Information Seeking in Context - ISIC 2006 Sydney

Monday, July 17, 2006

5.30-7.30pm

Doctoral Students Welcome and Reception, UTS
Dinner (optional)

Tuesday, July 18, 2006

10am-4pm	Doctoral Students Workshop
6pm-7pm	Welcome Reception, State Library of New South Wales Dinner (optional)

Day 1: Wednesday, July 19, 2006

8:30am	Registration Coffee/Tea
9:30am	Opening of ISIC 2006
9:45am	Keynote: Brenda Dervin Making user studies matter: thank you Mister Feynman, Monsieur Foucault Chair: Pertti Vakkari
10:45am	Coffee/Tea break

	Presentation - 2 parallel sessions
	Session One – Rural Communities Chair: Karen Fisher	Session Two – Uncertainty Chair: Ross Todd
11.15am-12.30pm	Roma M. Harris, C. Nadine Wathen, Jana Fear Searching for health information in rural Canada : where do residents look for health information and what do they do when they find it?	Theresa Anderson Uncertainty in action: observing information seeking within the creative processes of scholarly research
	Wathanel Seneviratne Analysis of community information needs of rural Sri Lanka and factors affecting to information access.	Kyunghye Yoon (S)* A study of interpersonal information seeking: the role of topic and comment in the articulation of need.
	Nei-Ching Yeh (S)* Framework for understanding culture and its relationship to information behaviour: Taiwanese aborigines' information behaviour.

*(S ) denotes Short Paper

12:30pm

Lunch

	Presentations - 2 parallel sessions
2pm-3.30pm	Session One – Information Behaviour in School Settings Chair: Louise Limberg	Session Two – Information Sharing in Industrial Settings Chair: Joyce Kirk
	Ross Todd From information to knowledge: charting and measuring changes in students knowledge of a curriculum topic.	Diane Sonnenwald Challenges in sharing information effectively: examples from command and control.
	Eric Meyers, Lisa Nathan, Matthew Saxton Barriers to information seeking in school libraries: conflicts in perceptions and practice.	Martin Rose Information activity of rail passenger information staff: a foundation for information system requirements.
	Kirsty Williamson, Joy McGregor (S)* Information use and secondary school students: a model for understanding plagiarism.	Zahed Bigdeli (S) Iranian engineers' information needs and seeking habits: an agro-industry company experience.

*(S ) denotes Short Paper

3:30pm	Coffee/Tea break
4pm-5pm	Doctoral Poster Session 1 Chair: Theresa Anderson

Day 2: Thursday, July 20, 2006

9:30am	Keynote: Chun Wei Choo Information seeking in organisations: epistemic contexts and contests. Chair: Carol Kuhlthau
10:30am	Coffee/Tea break

	Presentation - 2 parallel sessions
	Session One – Health Information Seeking Chair: Elena Maceviciute	Session Two – Information Use Environments Chair: Theresa Anderson
11-12:30pm	C. Nadine Wathen, Roma Harris An examination of the health information seeking experiences of women in rural Ontario, Canada.	Joan Durrance, Maria Souden, Dana Walker, Karen Fisher Community problem-solving framed as a distributed information use environment: bridging research and practice.
	Judit Bar-Ilan, Nira Shalom, Snunith Shoham, Shifra Baruchson-Arbib, Irith Getz Role of information in a lifetime process: a model of weight maintenance by women over long time periods.	Jennifer Berryman Assessing 'enough' information: how policy workers make judgements and decisions during information seeking.
	Ophelia Morey (S) Health information ties: preliminary findings seeking behaviours of an African-American community.	Julia Hersberger, Adam Murray, Sandra Sokoloff (S) Information use environment of abused and neglected children.

