School of Information Sciences

Sherry Koshman

Assistant Professor

611 IS Building
412-624-9441

skoshman@sis.pitt.edu
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Institution of highest degree:
Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh

Research Interests:

Investigating user interaction with information structures including web-based visualizations, clusters, socially generated representations, and mobile visualizations for information retrieval.

Recent Publications:

Jiang, T. & Koshman, S. (2008). Understanding folksonomy as an information architecture for exploratory search. Accepted at the ASIST Information Architecture Summit, April 10-15, 2008, Miami, Florida.

Jansen, B. J., Spink, A., & Koshman, S. (2007). Web searcher interaction with the Dogpile.com metasearch engine. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58(5), 744-755.

Jansen, B. J., Spink, A., Blakely, C., & Koshman, S. (2007). Defining a session on web search engines. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58(6), 862-871.

Koshman, S., Spink, A., & Jansen, B. J. (2006). Web searching on the Vivisimo search engine. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 57(14), 1875-1887.

Koshman, S.  (2006). Visualization-based information retrieval on the web. Library & Information Science Research, 28(2) 192-207.

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