Everything Changes, Everything Stays the Same? Understanding Information Spaces. Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium of Information Science (ISI 2017)

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Everything Changes, Everything Stays the Same? Understanding Information Spaces
Berlin, Germany, 13th – 15th March 2017

Herausgeberinnen:
Maria Gäde; Violeta Trkulja; Vivien Petras

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Editors’ Note
(Philosophische Fakultät) Gäde, Maria; Trkulja, Violeta; Petras, Vivien
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Information Spaces
(Philosophische Fakultät) Hemmert, Fabian
As humans, we are used to being, living and thinking in the three-dimensional, physical space that is called the “world”. It is our natural habitat. Recently, we have become active in another world: the “digital world”, as it is often called. Unfortunately, most of our interactions with the digital world are isolated from the world that is our natural habitat. These interactions happen on screens of various sizes, either hand-held or fixed in front of our eyes (in bulky helmets or “smart” glasses). Sadly, technology is getting more and more between us. In his keynote, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Fabian Hemmert will show us some alternatives: his prototypes explore ways of making digital information tangible, placing it in our hands and in our world. He will show us shape-changing devices and interactive rooms that interweave information and physical space. His talk will be a guided tour through a possible future of human-computer interaction, in which digital information can be retrieved intuitively, in computationally-enriched interactions with the natural world.
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Translating Texture
(Philosophische Fakultät) Feinberg, Melanie
In information studies, we tend to think that data retains the same meaning as it moves from one information space to another. When a system changes its interface, or when data moves from one system to another, the data itself doesn’t change. A library catalog record doesn’t change when the catalogue interface changes, for example. Or does it? In this keynote, I discuss how information spaces contribute to information meaning. I describe a project to translate some purposefully weird, experimental information collections from one kind of database implementation (a relational-style database) to another kind of database implementation (a graph-style database). I focus this translation project on the conceptual lens of texture: the relationship between elements in a composition. Describing the texture of a musical piece, for example, is a way of talking about how melody, harmony, and rhythm combine to produce a particular quality of sound. Here, I use texture to talk about how data and space combine to produce a particular quality of meaning. I ask: how can texture be maintained when data is moved from one information space to another?
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Significance and Relevance of Information Science in German-language Countries
(Philosophische Fakultät) Rauch, Wolf; Kuhlen, Rainer; Stock, Wolfgang G.; Wolff, Christian; Wormser-Hacker, Christa; Schlögl, Christian
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Information and Learning
(Philosophische Fakultät) Michel, Antje
What role does the form of information play in the way we learn? How relevant are the specific information-related behavioural patterns of different social groups or “knowledge cultures” to the didactic design of teaching and learning processes? The idea of this panel is to provide an opportunity to explore and discuss different ideas on the relevance of “Information” as the core category of information science and of research perspectives of information science to the context of teaching and learning processes. The goal is to encourage discourse and networking between scholars working at the hitherto neglected interface between information science and the learning sciences.
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Examining Research Integrity
(Philosophische Fakultät) Seadle, Michael
Research integrity issues fill the academic news, and include plagiarism, data falsification and image manipulation. Integrity violations are complex because of the gray zones between where bad practice ends and genuine malpractice begin. No real consensus exists about the boundaries, even though many people have strong opinions. The goal of this panel is to engage in a scholarly discussion about integrity issues using specific examples drawn from the book “Quantifying Research Integrity” (Seadle, 2017).
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Data Strategy Model
(Philosophische Fakultät) Muster, Fabian
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Relationship between Downloads and Citations
(Philosophische Fakultät) List, Roland
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Google Now and User Data
(Philosophische Fakultät) Linhardt, Alexandra S.
In this diary study 24 participants were asked to use Google Now for 28 days, in order to learn about occurrences of negative affect caused by the use of personal data and possible factors influencing such an affect, especially situational factors and personal dispositions. The use of personal data by Google Now cards barely evoked negative affect at all. Personality, trust and situational factors proved to influence affective reactions of the participants.
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Exploring Intergenerational Knowledge Sharing in Organizations
(Philosophische Fakultät) Brinken, Helene; Kock, Helena
This thesis deals with an interdisciplinary approach of intergenerational knowledge sharing (IKS) from an information scientific perspective. As part of the KNOWISH project the research is embedded in an international cooperation of University of Hildesheim and the Åbo Academy in Turku, Finland. It aims at answering the questions: How does IKS unfold? Which systems are used in its context and how suitable are they? Two case studies have been conducted in two medium-sized German companies. At the same time, an additional study has been conducted by two Finnish students. Semi-structured interviews and a qualitative content analysis of the data considered generational aspects, knowledge sharing as well as ICT. This study finds that experience and work environment atmosphere are important influencing factors. Both, young and old employees can be knowledge carriers who share knowledge mutually. Another important outcome shows that Organizational Generations of Knowledge exist within the companies. These are defined by chronological and professional age.
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The X(Disciplinarity) of Information Science
(Philosophische Fakultät) Balck, Sandra
The Master Thesis deals with the x-disciplinarity of information science, as it is considered as a multi-, inter- or transdisciplinary discipline in the discourse of this subject. But what in particular do these concepts mean and how are they specifically differentiated from each other? The thesis introduces the concept of disciplinarity with a historical approach and presents the development of different cooperation concepts (multi-, trans-, interdisciplinarity) as well as of the concept of transscience (Transwissenschaft). The disciplinarity of information science is analyzed on a communicational, social and cognitive level. Beside the definition of the term “information”, the paradigmatic development of information science is drafted, followed by an evaluation of relevant publications and an application of the different concepts of disciplinarity to information science. It is concluded, on the basis of a critical analysis, that real collaboration within the discipline is needed instead of blurry labels.
