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Preliminary Conference Agenda

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Session Overview

Date: Wednesday, 22/Mar/2017
8:00am - 6:30pm	Registration desk open Location: Hotel Lobby
9:30am - 11:30am	Plenary 1 - Opening Ceremony, Keynote, Lee Dirks Award Location: Westin Grand Ballroom / Westin I+II Chair: Lihong Zhou, Wuhan University
11:45am - 12:30pm	Baidu Presentation: How Big Data is changing the map in the AI era Location: Westin Grand Ballroom / Westin I+II Chair: Wei Lu, Wuhan University
1:00pm - 3:00pm	Workshop 1a: Undergraduate Education in iSchools, Part 1 of 2 Location: Hankou Hall Chair: Scott F Barker, University of Washington	Workshop 4a: Information Science to Data Science: New Directions for iSchools Part 1 of 2 Location: Hubei Chair: Jane Greenberg, College of Computing & Informatics, Drexel University	Workshop 2a: Vulnerable Communities in the Digital Age, Part 1 of 2 Location: Hubei 2 Chair: Jia Tina Du, University of South Australia	Workshop 3a: #WithRefugees - Workshop on Field and Design Methods for Supporting Refugees through Library Services and Other Social and Policy Innovations, Part 1 of 2 Location: Hanyang Hall Chair: Karen Fisher, University of Washington	iSchool Best Practices: Part 1 of 2 Location: Wuchang Hall Chair: Gary Marchionini, unc	Workshop 5a: Physical Samples, Digital Collections Part 1 of 2 Location: Yangtze Chair: Unmil Karadkar, The University of Texas at Austin
1:00pm - 3:00pm	Deans Meeting 1a: Asia/Pacific Region, Part 1 of 2 Location: East Lake Chair: Shigeo Sugimoto, University of Tsukuba This meeting of the iSchools Asia/Pacific deans is by invitation only.	Deans Meeting 2a: North America Region, Part 1 of 2 Location: Southern Lake Chair: Allen Renear, University of Illinois This meeting of the iSchools North America deans is by invitation only.	Chinese Papers 1: Open Data & Electronic Government Location: Sha Lake
3:00pm - 3:30pm	Break Location: Pre-Function Space
3:30pm - 5:30pm	Workshop 1b: Undergraduate Education in iSchools, Part 2 of 2 Location: Hankou Hall Chair: Scott F Barker, University of Washington	Workshop 4b: Information Science to Data Science: New Directions for iSchools Part 2 of 2 Location: Hubei Chair: Jane Greenberg, College of Computing & Informatics, Drexel University	Workshop 2b: Vulnerable Communities in the Digital Age, Part 2 of 2 Location: Hubei 2 Chair: Jia Tina Du, University of South Australia	Workshop 3b: #WithRefugees - Workshop on Field and Design Methods for Supporting Refugees through Library Services and Other Social and Policy Innovations, Part 1 of 2 Location: Hanyang Hall Chair: Karen Fisher, University of Washington	iSchool Best Practices: Part 2 of 2 Location: Wuchang Hall Chair: Jie Xu, Wuhan University	Deans Meeting 3: Europe Region Location: Moshan Room Chair: Gobinda Chowdhury, Northumbria University This meeting of the iSchools Europe deans is by invitation only.
3:30pm - 5:30pm	Workshop 5b: Physical Samples, Digital Collections Part 2 of 2 Location: Yangtze Chair: Unmil Karadkar, The University of Texas at Austin	Deans Meeting 1b: Asia/Pacific Region, Part 2 of 2 Location: East Lake Chair: Shigeo Sugimoto, University of Tsukuba This meeting of the iSchools Asia/Pacific deans is by invitation only.	Deans Meeting 2b: North America Region, Part 2 of 2 Location: Southern Lake Chair: Allen Renear, University of Illinois This meeting of the iSchools North America deans is by invitation only.	Chinese Papers 2: Archive Curation & Service Location: Sha Lake
5:30pm - 6:00pm	Free Time
6:00pm - 9:00pm	Opening Reception and iSchool informational presentations Location: Westin Grand Ballroom / Westin I+II Chair: Chuanfu Chen, Wuhan University