*(S ) denotes Short Paper

12:30pm	Lunch
1:30-2:30pm	Doctoral Poster Session 2 Chair: Joyce Kirk
2:30pm-3pm	Presentation Reijo Savolainen Spatial factors as contextual qualifiers of information seeking Chair: Brenda Dervin
3pm-3.30pm	Coffee/Tea break

	Presentation - 2 parallel sessions
	Session One – Conceptualising Information Behaviour Chair: Michael Olsson	Session Two – Study, Work and Play Chair: Chun Wei Choo
3.30pm-5pm	Jarkko Kari Conceptualizing the outcomes of information.	Makiko Miwa, Noriko Kando Naïve ontology for concepts of time and space for searching and learning.
	Natalya Godbold Beyond information seeking: a general model of information behaviour.	Jenna Hartel (S) Lockstep of beginnings and endings: information practices and resources in an episode of gourmet cooking
	Lynne McKechnie, Heidi Julien, Jennifer Pecoskie, Christopher Dixon (S)* The presentation of the user in reports of information behaviour research.	Shunsaku Tamura, Makiko Miwa, Yasunori Saito, Mika Koshizuka, Yumiko Kasai, Mamiko Matsubayashi, Nozomi Ikeya (S) Information sharing between different groups: a qualitative study of information service to business in Japanese public libraries.
		Eric Thivant, Bouzidi Laïd (S) Information seeking and use behaviour of financial advisors.

*(S ) denotes Short Paper

7pm	Conference Dinner – Dockside, Cockle Bay Wharf

Day 3: Friday, July 21, 2006

9:30-10:30am	Invited Speaker Alana Garwood-Houng The journey so far, for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Protocols for Libraries, Archives and Information Services.
10:30-11am	Coffee/Tea break

	Presentation - 2 parallel sessions
	Session One – Information in Educational Environments Chair: Reijo Savolainen	Session Two – Locating and Organising in Electronic Environments Chair: David Allen
11am-1pm	Louise Limberg, Olof Sundin Teaching information seeking.	Martin Whittle, Barry Eaglestone, Nigel Ford, Valerie Gillet, Andrew Madden Query transformations and their role in web searching by the general public.
	Jannica Heinström Fast surfing for availability or deep diving into quality – motivation and information seeking among middle and high school students.	Christopher Khoo, Brendan Luyt, Caroline Ee, Jamila Osman, Hui-Hui Lim, Sally Yong How users organise electronic files on their workstations in the office environment: a preliminary study of personal information seeking behaviour.
	Karen Fisher, Carol Landry, Charles Naumer (S) Social spaces, casual interactions, meaningful exchanges: information ground typology based on the college student experience .	Andrew Madden, Barry Eaglestone, Nigel Ford, Martin Whittle (S) Search engines: a first step to finding information: preliminary findings from a study of observed searches.
	Hilary Hughes (S) Responses and influences: a model of online information use for learning .	Xiaoli Huang, Dagobert Soergel (S) An evidence perspective on topical relevance types and its implications for exploratory and task-based retrieval .

*(S ) denotes Short Paper

1pm	Lunch
2pm-2.30pm	Presentation Tom Wilson (presented by David Allen) Re-examination of information seeking behaviour in the context of activity theory Chair: Kirsty Williamson
2.30pm-4pm	Panel and Discussion - Whither Information Seeking Behaviour Research? Chair: Pertti Vakkari

The Keynote Speakers at ISIC 2006 are:

Chun Wei Choo

Chun Wei Choo is Professor of the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, and Masters degrees from the University of Cambridge and the London School of Economics. His main research interests are information management, information seeking, environmental scanning, organizational learning, and the management of information technology.

Chun Wei's recent books include: The Knowing Organization (2nd ed, 2005, Oxford University Press); The Strategic Management of Intellectual Capital and Organizational Knowledge (co-edited with Nick Bontis, 2002, Oxford University Press); Web Work: Information Seeking and Knowledge Work on the WWW (co-authored with Brian Detlor and Don Turnbull, 2000, Kluwer); and Information Management for the Intelligent Organization (3rd ed, 2002 Information Today Inc).

Brenda Dervin

Brenda Dervin is Full Professor of Communication and Joan N. Huber Fellow in Social and Behavioral Sciences at Ohio State University. Through the development of a Sense-Making Methodology, she has applied a focus on "communication as communication" to multiple fields mandated to serve users and potential users by whatever names they might be called. A primary focus of her application has been information seeking and use as studied in Library and Information Science. She is often cited as having had a major impact on the turn to user-oriented studies of users. A frequent author and speaker, her most recent publication is a compendium of her writings entitled A Sense-Making Methodology Reader. She holds a PhD in communication from Michigan State University and an honorary PhD in social sciences from the University of Helsinki.