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Whakapapa: Genealogical information seeking in an indigenous context
Authors: Lilley Spencer C. 
Published: February 2016

ABSTRACTThis paper describes the information seeking behaviour of Māori secondary school students between 16–18 years of age when they searching for information about their whakapapa (genealogy). Rather than considering this form of information behaviour in the context of leisure time activity, the study positions itself as an important cultural expression of personal and collective identity. Like other studies involving youth, the research demonstrates the importance of inter‐personal information seeking, particularly in Māori cultural settings.
Learning user‐defined, domain‐specific relations: A situated case study and evaluation in plant science
Authors: Lucic Ana , Blake Catherine 
Published: February 2016

ABSTRACTAlthough methods exist to identify well‐defined relations, such as is_a or part_of, existing tools rarely support a user who wants to define new, domain‐specific relations. We conducted a situated case study in plant science and introduce four new domain‐specific relations that are of interest to domain scientists but have not been explored in information science. Results show that precision varies between relations and ranges from 0.73 to 0.91 for the manufacturer location category, 0.89 and 0.93 for the seed donor‐bank relation, 0.29 and 0.67 for the seed origin location, and 0.32 and 0.77 for the field experiment location. The manufacturer location category recall varies from 0.91 to 0.94, the seed bank‐donor location recall ranges between 0.93 and 1, the seed origin relation from 0.33 to 0.82 while the field experiment location from 0.67 to 0.83 depending on the classifier and using a combination of lexical and syntactic features in the background.
After access: An inquiry into ICT use factors for indian women
Authors: Paul Anindita , Thompson Kim M. , Heinström Jannica 
Published: February 2016

ABSTRACTNations have made great strides in providing physical access to digital technologies and educational opportunities, yet barriers still exist that prevent those who have strong physical and intellectual access to information and communication technology from taking full advantage of the information and opportunities the technology offers. Women in particular are affected by social barriers which may be quite subtle and are easily excluded from taking an active role in the information society. This study explores how Indian women incorporate information and communication technology (ICT) into their daily lives and what aids or barriers they face in the process. This study contributes to an understanding of factors that lead to Indian women's current use of ICT, reasons why Indian women choose to use ICT, and barriers to this usage.
Health practices of immigrant women: Indigenous knowledge in an urban environment
Authors: Morales Miraida , Zhou Xiaomu 
Published: February 2016

ABSTRACTThis qualitative study of folk health practices of an indigenous Mexican immigrant community in New Brunswick, New Jersey investigates the barriers this community faces, and their effects on its members’ everyday practice of health in a new urban environment. Facilitated by local community organizations, two focus group interviews were conducted with women from this community, along with a questionnaire and multiple field visits. Analysis revealed several themes related to health practices, including the role of food, and how indigenous knowledge influences the community's beliefs about, and practices of, health. Additionally, several environmental, communication, and systemic barriers also appeared to affect the community's health practices. This research indicates that providing healthcare access to immigrant communities is a complex issue extending beyond the availability of services and resources. A better understanding of immigrant communities’ socio‐cultural health practices may be a key to improving the community's healthy living and overall quality of life.
Envisioning our information future and how to educate for it: A community conversation
Authors: Abels Eileen G. , Howarth Lynne C. , Smith Linda C. 
Published: February 2016

ABSTRACTMembers and others attending the 2015 Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) conference will be aware of a need to regularly revisit and redefine an information discipline continuously in flux. Constant change likewise demands that we consider new models and approaches to educating professionals equipped with cutting‐edge skills in critical thinking and applied best practice responsive to a dynamic information environment. This proposed three‐segment interactive panel session will report on action research on, and findings emerging from, a re‐visioning of information education. Initial outcomes from pilot projects involving the design and testing of innovative proofs of concept will also be discussed. Attendees will engage in an activity that identifies trends, and debates issues and controversies that are at the core of the dialogue surrounding our information future and how to educate for it.
The role of risky behaviors and health education in college students’ health information acquisition on the internet
Authors: Basic Josipa , Erdelez Sanda 
Published: February 2016

