New Trends in Informatics Research - NTIR
April 17, 2009 The University at Albany | State University of New York
Program Schedule
8:30-9:00 Registration - Milne 200
9:00-9:15 Welcome Address -Milne 200
- Peter Bloniarz
- Susan Phillips
9:15-9:55 Opening Presentation - Milne 200 (moderator: Catherine Stollar Peters)
- Karl Rethemeyer & Hyun Hee Park
10:00-11:00 Parallel session presentations
- Jeong-Hyon Hwang - Milne 200 (moderator: Catherine Stollar Peters)
- (10:00) Jon Muckell - Milne 215 (moderator: Lenore Horowitz)
- (10:30) Don Robadue - Milne 215 (moderator: Lenore Horowitz)
11:00-11:15Break - Milne Corridor
11:15-11:45 Parallel session presentations
- Catherine Stollar Peters - Levitt Room (moderator: Xiaowen Song)
- Xiaoai Ren - Milne 215 (moderator: Lenore Horowitz)
- Steve Lackey - Milne 200 (moderator: Jon Muckell)
11:50-12:20 Parallel session presentations
- Alex Chaucer - Levitt Room (moderator: Xiaowen Song)
- Tino DeMarco - Milne 215 (moderator: Mohammed Ghawari)
- Andy Whitmore - Milne 200 (moderator: Taewoo Nam)
12:30-1:45 Poster session with Lunch - Milne Corridor
- Lucy Dadayan, Promises and Pitfalls of Health Care Technology
- Ira Goldstein, Specializing: A Method For Combining Classifiers For Multi-Class Classification
- Lenore Horowitz, MIT OpenCourseWare: an OER Success Model
- Chris Leeder, Surveying the Commons: Current Implementation of Information Commons Websites
- Xiao Liang, 10 years of JAHC --An analysis of interdisiplinary journal
- Devendra Potnis and Dawit Demissie, Barriers to Socio-economic Opportunities in Africa
- Devendra Potnis, Mobile Technologies and Disadvantaged Women: A Mixed Methods Study of Information Behavior in a Developing Nation Context
- Tao Xu, To search is to believe? A Comparative Study of Health Information Seekers
- Yu-Hui Chen, Carol Anne Germain, and Abebe Rorissa, Usability/Web Usability Definitions: A Further Exploration
- Mohammed Ghawari, Factors Influencing the Institutionalization of the IT Governance Structure: An International Study of the Public Organizations in Saudi Arabia
- Kuang-Yuan Huang, Semantic Concept Recognition and Semantic Relation Extraction with Co-bootstrapping on labeled and unlabeled data
- Abebe Rorissa, Mohammed Gharawi, & Dawit Demissie, An exploratory study of e-government websites and services in Asia
2:00-2:30 Parallel session presentations
- Alexis Wichowski - Levitt Room (moderator: Lenore Horowitz)
- Matt Jager - Milne 215 (moderator: Xiao Liang)
2:35-3:05 Parallel session presentations
- Namjoo Choi - Levitt Room (moderator: Kuang-Yuan Huang)
- Taewoo Nam - Milne 215 (moderator: Tao Xu)
- Xiaowen Song - Milne 200 (moderator: Alex Chaucer)
3:10-3:30 Refreshments
3:30-4:10 Closing Presentation-Milne 200 (moderator: Jon Muckell)
- Siwei Lyu
4:15-4:30 Closing Remarks -Milne 200
- David & Deborah Andersen