Date: Thursday, 23/Mar/2017
7:30am - 6:00pm	Registration desk open Location: Hotel Lobby
8:30am - 10:00am	Plenary 2 - Keynote, Awards, and iConference 2018 Preview Location: Westin Grand Ballroom / Westin I+II Chair: Feicheng Ma, Wuhan University
10:00am - 10:30am	Break Location: Pre-Function Space
10:30am - 12:00pm	Completed Papers 1: Human-Computer Interaction Location: Hankou Hall Chair: Bei Yu, Syracuse University	Completed Papers 3: Information Behaviors in the Social Context Location: Hanyang Hall Chair: Dan Wu, Wuhan University	Completed Papers 2: Text/Data/Knowledge Mining Location: Wuchang Hall Chair: J Stephen Downie, School of Information Sciences	Completed Papers 4: Information Seeking and Retrieval Location: Yangtze Chair: Nahyun Kwon, Myongji University	Special Panel 1a: Data-Driven Discovery: A New Era of Exploiting the Literature and Data, Part 1 of 2 Location: East Lake Chair: Ying Ding, Indiana University	SIE #1: Creating Transmedia Content: Augmented Reality (AR) for Information Linking and Learning Location: Southern Lake Chair: Pamela Jones Ponners, Region 10 Education Service Center
12:00pm - 1:30pm	Lunch break (participants are on their own for lunch)
12:15pm - 12:45pm	Data and Information Management Journal Launch Session Location: Westin Grand Ballroom / Westin I+II Chair: Xiaojuan Zhang, Wuhan University
12:45pm - 1:15pm	Lunch break (sandwiches and soft drinks will be served) Location: Westin Grand Ballroom / Westin I+II
1:30pm - 3:00pm	Preliminary Papers 2: Information Behaviors and HCI Location: Hankou Hall Chair: Andrew M. Cox, The University of Sheffield	Preliminary Papers 1: Social Media and Informatics Location: Hanyang Hall Chair: Jorge Martins, University of Sheffield	SIE #2: The Collabrify Research Platform: A Research Tool for Studying Synchronous Collaboration Location: Yangtze Chair: Cathleen Ann Norris, University of North Texas	Special Panel 1b: : Data-Driven Discovery: A New Era of Exploiting the Literature and Data, Part 2 of 2 Location: East Lake Chair: Ying Ding, Indiana University	SIE #3a: Second Interaction and Engagement on Information Research and Learning with Lifelogging Devices, Part 1 of 2 Location: Southern Lake Chair: Hideo Joho, University of Tsukuba	Deans Meeting 4a: iCaucus Annual Business Meeting, Part 1 of 2 Location: Westin Grand Ballroom / Westin II This meeting of the iCaucus is by invitation only.
3:00pm - 3:30pm	Break Location: Pre-Function Space
3:30pm - 5:00pm	Special Panel 2: Data-Driven Science of Science Location: Hankou Hall Chair: Yi Bu, Indiana University	Preliminary Papers 3: Investigations into Information Behaviors Location: Hanyang Hall Chair: Toine Bogers, Aalborg University Copenhagen	Completed Papers 5: Data Science and Analytics Location: Wuchang Hall Chair: Yunkeum Chang, Sookmyung Women's University	Completed Papers 6: Web Data Analytics Location: Yangtze Chair: Sander Münster, Tehnische Universitaet Dresden	SIE #3b: Second Interaction and Engagement on Information Research and Learning with Lifelogging Devices, Part 2 of 2 Location: Southern Lake Chair: Hideo Joho, University of Tsukuba	Deans Meeting 4b: iCaucus Annual Business Meeting, Part 2 of 2 Location: Westin Grand Ballroom / Westin II This meeting of the iCaucus is by invitation only.
5:00pm - 6:30pm	Juried Poster Session 1 of 2 Location: Westin Grand Ballroom / Westin III Chair: Min Song, Yonsei Univ.
6:30pm - 7:00pm	Travel to Restaurant
7:00pm - 10:00pm	Banquet and Doctoral Dissertation Award Presentation Location: HuJin Restaurant Chair: Ruhua Huang, Wuhan University

