{"id":19,"date":"2016-04-11T15:45:14","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T22:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alamir\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2023-03-01T23:20:20","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T06:20:20","slug":"test","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alamir\/","title":{"rendered":"Alamir Novin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a PhD candidate researching Human-Computer Interactions, Cognitive Science, and Data Science at the <a href=\"http:\/\/ischool.ubc.ca\">University of British Columbia&#8217;s School of Information<\/a>. Prior to my current employment in research, I joined one of the only research teams in Canada studying various science media models (The Concordia Science Journalism Program) and studied Data Journalism and Data Science. As a Data Scientist, I built software online aimed at facilitating these newly discovered models and tested them on both scientists and science journalists. The experiments yielded positive results and I&#8217;m continuing further research by expanding into the area of Information Science and Human-Computer Interactions at UBC. The focus of my research uses Cognitive Science, Data Science, and UX Design to experiment with computer systems and Artificial Intelligence.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><!--  OLD BIO THAT I AM COMMENTING OUT FOR NOW I am a PhD candidate researching Human-Computer Interaction, Collaborative Information Behaviour, and Information Visualization at the <strong><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/slais.ubc.ca\">University of British Columbia's Information School (SLAIS iSchool)<\/a>. <\/strong>My current research in the field of Information Behaviour looks at the cognitive biases that take place when a user seeks and uses information online. The results look promising and a few papers based on my findings received awards.\n\nPrior to my current employment in research, I was the president of my university's Biology Society, volunteered with Vancouver's\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hummingbirdmonitoringnetwork\/\">Hummingbird Monitoring Network<\/a>, and taught children about ecology at Vancouver's\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lynncanyon.ca\/information\/\">Ecology Centre<\/a>. With these experiences,\u00a0I observed\u00a0the\u00a0importance\u00a0of communicating\u00a0science <em>with<\/em> the public instead of\u00a0<em>to\u00a0<\/em>the public.\u00a0I decided to work for five years as a journalist writing articles on science issues. During this time, I observed\u00a0how\u00a0science journalists and online communities collaborated to understand scientific controversies. To research this phenomena,\u00a0I\u00a0joined one of the only research teams in Canada studying various science journalism models with a fellowship from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csjp.ca\">The Concordia Science Journalism Program<\/a><\/strong>. During my time there I built software aimed at facilitating these newly discovered models and tested them on both student journalists and science journalists. The experiments yielded positive results. I'm continuing further research on online\u00a0collaborations by expanding into the area of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/slais.ubc.ca\/people\/students\/phd-students\/\">Information Science<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/slais.ubc.ca\/people\/students\/phd-students\/\">\u00a0as a Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong> --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Featured Projects<\/strong><\/h5>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-19 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alamir\/files\/2016\/04\/Screen-Shot-2016-04-29-at-2.11.27-AM-300x150.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-74\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alamir\/files\/2016\/04\/Screen-Shot-2016-04-29-at-2.11.27-AM-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alamir\/files\/2016\/04\/Screen-Shot-2016-04-29-at-2.11.27-AM-768x383.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alamir\/files\/2016\/04\/Screen-Shot-2016-04-29-at-2.11.27-AM-1024x511.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alamir\/files\/2016\/04\/Screen-Shot-2016-04-29-at-2.11.27-AM-1200x599.png 1200w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alamir\/files\/2016\/04\/Screen-Shot-2016-04-29-at-2.11.27-AM.png 1349w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-74'>\n\t\t\t\tDebateCited is a collaborative software that mixes concept-maps with decision-trees. I created it for my Master&#8217;s thesis.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alamir\/files\/2016\/04\/Screen-Shot-2016-04-29-at-2.08.56-AM-300x178.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-73\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alamir\/files\/2016\/04\/Screen-Shot-2016-04-29-at-2.08.56-AM-300x178.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alamir\/files\/2016\/04\/Screen-Shot-2016-04-29-at-2.08.56-AM-768x455.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alamir\/files\/2016\/04\/Screen-Shot-2016-04-29-at-2.08.56-AM-1024x606.