Luanne Freund

Wall Associate

Title

Associate Professor and Director of the UBC iSchool

Department/School

School of Library, Archival and Information Studies

Faculty

Arts

University

UBC

Geographic Location

Canada
Generic profile

Luanne’s research is primarily focused on the human-centred aspect of information retrieval and the ways in which people interact with and make sense of digital information. She is a partner in the Designing for People research cluster at UBC and leads the Digital Information Interaction Group (DiiG) at the iSchool. She has served as the principal investigator on several SSHRC, NSERC and locally funded research projects, and has published extensively in the areas of interactive information retrieval, open data and information access. She serves as Associate Editor of Information Processing & Management and General Chair of the ASIS&T 2018 Annual Meeting in Vancouver.