Andrew Large
Professor
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Courses Taught
Research Interests
- Information-seeking behaviour
- Human-computer interaction
Recent Research Activities
| 2007-2010 |
SSHRC Visualization Models of a Hierarchical Taxonomy in Children's Web Portals Principal Investigator: A. Large; Co-Investigator: J. Beheshti |
| 2006-2007 |
SSHRC A Children's Web Portal for Canadian History: From Research Prototype to Classroom Resource. Principal Investigator: A. Large; Co-Investigator: J. Beheshti |
| 2005-2006 |
Heritage Canada, Virtuel Age International, McGill University An Intelligent Virtual Environment: Paintings as Virtual Gateways to Social and Cultural History Principal Investigators: J. Beheshti, A. Large & K. Kee (Brock University) |
| 2004-2007 |
SSHRC A Virtual Interface for Children's Web Portals Principal Investigator: J. Beheshti; Co-Investigator: A. Large |
| 2002-2006 |
SSHRC Children as Designers of Web Portal Architecture. Principal Investigator: A. Large; Co-investigator: J. Beheshti |
| 2002-2005 |
SSHRC Integrating Classification Visualization Devices for Undergraduate Users of Information Retrieval Systems. Principal Investigator: J. Leide; Co-investigators: C. Cole, J. Beheshti, A. Large |
Selected Publications and Presentations
A. Large. Children and Information Technology. In Gloria J. Leckie & John E. Buschman, eds. Information Technology in Librarianship: New Critical Approaches. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2009, 181-203.
L. Bowler & A. Large. Design-Based Research for LIS. Library and Information Science Research 30 (2008), 39-46.
K. Ehmann, A. Large & J. Beheshti. Collaboration in context: comparing article evolution among subject disciplines in Wikipedia. First Monday 13 (10), 2008 http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2217/2034
A. Large, J. Beheshti, V. Nesset & L. Bowler. Children's Web Portals: Can an Intergenerational Design Team Deliver the Goods? In Mary K. Chelton & Colleen Cool, eds. Youth Information-Seeking Behavior, Volume 2 . Lantham: Scarecrow Press, 2007, 279-311.
A. Large, V. Nesset, J. Beheshti & L. Bowler. Bonded Design: A methodology for designing with children. In S. Kurniawan & P. Zaphiris, eds. Advances in Universal Web Design and Evaluation: Research Trends and Opportunities . Hershey , PA : Idea Group Publishing, 2007, 73-96.
C. Cole, Y.Lin, J. Leide, A. Large & J. Beheshti. A classification of mental models of undergraduates seeking information for a course essay in history and psychology: preliminary investigations into aligning their mental models with online thesauri. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58 (13), 2007, 2092-2104.
A. Large, L. Bowler, J. Beheshti & V. Nesset. Creating Web Portals with Children as Designers: Bonded Design and the Zone of Proximal Development. McGill Journal of Education 42 (1), 2007, 61-82.
J. Leide, C. Cole, J. Beheshti, A. Large & Y. Lin. Task-based information retrieval: Structuring undergraduate history essays for better course evaluation using essay-type visualizations. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58 (9), 2007, 1227-1241.
A. Large, ed. Empowering Information Professionals: A Training Programme on Information and Communications Technology . Bangkok : UNESCO, 2006 http://www2.unescobkk.org/elib/publications/ICTEIP/unesco.swf
Kwan Yi, J. Beheshti, C. Cole, J. Leide & A. Large. User Search Behavior of Domain-specific IR Systems:
An Analysis of the Query Logs from PsycINFO and ABC-Clio's Historical Abstracts/America: History and Life. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 57 (9), 2006, 1208-1220.
A. Large, Nesset, V., Beheshti, J. & Bowler, L. ‘Bonded Design': A novel approach to intergenerational information technology design. Library and Information Science Research 28 (1), 2006, 64-82 .
Tedd, L.A. & A. Large. Digital Libraries: Principles and Practice in a Global Environmen t. Munich : K.G. Saur, 2005, xix, 280pp.
J. Beheshti, L. Bowler, A. Large & V. Nesset. Towards an alternative information retrieval system for children. In A, Spink & C. Cole, eds. New Directions in Cognitive Information Retrieval . Dordrecht: Springer, 2005, 139-165.
C. Cole, J. Beheshti, J.E. Leide & A. Large. Interactive information retrieval: bringing the user to a selection state. In A, Spink & C. Cole, eds. New Directions in Cognitive Information Retrieval . Dordrecht : Springer, 2005, 13-41.
A. Large & J. Beheshti. Interface design, web portals and children. Library Trends 54 (2), 2005, 318-342
C. Cole, J. Leide, J. Beheshti, A. Large & M. Brooks. Investigating the Anomolous State of Knowledge Hypothesis in a real-life problem situation : A study of history and psychology undergraduate students seeking information for a course essay. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 56 (14), 2005, 1544-1554.
C. Cole, Leide, J., Large, A., Beheshti J. & Brooks, M. Putting it together online : information need identification for the domain novice user. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 56 (7), 2005, 684-694.
