/sis/taxonomy/term/355/all en /sis/Fung-CRC-Data-Mining-Cybersecurity <p><a href="/sis">Â鶹ԼÅÄ School of Information Studies</a> faculty member Dr. Benjamin Fung has been awarded a Canada Research Chair (CRC Tier 2) in Data Mining for Cybersecurity. Dr. Fung's research program aims to enhance the data sharing and data mining capabilities for healthcare and cyber security professionals.</p> <p>CRC Tier 2 chairs are awarded to exceptional emerging researchers, acknowledged by their peers as having the potential to lead in their field. For each Tier 2 Chair, the university receives $100,000 annually for five years.</p> Tue, 09 Feb 2016 20:25:44 +0000 elysia.donald@mcgill.ca 3009 at /sis /sis/frqsc-fellowship-shu <p>Congratulations to Â鶹ԼÅÄ School of Information Studies PhD student Fei Shu on receiving a FRQSC Doctoral Fellowship.</p> <p>Fei’s research investigates the difference between Web of Science and local Chinese bibliometric databases and contributes to understanding of whether international bibliometric databases can be used to evaluate national research performance.</p> <p>Fei's supervisors are <a href="/sis/people/faculty/julien">Dr. Charles-Antoine Julien</a> and Dr. Vincent Larivière, EBSI, UdeM.</p> Thu, 28 Apr 2016 23:12:09 +0000 elysia.donald@mcgill.ca 3031 at /sis /sis/seminar-series-slonosky-draw-project-weather-archives-data <p>Join us for a Â鶹ԼÅÄ School of Information Studies (SIS) Seminar Series talk with Visiting Scholar Dr. Victoria Slonosky on a pioneering crowd-sourcing project to rescue Canadian climate data and make it accessible for scientific research.</p> Mon, 15 Feb 2016 21:51:47 +0000 elysia.donald@mcgill.ca 3011 at /sis /sis/Fei-Shu-iFellow-2016 <p>The Â鶹ԼÅÄ School of Information Studies congratulates PhD in Information Studies student Fei Shu, recently selected for the iFellows Doctoral Fellowship program. Fei's thesis proposal was selected from a pool of applicants from 65 iSchools across the world. As an iFellow, Fei will receive a stipend of $50,000 USD over two years to pursue independent dissertation research that supports the goals of the Coherence at Scale Program.</p> Thu, 11 Feb 2016 18:53:36 +0000 elysia.donald@mcgill.ca 3010 at /sis /sis/channels/news/dr-guastavino-school-information-studies-nserc-engage-grant-virtual-acoustics <p>Congratulations to <a href="/sis">Â鶹ԼÅÄ School of Information Studies</a> faculty member Dr. Catherine Guastavino on receiving an NSERC Engage Grant from the Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada, in partnership with Montreal-based industry partner and market leader Applied Acoustics Systems. Doctoral student David Romblom (Music Technology and Multimodal Interaction Lab) will take a leading role in this project on the development of virtual acoustics models to enhance user experience with software musical instruments.</p> <p>OVERVIEW</p> Wed, 13 Jan 2016 16:15:39 +0000 elysia.donald@mcgill.ca 3001 at /sis /sis/channels/news/dr-karyn-moffatt-school-information-studies-awarded-nserc-engage-grant-game-based-physical-therapy-256682 <p>Congratulations to Â鶹ԼÅÄ School of Information Studies faculty member Dr. Karyn Moffatt on receiving an NSERC Engage Grant from the Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada to further research to support technological innovation in persuasive technology and game-based physical therapy. Dr. Rita Orji, Postdoctoral Researcher in the Accessible Computing Technology Lab, will take a leading role in the project.