The ASIS&T SIG USE Symposium on "Evolving and Emerging Research Methodologies in Information Behavior, Needs, Seeking, and Use" on Oct. 27, 1:30-6:30pm will include a keynote by Dr. Lisa Given on photography, participant-driven methods, arts-based approaches and other new methods, and brief "lightning talks" by workshop participants on topics including: Projective techniques for exploring subconscious influences - Kendra Albright Visual metaphors to reveal metacognition - Leanne Bowler Text and subtext in digital media - Nadine Desrochers, Diane Neal, Caroline Whippey Paratext and visual cues in writing - Nadine Desrochers, Jen Pecoskie Measuring individual differences in opportunistic information discovery - Sanda Erdelez Photovoice in community-based, participatory research - Shelagh Genius Group informatics - Sean Goggins Neuroscience and brain activity in relevance decisions and information search - Jacek Gwizdka Sense-making in group-interviewing with teens - Kyungwon Koh Machinima in virtual worlds - Eric Meyers Social media and virtual world metrics and analytics tools - Lorri Mon, Ji Sue Lee Social Q&A data mining and text analytics - Sanghee Oh Critical discourse analysis - Michael Olsson Social networking sites in health research - Ann O'Neil, Sarah Sutton, Samia Azzouz, Sara deCaro Experience sampling method in information behavior research - Soo Young Rieh New methods and measures in information evaluation - Linda Schamber Community-based Q&A and collaborative searching - Chirag Shah Card-sorting in diabetes-related information seeking - Beth St. Jean Information behavior research in families and communities - Tiffany Veinot Initial coding using gerunds in personal health records research - Barbara Wildemuth Spoken and gestural input in information retrieval - Xiaojun Yuan Diary methods with experience-sampling and event-sampling in information research - Ji Yeon Yang Register by September 7 for early bird rates: http://www.asis.org/asist2012/SIG_USE_Workshop.html http://www.asis.org/asist2012/register.html See you at ASIS&T 2012! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dr. Lorri Mon, ASIS&T SIG USE Chair, Associate Professor Florida State University, College of Communication and Information FSU SLIS, Florida's iSchool 268 Louis Shores Building, 142 Collegiate Loop Tallahassee, FL 32306 email: [log in to unmask]