Areas of Work
01 | Research
PhD Project "Where to Go and What to Do: Towards Understanding Task-Based Information Behavior at Transitional Spaces"
In public transitional spaces, such as airports, users are faced with diverse challenges regarding information interaction and use. These challenges arise due to the scheduled and/or location-dependent procedures users are required to perform. Understanding what these users need or desire in the context of such spaces, what information is on offer, both online and in situ, and how these aspects interrelate is important to facilitate the design of systems that are accepted by the users concerned. However, very little is known about human information behavior (HIB) in public transitional spaces. As a starting point to understand how behavior in such spaces relates to or differs from information behavior in other contexts, holistically, I will create an explanatory model of airport information behavior by conducting an exploratory grounded theory based field study and relating my findings to those of existing models.
(from: Melanie A. Kilian. 2019. Where to Go and What to Do: Towards Understanding Task-Based Information Behavior at Transitional Spaces. In 2019 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR ’19), March 10–14, 2019, Glasgow, Scotland Uk. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 4 pages.)
02| Teaching
- Lecture and Tutorial on Information Ethics and Philosophy
- Advanced Seminar on Information Ethics and Philosophy: Ethics for Software Engineers & Data Scientists
- Hands-On Course on Qualitative Interviews and Grounded Theory Analysis
- Research Seminar on Requirements Engineering & Air Travel Information Behavior
- Seminar on Qualitative and Quantitative Data Collection (in cooperation with Christina Bauer)
- Research Seminar on GIScience & Human Information Behavior (in cooperation with Markus Kattenbeck)
- Research Seminar on Human Information Behavior (in cooperation with Markus Kattenbeck)
CV
Since 2018
PhD Candidate at the Chair of Information Science (University of Regensburg)
Since 2016
Research Associate and Lecturer at the Chair of Information Science (University of Regensburg)
2012 – 2015
MA Media Studies (University of Regensburg)
2009 – 2012
BA Media Studies and Business Administration (University of Regensburg)
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Papers
Talks & Presentations
Invited Talk
05/2018
„Big Data, Big Brother, Big Problems – Ethical Challenges in an Increasingly Digitalised World“ (translated title) as part of the 2nd general meeting 2018 of the Green Youth Ostbayern, May 19-20, 2018, Kelheim, Germany.
Doctoral Consortium Presentations
03/2019
“Where to Go and What to Do: Towards Understanding Task-Based Information Behavior at Transitional Spaces” as part of the Doctoral Consortium of the ACM SIGIR 2019 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR), March 10–14, 2019, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
06/2018
„Facing Information Behavior in Public Spaces: Using Procedure Adaptation for Sustainable Assistance at Airports“ as part of the 1st Doctoral Workshop of the Network Internet and Digitization Ostbayern (INDIGO), June 20, 2018, University of Passau, Passau, Germany.
Poster Presentation
10/2018
“Theory Construction through Thick Data - How to Model Airport Information Behavior Holistically” as part of the 1st Regensburg Big Data Day, October 30, 2018, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
