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Faculty Research Interests

Our faculty's research interests range from artificial intelligence to virtual communities.

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Steven P. Abney

Associate Professor
Research Interests: natural language comprehension and learning | computational linguistics | parsing | statistical methods | machine learning and language acquisition | information extraction | question answering | spoken dialogue systems
Research Areas: Models of Information in Use |

Mark S. Ackerman

Associate Professor
Research Interests: human-computer interaction | computer-supported cooperative work | sociology of information | organizational memory | digital libraries | multimedia information systems | sociology of programming | collaborative technologies
Research Areas: Information for Re-Use | Technology-Mediated Collaboration | Models of Information in Use | Human-Computer Interaction |
Research Projects: Augmenting Expertise Networks [more] | Collaborative Research: Field Studies of Organizational Memory and Information Reuse [more] | Understanding Open Software Communities, Processes, and Practices: A Socio-Technical Approach [more] | Web 2.0 Community Data Mining and Expertise (QuME) [more] |

Lada A. Adamic

Assistant Professor
Research Interests: information dynamics in networks | how information influences the evolution of networks | navigation of social networks
Research Areas: Models of Information in Use |
Research Projects: Identifying and Harnessing Expertise in Online Forums [more] | Information Diffusion and Evolution in Online Communities [more] |

Charles Antonelli

Assistant Research Scientist
Research Interests: distributed file systems | operating systems | network security |

Daniel E. Atkins

Kellogg Professor of Community Information
Research Interests: computer architecture | collaboratories | digital libraries
Research Areas: Information Use in Communities | Models of Information in Use |
Research Projects: Alliance for Community Technology [more] | Revolutionizing Science and Engineering through Cyberinfrastructure: Report of NSF Blue Ribbon Advisory Panel [more] | Science of Collaboratories [more] |

Francis X. Blouin

Professor, and Director of the Bentley Historical Library
Research Interests: archival issues from an international perspective
Research Areas: Information for Re-Use |

Don Blumenthal

Lecturer
Research Interests: intersection of security and privacy issues | Web 2.0 in the context of electronic discovery issues | issues related to public-private cooperation in law enforcement |

Mark Burde

Adjunct Lecturer
Research Interests: Medieval literary production | linguistic evolution and history of language | European social and cultural history | literature and nationalism | the history of the book, both manuscript and printed | theories of orality and literacy | paradigm shifts in the history of written communication |

Yan Chen

Professor
Research Interests: experimental economics | mechanism design | voting theory | public finance
Research Areas: Information for Re-Use | Incentive-Centered Design |
Research Projects: Collaborative Research: Social Identity, Mechanism Design and Equilibrium Selection [more] | CommunityLab: Motivating Contribution to the Public Good in Online Communities [more] | Design of Computer-Assisted Market Mechanisms [more] | Dynamic Stability of Mechanisms [more] | Economic Design of the Internet [more] | Incentives in Scientific Collaboration [more] | Matching [more] | Sealed Bid Auctions and Package Bidding [more] |

Michael D. Cohen

William D. Hamilton Collegiate Professor of Complex Systems
Research Interests: processes of learning and adaptation within organizations | complex systems | organizational decision making
Research Areas: Information for Re-Use | Models of Information in Use |
Research Projects: Agent-Based Models of Cooperation [more] | Complex Systems [more] | New Approaches to Sustainable Infrastructure for Information Sharing [more] | Patient Handoffs Between Physicians [more] | Science of Collaboratories [more] |

Paul Conway

Associate Professor
Research Interests: challenges of representing and interpreting visual and textual resources in digital form | extracting knowledge from large-scale image databases | modeling incentive systems for digital preservation |
Research Projects: Beyond Image Retrieval: Bridging Digitization Process and End-User Judgments in a Large-Scale Image Digital Library [more] |

Paul N. Courant

University Librarian; Harold T. Shapiro Collegiate Professor of Public Policy; Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Economics
Research Interests: economics of universities | economics of libraries and archives | IT driven changes in the system of scholarly communication |

Edmund H. Durfee

Professor
Research Interests: distributed artificial intelligence | cooperative robotics | real-time problem solving | planning
Research Areas: Models of Information in Use |
Research Projects: Design of Computer-Assisted Market Mechanisms [more] | Economic Design of Information Goods [more] | Multi-Agent Systems [more] | Strategic Positioning in Information Product Space [more] |

