[Air-L] 2014 ASIS&T SIG-USE Symposium - Context in Information Behavior Research: Call for Participation

[Lu Xiao]

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

All the interested researchers, graduate students, and information
professionals are invited to submit a proposal for a short presentation
(i.e., approximately 5-8 minutes in the form of lightning talks). Proposals
for lightning talks should be one to two pages long (500-1000 words) and
outline the topic and themes that will be addressed during the talk.
Proposed topics must be relevant to the Symposium theme - "Context in
information behavior research" (See below).

ABOUT THE 2014 SIG-USE SYMPOSIUM:
Theme: "Context in Information Behavior Research"
Date: November 1, 2014 (Saturday)
Time: 1:30 to 6:30 pm
Location: Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Seattle, WA, USA

The importance of context in human information behavior research has been
well established. Nonetheless, it has been observed that although
contextual aspects are included in most research, they tend to serve as the
backdrop of a study, and not as its focus. Stronger emphasis on context
will enhance our understanding of information behavior. The purpose of this
symposium is to explore the role and impact of context, aiming to advance
scholarship and knowledge concerning this key component of information
behavior research.

This symposium will focus on themes including, but not limited to:
• Conceptual and theoretical aspects: Focusing on the conceptual and
theoretical understanding of context in information behavior research,
papers may explore questions such as the following: What does “context”
really mean? What is the nature of context in the research frameworks of
information behavior studies (e.g., as the background/setting, the
explanatory factor, the manipulation condition, or the outcome variable of
a research study)? How are relationships between individuals, groups, and
contexts surrounding the information behavior conceptualized? To what
extent and in what way do variables representing features at broader levels
of aggregation (e.g., group level, organizational level, societal level)
affect the information behavior of an individual? What philosophical and
theoretical perspectives and frameworks can be used to study contexts?
• Methodological aspects: From the research method perspective, papers may
examine issues such as: What factors need to be considered when selecting
methods and/or instruments for studies of various contexts? What are the
methodological challenges and opportunities of studying information
behavior in a particular context?
• Context-related research: With strong focus on contexts, papers may probe
questions such as: What is the typical information behavior in a particular
context? How different is the information behavior in one context from the
other? How does the context factor interact with other factors (e.g., user
characteristics)?
• Meta-analysis of context-related research: Context-related research may
be analyzed to explore questions such as: What kinds of research have been
done in relation to contexts? How do different aspects of context impact
different LIS areas (e.g., information literacy, design of information
systems/services, etc.) and in what way?

Submission guidelines for Lightning talk proposals:
- Author’s name, title, and institutional affiliation should be included at
the top of the proposal.
- Proposal text must be 500-1000 words.
- Submission should be in pdf or doc format. The file should be named as
‘2014_SIGUSEsympo_FirstAuthor'sLastName".
- Submission should be done by sending your draft to sigusesym2014 at gmail.com
 (Subject: SIGUSE_FirstAuthor’sLastname). A proposal should be submitted by
midnight Hawaii Time on September 1, 2014.
- Accepted submissions will be made available through the public SIG-USE
website both before and after the Symposium.
- Accepted submissions may be invited for publication in the next volume of
the SIG USE/ASIS&T Monograph Series.
- If there are still open spaces available, the symposium will be open to
ASIS&T attendees who do not have a Lightning talk. Registration is still
required.

IMPORTANT DATES:
September 1, 2014: Submission due date for extended abstracts or position
papers
September 20, 2014: Notification of acceptance
October 25, 2014: Submission due date for Lightning talk slides

REGISTRATION FEES:
* SIG-USE Members: $90
* ASIS&T (but not SIG-USE) Members: $100
* Non-Members: $120
The registration fee will cover workshop costs, wireless Internet access,
and coffee breaks.

WORKSHOP PLANNING COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Lu Xiao (Co-Chair), University of Western Ontario
K.-Sun Kim (Co-Chair), University of Wisconsin-Madison
Nicole Cooke, University of Illinois
Nicole Gaston, Open Polytechnic of New Zealand
Amelia Gibson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Sei-Ching Joanna Sin, Nanyang Technological University
Sue Yeon Syn, Catholic University of America
Pertti Vakkari, University of Tampere
For more information about SIG-USE: http://siguse.wordpress.com/

Please forward any questions that you have to Lu Xiao (lxiao24 at uwo.ca) or
K.-Sun "Sunny" Kim (kskim at slis.wisc.edu).

Lu Xiao & K.-Sun Kim
2014 ASIS&T SIG-USE Symposium Co-chairs





Lu Xiao
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Information & Media Studies, Department of Computer Science
University of Western Ontario
London, Canada
http://hii.fims.uwo.ca

Recent JASIST publications:
The Effects of Rationale Awareness in Iterative Human Computation Processes
<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.23079/abstract>
What Influences Online Deliberation? A Wikipedia Study
<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.23004/abstract>