iSchool Identity: A UI Opportunity Unfolding

Mick McQuaid
Assistant Professor
School of Information

6:30pm - 8:30pm
Wednesday, October 12th, 2005
411 West Hall (Ehrlicher Room) directions...

Have you suddenly had an idea for a UI based on work you were doing? What did you do next? Where did you go with it?

In this talk Prof. McQuaid will describe the work he has been doing with George Furnas and Jing Guo on iSchool Identity and how, while presenting it at the recent iSchool iConference, it became suddenly clear that they had an opportunity to create a useful UI for a new purpose that may help the iSchool community. He will explain his immediate plan for developing an interface to a visualization of the relationships between iSchools.

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About the Speaker

Mick McQuaid is an Assistant Professor at the School of Information, University of Michigan. Before coming to SI, McQuaid held a post-doctoral fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University.

He has also served as a systems analyst for the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection; an instructor with the University of Wisconsin's Department of Operations and Information Management; and a research associate and then research scientist with the University of Arizona Department of MIS and Center for Management of Information.

Prof. McQuaid's honors and awards include the vice-presidency of the Information Systems Doctoral Students Association, a Ford Foundation travel grant, and a KPMG Scholarship to support his doctoral work. His work has been published in Decision Support Systems and the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies.