Sanonda Datta Gupta, Jaime Snyder, John S. Seberger
{"title":"Sleep-trackers in the wild: A faceted taxonomy for information and interaction design","authors":"Sanonda Datta Gupta, Jaime Snyder, John S. Seberger","doi":"10.1002/asi.70084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.70084","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Consumer-grade sleep-tracking technologies (CSTs) have brought sleep into everyday data practices, reframing it from a clinical concern into a site of personal optimization and reflection. Yet existing taxonomies of sleep-tracking often medicalize users and overlook the complexity of sleep-tracking technologies. This paper presents <i>SleepTax</i>, a naturalistic, multifaceted taxonomy of sleep-tracking technologies based on metadata from 350 consumer devices. Using faceted classification, it identifies five dimensions—user purpose, technological form, functionality, contextual mobility, and temporal mode—and 120 concepts to characterize sleep tracking “in the wild,” including 17 forms, 83 functionalities, and multiple engagement styles. We further operationalize SleepTax through a design map and demonstrate how this framework supports scenario-building and speculative inquiry into the sociotechnical consequences that emerge across different personal informatics (PI) infrastructure configurations. Together, SleepTax and the design map form a bridge between classification and design, supporting both systematic description and speculative inquiry in information science, PI, and human–computer interaction (HCI).</p>","PeriodicalId":48810,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology","volume":"77 8","pages":"1032-1050"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2026-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/asi.70084","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148522880","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluating the digital curation of library political special collections with the Honeycomb Model and Feminist Human-Computer Interaction: Taipei City Council Library as a case study","authors":"Yu-Jung Cheng, Tzu-Yu Peng","doi":"10.1002/asi.70091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.70091","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study examines the digital curation of the Taipei City Council's political special collections by integrating Morville's User Experience (UX) Honeycomb Model with Bardzell's Feminist Human–Computer Interaction framework. A mixed-methods design was employed, combining a survey of 190 participants with in-depth interviews and participant observation involving 20 respondents with feminist backgrounds. The quantitative analysis evaluated usability, findability, accessibility, credibility, desirability, usefulness, and value, while the qualitative component explored feminist design principles including pluralism, advocacy, participation, embodiment, ecology, and self-disclosure. Findings indicate that the curated platform was strongly recognized for its educational value, clarity of information, and cross-device accessibility, but interactivity and visual appeal were identified as weaker dimensions. The interviews further revealed that the exhibition successfully highlighted women's diverse political trajectories, fostered emotional resonance, and raised awareness of gender equality, though opportunities for participatory engagement and cross-issue connections remained limited. By demonstrating the complementarity of UX evaluation and feminist interpretive analysis, this study underscores how libraries can reposition political archives from static repositories to dynamic platforms for civic engagement and social inclusion.</p>","PeriodicalId":48810,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology","volume":"77 8","pages":"1084-1099"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2026-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148533838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interpreting algorithmic information cues: User sensemaking of search autocomplete moderation","authors":"Shagun Jhaver","doi":"10.1002/asi.70092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.70092","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Autocomplete is a search feature that algorithmically generates information cues for any keywords entered in the search bar. While this feature makes the search process more efficient, it also frequently produces biased, misleading, offensive, or otherwise inappropriate suggestions. To address this problem, commercial search systems like Google Search now moderate Autocomplete information cues. However, we know relatively little about how users perceive this moderation process. Conducting interviews with 20 users of web search systems, I examine user attitudes toward the ethical tradeoffs in enacting moderation, reliance on search systems for making regulation decisions, and users' own role in moderating autocomplete information. My findings show that users desire greater visibility into the autocomplete moderation process. They also see flags and personal moderation mechanisms as promising avenues for themselves to exert greater agency within contemporary information infrastructures. My analysis bridges the fields of content moderation and search engine critiques, and lays the groundwork for enacting fair, accountable, and transparent search moderation.</p>","PeriodicalId":48810,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology","volume":"77 8","pages":"1100-1113"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2026-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/asi.70092","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148534282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Insiders and outsiders in science: A framework distinguishing investigating and investigated countries in international research collaboration","authors":"Zhe Cao, Lin Zhang, Zhihan Wan, Gunnar Sivertsen","doi":"10.1002/asi.70080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.70080","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study proposes a framework for understanding international collaboration in problem-oriented research that addresses geographically specific issues through distinguishing between investigating and investigated countries. We employ Merton's insider–outsider theory to categorize authors from the countries under study as insiders and those from outside the studied countries as outsiders. Based on the combinations of their shared perspectives, we develop a typology of five collaboration patterns (CPs)—Internal Perspective (CP1), Combined Perspective (CP2), Expanded Perspective (CP3), Partially Overlapping Perspective (CP4), and External Perspective (CP5). An empirical analysis of research related to “Sustainable Development Goal 1: No Poverty” reveals that CP1 is the most prevalent perspective around this topic. Whereas CP5 has seen a gradual decline, CP2 has risen over the years. A case study on international collaboration in poverty research in African countries reveals significant benefits from outsider involvement, including substantial funding from developed countries, enhanced research productivity on specific topics, as well as higher and broader research impact. However, we suggest being attentive to the potential shaping effect of outsiders on the perspectives and research agendas of insiders, which may complicate internal efforts to develop research topics rooted in the local context and the pursuit of domestic development priorities.</p>","PeriodicalId":48810,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology","volume":"77 7","pages":"959-978"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2026-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148238118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does language bias GenAI academic evaluation in humanities and social sciences? A mixed-methods study based on Chinese-language HSS papers","authors":"Yu Zhu, Yujie Jia, Yumeng Zhu, Jiyuan Ye","doi":"10.1002/asi.70079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.70079","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As generative AI (GenAI) systems are increasingly deployed in cross-language research evaluation, whether GenAI evaluates multilingual scholarship without language-induced bias remains unclear. This study examines language bias patterns in GenAI evaluation of humanities and social sciences (HSS) research across models and disciplines. Using a within-subjects design, 1150 expert-selected papers from 23 disciplines were evaluated by GPT-4o and DeepSeek-V3 in Chinese and English. Results reveal opposite language biases depending on model type: GPT-4o favors English (Cohen's d = 1.10), while DeepSeek-V3 favors Chinese (Cohen's d = −0.87), persisting across all disciplines. Thematic analysis reveals a systematic decoupling between scores and evaluative reasoning: both models generate more critical comments for English papers, yet arrive at opposite scores through different rhetorical strategies—GPT-4o tends to moderate its positive assessments of Chinese papers while DeepSeek-V3 amplifies them. This decoupling suggests that bias is embedded in the multi-layered pathways through which models generate and aggregate evaluations. This study provides controlled evidence that language bias in GenAI evaluation is bidirectional and model-dependent, with scores not directly reflecting evaluative justifications. The findings have implications for designing fairer multilingual academic evaluation systems and for understanding the limitations of GenAI as scholarly evaluation infrastructure.</p>","PeriodicalId":48810,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology","volume":"77 7","pages":"940-958"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2026-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148237399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From disorientation to preparedness: Information practices as scaffolding in acute crises","authors":"Lilach Alon, Tali Malinoff, Inbar Levkovich","doi":"10.1002/asi.70078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.70078","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This qualitative study examines how adults in Israel enacted information practices during an acute national crisis. Using the information transitions framework, we investigate how concrete practices emerge and evolve across three stages: understanding, negotiating, and resolving. Semi-structured Zoom interviews with 18 adults were analyzed via thematic analysis. Findings show a staged progression across four information practice types. Seeking shifts from checking whatever is closest at hand to more deliberate information seeking. Validation moves from “good enough” judgments to more careful checking of evidence, and eventually to relying on trusted sources. Sharing changes from broadly passing things along to more deliberate, protective communication with specific people and groups. Personal information management (PIM) develops from improvised or absent organizing to gathering key items in one place, preparing for contingencies, and building simple routines that keep the most important information easy to find. Across stages, these practices function as scaffolds for adaptation: supporting rapid orientation in the understanding stage, evaluation and coordination in the negotiating stage, and continuity and preparedness in the resolving stage. The study further validates and specifies the transitions research and offers guidance for improving crisis communication and preparing everyday information spaces.</p>","PeriodicalId":48810,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology","volume":"77 7","pages":"924-939"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2026-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/asi.70078","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148237400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Irene V. Pasquetto, Morgan Wofford, Claire Jordan, Andrea Thomer
{"title":"Opposing consensus science through scholarly practices: The role of claims maintenance","authors":"Irene V. Pasquetto, Morgan Wofford, Claire Jordan, Andrea Thomer","doi":"10.1002/asi.70074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.70074","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study examines how three US-based communities who oppose consensus science produce and disseminate scholarly-like artifacts: pro-life activists, Young Earth Creationists, and Anthropogenic Climate Crisis skeptics. Prior research shows that industry- or church-backed advocacy campaigns often generate claims supported by these communities, such as abortion being high-risk while reversal is not; the Earth forming in 6 days about 6000 years ago; or climate change not being anthropogenic. In this paper, we bring attention to how these communities—via the production of scholarly artifacts like secondary analysis of open data, journal articles, and replication reports—systematically assemble, distribute, and legitimize new evidence (or what is perceived as such) in support of advocacy campaigns' claims. We refer to this practice as “claims maintenance” and highlight the role that digital platforms play in it. We also discuss how they interact with scholarly artifacts that are produced within consensus science knowledge infrastructures, and how, despite differing ontologies, these communities share a commitment to participatory, transparent scholarly practices, using data sharing and reuse to signal epistemic credibility.</p>","PeriodicalId":48810,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology","volume":"77 7","pages":"891-906"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2026-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/asi.70074","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148237413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tiziana Pasciuto, Riccardo Albertoni, Roberta Maggi
{"title":"CTP Ontology: A Semantic Model for Structuring Cultural Thematic Paths","authors":"Tiziana Pasciuto, Riccardo Albertoni, Roberta Maggi","doi":"10.1002/asi.70081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.70081","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A thematic path enhances the appreciation of cultural heritage by connecting diverse cultural objects through shared themes. This study introduces the Cultural Thematic Path (CTP) Ontology, designed to support the creation, organization, description, publication, and management of thematic paths within the GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) sector. While numerous ontologies address the management and description of cultural resources in the GLAM domain, none provides a comprehensive schema specifically for thematic paths. This work bridges that gap by detailing the design principles, ontology requirements, and implementation of the CTP Ontology. To ensure its effectiveness, the ontology has been validated through three distinct application scenarios and is made available following linked data best practices.</p>","PeriodicalId":48810,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology","volume":"77 7","pages":"979-1010"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2026-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/asi.70081","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148238220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marcy G. Antonio, Alicia Stone, Tawanna Dillahunt, Lorraine Buis, Tiffany C. Veinot
{"title":"Community intermediary strategies and tactics to close digital divides and enhance equitable technology use in everyday life","authors":"Marcy G. Antonio, Alicia Stone, Tawanna Dillahunt, Lorraine Buis, Tiffany C. Veinot","doi":"10.1002/asi.70076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.70076","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Online technologies are required for accessing essential services, such as healthcare, transportation, and education. Challenges to online technology access can prevent resource-constrained communities from connecting to these services. Human intermediaries who act in the middle space between technology and the person using the technology may help to enhance access and use. Prior information science research has investigated formal intermediation offered by staff at community technology centers and public libraries. However, there is a lack of empirical and theoretical insight into how intermediaries help resource-constrained communities with technology in the informal and semi-formal settings of everyday life. Therefore, this study investigated how community intermediaries (i.e., friends, family members, and volunteers from resource-constrained communities) assist with accessing and using technology. Interviews with community intermediaries (<i>n</i> = 9) and those who received intermediary support (“beneficiaries,” <i>n</i> = 30) in a resource-constrained American city were conducted. Results show that intermediary strategies address four digital access levels: relating to sociocultural and psychosocial motivators; acquiring basic internet and technology; developing and updating skills for ongoing use; and problem-solving tasks for diverse use of evolving technology. Multiple tactics were used to implement these strategies. Findings can inform future training and infrastructure-enhancement initiatives for informal and semi-formal intermediaries from resource-constrained communities.</p>","PeriodicalId":48810,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology","volume":"77 7","pages":"907-923"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2026-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/asi.70076","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148237543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Annotating aspects in text and image: A new task and dataset for multimodal aspect-based sentiment analysis","authors":"Li Yang, Jia Yang, Jin-Cheon Na, Jianfei Yu","doi":"10.1002/asi.70026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.70026","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) has evolved from textual analysis to a multimodal paradigm, integrating visual information to capture nuanced sentiments. Despite advancements, existing Multimodal ABSA (MABSA) research remains limited in granularity, which focuses on either coarse-level categories or named entities, neglecting fine-grained sentiment analysis at the aspect term level and visual objects depicted in images. To address these gaps, we propose a new task, Multimodal Aspect–Category–Sentiment–Appearance Quad Extraction (MASQE), which aims to extract textual aspect terms and visual aspect objects, their associated categories, sentiments, and modality appearances. To facilitate research on this task, we introduce MM-Rest, a novel dataset comprising 19,962 manually annotated aspect–category–sentiment–appearance quadruples from restaurant reviews, annotated across both text and images. Additionally, we propose a Visual Aspect-aware Multimodal Large Language Model (VAM-LLM), which leverages predicted visual aspect objects to enhance multimodal quadruple extraction in an end-to-end framework. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of VAM-LLM over baseline systems, establishing strong benchmarks for MASQE and its subtasks. We believe our work opens new avenues for fine-grained multimodal sentiment analysis, providing rich resources and methodologies for future research.</p>","PeriodicalId":48810,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology","volume":"77 6","pages":"771-794"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/asi.70026","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148071420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}