ABSTRACTPrior research shows that students use the Internet as a main source of health information. When starting college, students get greater autonomy over their behaviors and responsibility for their own health, which creates a number of health‐related information needs. As a result of this newly acquired autonomy, students also frequently engage in various risky behaviors, putting their well‐being in jeopardy. This study aimed to answer whether the self‐reported frequency in which students engage in risky behaviors and their enrollment in health‐related courses affect how frequently they obtain health‐related information. A novel aspect of this study is that it incorporated both intentional and opportunistic information acquisition. An analysis of online survey responses from 810 undergraduates attending a mid‐western U.S. university showed that the frequency of their engagement in risky behaviors (e.g., the use of substances and alcohol and engagement in high‐risk sexual activities) is not significantly associated with the frequency of neither intentional nor opportunistic health information acquisition on the Internet. However, students enrolled in health‐related courses more frequently obtain health information by both intentional search and opportunistic discovery. This opportunistic style of was often described in the literature using terms such as passive, unintentional, accidental, serendipitous, encountering or acquiring by chance. The study findings provide valuable directions for librarians and health educators on how to design new and improve existing e‐health literacy instructions to better suit students’ current needs and information behavior patterns.
Direct‐to‐Consumer genetic testing: Contextual privacy predicament
Authors: Huang Hsiao‐Ying , Bashir Masooda 
Published: February 2016

ABSTRACTIn this study, we investigated the flow of information and potential privacy infringements in Direct‐to‐Consumer (DTC) genetic testing services available online. We adopted Nissenbaum's framework of Contextual Integrity (CI) to examine six DTC companies’ privacy policies, terms of use, and consent processes. Our analyses indicate that the flow of information within certain contexts of DTC services presents alarming privacy vulnerabilities. In this paper, we provide a new perspective that can be used when evaluating privacy vulnerabilities for a given DTC online genetic testing service. The sensitive and unique features of genetic information make privacy even more of an important consideration for this type of information than for other types of medical/health information. In addition, we have limited knowledge about the harmful consequences that can arise from privacy invasions, such as genetic information breaches, genome database hacking, and so forth. Therefore, we believe that further research and in‐depth investigations from the information community are desperately needed to address the privacy of genetic information.
Building a parsimonious model for identifying best answers using interaction history in community Q&A
Authors: Shah Chirag 
Published: February 2016

ABSTRACTEvaluating answer quality or identifying/predicting which answer would be selected as the best for a given question is an important problem in community‐based Q&A services. In this article we introduce new interaction‐based features depicting the amount of distinct interactions between an asker and answerer over time, in order to predict whether an answer will be selected as Best Answer or not within Yahoo! Answers. Through a series of experiments ran on a data set of 23,218 question‐answer pairs, we determined that after the data was first run using a model trained on textual features, and then the failed cases re‐run with a model trained on interaction features, we were able to significantly improve the performance of the original model in identifying these difficult cases. In addition, when compared to models using often five to seven times the amount of features and requiring a large amount of computational effort, our model performed at to above the same evaluative measures. This suggests that future classification models can be made more parsimonious and handle larger datasets using less computational effort by developing a two‐step classifier that includes interaction history as a feature.
Password creation strategies across high‐ and low‐literacy web users
Authors: Rinn Caitlin , Summers Kathryn , Rhodes Emily , Virothaisakun Joël , Chisnell Dana 
Published: February 2016

ABSTRACTResearch has shown that password security practices typically conflict with general usability principles. Though the challenges faced by low‐literacy users when creating and managing passwords are likely to extend beyond those experienced by the general public, little research has been done to explore password usability in this at‐risk group. This survey of 20 low‐literacy participants aims to examine password behaviors within this population, including password creation, recall strategies, and perceptions of password strength and security. It expands on the work of Chisnell and Newby () based on a nationwide survey exploring password use, password creation strategies, and perceptions regarding password security. Thus, this study allows for comparison between password use and perceptions among the broader population and those of users with low literacy skills. These results provide important insights into patterns of use and mental models of password requirements and password security among low‐literacy users.
Controlled vocabularies for scientific data: Users and desired functionalities
Authors: Zhang Yue , Ogletree Adrian , Greenberg Jane , Rowell Chelcie 
Published: February 2016

ABSTRACTControlled vocabularies have great applicability for organizing and providing access to scientific data. This paper presents research examining the controlled vocabulary use and desired application features specific to scientific data. A survey was conducted, gathering data from U.S. DataNet participants and other data stakeholder communities. Results indicate that participants see controlled vocabularies as valued tools. Participants also reported an interest in repository technology that provides access to multiple vocabularies for scientific data.
“It's useless for that”: Finding, frustration, and fun with mobile technology in outdoor markets
Authors: Nugent Tim , Lueg Christopher , Buttfield‐Addison Paris , Dermoudy Julian 
Published: February 2016