Joan C. Durrance

Margaret Mann Collegiate Professor of Information
Research Interests: community information systems and services | community roles of public libraries | evaluation | professional practice | information behavior and the reference interview
Research Areas: Human-Information Interaction | Information Use in Communities |
Research Projects: Approaches for Understanding Community Information Use [more] | Community Connector [more] | How Libraries and Librarians Help [more] |

Paul N. Edwards

Associate Professor
Research Interests: computers, networks, and information infrastructures | computer models of climate and Earth systems | global data networks
Research Areas: Information Use in Communities |
Research Projects: Perspectives and Information for a Balanced Approach to Information and Communications Technology [more] |

Ixchel M. Faniel

Assistant Professor
Research Interests: information technology that facilitates knowledge sharing and reuse across organizational and disciplinary boundaries | creativity and innovation | socially shared and distributed cognition environments | knowledge intensive organizations
Research Areas: Information for Re-Use |

Thomas Finholt

Research Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Innovation
Research Interests: collaboratory systems | computer communication technology | distance learning | design of collaborative computing environments
Research Areas: Technology-Mediated Collaboration | Incentive-Centered Design | Human-Computer Interaction |
Research Projects: Assessment of Application Service Providers Focused on Nonprofits [more] | Center for Information Technology Integration [more] | Connection Project [more] | Globalization of Work [more] | Incentives in Scientific Collaboration [more] | Michigan Grid Research and Infrastructure Development [more] | Network For Earthquake Engineering Simulation: A Distributed Virtual Laboratory [more] | Science of Collaboratories [more] |

Barry Fishman

Associate Professor
Research Interests: teacher learning | learning technologies | human-computer interaction | learner-centered design | school reform | leadership |

Robert L. Frost

Associate Professor
Research Interests: industrial rationalization | domestic consumerism | industrial informatics | gender and IT | digital divide | history of IT
Research Areas: Information Use in Communities |
Research Projects: KatrinaHousing.Net: The Housing Information Gateway [more] |

C. Olivia Frost

Professor
Research Interests: intellectual access to information | information searching behavior in a networked environment | organization and retrieval of networked and digital information | classification to facilitate browsing | visual images in digital libraries
Research Areas: Information for Re-Use | Models of Information in Use |
Research Projects: Cultural Heritage Initiative for Community Outreach [more] |

George Furnas

Professor
Research Interests: information access and visualization | multivariate statistics | statistical semantics | filtering | multitrees | space-scale diagrams
Research Areas: Human-Information Interaction | Information for Re-Use | Technology-Mediated Collaboration | Human-Computer Interaction |
Research Projects: Adaptive Indexing [more] | Collaborative Augmentation of Knowledge Production [more] | Collaborative Filtering Project [more] | Effective View-Navigable Structures [more] | Fisheye Views [more] | Interactive Pixel Rewrite System [more] | Latent Semantic Indexing [more] | Multiscale Collaborative Virtual Environments [more] | Multiscale/Zoomable Interfaces [more] | Multitrees [more] | SEMNET [more] | Statistical Semantics [more] | U-M Digital Library Advanced User-Interface Group: NaviQue Information Gathering Environment [more] |

Joseph Hardin

Clinical Assistant Professor
Research Interests: online collaboration and learning environments | Semantic Web
Research Areas: Human-Information Interaction | Technology-Mediated Collaboration |
Research Projects: Learning Collaboratory [more] | Network For Earthquake Engineering Simulation: A Distributed Virtual Laboratory [more] | Sakai [more] | Science of Collaboratories [more] |

Margaret Hedstrom

Associate Professor
Research Interests: management and preservation of electronic records | digital preservation strategies | impact of electronic communications on organizational memory and documentation | remote access to archival materials | cultural preservation and outreach in developing countries
Research Areas: Information for Re-Use | Models of Information in Use |
Research Projects: Creative Archiving at Michigan and Leeds: Emulating the Old on the New [more] | Incentives for Data Producers to Create Archive-Ready Data Sets [more] | KatrinaHousing.Net: The Housing Information Gateway [more] | Science of Collaboratories [more] |

Peter Honeyman

Research Professor
Research Interests: middleware for file systems, security, and mobile computing |
Research Projects: NFSv4 for Cluster File Systems [more] |

Steven J. Jackson

Assistant Professor
Research Interests: information and communication policy | IT and democratic governance | simulation, expertise, and public policy | socio-historical studies of information infrastructure
Research Areas: Models of Information in Use |
Research Projects: Extending and Integrating a Digital Government Research Agenda [more] |

