Information Science and Technologies (IS&T)

The section of Information Science and Technologies is a platform for researchers and post-graduate students with an interest in the intersection of information, systems, and the ways in which people use them. We focus on information representation, information organization, human-information interaction, and the impact of information and information technologies at different levels and contexts of interaction.

Information is negotiated, contested, avoided, and forgotten as well as encountered, sought, shared, created, structured, and used. In addition to investigating information interaction in such settings, we also investigate ways of improving how individuals and groups discover, access, and experience information.

While the quantity of digital information is gigantic, the quality of the systems available for searching, discovering, experiencing, and making sense of this information often prevents the optimal use of it. Better interaction designs require technological innovation as well as design-process innovation. The research of the Information Science and Technologies section takes an empirical and conceptual approach to core challenges in information science. Across research topics, we seek to advance information science, improve information practices, and inform the design of information technologies.