ABSTRACTThis paper reports on the use of mobile technology–specifically, smartphones and tablet computers–in outdoor public markets in Australia and the United States, based on a survey and interview (n=44) conducted with attendees in public markets. After noting that past research in a variety of disciplines is deficient in regards to its assessment of technology use in such public spaces, we explore the different reasons and situations in which mobile technology is used in them, identifying the most prevalent problems and deficiencies encountered. We provide a foundation on which future work that examines communal public spaces and the use of technology can be based, and promote a broader view of how technology is used for information seeking and communication in such spaces.
Information practices in the broader ‘deportment’ of mobile knowledge work
Authors: Thomson Leslie , Jarrahi Mohammad Hossein 
Published: February 2016

ABSTRACTThis paper presents preliminary findings from an in‐depth, exploratory study aimed at gathering an understanding of mobile knowledge workers’ information practices, which are presumed distinct from those of non‐mobile, stationary, centrally located workers. Its focus arises from a need to understand more, from an empirical standpoint, about the information practices of this increasingly visible yet understudied population. Semi‐structured interviews with sixteen mobile knowledge workers suggest that this demographic hones distinct but intertwined practices around dealing with information. Five of these are discussed here; together, they compose a broader mobile knowledge work ‘deportment’ of sorts. Mobile knowledge workers also appear to use bottom‐up technological infrastructures to mediate their information practices, ones that are enacted independently of any organization for which they may work. This is discussed as a ripe area for further research. This paper's findings are relevant for advancing research around mobile knowledge work and information practices generally, and for organizations seeking to better support the work of their own mobile employees specifically.
The dynamics of journal‐journal citation relations: Can “hot spots” in the sciences be mapped?
Authors: Leydesdorff Loet 
Published: February 2016

ABSTRACTUsing three years of the Journal Citation Reports (2011, 2012, and 2013), indicators of transitions in 2012 (between 2011 and 2013) are studied using methodologies based on entropy statistics. Changes can be indicated at the level of journals using the margin totals of entropy production along the row or column vectors, but also at the level of links among groups of journals by importing the transition matrices into network analysis and visualization programs (and using community‐finding algorithms). The limitations of the methodologies (e.g., size‐dependency) are also discussed. PLoS ONE has introduced a new communication dynamics into the database.
Information sharing as story construction in group decision making
Authors: Xiao Lu , Witherspoon Richelle L. 
Published: February 2016

ABSTRACTPrior research in group decision‐making has shown that group members tend to share and focus on the information that is known to the majority of the group but keep the unique information unshared. Tasks created to study this information pooling phenomenon are referred to as hidden profile tasks. A recent hidden profile experiment showed that group members constructed stories to reach their group decision. The study discouraged this storytelling approach and suggested that technology mediation could provide a way to reduce the likelihood of using this approach in discussion. While our experiment confirmed this story construction approach, we found that in the story construction process the participants considered the important arguments as well as different perspectives. We therefore suggest that the story development approach is rational and that the Story model, an existing group process model well‐documented in jury decision making literature, could shed light on the design of collaborative technologies that accommodate or improve such a discussion approach.
Strategic planning for a data‐driven, shared‐access research enterprise: virginia tech research data assessment and landscape study
Authors: Shen Yi 
Published: February 2016

ABSTRACTThe data landscape study at Virginia Tech addresses the changing modes of faculty scholarship increasingly driven by data and supports the development of a user‐centric data infrastructure, management, and curation system. The study investigates faculty researchers’ current practices in organizing, describing, sharing, reusing, and preserving data and the emerging needs for data services and education. The results determine the different dimensions of data‐related activities, challenges, and opportunities and the changing nature of faculty demands regarding data documentation, storage, and archiving. Asking faculty researchers to self‐reflect data sharing and reuse from both data producers’ and data users’ perspectives, the study reveals a significant gap between the rather localized and sporadic data management and sharing activities and the highly perceived reuse values of data that often get lost right after the original work is done. With expertise in data, information, and archive fields, libraries have great values to offer in bridging the gap and building a data‐driven, shared‐access research enterprise.
Extended date/time format (EDTF) in the digital public library of America's metadata: Exploratory analysis
Authors: Zavalina Oksana L. , Alemneh Daniel Gelaw , Kizhakkethil Priya , Phillips Mark E. , Tarver Hannah 
Published: February 2016