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Interactive Pedestrian Indoor Localization
(Philosophische Fakultät) Jackermeier, Robert
This thesis focuses on the improvement of pedestrian indoor localization systems through user interactions. First, a hybrid localization system for mobile devices which relies on multiple sensors is developed. It forms the basis for the design and implementation of interactions between the user and the system that aim to increase the localization accuracy. Finally, a simulation is conducted to evaluate the system’s performance. It shows that localization accuracy can in fact be improved in case the user cooperates.
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Development and Evaluation of a MOOC Extension for Teaching Subject-Specific Skills in Information Literacy for Business Administration
(Philosophische Fakultät) Dreisiebner, Stefan
Information Literacy (IL) is “the set of integrated abilities encompassing the reflective discovery of information, the understanding of how information is produced and valued, and the use of information in creating new knowledge and participating ethically in communities of learning” (American Library Association, 2016). IL as a social key competence is particularly essential in post-secondary education and research. According to many studies (e.g. Katz, 2007; Rubinić et al., 2013), student’s information literacy levels are generally low. IL also includes subject-specific skills; e.g. relevant resources are different among disciplines (Johnston & Webber, 2003; Bundy, 2004). Analyses show the need for an attractive tutorial which can be developed on a broad basis of available material. Accordingly, an extension to a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) for developing information literacy focusing on higher education students shall be developed and evaluated, that focuses on information skills needed in Business Administration. MOOCs are online courses with no entry barriers open for unlimited participation (van Treek et al., 2013).
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Mobile Privacy and Apps: Investigating User Behavior and Attitude
(Philosophische Fakultät) Havelka, Stefanie
My dissertation investigates privacy as it relates to user behavior and attitude on mobile devices. I will examine how users’ understanding of mobile privacy differs from culture to culture. More specifically, I will use ethnographic methodologies to compare US and German library/information science students.
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Visualization for Text Mining in the Digital Humanities
(Philosophische Fakultät) Hocker, Julian
In this PhD thesis, a visual interface for text analysis and text mining in the digital humanities (DH) will be developed. Text analysis is a crucial task in the DH, but advanced text mining technologies like topic modeling or clustering are difficult to use for most researchers. My work bridges this gap using visualizations. To ensure an adequate usability of visualizations for epistemological practices, the visualizations will be realized with researchers in an agile and participatory approach.
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Development of Knowledge Management Performance Metrics for Enterprise Social Software
(Philosophische Fakultät) Odoni, Fabian
This is a summary of a planned dissertation research. Goal is to develop knowledge management metrics that can be used to measure the performance of enterprise social software. To achieve this goal an ontology will be developed showing all entities and properties of enterprise social software. Indicators will then be extracted and new ones generated using natural language processing, graph theory and psychometrics to enrich the data. In the end a visualisation of the indicators (knowledge map) will be developed to present and verify the indicators.
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Information Visualization of Environment Maps for Complex, Relational Data for Better Reflected Decision Making on the Example of Food
(Philosophische Fakultät) Stephan, Veit
My dissertation aims at developing an application that presents all the information a user needs to find orientation in his environment. All surrounding places and their characteristics shall be perceived and compared in a fast way. The goal is to implement an overview map application to reduce information complexity of one’s spatial location by using appropriate interaction and visualization methods.
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Relevance Clues
(Philosophische Fakultät) Behnert, Christiane
When users of information systems judge the relevance of search results, diverse criteria beyond topical relevance come into play. In this paper, we introduce the doctoral project Relevance Clues, which, through an experimental design, seeks to gain significant knowledge on the criteria by which users make relevance judgments.
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E-Publishing in Small Nations of the European Union
(Philosophische Fakultät) Klamet, Anna
The publishing industry is in a fundamental transition phase initiated by digitization. This transition involves production processes, communication options, and of course the ‘products’ themselves. While challenging the traditional assumptions, processes and structures of the book industry, e-books also offer a wealth of new opportunities to producers and readers: lower production and distribution costs, shorter time to market, earlier break-even points, easier vertical marketing strategies that target specific groups, new content features, and social reading as a product feature as well as a means for marketing and content discovery. E-book distribution in most markets of the EU is dominated in particular by an oligopoly of international hardware and software companies as well as digital content distributors with their fenced-off e-book ecosystems. These ecosystems do not only hamper the differentiated bricks-and-mortar bookselling infrastructure and the cultural diversity in Europe, they also restrict the scope of action and the innovative potential especially of small-nation publishers – ‘small’ in this context relates among other things to the nation’s linguistic and economic status. Thus forcing publishers to think anew about innovative business strategies. For this reason, this research project focuses on a theoretical investigation of potential business models for e-publishing, and their relationship to publishing operations, as well as on an empirical analysis of current policy frameworks and e-publishing practices within a number of small nations in the EU.
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How Can Social Software Enhance Training Measures within Software Implementations in the Financial Sector?
(Philosophische Fakultät) Moravánszky, Anthea
This paper summarizes a doctoral thesis project which argues to adopt End-User Training (EUT) as an acceptance enhancing factor of a software deployment. The main research object of this project is to explore how social software can be used in combination with, or as a substitute to traditional and well-established training methods for EUT within a software implementation. The target group will be within the financial sector. The aim is thus to build a bridge between research on the acceptance of (organizational) software implementation, End-User Training and learning research from the perspective of information science. Even if the target group of this project is limited to the financial sector it should be possible to apply the presented design dimensions to other sectors.

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