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alamir\/files\/2016\/04\/Screen-Shot-2016-04-29-at-2.08.56-AM.png 1064w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-73'>\n\t\t\t\tWordArc is a social network I built from scratch. It was designed for writers to share their work. A unique feature was that users could annotate each others&#8217; work.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alamir\/files\/2016\/04\/screenshot2-200x300.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-75\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alamir\/files\/2016\/04\/screenshot2-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alamir\/files\/2016\/04\/screenshot2.png 286w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 85vw, 200px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-75'>\n\t\t\t\tBIXI Finder was an Android app I created for bicycle sharing in Toronto. The app informed users where bike locations were located in Toronto and how many bikes were available.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong> Research Paper Awards<\/strong><\/h5>\n<div class=\"csl-bib-body\" style=\"line-height: 1.35;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 20px; rounded-corners: 50%; background-color: #b2a8af; margin-bottom: 20px;\">\n<p class=\"TableContents\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Winner of Best Presentation Award for ASIS&amp;T SIG-AI (2021)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Novin, A. (2021). A Meta Framing Problem How Can A.I. Conceptualize Search as Learning? <em>\u00a0Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology for SIG-AI.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"TableContents\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Top 5 Finalist at ACM SIGDOC (2021) Student Research Competition<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Novin, A. (2021). \u00a0How Document-genre and Document-order in a Search Page Lead to Cognitive Biases. \u00a0<em>SIGDOC &#8217;21: The 39th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"TableContents\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: #000000;\">Top 25 Finalist at ACM Computer-Human Interactions (CHI 2019) Student Research Competition<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Novin, A (2018). Reconstructing &#8220;Real News&#8221; via Computer-Human Interactions. <em>CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery<\/em>, New York, NY, USA, Paper SRC17, 1\u20136. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3170427.3180295<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Honourable Mention for Best Paper at CHIIR (2017)<\/span><br \/>\n<a style=\"color: white;\" href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/citation.cfm?id=3020185\">A. Novin and E. Meyers, \u201cMaking Sense of Conflicting Science Information: Exploring Bias in the Search Engine Result Page,\u201d <em>CHIIR &#8217;17 Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Conference Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, pp. 175\u2013184.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Best Paper Award for Design, User Experience, and Usability HCII (2017)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Novin, A., &amp; Meyers, E. (2017). &#8220;Four Biases in Interface Design Interactions.&#8221; International Conference of Design, User Experience, and Usability. (pp. 163-173) Springer<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Second Best Paper at AERA SIGMCL (2017)<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Novin, A., &amp; Meyers, E. (2017). Misinformed by Algorithm: How Search Engine Results Can Lead to Biased Student Writing. In Proceedings of the 2017 <em>American Educational Research Association<\/em> (AERA).<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Bibliography<\/strong><\/h5>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Novin, A. (2022). Hypergraphing a Network of Inquiry, Search, and Retrieval. <em>\u00a0Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology for SIG-AI.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Novin, A. (2021). A Meta Framing Problem How Can A.I. Conceptualize Search as Learning? <em>\u00a0Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology for SIG-AI.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Novin, A. (2021). \u00a0How Document-genre and Document-order in a Search Page Lead to Cognitive Biases. \u00a0<em>SIGDOC &#8217;21: The 39th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Novin, A. (2021) \u201cThe Cognitive Biases that Emerge from Search as Learning.\u201d Doctoral Symposium presented at <em>l\u2019\u00c9cole de Biblioth\u00e9conomie et des Sciences de l\u2019Information (EBSI) de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al et la School of Information Studies (SIS) de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 McGill<\/em>. Montreal, Quebec.<\/p>\n<p>Novin, A. (2019). Calming&#8221; Internet Arguments&#8221; with Design. <em>Proceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS\/Actes du congr\u00e8s annuel de l\u2019ACSI.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Novin, A. (2018). Reconstructing&#8221; Real News&#8221; via Computer-Human Interactions. 