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Julia Bullard
Assistant Professor
Research Classification
Research Interests
classification systems
subject indexing
Cultural Institutions (Museums, Libraries, etc.)
Information Systems
metadata
Relevant Thesis-Based Degree Programs
Research Options
I am available and interested in collaborations (e.g. clusters, grants).
I am interested in and conduct interdisciplinary research.
Research Methodology
Qualitative Research
Ethnography
virtual ethnography
Interviews
diary studies
critical design
Graduate Student Supervision
Master's Student Supervision
Theses completed in 2010 or later are listed below. Please note that there is a 6-12 month delay to add the latest theses.
Diagnosing bias in the gender representation of HCI research participants: how it happens and where we are (2021)
In human-computer interaction (HCI) studies, bias in the gender representation of participants can jeopardize the generalizability of findings, perpetuate bias in data driven practices, and make new technologies dangerous for underrepresented groups. Key to progress towards inclusive and equitable gender practices is diagnosing the current status of bias and identifying where it comes from. In this mixed-methods study, we interviewed 13 HCI researchers to identify the potential bias factors, defined a systematic data collection procedure for meta-analysis of participant gender data, and created a participant gender dataset from 1147 CHI papers. Our analysis provided empirical evidence for the underrepresentation of women, the invisibility of non-binary participants, deteriorating representation of women in MTurk studies, and characteristics of research topics prone to bias. Based on these findings, we make concrete suggestions for promoting inclusive community culture and equitable research practices in HCI.
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Publications
- Provocations of Process in Critical Knowledge Organization Work (2024)
Knowledge Organization, 51 (8), 660-666 - Roles and Responsibilities in University-Community Engagement for Library and Information Scientists (2024)
Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 61 (1), 732-737 - Automated indexing using NLM’s Medical Text Indexer (MTI) compared to human indexing in Medline: a pilot study (2023)
Journal of the Medical Library Association, 111 (3), 684-695 - Global Perspectives on Inclusive Curricula: Places, Practices and Pedagogy (2023)
Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 60 (1), 742-746 - NOT A BOOK: Goodreads and the Risks of Social Cataloging with Insufficient Direction (2023)
Cataloging and Classification Quarterly, 61 (2), 203-227 - “I'm really happy when sometimes I end up on a shelf that seems sort of right:” Historians' Reactions to the Cataloging and Classification of their Own Work (2022)
Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 59 (1), 335-345 - “Language is never complete'': LGBT2QIA+ Creators on Metadata (2022)
Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications - Confusing, Inaccurate, and Just Goofy: Author Assessments of ‘Indians of North America’ Cataloguing (2022)
Advances in Knowledge Organization, 19, 311-319 - Misrepresentation in the Surrogate: Author Critiques of “Indians of North America” Subject Headings (2022)
Cataloging and Classification Quarterly, 60 (6-7), 599-619 - Comparing the Cataloguing of Indigenous Scholarships: First Steps and Findings (2021)
Knowledge Organization, 48 (4), 298-306 - Capturing Experts' Mental Models to Organize a Collection of Haptic Devices: Affordances Outweigh Attributes (2020)
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings - Centring LGBT2QIA+ subjects in knowledge organization systems (2020)
Knowledge Organization, 47 (5), 393-403 - Mapping the "How" of collaborative action: Research methods for studying contemporary sociotechnical processes (2019)
Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW, 528-532 - Curated folksonomies: Three implementations of structure through human judgment (2018)
Knowledge Organization, 45 (8), 643-652 - Fandom, food, and folksonomies: The methodological realities of studying fun life-contexts (2018)
Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 55 (1), 712-715 - Online fandom: Boldly going where few CSCW researchers have gone before (2018)
Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW, 121-124 - The changing contours of “participation” in data-driven, algorithmic ecosystems: Challenges, tactics, and an agenda (2018)
Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW, 377-384 - Collaborative syllabus design for studying information work (2017)
Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 54 (1), 630-632 - Translating texture: Design as integration (2017)
DIS 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, 297-307 - Warrant as a means to study classification system design (2017)
Journal of Documentation, 73 (1), 75-90 - Crowdsourcing approaches for knowledge organization systems: Crowd collaboration or crowd work? (2016)
Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 53 (1), 1-6 - Motivating invisible contributions: Framing volunteer classification design in a fanfiction repository (2016)
Proceedings of the International ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work, 13-16-November-2016, 181-193 - Software in the scientific literature: Problems with seeing, finding, and using software mentioned in the biology literature (2016)
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 67 (9), 2137-2155 - Learning from Elitist Jerks: Creating high-quality knowledge resources from ongoing conversations (2015)
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 66 (11), 2267-2276 - Medium, access, and obsolescence: What kinds of objects are lasting objects? (2015)
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, 2015-April, 3433-3442 - A story without end: Writing the residual into descriptive infrastructure (2014)
Proceedings of the Conference on Designing Interactive Systems: Processes, Practices, Methods, and Techniques, DIS, 385-394 - Always somewhere, never there: Using critical design to understand database interactions (2014)
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, 1941-1950 - Values and negotiation in classification work (2014)
Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW, 45-48 - Exploring technology through the design lens: A case study of an interactive museum technology (2011)
ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, 583-590 - Information design in/as serious leisure (2011)
ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, 728-729 - Online synchronous interviewing of the info-savvy (2011)
ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, 649-650
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