature of Science through Mobile Learning at a Science Museum
Live Webcast – begins at 12.00PM on March 13, 2013. Tune in and view the lecture here on this page — for full screen view, click on upper right hand.
Jack Lohman Live Webcast – iSchool@UBC Research Day Keynote, March 8, 2013, 11AM
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
“Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies (SLAIS). 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 [...]
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 [...]
Geoffrey C. Bowker – Emerging Configurations of Knowledge Expression
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies (SLAIS). Since the Enlightenment, we have built up a knowledge production system which assumes that prime form of expression should be the printed word. However, in a number of fields in the sciences, social sciences [...]
