October 28-30, 2025Make Your Science Gateway Discoverable: A Practical Tutorial on AI and Search Optimization (Accepted)Presented by Noreen Whysel and Shari ThurowGateways 2025, Science Gateways Community InstituteGreen Bay, WI, USAhttps://www.iaroundtable.org/2025-education Past Events
May 24, 2023 9:00AM-12:30PM WETSensemaking, Search and SEO at UX-LX: UX Lisbon Designing Effective Search Experiences How do people locate and discover information online? Well, they type keywords into a search engine and then select items from the search results, right? This is the current mental model of how search/retrieval works for most users. But … Read more
March 28, 2023 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM ETSafe Tech Audit: Applying IA Heuristics for Digital Product Safety Testing at IAC23: The Information Architecture Conference Are you creating products that respect the needs and autonomy of your users? Are you concerned about how GDPR, CPRA and the proposed ADPPA data privacy regulations might affect your … Read more
Zsofi Lang’s Sketchnotes from my talk “Safe Tech Audit: IA as a Framework for Respectful Design” from The Information Architecture Conference 2022:
Watch me and Internet pioneer Vint Cerf discuss the future of the Metaverse at Disruptive Technologists NYC.
The IA Conference ended its four week run, which as some of you may recall was originally a five day event In New Orleans with 12 preconference workshops and 60 talks in three tracks. The format changed to all prerecorded talks released in three tracks daily over a period of three weeks. We put the … Read more
Noreen Whysel’s address to the 2017 Initiate Class of the Beta Phi Mu Theta honor society at Pratt Institute School of Information given on May 17, 2017. Slides are available at Google Slides. Thanks to Dean Tula Giannini, Vinette Thomas, Beta Phi Mu initiates, graduates and guests. And especially to Karen Erani for inviting me … Read more
On January 31st, Decision Fish led a lively session on how to Help Millennials Make Better Financial Decisions as part of Impact Hub NYC’s 100 Days of Impact program. 100 Days of Impact is intended to figure out what we can do as a community to address concerns and make an impact in an era … Read more
Amy Jeu and I curated a weekend exhibit, Map Mosaic: From Queens to the World, on October 29-30, 2016 at the Queens Museum celebrating the map-making community. The event featured talks and demonstrations as well as a hall dedicated to paper and digital maps submitted from the private collections of members of the GISMO community. … Read more
As a Wikipedian who has been increasingly involved with editathons in New York City since completing my MLIS degree at Pratt Institute School of Information, I have been interested in creating bridges between the Wikipedia and IA communities. Thanks to a Wikimedia Foundation TPS grant, I was able to represent Wikipedia at the 2016 IA … Read more
