Information retrieval, human-computer interactions, collaborative search, and conversational systems
Advisors: Jaime Arguello and Gary Marchionini
Strategic decision-making by esports players under perfect and imperfect information constraints
Advisor: Brad Hemminger
Human-computer interaction, social studies of information
Advisors: Amelia Gibson and Sandra Hughes-Hassell
Information seeking behavior, Task-based information retrieval, Human factors (cognitive and affective factors in HCI), Search as Learning
Advisor: Jaime Arguello
Advisor: Helen Tibbo
Health informatics, information seeking behavior and use (health-related), health policies and confidentiality and security of health information
Advisors: Amelia Gibson and David Gotz
Scholarly note-taking practices, infrastructure studies, history of information systems
Advisors: Ryan Shaw and Stephanie Haas
Knowledge organization, digital humanities, Baha’i studies, Arabic & Persian manuscripts
Advisors: Ryan Shaw and Brad Hemminger
Information needs and behaviors of adolescents, role of school libraries in learning, professional development of school librarians
Advisor: Sandra Hughes-Hassell
Digital humanities, collective memory and community archive
Advisor: Ryan Shaw
Human-computer interaction, interactive information behavior, collaborative search, information/knowledge organization and knowledge re-use
Advisor: Rob Capra
Inter-cultural information ethics, semantic network analysis, and natural language processing
Advisor: Stephanie Haas
Educational technology, digital and visual culture; accessibility, museums, libraries, and cultural institutions
Advisor: Sandra Hughes-Hassell
Metadata pedagogy, history of LIS, philosophy of information organization, critical information theory
Advisors: Ryan Shaw and Brian Sturm
Information behavior, disclosure of personal information, survey interfaces and methods, free/open source software (F/OSS) education, digital humanities, Middle East libraries and cultural institutions
Advisor: Sandra Hughes-Hassell
Scholarly communications, information retrieval, human-computer interaction, social media, evidence-based practice
Advisor: Brad Hemminger
Database and information retrieval systems, text/data mining, bio/health/medical informatics
Advisor: David Gotz
Information retrieval, text data mining, interpretable machine learning, natural language processing
Advisors: Yue Wang and Jaime Arguello
Organization of information and information architecture, archives/special collections and cultural institutions, data management and curation, social studies of information management
Advisor: Christopher (Cal) Lee
School library media, marketing and PR for libraries, professional advocacy and recruitment, Library 2.0
Advisor: Sandra Hughes-Hassell
Community-based collections, digital humanities
Advisors: Ryan Shaw and Sandra Hughes-Hassell
Human-AI interaction (HAII), sociotechnical computational infrastructures, user trust of algorithmic knowledge production in information retrieval.
Advisor: Rob Capra
Interactive Information Retrieval and Human Computer Interaction
Advisors: Jaime Arguello and Rob Capra
Database and information retrieval systems, text/data mining, human-computer interaction
Advisor: David Gotz
Human-computer interaction, augmented/virtual reality, interactive information retrieval, usability
Advisor: Rob Capra
Academic and health sciences librarianship, information workflow and needs, public and global health.
Advisor: Mary Grace Flaherty
Data analytics, augmented/virtual reality, scholarly communication and open access.
Advisor: Bradley Hemminger
