Research areas
The following research projects represent a sample of research undertaken at the School.
For additional information on research activities of our Faculty members, please visit the Faculty pages.
Human-computer interaction
A Children’s Web Portal for Canadian History: From Research Prototype to Classroom Resource (SSHRC)
PI: Dr. Andrew Large, Co-I: Dr. Jamshid Beheshti
Visualization Models of a Hierarchical Taxonomy in Children’s Web Portals (SSHRC)
PI: Dr. Andrew Large, Co-I: Dr. Jamshid Beheshti
Perceptual Evaluation of HCI (CFI-IOF)
PI : Dr. Catherine Guastavino
Perception auditive de l’espace: qualité sonore et localisation (FQRNT)
PI : Dr. Catherine Guastavino
Perception of rhythmic similarity in flamenco (CIRMMT)
PI: Dr. Catherine Guastavino
Laboratory for BRAin, Music and Sound (BRAMS): The Biological Foundations of Music (CFI 5)
PI: Peretz, Co-I: Dr. Catherine Guastavino and others
Haptics, Sound and Interaction in the Design of Enactive Interfaces (NSERC/SRO)
PI: Wanderley, Co-I: Dr. Catherine Guastavino and others
Information resources in context
The Use of Competitive Intelligence Technology by CI practitioners: A Comparison between the Private and Public Sectors (SSHRC)
PI: Dr. France Bouthillier
Electronic Knowledge Resources in Primary Healthcare (CIHR)
PI: Dr. Pierre Pluye and Roland Grad,
Collaborator: Dr. France Bouthillier and others
Canadian Library History. Professor Peter McNally
McGill University: for the Advancement of Learning. vol. III (1970-2002). Professor Peter McNally
Judge Robert Mackay Legal Collection
PI : Professor Peter McNally and Daniel Boyer
Development of a taxonomy for the indexing of digital ordinary images in a multilingual retrieval context (FQRSC)
PI: Dr. Elaine Ménard
Information-seeking behaviour
Understanding the selection of and preferences for bioinformatics resources: a study of expert and non-expert scientists (SSHRC)
PI: Dr. Joan Bartlett
Integrating classification visualization devices for undergraduate users of information retrieval systems (SSHRC)
PI: Dr. John Leide
Co-I: Dr. Charles B. Cole, Dr. Jamshid Beheshti, & Dr. Andrew Large
Knowledge management and representation
Diagnosis and evaluative tools used to identify, promote and evaluate the effectiveness of collective learning processes within an organization: the case study of Oxfam-Québec (CEFRIO)
PI: Dr. Kimiz Dalkir
Towards a theoretical model of sharing and preserving critical knowledge in a university (SSHRC)
PI: Dr. Kimiz Dalkir, Co-I: Dr. Jamshid Beheshti
Giving Life (to data) to Save Life (in the age of AIDS): Meta-analyses through Digitization of Visual Data in the Social Sciences (SSHRC)
PI: Dr. Eun Park, Co-I: Dr. Claudia Mitchell, Dr. Naydene de Lange
Social Uses of Photograph on AIDS and HIV: Methods for Digitization and Datamining (FQRSC)
PI: Dr. Eun Park
Voices: Rural teachers in rural South Africa in the age of AIDS (SSHRC) PI: Claudia Mitchell, CI: Dr. Eun Park, Collaborators: Relebohile Moletsane, Naydene deLange
Developing an open standard file format: XML (Microsoft Korea) PI: Sam Oh, CI: Dr. Eun Park
Building an International Digital Future Network for AIDS Prevention Programs: Participatory Visual Data Archives (SSHRC International Opportunity Fund) PI: Dr. Eun Park, CI: Claudia Mitchell, Naydene de Lange, Jon Prosser, Sarah Flicker
InterPARES 3 Project (International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems) Team Korea (National Archives of Korea) PI: Sam Oh, CI: Dr. Eun Park, Heesop Kim
Digitization and data management with visual data (National Research Foundation, South Africa) PI: Naydene de Lange, CI: Dr. Eun Park
Refining access to health information using a novel indexing approach(SSHRC)
PI: Dr. Martin Dawes,
Collaborator: Dr. Joan Bartlett and others