Brian Kahin

Research Investigator and Adjunct Professor
Research Interests: open standards | patent reform | policy aspects of cyberinfrastructure
Research Areas: Incentive-Centered Design |
Research Projects: Conference on Advancing Knowledge and the Knowledge Economy [more] |

John L. King

Professor and Vice Provost for Academic Information
Research Interests: design and development of socio-technical information infrastructures in complex organizational settings | technical and institutional co-evolution of standards and technical infrastructure in global land-line and cellular telephony | technical and institutional foundations of global electronic commerce
Research Areas: Information for Re-Use | Technology-Mediated Collaboration | Incentive-Centered Design |
Research Projects: Revolutionizing Science and Engineering through Cyberinfrastructure: Report of NSF Blue Ribbon Advisory Panel [more] |

Jessica D. Litman

Professor
Research Interests: digital copyright | trademark | cyberspace law | intellectual property law |

Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason

Arthur W. Burks Collegiate Professor of Information and Computer Science, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Research Interests: incentive-centered design of networked information systems | economics of information technology and content | telecommunications | information application design | Internet network economics | online market design
Research Areas: Incentive-Centered Design |
Research Projects: Computational Markets for Decentralization of Complex Time-Dependent Activities [more] | Design of Computer-Assisted Market Mechanisms [more] | Economic Design of Information Goods [more] | Economic Design of the Internet [more] | Strategic Positioning in Information Product Space [more] |

Karen Markey

Professor
Research Interests: subject searching in online catalogues | subject access to visual resources collections | subject authority control | enhancing bibliographic databases using a library classification
Research Areas: Information for Re-Use | Information Use in Communities |
Research Projects: Evaluating The Effectiveness of Interactive Multimedia for Library-User Education [more] |

Mark J. McCabe

Visiting Assistant Professor
Research Interests: industrial organization | antitrust and regulation | market structure and pricing in scholarly publishing markets | information goods markets | intellectual property | electric power |

Michael J. McQuaid

Assistant Professor
Research Interests: user situation awareness and information visualization | performance-oriented account of the impact of the visualization of relationships between textual sources over time on user situation awareness
Research Areas: Models of Information in Use | Human-Computer Interaction |

Mark W. Newman

Assistant Professor
Research Interests: human-computer interaction | ubiquitous computing | end-user programming
Research Areas: Human-Information Interaction | Human-Computer Interaction |

Bryce C. Pilz

Adjunct Lecturer
Research Interests: intellectual property agreements | University policy concerning technology and intellectual property | intellectual property infringement suits | patent reform legislation and its impact on University research and technology transfer |

Martha E. Pollack

Dean and Professor of Information; Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Research Interests: artificial intelligence | automated planning and reasoning | adaptive interfaces | assistive technology for people with cognitive impairment |

Dragomir R. Radev

Associate Professor
Research Interests: natural language processing | digital libraries | computational linguistics | information retrieval | artificial intelligence
Research Areas: Information for Re-Use | Models of Information in Use |
Research Projects: Complex Systems [more] | Computational Linguistics and Information Retrieval [more] | Data Fusion Across Multiple Text Streams: A Common Theory [more] | iOPENER: A Flexible Framework to Support Rapid Learning in Unfamiliar Research Domains [more] | LexRank: Lexical Ranking [more] | Models for Natural Language Processing [more] | Models of the Web [more] | Multi-Agent Systems [more] | News In Essence: Interactive, Multi-source News Summarization [more] | Question Answering [more] | Science of Collaboratories [more] | Text Summarization [more] |

Paul Resnick

Professor
Research Interests: reputation systems | sociotechnical capital
Research Areas: Incentive-Centered Design | Information Use in Communities | Models of Information in Use | Human-Computer Interaction |
Research Projects: Building SocioTechnical Capital [more] | Community Information Corps [more] | CommunityLab: Motivating Contribution to the Public Good in Online Communities [more] | Design of Reputation Systems [more] | Economic Design of the Internet [more] | Effect of Internet Filters on Access to Health Information [more] | KatrinaHousing.Net: The Housing Information Gateway [more] | RideNow: Dynamic Ride Sharing [more] |

Virginia Rezmierski

Adjunct Associate Professor
Research Interests: public policy issues related to information technolgy | privacy and the security of electronic records |

