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:

See you at ASIS&T 2012!