Jones, Murillo, and Yoon take ASIS&T by Storm!

Three of our amazing faculty have been invited to participate in the ASIS&T’s 80th annual meeting in Washington, D.C., October 27th – November 1st.
This years topic: “Diversity of Engagement 2017; Connecting People and Information in the Physical and Virtual World”

Kyle Jones, LIS Assistant Professor will be participating in the InfoLearn pre-program workshop. The workshop description includes: “Researchers in both information and learning sciences aim to understand the processes that facilitate searching, learning, and knowledge co-construction, in order to advance theory and system design….ASIS&T’s new Special Interest Group, SIG Information and Learning Sciences (InfoLearn) was initiated and launched in Spring of 2017.  To mark this occasion, we will offer this half-day pre-conference workshop at the ASIS&T annual meeting. A primary goal is to present several cross-disciplinary scholars’ perspectives on key research occurring within both of these connected disciplines, offer analysis and discernment on scholarly boundaries and convergences, and identify productive ongoing and future areas of theory building, methodology and system design praxis, spanning these 2 inter-disciplinary fields.”

Kyle Jones research agenda is focused on the info ethics and policy issues of learning analytics technologies, making him an ideal participant for this workshop.

Ayoung Yoon, LIS Assistant Professor and Angela Murillo,Visiting Assistant Professor, along with two other colleagues will run a panel titled: “In Between Data Sharing and Reuse: Shareability, Availability, and Reusability in Diverse Contexts”.  Detailed information can be found at: https://www.asist.org/am17/sessions/in-between-data-sharing-and-reuse-shareability-availability-and-reusability-in-diverse-contexts/

Ayoung Yoon has also been invited to give two additional presentations.

1.  A paper discussing how communication among researchers plays a significant role supporting date reuse; and
2. A poster presenting preliminary findings from the exploration of data sharing challenges in developing countries, through a Uganda case study.

Congratulations to Kyle Jones, Angela Murillo, and Ayoung Yoon for such impressive contributions to the meeting!