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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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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.
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I pronounce my family name as blustin
in the
International Phonetic Alphabet. That sounds like this 
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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.
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My weekday schedule is no longer on the WWW.
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