Date: Friday, 24/Mar/2017
7:30am - 6:00pm	Registration desk open Location: Hotel Lobby
8:30am - 10:00am	Completed Papers 7: Digital Youth, Information Education Location: Hankou Hall Chair: Ross Todd, Rutgers University	iSchools and Industry Partnership, Part 1 of 2 Location: Hubei Chair: Sean McGann, University of Washington	Completed Papers 8: Information Policy, Scholarly Communication Location: Hanyang Hall Chair: Joseph T. Tennis, University of Washington	Preliminary Papers 4: Information Organization and Retrieval Location: Wuchang Hall Chair: Rong Tang, Simmons College	Special Panel 3a: Data-driven Communication Research: Paradigmatic Shift and Methodological Innovation Part 1 of 2 Location: Yangtze Chair: Shaojing Sun, Fudan University
10:00am - 10:30am	Break Location: Pre-Function Space
10:30am - 12:00pm	SIE #4: Towards a Mobile Information Literacy Framework Location: Hankou Hall Chair: Laura De Reynal, Mozilla Foundation	iSchools and Industry Partnership, Part 2 of 2 Location: Hubei Chair: Sean McGann, University of Washington	SIE #5: Characterize iSchool Research Territory via Scholarly Data Location: Hanyang Hall Chair: Xiaozhong Liu, indiana university bloomington Call for papers: http://discern.uits.iu.edu:8826/sie/	SIE #6: Building Learning Modules around the Competency Index for Linked Data Location: Wuchang Hall Chair: Marcia Lei Zeng, Kent State University	Special Panel 3b: Data-driven Communication Research: Paradigmatic Shift and Methodological Innovation Part 2 of 2 Location: Yangtze Chair: Shaojing Sun, Fudan University
12:00pm - 1:30pm	Lunch break (participants are on their own for lunch)
1:30pm - 3:00pm	Completed Papers 9: Information Organization and Social Computing Location: Hankou Hall Chair: Vivien Petras, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin	Preliminary Papers 7: LIS and Information Services Location: Hanyang Hall Chair: Marianne Martens, Kent State University	Preliminary Papers 6: Recommender Systems, Information Systems Location: Wuchang Hall Chair: Daqing He, University of Pittsburgh	Preliminary Papers 5: Preliminary Papers: Information Organization and Retrieval Location: Yangtze Chair: Katriina Byström, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences	Special Panel 4: iDeans Forum Location: Southern Lake Chair: Ronald L. Larsen, University of Pittsburgh
3:00pm - 3:30pm	Break Location: Pre-Function Space
3:30pm - 5:00pm	SIE #7: Libraries as an Infrastructure for a Sustainable Public Sphere in a Digital Age Location: Hankou Hall Chair: Ragnar Andreas Audunson, Oslo and Akershus University College	Preliminary Papers 9: Knowledge Creation, Qualitative Methods Location: Hanyang Hall Chair: Gary Burnett, Florida State University	Completed Papers 10: Analytics, Communication, Management Location: Wuchang Hall Chair: Unmil Karadkar, The University of Texas at Austin	Preliminary Papers 8: Cultural Heritage/Social Informatics Location: Yangtze Chair: Lu An, Wuhan university	ASIS&T Presentation: Professional Organizations in Career Development Location: Southern Lake
5:00pm - 6:30pm	Juried Poster Session 2 of 2 Location: Westin Grand Ballroom / Westin III Chair: Min Song, Yonsei Univ.
6:30pm - 9:30pm	iDeans Dinner (invitation only) Chair: Ronald L. Larsen, University of Pittsburgh

Date: Saturday, 25/Mar/2017
8:00am - 3:00pm	Registration desk open Location: Hotel Lobby
8:30am - 10:00am	Chinese Papers 4: Information Analysis & Informetrics Location: Hankou Hall	Chinese Papers 6: Knowledge Management & Service Location: Hubei 2	Chinese Papers 3: Data Curation & Service Location: Hanyang Hall	Early Career Colloquium Part 1 of 2 Location: Wuchang Hall Chair: Marcia Lei Zeng, Kent State University This event is open to all registered participants.	Chinese Papers 5: User's Information Behavior Location: Yangtze	Doctoral Colloquium, Part 1 of 3 Location: Southern Lake Chair: Kevin Crowston, Syracuse University This all-day event is by invitation only and is not open to observers.
10:00am - 10:30am	Break Location: Pre-Function Space
10:30am - 12:00pm	Chinese Papers 8: Library Service & Education Location: Hankou Hall	Chinese Papers 9: Information Service & Evaluation Location: Hubei 2	Chinese Papers 7: Data Mining & Analysis Location: Hanyang Hall	Early Career Colloquium Part 2 of 2 Location: Wuchang Hall Chair: Marcia Lei Zeng, Kent State University This event is open to all registered participants.	Doctoral Colloquium, Part 2 of 3 Location: Southern Lake Chair: Kevin Crowston, Syracuse University This all-day event is by invitation only and is not open to observers.
12:00pm - 1:30pm	Lunch break (participants are on their own for lunch)
1:30pm - 3:00pm	Doctoral Colloquium, Part 3 of 3 Location: Southern Lake Chair: Kevin Crowston, Syracuse University This all-day event is by invitation only and is not open to observers.
3:00pm - 6:00pm	Wuhan University Campus Tour Location: Hotel Main Gate This guided tour of the Wuhan University campus is by sign-up, and is open to all registered participants. Participants can sign up for the tour at the registration desk at any time during the conference. Buses will shuttle participants from the hotel to the campus and back starting at 3 pm.

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