About me
I joined the SLAIS faculty in 2007 from the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto where I did my Ph.D work. I hold an MLS degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, an MA in Russian history from Carleton University, and a BA from the University of Toronto.
My areas of research interest are human information interaction in digital environments; pragmatic and task-based approaches to information searching; workplace search; organizational genres; the relationship between tasks and genres in information practices; evaluation of interactive information retrieval; and future directions for LIS education and scholarship.
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My dissertation, Exploiting task-document relations in support of information retrieval in the workplace, reports on a study funded by the Centre for Advanced Studies at IBM to make use of task-genre relationships to improve workplace search systems. The dissertation is available here as a single pdf file (2 MB). If you prefer to read a shorter version, here a Wordle of the whole thing: |
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To see what I have been up to lately, have a look at my Research Page.
News & Updates
Meetings 2011-2012
HCIR 2011 - October 20th, 2011, at Google, Mountain View, CA
iConference 2012 - Toronto, February 7-10, 2012
NCE GRAND - Annual Meeting, Montreal, May 2-4, 2012
ALA Annual Conference, Anaheim, CA: June 21–26, 2012
SIGIR 2012, Portland, OR, August 12-16, 2012
IIIX 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium, Nijmegen Netherlands, August 21-24, 2012