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Address

Postal address
Dr. J. Blustein
Dalhousie University, Faculty of Computer Science[*]
Goldberg CS Bldg., 6050 University Avenue

PO Box 15000
Halifax, Nova Scotia
B3H 4R2
Canada
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Office
Room 223 (maps and directions)
Goldberg CS Bldg. (6050 University Ave.)
E-mail
Telephone
(+1)(902)494-6104
Fax
(+1)(902)492-1517
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I am an Associate professor in both Dalhousie's Faculty of Computer Science and School of Information Management.  Further details of my academic appointment are in the other information section, below.


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Research Interests

I am an active researcher.  My overall goal is to help people find and use information more effectively.  I believe this goal can best be achieved through interdisciplinary and collaborative research.  My major research areas are summarized by the fields below:

Hypertext
Text which does not form a single sequence and which may be read in various orders …
(Simpson & Weiner, 1993, in the OED Additions Series)
Human-Computer Interaction
Understanding how people use computer technology, to develop tools that fit users rather than tools that users must contort to fit
Web science
What do people and communities want from [the technology of] the Web
(Shneiderman, 2007 in CACM, DOI:10.1145/1247001.1247022)
Digital Libraries
A reconceptualisation of that cornerstone of civilisation, The Library

Specifically the following topics:

Annotation, text analytics, and e-Learning
Supporting expert readers and learners by understanding their needs, and building suitable tools to support their activities
Sensemaking
Information Seeking

Much of my research is conducted under the mantle of the HAIKU project.

A searchable version of my bibliography is in the collection of links to research resources I maintain primarily for graduate students.

My research is funded by CFI, NSERC, and SSHRC.

Current Research Activities

The summary of my current research activities has some detailed information and links.  There is a section particularly for Graduate Students below.

Selected Publications

A list of some selected publications (many with abstracts) is available.

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Teaching

For details about all of my courses see my courses webpage.

A list of topics I can use books about is in a webpage just for book reps.

Course Information for 2012

I am teaching CSCI6606 (Human-Factors in Online Information Systems) this Winter.  Most course materials, and all announcements, for CSCI are available from moodle.cs.dal.ca.

Lecture Notes, etc.

My courses webpage has information about all of the courses I teach.

I also keep a collection of material for teaching (forms, slides, notes, etc.) for a variety of courses.

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Graduate students …

please see


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Other Information

is four parts: about me, other resources, for more …, and about this document.

About Me

How I pronounce my surname

I pronounce my family name as blustin in the International Phonetic Alphabet.  That sounds like this sound file.

Academic Appointment

I am an associate professor in Dalhousie University's Faculty of Computer Science and hold a cross-appointment in the School of Information Management (in the Faculty of Management).  I became an associate professor (with tenure) effective July 2007.  I have been a faculty member in Computer Science (and Graduate Studies) at Dalhousie since August 2000.  I joined the Faculty of Management in 2005.

Timetable

My weekday schedule is no longer on the WWW.

Photo Gallery

I have a small gallery of self-portraits.

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Other Resources

Hypertext Collection

I keep a mini-website of information for, and about, the hypertext community.

For Proceedings Chairs

I was proceedings chair for ACM Hypertext in 2002.  I have prepared some notes to help future proceedings chairs and kept a copy of all of the instructions, etc. that were used for that conference.

For more …

please see


http://www.cs.dal.ca/~jamie/index.html

Sections: address, research, teaching, grad students, other.

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Created on 15 Feb. 2001 by J. Blustein.
Last updated on 05 August 2011 by J. Blustein.
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