Professor Michael Twidale will speak this Thursday at a conference hosted by the Collaborative for Cultural Heritage Management and Policy (CHAMP) at Illinois. The conference, “Entrepreneurial Heritage and the Information Economy,” will draw local and international scholars to discuss the trend of managing world heritage sites as economically productive resources and the role of cultural heritage in the global knowledge economy.
Twidale will deliver a talk titled, “Cultural Heritage and The Innovator’s Dilemma,” at 3:00 p.m. The conference is free and open to the public. All talks will be held at the Illini Union, room 314.
Twidale joined the GSLIS faculty in 1997. At Illinois he concurrently holds appointments with the Department of Computer Science, the Information Trust Institute, and the Academy of Entrepreneurial Leadership. His research interests include computer-supported cooperative work, computer-supported collaborative learning, human-computer interaction, information visualization, and museum informatics. Current projects include studies of informal social learning of technology, technological appropriation, metrics for open access, collaborative information retrieval, low-cost information visualization, ubiquitous learning, and the usability of open source software. His approach involves the use of interdisciplinary techniques to develop high-speed, low-cost methods to better understand the difficulties people have with existing computer applications and so to design more effective systems.