1\u20136.<\/p>\n<p>Reynolds, R., Meyers, E., Ghosh, S., &amp; Novin, A. (2018). Beyond Bloom\u2019s Taxonomy: Integrating \u201csearching as learning\u201d and e\u2010learning research perspectives. <em>Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology<\/em>, 55(1), 726\u2013729.<\/p>\n<p>Hofman, D., &amp; Novin, A. (2018). Blocked and chained: Blockchain and the problems of transparency. <em>Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology,<\/em> 55(1), 171\u2013178.<\/p>\n<p>Novin, A., &amp; Meyers, E. (2017). &#8220;Four Biases in Interface Design Interactions.&#8221; <em>International Conference of Design, User Experience, and Usability <\/em>(pp. 163-173) Springer.<\/p>\n<p>Novin, A., &amp; Meyers, E. (2017, March). Making Sense of Conflicting Science Information: Exploring Bias in the Search Engine Result Page. In Proceedings of the 2017 <em>Conference on Conference Human Information Interaction and Retrieval<\/em> (pp. 175-184). ACM.<\/p>\n<p>Novin, A. (2017). Contextualizing the Cognition Crisis. <em>In SCST@ CHIIR<\/em> (pp. 29-32).<\/p>\n<p>Novin, A., &amp; Meyers, E. (2017). Misinformed by Algorithm: How Search Engine Results Can Lead to Biased Student Writing. In Proceedings of the 2017 <em>American Educational Research Association<\/em> (AERA).<\/p>\n<p>Novin, A., &amp; Meyers, E. (2016). Controversial Search Engine Results. In <em>Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS\/ACSI)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Novin, A., &amp; Meyers, E. (2016). USER: Understanding Search Engine Results. In <em>Conference Presentation for iSchool Research Day at UBC<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Novin, A. (2013). \u201cDEBATECITED: An empirical experiment on the value of open-source research methods and peer collaboration in science journalism\u201d <em>Master\u2019s thesis<\/em>, Concordia University.<\/p>\n<p>Novin, A., &amp; Secko, D. (2013) DEBATE CITED: A First Exploration of a Web Application to Enhance the Production of Science Journalism Students<em>. Kings Journalism.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Novin, A., &amp; Secko, D. (2012) \u201cMapping Genozyme Debates&#8221; Paper presented at <em>Canadian Communication Association<\/em> <em>Conference<\/em>. Toronto, Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>Novin, A. (2011) \u201cA Web Interface for Opening Journalism Research\u201d Paper presented at <em>Interface Foundations Conference<\/em>. Ottawa, Ontario.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Academic Organizations<\/strong><\/h5>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>During my time at UBC I was a proud member of a few academic organizations worth mentioning:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>President of the Doctoral Student Association for the School of Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>PhD representative of the Human-Computer Interaction society at UBC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>PhD representative of the Doctoral Studies\u00a0Committee for the UBC&#8217;s School of Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Volunteer at the Vancouver Hummingbird Monitoring Network.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>For more details visit:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/alamirnovin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Alamir_Novin2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ResearchGate<\/a> |\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.ca\/citations?scilu=&amp;scisig=AMstHGQAAAAAV7Jz_EQrGnwEbJItdD01zKD7Jxp7zmod&amp;gmla=AJsN-F5l2Uz_d5E2hwsA5guRYbR6d3JRbZNX3lEjhcWfl7ERPGmoI5HpLSqKLC-HXms9zt5LvKshwrirOXl9Sng08WSmnQNPbjXZKWpxU_Hw7w0U3dy3luI&amp;undo=untrash_citations,J_g5lzvAfSwC&amp;sciund=17636405542547656296&amp;user=7kKfv-8AAAAJ\">GoogleScholar<\/a><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\">Contact<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">alamir.novin@ubc.ca<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a PhD candidate researching Human-Computer Interactions, Cognitive Science, and Data Science at the University of British Columbia&#8217;s School of Information. Prior to my current employment in research, I joined one of the only research teams in Canada studying various science media models (The Concordia Science Journalism Program) and studied Data Journalism and Data Science. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alamir\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Alamir Novin&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40449,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alamir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alamir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alamir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alamir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40449"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alamir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":78,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alamir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alamir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alamir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}