Get to know the iSchool’s ten new PhD students! They will be featured throughout the Fall 2021 semester. Tallal Ahmad Areas of Interest: Human-Computer Interaction, Human-Centered Design, Computer Supported Collaborative Works, Information & Communication Technologies for Development Advisor: Corey Jackson Where are you from? Lahore, Pakistan How did you become interested in the field of information? …
Professor Catherine Arnott Smith is a coinvestigator on Dr. Michelle Kelly’s $292,973 grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) for a two-year project, “Getting on the same page: Leveraging an inpatient portal to engage families of hospitalized children.” The project aims to extend and broaden the evaluation and reach of the intervention, …
When it comes to human vs. human-AI hybrid in answering knowledge demanding questions, who has the edge? This was the question iSchool PhD student Zihan Gao and Professor Jiepu Jiang asked in their research involving human-AI hybrid chat systems. The study, which was accepted as a full paper to appear at November’s CIKM 2021 Conference, …
Get to know the iSchool’s ten new PhD students! They will be featured throughout the Fall 2021 semester. Yinka Ajibola Areas of Interest: Information Communication Technology & Development (ICT4D); Artificial Intelligence for Development (AI4D); Misinformation/Disinformation Advisor: Reginold Royston Where are you from? Nigeria How did you become interested in the field of information/library science? While …
Get to know the iSchool’s ten new PhD students! They will be featured throughout the Fall 2021 semester. Ellie (Eunmi) Jeong Areas of Interest: Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Interactive Information Systems, User-Centered Design, Value Sensitive Design, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work Advisor: Corey Jackson Where are you from? South Korea How did you become interested in data and …
Get to know the iSchool’s ten new PhD students! They will be featured throughout the Fall 2021 semester. Jacquie Kociubuk Research areas: children’s informal learning environments, playful learning, public library outreach, and social justice Advisor: Rebekah Willett Where are you from? I grew up in the Pacific Northwest, living in multiple, rural communities around Washington …
Assistant professor Chaoqun Ni is part of a new, multi-institutional National Science Foundation grant that will study the mobility and retention of faculty at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). “We hope that the research will help facilitate a transparent dialogue around the challenges of Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) and underrepresented faculty, and help to …