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Student, School, Parent Connectedness, and School Risk Behaviors of Adolescents in Saudi Arabia
This article investigates select school behaviors, including school absenteeism, engaging in fights, and discipline for misconduct at school as well as their association with the school environment, school and home connectedness.
LEAP II Institute: Digital Curation and Lifecycle Management Workshop
This presentation contains a pre- and post-workshop surveys, with an overview of digital libraries, digital lifecycle management, and digital preservation.
Open Science and Open Data for Sustainable Development: A Global View
Presentation for the "Open Science and Open Data for Sustainable Development: A Global View" panel that discusses the global landscape of open science.
Revisiting the Evolving Landscape of Open Access and Scholarly Communication
Presentation at the 2018 Annual Conference of the Association for Library and Information Science Education. This presentation contains questions and topics of discussion for the panelists.
Five-Picture Charades: A Flexible Model for Technology Training in Digital Media Tools and Teaching Strategies
This article presents Five-Picture Charades, an instructional activity designed to introduce preservice and in-service teachers to the technical and pedagogical uses of digital images in the classroom.
The Use of Twitter as a Tool to Predict Opinion Leaders that Influence Public Opinion: Case study of the 2016 United States Presidential Elections
Presentation for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This presentation discusses the use of Twitter as a tool to predict the opinion leaders that influence the general users in relation to the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election.
Sociodemographic characteristics and sexual behavior as risk factors for human papillomavirus infection in Saudi Arabia
This article seeks to determine the prevalence and the sociodemographic characteristics and sexual behavior risk factors for human papillomavirus (HPV) infection in a hospital-based cohort of women in Saudi Arabia.
Facilitating Knowledge Transfer of Data Sharing Practices
Poster paper for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This paper discusses data sharing practices and compliance with open data mandates by using the Nonaka and Takeuchi (1995) knowledge transfer spiral model to understand behaviors and create resources for researchers.
Arts and Humanities Academics Information Needs in Digital Era
This presentation examines arts and humanities academics' scholarly information needs and their means of accessing scholarly e-content in today digital environment.
Security and Privacy Issues with Smart Thermostats – A First Look
Presentation paper for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This paper uses the Brenda Dervin sense making model to explain human behavior and way of reasoning with making purchasing decisions of smart thermostats.
Framework for designing motivational augmented reality applications in vocational education and training
This article introduces and evaluates a framework for designing motivational augmented reality applications.
Insights Into the Factors Influencing Student Motivation in Augmented Reality Learning Experiences in Vocational Education and Training
This article attempts to identify some of the components that positively affect student motivation in mobile augmented reality (AR) learning experiences to contribute to the design and development of motivational AR learning experiences for the Vocational Education and Training (VET) level of education.
Value and Pricing of MOOCs
This article reviews the potential for Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) to transform higher education delivery, accessibility, and costs.
Inclusivity Instead of Exclusivity: The Role of MOOCs for College Credit
This book chapter reviews the extant model, programs, and available outcomes for the massive open online course (MOOC) credit acceptance process.
Game design for visually-impaired individuals: Creativity and innovation theories and sensory substitution devices influence on virtual and physical navigation skills
This article examines the design elements of three virtual reality games for functionality and transferability to orientation and mobility education for visually impaired individuals.
Knowledge Management Practices and Innovation: A Critical Literature Review
Presentation for the 2018 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This presentation aims to establish the state-of-the-art of causal link between knowledge management practices and organizational innovation.
Jealousy in Cooperation – A Comparison of Two Game Based Approaches
This presentation investigates update procedures based on deterministic dynamics for populations arranged in a lattice.
Service learning in action: Integrating reflection to deepen the educational experience
This article focuses on service learning projects (SLPs) sponsored by the University of North Texas College of Information. A constructivist learning environment perspective was applied to the potential for library science international service learning projects to provide a short term learning environment that introduces pedagogy, provides the opportunity to develop and apply new skills, energizes students to develop cultural competence, and develops reflective skills towards the pursuit of wisdom.
Semantic Clause Types and Modality as Features for Argument Analysis
This article investigates the role of semantic clause types and modality in argumentative texts.
Classifying Semantic Clause Types: Modeling Context and Genre Characteristics with Recurrent Neural Networks and Attention
This paper introduces an attention mechanism that pinpoints relevant context not only for the current instance, but also for the larger context.
Spatial Syntax and Knowledge Flows in American Grocery Stores
Presentation for the 2018 International Conference on Knowledge Managment. This presentation anonymously applies seven spatial syntax methods to seven grocery stores for the purpose of identifying and characterizing work space genotypes.
The Case for Research Collaboration and Alignment: Social Informatics and Knowledge Sciences
This presentation considers how knowledge science theories and methods might apply to the original and current Social Informatics challenges.
How Does Your Knowledge Flow? Exercises in Spatial Syntax
This paper describes a workshop that introduces participants to the practice of spatial syntax and provides a hands-on opportunity for participants to map assess the knowledge flows of their working environments.
Critical Evaluation of and Proposed Corrections for Knowledge Management Maturity Models
Presentation for the 2018 International Conference on Knowledge Managment. This presentation reports on a comprehensive root cause analysis exercise of deficiencies in knowledge management maturity models.
Fostering Scholarly Creativity: Modeling Functional Browsing through the Lens of Complexity
This paper models scholarly browsing.
Modeling Scholarly Creativity: Browsing and Complexity
Poster for the 2018 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This poster models scholarly browsing.
Reproducible Research in Linguistics: A Position Statement on Data Citation and Attribution in Our Field
This article is a position statement on reproducible research in linguistics, including data citation and attribution, that represents the collective views of some 41 colleagues.
