Browsing Information science by Subject "Information science"
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A Match Made in Heaven: Queer Christians and Dating Apps
Dating apps pose particular challenges for queer Christians, complicating an already sensitive combination of social and cultural commitments, values and beliefs. Dating apps position themselves in the dating market in a ... -
Access, Accountability, and Ownership in Government Use of Proprietary Systems
When firms contract with public agencies to provide services, they regularly assert that some subset of their work is proprietary. For instance, companies may stake a claim over how information they produce is managed and ... -
Adaptive Support for Face-to-Face Collaborative Learning at Tabletop Computers
Collaborative learning is a common practice in today's classrooms. Technology-supported collaborative learning environments are becoming increasingly sophisticated, enabling new ways for students to work together with ... -
An Integrated Model of Tasks and Uncertainties for Designing Task-aware Search Assistants
Search behaviors are usually motivated by some task that prompts users into the search process. Complex tasks often initiate long, evolving, interactive search processes with shifting goals and cognitive focus at different ... -
Channeling Friendships across Social Types via Mediated Communication and High School Clubs
(2013-11-14)This dissertation is about how common contexts for extracurricular activities, friendships, and technology mediated interactions form social structures that are related to distinct civic experiences of high school youth ... -
Cognitive Mechanisms for Reasoning with Uncertainty Visualizations
The joint proliferation of data-driven interfaces in public life and data science in organizations makes reasoning with uncertainty in data visualizations critically important. Lay people and data analysts alike make visual ... -
Communicating Meaning in Context-Aware System Design
Computers play an increasingly personal role in our daily lives. Rather than interacting with computers primarily at work or for specialized tasks, computers are now present in virtually all our daily activities. The ... -
Computational Support for Longitudinal Well-Being
As artificial-intelligent-powered devices have become more embedded in our lives, they offer an unprecedented ability to passively sense our daily behavior at a high resolution. These everyday devices are already equipped ... -
Constructing the Universal Library
The expanded access to millions of books provided by large-scale digitization initiatives (LSDIs) like Google Books and the Open Content Alliance (OCA) has the potential to reshape myriad social structures; yet, despite ... -
Controlled, In Control, and Out of Control: The Effects of Different Forms of Vocabulary Control on the Subject Indexing and Subject Tagging Processes
Subject indexing, the process of determining what a document is about and then translating that "aboutness" into a representation in an indexing language, is fundamental to library cataloging. Subject indexing has historically ... -
Creative AI Literacies for Families
Many families engage daily with artificial intelligence (AI) applications, from conversations with a voice assistant to mobile navigation searches. Unfortunately, existing intelligent technologies in the home are prone to ... -
Cultivating Inclusion in U.S. Museums: Insights from The Incluseum
In the U.S., museums have long struggled with elitism and exclusion. Recently, however, the notion of inclusion has become a central and defining aspect of contemporary U.S. museological practice and thought. In 2018-2019 ... -
Design for Social Accessibility: Incorporating Social Factors in the Design of Accessible Technologies
Assistive technologies are intended to help people with disabilities accomplish everyday tasks. Yet, such technologies are traditionally designed mainly with functionality in mind, not with consideration for social situations ... -
Designing Belief-driven Interactions with Data
One's beliefs play a critical role in interpreting new information and making decisions. However, conventional visualization frameworks rarely consider users' beliefs in designing and evaluating visualizations. The main ... -
Designing Chat Guidance for Positive Psychological Change
Mental illnesses affect 25% of the U.S. population, and are the leading cause of ill health worldwide—far above physical illnesses. Common barriers of time, money, stigma, and lack of professionals to meet demand make it ... -
Designing for the Dynamic Needs of Young Adult Cancer Survivors
Young adult cancer survivors—individuals diagnosed with cancer between the ages of 18 and 39—face health and quality of life challenges long after treatment ends. Issues survivors face include forming and maintaining ... -
Designing restoration: protecting and restoring our attention through participatory design
We live in an attention economy where many of our interactions are mediated by technologies incentivized to exploit our attention. The consequences of this exploitation, so far as they are known, affect how we spend our ... -
Designing Self-Monitoring Technology to Promote Data Capture and Reflection
Self-monitoring is a powerful means for self-reflection, which is important in health behavior change. More recently, researchers and companies began to offer numerous self-monitoring technologies for health. However, ... -
Designing Technologies to Support Patient Engagement in the Hospital
Patient engagement in the hospital affects health outcomes and satisfaction with care. Furthermore, granting patients access to information about their care and encouraging them to voice their concerns has the potential ... -
Designing with (Political) Complexity: Understanding Stakeholders, Emotion, Time, and Technology in the Case of Medical Aid-in-Dying
In today’s increasingly technological society, human activity cannot be properly understood without referencing computing artifacts. As we interact with and through these artifacts in everyday life, they affect our emotions ...