Professor Shachak’s research and teaching is mainly in the area of health informatics. His work seeks to improve usage and help realizing the potential benefits of information systems, especially in health care and biomedicine. This includes the study, design, and evaluation of educational interventions, tutorials and user manuals, user interfaces, and end-user support.

I am interested in the complex and dynamic relationships between museums and source communities, the interconnections between memory and material culture, theoretical aspects of repatriation, and generating new modes for understanding post-colonialism in the museum context.

Professor Choo conducts research in the areas of knowledge and information management, information seeking behaviour, and organizational learning. A current project looks at organizations as epistemic communities; another examines information seeking and use in early warning systems.

I am currently working on two projects. One looks at the Quantified Self movement, to see how its participants engage with structures and practices of surveillance to fashion senses of self and community. The other studies how iOS and the Android operating system each structure cloud computing in ways that support the corporate interests of their developers - Apple and Google.

Professor Foscarini is interested in exploring the relationship between information management and organizational cultures. Her teaching and research also involve studying the form and function of contemporary records through diplomatics and genre theory.

Dr. Hartel's research is organized around the question: What is the nature of information in the pleasures of life? She is investigating this matter through the concatenated study of information phenomena in serious leisure, that is, cherished, information-rich pursuits such as hobbies. Her empirical research explores the content, structure, and use of leisure information on personal and social levels, and her theoretical work aims to characterize the nature of information in leisure realms.

Professor Howarth is working with the Alzheimer Society of Toronto on an SSHRC-funded project to study how individuals with mild cognitive impairment associated with early-stage Alzheimer/Dementia may utilize multi-modal expressions of information such as music, photographs, etc., as memory cues for finding, organizing, and using information.

Professor Caidi pursues her research on the information practices of vulnerable communities. In one of her projects, she helped with the integration of the On Demand Book Service, permitting easy access to reading materials and providing ODBS-related equipment to people of First Nation communities.

Professor Ross researches preserving cultural heritage and scientific digital objects, humanities informatics, and the application of information technology to libraries, archives and museums.

Her current research focuses on archival users, access to archival material, digital curation, along with the convergence of libraries, archives, and museums. One of her collaborative projects investigated the impact of technology on museums for the Canadian Heritage Information Network.

Professor Andritsos' research focuses on the analysis of large repositories and, more specifically, the structure discovery in order to facilitate design and speed up querying. He has made contributions in the fields of clustering categorical data, structure characterization and discovery in unstructured data and information extraction.

I research restaurants in museums as alternative spaces for education, bridging the gap between food studies, museum studies and cultural studies. I am primarily interested in the role of food as a communicator and translator of culture and heritage. Further, I explore representations of men in the kitchen on Food Network. Also, I focus on the curatorial practices around the display of everyday objects in cultural institutions, especially in post-Communist countries.