Browsing Information Management Faculty Research, Publications and Presentations by Submit Date

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  • An investigation of differences in sentiment from tweets related to COVID-19 between Canada and US residents 

    Gone, K. P. & Conrad, C. (2020). An investigation of differences in sentiment from tweets related to COVID-19 between Canada and US residents. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM-2020).
    Goal: This study aims to understand how individuals communicated and acknowledged to COVID-19 pandemic on Twitter. It mainly focused on identifying and demonstrating the differences in the perspective of United States and ...

  • Toward Best Practices for Unstructured Descriptions of Research Data 

    Phillips, D., & Smit, M. (2021). Toward Best Practices for Unstructured Descriptions of Research Data. In Proceedings of the 84th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIST), 58(1).
    Achieving the potential of widespread sharing of open research data requires that sharing data is straightforward, supported, and well-understood; and that data is discoverable by researchers. Our literature review and ...

  • Beyond Statistical Literacy: Open Data For Teaching, Collaboration, And Profit 

    Researchers, governments, and businesses grapple with the abundance of relevant data because consultants claim its effective use will lead to untold wealth and prosperity. To access this pot of gold, a modern university ...

  • Is Our Ability to Detect Errors an Indicator of Mind Wandering? An Experiment Proposal 

    Conrad, C, Klesel, M., Mayhew, K., O’Neil, K., Oschinsky F. and Usai, F. (2022). Is your ability to detect errors an indicator of mind wandering? An experiment proposal. Proceedings of the 2022 NeuroIS Retreat.
    Mind wandering could have a variety of impacts on information systems phenomena, not least long monotonous tasks. Unfortunately, mind wandering states are difficult to measure objectively. In this paper, we describe ...

  • Towards Mind Wandering Adaptive Online Learning and Virtual Work Experiences 

    Conrad, C. and Newman, A. J. (2022). Towards mind wandering adaptive online learning and virtual work experiences. Proceedings of the 2022 NeuroIS Retreat.
    NeuroIS researchers have become increasingly interested in the design of new types of information systems that leverage neurophysiological data. In this paper we describe the results of machine learning analysis which ...

  • Individual Perspectives on Data Sharing: Human Factors Impacting the Digital Economy 

    Digital economies rely on the exchange and sharing of data, but this type of sharing is relatively new. Any digital transformation will include a shift from data as a protected asset to data as a tool for collaboration and ...

  • University life has gone digital: influences of institutional mobile social network use during the COVID-19 emergency 

    Conrad, C., Moylan, R. and O. Diaz, G. (2022). University life has gone digital: Influences of institutional mobile social network use during the Covid-19 emergency. Library Hi Tech ahead of print https://doi.org/10.1108/LHT-12-2021-0458
    Purpose Many universities implemented institutional social networking apps as an alternative to in-person social experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, this study aims to explore previously identified factors ...

  • Do emotions influence safe browsing? Toward an electroencephalography marker of affective responses to cybersecurity notifications 

    Conrad, C. D., Aziz, J. R., Henneberry, J. M., & Newman, A. J. (2022). Do emotions influence safe browsing? Toward an electroencephalography marker of affective responses to cybersecurity notifications. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 16.
    Cybersecurity notifications play an important role in encouraging users to use computers safely. Emotional reactions to such notifications are known to positively influence users’ adherence to these notifications, though ...

  • Measuring Mind Wandering During Online Lectures Assessed With EEG 

    Conrad, C., & Newman, A. (2021). Measuring mind wandering during online lectures assessed with EEG. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 455. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2021.697532
    Mind wandering can inhibit learning in multimedia classrooms, such as when watching online lectures. One explanation for this effect is that periods of mind wandering cause learners’ attention to be redirected from the ...

  • Quality is more important than quantity: Social presence and workplace ergonomics control predict perceived remote work performance 

    Conrad, C., Klesel, M., Oschinsky, F., Mayhew, K., O’Neil, K., and Usai, F. (2023). It’s not the number of meetings: Social presence and workplace control predict perceived remote work performance. Proceedings of the 2023 Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
    The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a widespread disruption to the way that we work. One of its lasting consequences will be the ubiquity of remote work. The effective use of collaboration tools is therefore a critical factor ...

  • Data Management Planning: Informing Research Data Management in Academic Libraries Today and the Skills Needed for Future Librarians 

    Grynoch, T., Smit, M. and Stevenson, S. E. (2016). Data Management Planning: Informing Research Data Management in Academic Libraries Today and the Skills Needed for Future Librarians. Proceedings of the 37th International Association of University Libraries (IATUL) Conference. International Association of University Libraries. http://hdl.handle.net/10222/82661
    Academic libraries in Canada are taking the lead in research data management (RDM) as they strive to assist researchers in addressing Canada's move to join the global trend of adding data dissemination and preservation ...

  • The Respectful Terminologies Platform Project and Envisioning Indigenous Governance 

    Allison-Cassin, S., & Callison, C. (2023). The Respectful Terminologies Platform Project and Envisioning Indigenous Governance. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS / Actes Du Congrès Annuel de l’ACSI.
    This paper will discuss the Respectful Terminologies Platform Project (RTPP), a project focused on creating a system of Indigenous terminologies, and questions of governance within cataloging and other descriptive practices. ...

  • Are You Human? Investigating the Perceptions and Evaluations of Virtual Versus Human Instagram Influencers 

    Nissen, A., Conrad, C., & Newman, A. (2023, April). Are You Human? Investigating the Perceptions and Evaluations of Virtual Versus Human Instagram Influencers. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-14). https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3580943
    Virtual influencers (VI) are on the rise on Instagram, and companies increasingly cooperate with them for marketing campaigns. This has motivated an increasing number of studies, which investigate our perceptions of these ...