Soo Young Rieh

Associate Professor
Research Interests: Web search behavior | information quality and cognitive authority | human-computer interaction in information systems | evaluation of interactive information retrieval systems | role of intermediaries in digital library environments
Research Areas: Human-Information Interaction |
Research Projects: A Comparison of Web Searching and Web-Based Library Searching Behaviors [more] | Institutional Repositories: Ensuring Continued Access to Learning Objects [more] | Query Reformulation in Web Searching [more] |

Victor Rosenberg

Associate Professor
Research Interests: information retrieval | information policy | technology in the humanities | entrepreneurship
Research Areas: Models of Information in Use |

Rahul Sami

Assistant Professor
Research Interests: incentives in computation | algorithmic mechanism design | distributed mechanisms | incentives in Internet protocols and applications | information markets
Research Areas: Incentive-Centered Design |
Research Projects: Computational Foundations of Information Markets [more] |

Colleen Seifert

Adjunct Professor
Research Interests: computational modeling | education and training | complex cognition in natural settings |

Charles Severance

Clinical Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Multimedia Web-based tools |

Elliot Soloway

Arthur F. Thurnau Professor
Research Interests: use of technology in education | developing software that takes into consideration the unique needs of learners | technology-embedded curricula for school-based programs |
Research Projects: Center for Highly Interactive Computing in Education [more] |

Stephanie Teasley

Research Associate Professor and Director of the Doctoral Program
Research Interests: social and cognitive processes in collaboration | user needs
Research Areas: Technology-Mediated Collaboration | Human-Computer Interaction |
Research Projects: Communications Core for the Great Lakes Regional Center of Excellence in Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases [more] | Science of Collaboratories [more] |

Douglas E. Van Houweling

Professor; President and CEO, Internet2
Research Interests: information systems planning and management | strategic planning | simulation models of political and public policy processes | economic models of politics | technology assessment
Research Areas: Information Use in Communities |

Colleen van Lent

Lecturer
Research Interests: AI in pedagogy |

Tiffany C.E. Veinot

Assistant Professor
Research Interests: understanding health-related information behavior within communities | service models for marginalized populations | using sociological theories of lay health and scientific knowledge to understand the socio-cultural production of information and information practices |

David A. Wallace

Lecturer III
Research Interests: computerization of government records | strategies for preserving electronic records of collaborative processes | U.S. government information secrecy and classification/declassification policies | connections between archiving and the shaping of the present and the past | role of archives in enabling and denying accountability and justice |

Terry E. Weymouth

Associate Research Scientist
Research Interests: development of collaboration technology for the support of medical diagnosis | technology development | large-scale collaboration testbeds for remote distributed science
Research Areas: Human-Information Interaction | Technology-Mediated Collaboration |
Research Projects: Science of Collaboratories [more] |

Elizabeth Yakel

Associate Professor
Research Interests: recordkeeping practices | representation and categorization of archival records | access to archival information on the World Wide Web | use and user needs
Research Areas: Human-Information Interaction | Information for Re-Use | Information Use in Communities |
Research Projects: Access and Accessibility to Primary Sources [more] | Developing Archival Metrics [more] | Developing Standardized Metrics: Towards Understanding the Impact of College and University Archives and Special Collections on Scholarship, Teaching, and Learning [more] | Genealogists and the Management of Meaning [more] | Hands-on Automated Nursing Data System [more] | Health Information Technology to Support Safe Nursing Care [more] | Next Generation Finding Aids [more] | Patient Handoffs Between Physicians [more] | Polar Bear Expedition Digital Collections [more] | Science of Collaboratories [more] |

Kai Zheng

Assistant Professor
Research Interests: health informatics | information systems in health care |

Ann S. Zimmerman

Research Assistant Professor
Research Interests: design, use, and impact of cyberinfrastructure | sharing and reuse of scientific data | effects of large-scale collaborations on science policy and research management
Research Areas: Technology-Mediated Collaboration |
Research Projects: Preparing the LTER Network for Collaborative Science, Education, and Synthesis [more] |

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Professor Daniel E. Atkins headed a special National Science Foundation Advisory Committee on Cyberinfrastructure that looked into future technological infrastructure needs in the United States. Commonly called the "'Atkins Report," the committee's highly regarded report recommended the NSF spend an additional $1 billion per year developing the nation's cyberinfrastructure to support scientific research.

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