</p> <p><strong>OVERVIEW</strong></p> Wed, 11 Nov 2015 14:43:52 +0000 elysia.donald@mcgill.ca 2988 at /sis /sis/channels/event/sis-seminar-series-digital-music-archives-libraries-fujinaga-2015 <p>Join us for a Â鶹ԼÅÄ School of Information Studies (SIS) Seminar Series talk on challenges, opportunities, and research related to digitizing music collections with guest speaker Dr.</p> Thu, 29 Oct 2015 16:37:28 +0000 elysia.donald@mcgill.ca 2985 at /sis /sis/channels/event/seminar-series-hung-childrens-privacy-protection-smart-anthropomorphic-toys <p>Join us for a Â鶹ԼÅÄ School of Information Studies (SIS) Seminar Series talk with guest speaker Dr. Patrick C. K. Hung on privacy protection related to data collected from children's smart toys.</p> <p>ABSTRACT</p> Fri, 18 Sep 2015 20:37:24 +0000 elysia.donald@mcgill.ca 2980 at /sis /sis/channels/event/seminar-series-sieber-civic-participation-geospatial-web-open-data <p>Join us for a Â鶹ԼÅÄ School of Information Studies (SIS) Seminar Series talk with speaker Dr. Renée Sieber on civic participation in an era of geospatial web and open data.</p> <p>ABSTRACT</p> Mon, 14 Sep 2015 19:53:43 +0000 elysia.donald@mcgill.ca 2975 at /sis /sis/channels/news/school-information-studies-welcomes-postdoctoral-researcher-dr-rita-orji-accessible-computing-254958 <p>The Â鶹ԼÅÄ School of Information Studies (SIS) is pleased to welcome postdoctoral researcher Dr. Rita Orji, who is undertaking research at the <a href="http://act.mcgill.ca/index.html">Accessible Computing Technology (ACT) Lab</a> with <a href="/sis/people/faculty/moffatt">Dr. Karyn Moffatt</a>.</p> <p>Rita’s research at the ACT Lab will focus on how interactive technologies can be designed to motivate desirable behaviours in older adults.</p> Thu, 03 Sep 2015 18:38:44 +0000 elysia.donald@mcgill.ca 2972 at /sis /sis/channels/event/mist-research-information-session-mist-i-students-254952 <p>Important information session for all current MISt I students interested in pursuing research in the MISt program. All students interested in research in the MISt are strongly advised to attend.</p> Thu, 03 Sep 2015 16:35:59 +0000 elysia.donald@mcgill.ca 2971 at /sis /sis/research/facultypublications/2014 <h2>Books</h2> <p>Bilal, D. & Beheshti, J. (Eds.). (2014). New Directions in Children’s and Adolescents’ Information Behavior Research.  Emerald Publishing Group.  346 pages.</p> <p>Dalkir, K. (2014).  Intelligent learner modeling in real-time.  Saarbrücken, Germany: Lambert  Academic Publishing. 136 pages.</p> Wed, 12 Aug 2015 17:14:40 +0000 elysia.donald@mcgill.ca 2965 at /sis /sis/channels/news/dr-catherine-guastavino-school-information-studies-part-team-receive-11m-funding-innovations-music-253807 <p>Â鶹ԼÅÄ School of Information Studies faculty member Dr. Catherine Guastavino is part of a team of researchers with the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRRMT) who have been awarded $11M in funding through a grant from Canada Foundation for Innovation's 2015 Innovation Fund.<br /> <br /></p> Tue, 07 Jul 2015 14:34:30 +0000 elysia.donald@mcgill.ca 2933 at /sis /sis/channels/event/sis-seminar-series-ict-economics-economic-effects-co2-emissions-reduction-trusted-third-party-240985 <p>Join us for a Â鶹ԼÅÄ School of Information Studies (SIS) Seminar Series public research talk on information and communications technology (ICT) economics and trusted third party digital repositories with guest speaker Dr.</p> Thu, 08 Jan 2015 15:02:36 +0000 elysia.donald@mcgill.ca 2862 at /sis /sis/channels/event/SIS-seminar-series-ESM-soundscape <p>Join us for a Â鶹ԼÅÄ School of Information Studies (SIS) Seminar Series talk on benefits of using experience sampling methodology in soundscape research with speaker Dr. Jochen Steffens.</p> <p>ABSTRACT</p> Tue, 21 Oct 2014 17:18:51 +0000 elysia.donald@mcgill.ca 2835 at /sis