Faculty and Research
Faculty at the school are drawn from an unusually wide range of academic backgrounds including linguistics, public policy, computer science, library and information science, management, law, business, economics, psychology, history, and communications.
The school's faculty and students are active in research, pursuing projects in various areas and methods. Their stated goal is to develop an integrated understanding of human needs in relation to information systems and social structures, searching for unifying principles that illuminate the role of information in computation, cognition, communication, and community.
The school's infrastructure includes a range of research facilities and equipment. Researchers also have access to a number of off-campus research sites. Projects are often collaborations with researchers from other units at the university.
Established and emerging areas of research at the school include:
- archives and records management
- collaboratories
- community informatics
- community technology
- digital libraries
- digital preservation
- documenting cultural heritage and social memory
- electronic commerce
- health informatics
- human-computer interaction
- human-information interaction
- incentive-centered design
- information access
- information analysis and retrieval
- information and organizational systems
- information architecture
- information behavior and use
- information diffusion
- information economics
- information filtering
- information infrastructure
- information policy
- information retrieval
- information systems
- information use in communities
- information visualization and representation
- knowledge management
- library and information services
- library science
- natural language processing
- network theory
- organizational learning
- organizational productivity
- pervasive and ubiquitous computing
- social capital
- technology-mediated collaboration
- telecommunications policy
- trust and recommender systems
- user-centered design
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