SIG-USE Awards
Awards Overview and Past Winners
Available awards, application criteria and reviewer evaluation criteria:
- Outstanding Contributions to Information Behavior Award (deadline Sunday, July 11, 2021)
- Early Career Best Paper Award (deadline Sunday, July 11, 2021)
- Best Information Behavior Conference Paper Award (deadline Sunday, July 11, 2021)
- Elfreda A. Chatman Research Award (deadline Sunday, July 11, 2021)
- Best Information Behavior Conference Poster Award (deadline Tuesday, July 27, 2021)
- Innovation Award (no separate submission necessary as of 2019)
SIG-USE Academy of Fellows Inductees
- 2021, Lisa Given
- 2020, Heidi Julien
- 2019, Soo Young Rieh
- 2018, Denise Agosto
- 2017, Dania Bilal
- 2016, Karen Fisher
- 2015, Sanda Erdelez
- 2014, Gary Marchionini
- 2013, Nick Belkin
- 2012, Pertti Vakkari
- 2011, Donald Case
- 2010, Barbara Wildemuth
- 2009, Elfreda Chatman, Raya Fidel, Karen Fisher, Catherine Ross, Tom WiIson, and Robert Taylor
- 2008, Reijo Savolainen
- 2007, Brenda Dervin
- 2006, Carol Kuhlthau
- 2005, Marcia Bates
Visit the SIG-USE Academy of Fellows page for more information.
Past Award Winners
2020
- Best Information Behavior Conference Paper Award: Naresh Agarwal and Wenqing Lu, Response to non-response: How people react when their smartphone messages and calls are ignored
- Best Information Behavior Conference Poster Award: Lo Lee, Melissa G. Ocepek, and Stephann Makri, Good, Bad, and Practical: Exploring Human Memory in Everyday Information Behavior
- Elfreda A. Chatman Research Proposal Award: Tien-I Tsai, How Do Autistic College Students Work with Others in Academic Contexts: A Pilot Study on Collaborative Information Practices
- Early Career Best Paper Award: Kaitlin Costello and Diana Floegel, "Predictive ads are not doctors": Mental health tracking and technology companies
- Outstanding Contributions to Information Behavior Award: Heidi Julien
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