Designing Diverse Information Ecologies
Back to Roles of the New Information Professional NEXT presentation PREVIOUS presentation ALISE home	Bonnie Nardi Research Scientist, Apple Computer Bonnie Nardi described her ethnographic research on reference librarians as "intelligent human agents." The study was motivated by her research group's charter to design intelligent software agents. She got some good ideas for software agents from the study, but more importantly, it led her in the unexpected direction of seeing the existence of information ecologies--functioning systems of people, technologies (high and low), ideas and human activities. She now believes we should design diverse information ecologies rather than technologies in isolation, which is the common practice. She discussed the problems of the invisibility of much of the work reference librarians do and how that might be changed so that librarians will play a high-profile role in shaping the information ecologies of the next century. Nardi was a keynote speaker at the ALISE '97 conference. If you have Shockwave you'll see a player below. If not, click on the Shockwave icon and download the appropriate plug-in for your machine. Click "play" to hear the presentation ....................................................................... Bonnie Nardi, Research Scientist Apple Computer E-mail: nardi@taurus.apple.com Home page: http://www.research.apple.com/people/Bonnie_Nardi Top of page || Next presentation || Previous presentation
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