Research

We study the creation, collection, and organization of records of human activity and the production of knowledge from them.

We study and build collections of digital objects, including their creation, organization, and presentation, and their value in aiding research in the humanities.

We study the role of information and technology in health care and health-care decision-making in clinical, patient, and medical research settings.

We study the history and policy issues associated with information and information technologies, as well as understanding the role of information in shaping individual experiences and organizational and societal cultures.

We study, design, and evaluate interactive computing systems, including shared information environments such as websites and online communities, with effective human use in mind.

We study information-related behaviors and human interaction with information in the contexts of everyday life.

We study and create formal systems for the organization and classification of information, and also the use of formal systems to pull information from large data collections.

We use social science and humanities methods to examine the interaction of people and information technologies at the individual, organizational, and societal levels.