ABSTRACTConsidering the value of dates in the life cycle of the digital resource, capturing and storing dates metadata in a structured way can have a significant impact on information retrieval. There are a number of format conventions in common use for encoding the date and time values; the Extended Date/Time Format (EDTF) is one of the most expressive. This paper presents results of an exploratory analysis of representation of dates in over 8 million metadata records from one of the largest digital aggregators, Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), and compares it to EDTF specifications. This benchmark study provides empirical data – at both the individual provider level and the group level (content hubs or service hubs) – about the overall level and patterns of application of date metadata in DPLA metadata records in relation to EDTF.
Making an impact through experiential learning
Authors: Budd John M. , Chu Clara M. , Dali Keren , O'Brien Heather 
Published: February 2016

ABSTRACTThis panel focuses on experiential learning as a foundation of information science education. We critically examine the underlying philosophies, pedagogical attitudes, and specific teaching methods needed to foster a new generation of information science professionals. Spanning the pedagogical spectrum from theory to practice, we analyze how the integration of humanistic and progressive pedagogies, principles of student‐centered and facilitative learning, and problem‐based projects can contribute to the holistic education of creative leaders and lifelong learners whose skills and knowledge are congruent with the fluid and complex character of our field. Drawing on a combined framework from several theoretical studies in adult education, we examine the potential impact of experiential learning on the conception and perception of learning in higher education, on the information science curriculum, and on the nature of the student‐teacher relationship. In the spirit of the panel, we invite the session attendees to reflect on the introduced ideas in application to their own pedagogical practices, teaching styles, and courses through several interactive exercises and group discussions. These activities illustrate how experiential learning presents a basis for change in information science education.
Fuzzy retrieval for software reuse
Authors: Colvin Erin , Kraft Donald 
Published: February 2016

ABSTRACTFinding software for reuse is a problem that programmers face. To reuse code that has been proven to work can increase any programmer's productivity, benefit corporate productivity, and also increase the stability of software programs. This paper shows that fuzzy retrieval has an improved retrieval performance over typical Boolean retrieval. Various methods of fuzzy information retrieval implementation and their use for software reuse will be examined. A deeper explanation of the fundamentals of designing a fuzzy information retrieval system for software reuse will be examined. Future research options and necessary data storage systems are explored.
Perceived outcomes of online parenting information according to self‐selected participants from a population of website users
Authors: Pluye Pierre , Sherif Reem El , Bartlett Gillian , Granikov Vera , Grad Roland M , Doray Geneviève , Lagarde François , Loignon Christine , Bouthillier France 
Published: February 2016

ABSTRACTLooking for consumer health/well‐being information online is increasingly common. However, little is known about how people are using information targeted to a specific audience, and what happens as a result of this use. We partnered with ‘Naitre & Grandir’ (N&G), a magazine, website and newsletter offering trustworthy parenting information on child growth, development and health/well‐being. This study was designed to uncover the outcomes of online parenting information. We used the theory‐driven Information Assessment Method (IAM) to study parental perceptions regarding outcomes of specific N&G web pages. A research question was: Is there a difference between parents with a low level of education and income vs. other parents? Over an 8‐month study period, 4007 participants submitted 4862 IAM ratings that suggested N&G information was valuable in terms of situational relevance (93.7%), positive cognitive impact (92.9%), intention to use (85.7%), and expectation for child health/well‐being benefit (82.4%). In addition, results suggested participants with a low level of education and income were more likely to (i) seek and use information for the child of someone else, and (ii) expect being more engaged in decision‐making for their child, and being less worried regarding a problem concerning their child. Our results do not support an association between the combined level of income and education, and perceived outcomes of information. This is the first study to assess outcomes of emailed parenting information from a parental viewpoint. More research is needed to better understand outcomes of targeted online information, which may ultimately contribute to improve people's health/well‐being.
Designing disciplinary identity: An analysis of the term “design” in library and information science vocabulary
Authors: Clarke Rachel Ivy 
Published: February 2016

ABSTRACTThis poster explores the role of design in the disciplinary identity and positioning of librarianship and information science through examination of the term “design” in two prominent contemporary library and information science vocabularies: the thesaurus for H.W. Wilson's Library Literature & Information Science Full Text database and the American Society for Information Science & Technology's Thesaurus of Information Science, Technology and Librarianship. Findings include conflicting and fractured identities, power struggles and paradigm entrenchment. Further research into disciplinary identity is necessary not only to improve controlled vocabularies but also to solidify and unify professional identity.