iSchool researchers will present their work at the Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) Midwest Chapter Spring Symposium on April 26. The inaugural symposium will include talks by seventeen researchers from ten institutions across the Midwest region.
iSchool presenters include:
- Postdoctoral Research Associate Rexwhite Enakrire will present "Determinants associated with Digital Technologies in Teaching and Learning and Research in Universities" at 11:00 a.m. Central Time.
- Professor Christopher Lueg will present "ChatGPT: Blind Watchmaker or Chinese Room on Steroids?" at 1:00 p.m.
- PhD candidate Courtney Richardson will present "Digitizing the Horizons-Upward Bound Collection," at 2:00 p.m.
Enakrire's research focuses on the usability of information systems/digital technologies (user experience) among academics and librarians to solve specific and general problems in the university environment. He holds a PhD in library and information science from the University of Zululand, South Africa.
Lueg's research interests include human-computer interaction, usability, interaction design, human-centered design, human information behavior, embodiment, embodied cognition, nonhuman cognition, and de-centering human-centered design. He holds a PhD in informatics from the University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Richardson works at the intersection of arts, archives, and African American histories under the subarea, Art as Information. She holds a master of fine arts in graphic design from Wayne State University.