Aiko Takazawa
Postdoctoral Research Associate
PhD, Library and Information Science, Illinois; MS, Information, University of Michigan
Room 345, 501 E. Daniel St.
Research focus
Honors and Awards
Named in the List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Spring 2020
Doctoral Student Exchange Visits Scholarship for University of California Irvine, September 2012
Courses currently teaching
Publications & Papers
Takazawa, A. & Twidale, M. B. (2021). “Reflecting on Vagueness.” Position paper presented at the Workshop “Coping with Messiness in Ethnography” CHI 2021 Online Virtual Conference, May 7-8.
Takazawa, A. (2020). Shared uncertainty: Searching for information to help at a distance in disaster response in a case of "Tutteli to Japan." Short paper accepted and poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE), online, October 14-22.
Takazawa, A., & Twidale, M. B. (2013). When you wish upon a blog: how collaborative information seeking can interleave with CSCW. Paper presented at the CSCW 2013: the 16th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, San Antonio, TX. February 23-27.
Takazawa, Aiko. (2013). “Action at a Distance: how ICT are enabling citizens to self-organize aid projects remotely and collaboratively.” Dissertation work-in progress paper presented at the Doctoral Colloquium & poster presented at the International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM), Baden-Baden, Germany. May 12-15.
Takazawa, A., & Williams, K. (2011). “Communities in Disasters: Helpless or Helping?” Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, 10, 429-440.
Takazawa, A., Williams, K., & Pederson, A. (2010). “A Community Informatics Approach to Libraries and Digital Divide.” Paper presented at BOBCATSSS symposium, University of Parma, Parma, Italy. January 25-27.