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When
10 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., Feb. 28, 2025
Join College of Information Science faculty for the annual Research Blitz, a fast-paced series of presentations on the latest information-related research, apps, publications and more.
Registration is not required, and all faculty, staff, students and members of the public are welcome to join us!
Learn more about College of Information Science faculty and their research.
Faculty Presentations
| Start Time | Speaker | Title / Topic of Talk |
|---|---|---|
| 10:00 | Jamie A. Lee | Welcome |
| 10:05 | Ren Boz | Effects of 2D vs 3D Representation of Auxiliary Environmental Visuals in VR on User Experience |
| 10:15 | Lila Boz | Bidirectional Interaction with a Virtual Human through a Shared Physical Object |
| 10:25 | ||
| 10:35 | ||
| 10:45 | Liangming Pan | How Do Large Language Models Learn to Reason? |
| 10:55 | Nitika Sharma | Emergent Optimization in a Decentralized System: Heuristic Food Distribution in Social Wasp Colonies |
| 11:05 | Diana Daly | Developing Audio Sketches to Combat Misinformation and Believe Polarization |
| 11:15 | Xiao Hu | Designing AI Tools for Cultural Heritage Education |
| 11:25 | Ann Shivers-McNair | The Use and Misuse of Stories in Design |
| 11:35 | Zack Lischer-Katz | Curating and Preserving Visual Information |
| 11:45 | Jamie A. Lee | Ambivalences of the Unfixed |
| 11:55 | Brenton Stewart | Fear on Sight: Relationships between Online Library Anxiety + Technology Anxiety + Information Literacy |
| 12:05 | ||
| 12:15 | Winslow Burleson | Transformative Deign for Societal Grand Challenges |
| 12:25 | Jamie A. Lee | Closing Remarks |