Conceptual Relationships between Quality Management and Intellectual Capital Reporting - A Case Study
Presentation for the 2018 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This presentation discusses conceptual relationships between quality management and intellectual cap ital reporting
Bot-teachers in hybrid massive open online courses (MOOCs): A post-humanist experience
This article explores networked learning technologies and the development of Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs). The study examines and explains hybrid MOOCs and focuses on the use of bot-teachers within a post-humanist perspective. The research findings reveal that, while the use of bot-teachers is beneficial in terms of facilitating and increasing discourse/interaction, it is ineffective in providing other components of teaching presence. Yet ultimately, learners' positive behaviors indicate that bot-teachers hold promise as an educational tool.
Collaboration and Crowdsourcing: The Cases of Multilingual Digital Libraries
Article discussing research on collaboration and crowdsourcing. The purpose of the study is to understand existing multilingual digital libraries and to suggest strategies for building and sustaining multilingual digital libraries.
Information-Seeking Behavior of Speakers of Endangered Languages: An Anthropological Approach
Poster exploring the approach to understand information behavior of communities speaking endangered languages.
Exploration of Information Organization in Language Archives
Presentation based on the preliminary results of research into information organization in language archives. This looks at the background of language data and archives, their research questions, archives that were analyzed, their findings, and next steps.
Exploration of Information Organization in Language Archives
This article reports preliminary results of the first stage of a research project that seeks to identify the information organization methods and techniques currently offered in the language data archives and the gaps between the tools and techniques available and the needs of actual and potential users of language data archives.
Preparing Linguists’ Field Recordings and Datasets for Ingest into a Digital Library System: Lessons from Creating the Lamkang Language Resource at the University of North Texas Digital Library
Presentation on the long term preservation of and universal access to language data which may tap into typologically rare phenomena and which represents the intangible and irreplaceable heritage of indigenous communities. This language data can be in the form of audio, video, picture, and various digital formats. In order to prepare the source files of a documentation project for ingest to a digital library, linguists and digital librarians must develop a common procedure that takes into consideration (1) provenance and varying formats of materials and (2) necessary metadata specific to linguistic datasets.
Interview Guide for Archive Managers: Exploring Methods and Techniques for Facilitating Access to Digital Language Archives
This is an interview guide used as part of the 'Exploring Methods and Techniques for Facilitating Access to Digital Language Archives' project (January 2019-August 2020).
Interview Guide for End Users: Researchers, Depositors, Language Communities: Exploring Methods and Techniques for Facilitating Access to Digital Language Archives
This is an interview guide used as part of the 'Exploring Methods and Techniques for Facilitating Access to Digital Language Archives' project (January 2019-August 2020).
Observation Guide: Exploring Methods and Techniques for Facilitating Access to Digital Language Archives
This is an observation guide used as part of the 'Exploring Methods and Techniques for Facilitating Access to Digital Language Archives' project (January 2019-August 2020).
Archive and database architecture and usability
Presentation for the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages. This presentation discusses the use of a database for language archiving through the example of Himalayan Tibeto-Burman languages.
Unveiling the Co-Word Structures Among Mobile Computing, Mobile Commerce and Mobile Application Research: A Science Mapping Analysis
Article on the interplay over time among mobile computing, commerce and applications. The study performed is a co-word analysis for a corpus of 4821 SCI/SSCI indexed papers related to mobility in the Web of Science (WoS) database from 1995 to 2013. The emerging concepts demonstrated in the strategic diagrams and the associated co-word structures have implications for future research.
Computational Resource for South Asian Languages
Presentation for the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages. This presentation provides an overview of the Computational Resource for South Asian Languages project.
Definition and Goals of Descriptive Linguistic Fieldwork
Book chapter defining descriptive linguistic fieldwork, explores tasks that fall under this definition, outlines goals of descriptive linguistic fieldwork, and identifies aspirations and limitations of linguistic fieldworkers.
Metadata Records Translation And Evaluation for Multilingual Information Access
This presentation was given as an invited talk to faculty and students at Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México (UAEM) in Toluca, Mexico. The presentation discusses research on multilingual information access and the Metadata Records Translation (MRT) Project.
Multilingual Information Access for Digital Libraries - The Metadata Records Translation Project
This presentation was given as an invited talk to faculty and students at Wuhan University, Beijing Normal University, Nankai University, and the Library of Chinese Academy of Sciences. The presentation discusses research on multilingual information access for digital libraries and the Metadata Records Translation (MRT) Project.
Instructional Design Strategies for Teaching Technological Courses Online
This paper describes different instructional design strategies for teaching computer technological courses online.
Metadata Records Translation: The Case of The Portal to Texas History
Article on metadata records translation and a study of The Portal to Texas History.
A preliminary evaluation of metadata records machine translation
Article discussing a preliminary evaluation study of metadata records machine translation. This study evaluates freely available machine translation (MT) services' performance in translating metadata records.
Scientific Knowledge Management Practices in the Big Data Era - A Case Study of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Presentation for the 2018 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This presentation describes the development of the SciThink App, a mobile knowledge management tool to help scientists and researchers query, download, and read scientific and technological literature.
Domain Knowledge Organization and Utilization—A Case in the Field of Nanoscience and Technology
Presentation for the 2018 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This presentation shows a model used in domain knowledge organization and utilization.
Novel Lexicon Hierarchy Semantic Embedding for Domain Specific Text Mining
Presentation for the 2018 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This presentation proposes a lexicon hierarchy semantic embedding model for domain text mining.
The Development and Assessment of an Instrument for Measuring Mental Model Styles in Korea
This article discusses a research study on the development and assessment of an instrument for measuring mental model styles in Korea.
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