This year’s 2020 ASIS&T Annual Meeting was held from October 22 to November 1. The meeting was a little different this year as everything was done virtually, but that didn’t stop the Simmons SLIS community from engaging actively. Faulty and students participated in various presentations, panels, and other conference events.
Some highlights from the meeting:
Ph.D. student Wenqing Lu and Professor Naresh Agarwal won the Best Information Behavior Conference Paper Award for their paper titled “Response to Non-Response: How People React When Their Smartphone Messages and Calls are Ignored.”
The award ceremony at the @asist_org @siguse symposium
– @l_wenqing @SimmonsSLIS @SimmonsUniv @SimmonsASIST #informationbehavior #nonresponse #behavior #ignoring #asist20 #simmonsslis pic.twitter.com/9wMEcD3pPx— Naresh Agarwal (@nareshag) October 25, 2020
Several SLIS professors, including Professors Colin Rhinesmith and Catherine Dumas taught workshops during the conference.
Earlier today, Associate Professor Colin Rhinesmith @crhinesmith
cotaught Part 1 of "Sociotechnical Change Agents: ICTs, Sustainability, and Global Challenges (SIG-SI, SIG-SM, SIG-IEP)" at #ASIST20.— SimmonsSLIS (@SimmonsSLIS) October 31, 2020
Tomorrow's #ASIST20 workshop "Best Practices for Grant Proposal Development: NSF, NIH, IMLS, IARPA, Amazon, and Google, etc." can answer those questions! It was developed by Assistant Professor Catherine Dumas and her colleagues. @cathy2cool
— SimmonsSLIS (@SimmonsSLIS) October 29, 2020
Attending the "Best Practices for Grant Proposal Development" @asist_org workshop. Marvelous panels. #ASIST2020 @SimmonsSLIS @SimmonsASIST pic.twitter.com/PtoM38ZOK4
— Rong Tang (@tangr) October 30, 2020
Students and faculty gave poster presentations.
Ph.D. Students Zhan Hu and Wenqing Lu presented their poster “Prekindergarten and Kindergarten Virtual School Programs Under COVID-19: A Two-Case Comparative Study.”
Professor Rong Tang, Ph.D. Student Yishan Zhang, and SLIS Director Sanda Erdelez presented a poster on COVID-19 tracking systems developed in different countries.
Professors Naresh Agarwal and Ann Graf, and SLS Director Sanda Erdelez participated as panelists in various sessions.
Great experience pre-recording “Amplifying Chance for Positive Action and Serendipity by Design” panel for #ASIST20. @ser_soc pic.twitter.com/k7yV3uP8pu
— Sanda Erdelez (@iesanda) September 22, 2020
Professor Lisa Hussey Gave a presentation for the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Accelerator Series
Earlier today, Associate Professor Lisa Hussey gave a presentation at #ASIST20 "But You Should See Color: Teaching and Research in Information Science." Professor Hussey spoke about her experience trying to change the hearts & minds of colorblind students.
— SimmonsSLIS (@SimmonsSLIS) October 26, 2020
Professors Adam Kriesberg and Rong Tang engaged in paper sessions as presenters and moderators.
There I am presenting my paper in the session "Responsible Production and Consumption of Information" #asist20 @SimmonsSLIS happy to share this work despite it being a bit strange to watch this recording back pic.twitter.com/8uMV007u4F
— (((Adam Kriesberg))) (@adamkriesberg) October 27, 2020
On Monday (10/26/2020), I moderated a "data management" paper session. Very interesting papers. Wanted to post a photo of the session here. #ASIST20 @asist_org @The_RDMLA @SimmonsSLIS @SimmonsASIST pic.twitter.com/AXRJJGoToe
— Rong Tang (@tangr) October 28, 2020
Just finished moderating an ASIS&T paper session on COVID-19 #ASIST20 @SimmonsSLIS @SimmonsASIST pic.twitter.com/HMzmsNL0ur
— Rong Tang (@tangr) October 25, 2020
That’s a wrap for the 2020 ASIS&T Annual meeting! Congratulations to all participants for these wonderful achievements.