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Harry Bruce is the Dean of The
Information School of the University of Washington. His
research and teaching focus on human information behavior,
information seeking and use, and personal information
management in networked information environments. Dr. Bruce’s research has been funded by the National Science
Foundation, the Institute of Museum and Library
Services (IMLS), the Washington State Library, and the Australian
Department of Employment Education and Training.
Current Research
- Microsoft ($75,000) 2005-2006 "The Encarta Project"
- National Science Foundation - Information and Data
Management ($428,389) 2001, 2002, 2003 "Keeping Found Things
Found" Supplementary award ($70,000), 2004-2005
- National Science Foundation – Information and Data
Management ($34,361) 2004, 2005 "Sponsored workshop on
personal information management"
- National Science Foundation - Information and Data
Management ($246,208) 2003 "Information Retrieval and
Databases: Synergies and Syntheses" – PI workshop, Seattle,
September 2003.
- Institute for Museum and Library Services ($212,023)
2003, 2004, 2005 "Project Athena: Spinning the Web of our
Future"
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Dean and
Professor
The Information School
University of Washington
Ph: 206 616 0985
Fax: 206 616 3152
Email:
harryb@u.washington.edu
Harry's got
"It!"
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Recent Publications
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Bruce, H. Personal anticipated information
need. Information
Research, 10(3) paper 232. [Available at
http://InformationR.net/ir/10-3/paper232.html]
April, 2005.
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Bruce, H. The PAIN Hypothesis.
In Fisher, K. E., Erdelez, S., & McKechnie, E. F. (Eds.).
Theories of information behavior: A
researcher's guide. Medford, NJ: Information Today, 2005.
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Bruce, H. & Delap, A.
Building an Interdisciplinary Research Community and Culture in an
Information School. The Society for Research Administrators
International. Salt Lake City, Utah, October 23-27, 2004.
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Bruce, H., Jones, W., and
Dumais, S. "Keeping and Re-finding information on the Web: What do
people do and what do they need?"
ASIST 2004: Proceedings of the
Annual Conference of the
American Society for Information Science and Technology.
Managing and enhancing information: Cultures and conflicts. Providence,
RI, November 13-18, 2004.
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Bruce, H., Jones, W. and Dumais, S. "Information behavior that keeps found things found"
Information Research, Vol. 10 No. 1, October 2004.
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Bruce, H., Fidel, R., Pejtersen, A.M., Dumais, S., Grudin, J. et
al. "A comparison of the collaborative information retrieval of two
design teams."
The New Review of Information Behavior Research. 4,
2003, 139-153.
Recent Presentations
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