Dana McKay

"It's About Missing Much More Than the People": How Students use Digital Technologies to Alleviate Homesickness

Ryan Kelly, Yueyang Cheng, Dana McKay, Gregory Wadley, George Buchanan

Conference Proceedings  |  2021  |  Proceedings of the 2021 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Homesickness, which refers to feelings of distress caused by separation from home, is prevalent among university-aged students. Ch..

Feed the Tree: Representation of Australia-based Academic Women at HCI Conferences

Dana McKay, George Buchanan

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  OzCHI '20: 32nd Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction

Privacy concerns of the Australian My Health Record: Implications for other large-scale opt-out personal health records

Patrick Cheong-Iao Pang, Dana McKay, Shanton Chang, Qingyu Chen, Xiuzhen Zhang, Lishan Cui

Journal article  |  2020  |  Information Processing and Management

Personal health records offer the convenience of accessing medical history and personal health information, but also raise a range..

Strike a Pose: Gender and the Public and Private Performance of Magazine Reading

Dana McKay, Michael B Twidale, George Buchanan

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  Proceedings of the ... ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

The study of reading has a long history in the digital library community, but one issue that has been largely ignored is gender. G..

Capturing information behaviour in the wild: A tutorial

D McKay, G Buchanan

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval

Understanding complex information behaviour in an empirical, ecologically valid way is difficult at the best of times. It verges o..

On birthing dancing stars: The need for bounded chaos in information interaction

D McKay, S Makri, S Chang, G Buchanan

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  CHIIR 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval

While computers causing chaos is a common social trope, nearly the entirety of the history of computing is dedicated to generating..

We are the change that we seek: Information interactions during a change of viewpoint

D McKay, S Makri, M Gutierrez-Lopez, A MacFarlane, S Missaoui, C Porlezza, G Cooper

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  CHIIR 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval

There has been considerable hype about filter bubbles and echo chambers influencing the views of information consumers. The fear i..

Made to measure: A workshop on human-centred metrics for information seeking

G Buchanan, D McKay, CLA Clarke, L Azzopardi, J Trippas

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval

Metrics of human behaviour and effort lie at the heart of improving information interaction and retrieval. However, while some mea..

Shaking the tree: Understanding historic and future representation of women at OzCHI

D McKay, G Buchanan

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  OZCHI'19: Proceedings of the 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction

Gender equity is an issue of increasing importance in the technology industry generally and HCI specifically. Women are historical..

The Things We Talk About When We Talk About Browsing: An Empirical Typology of Library Browsing Behavior

Dana McKay, Shanton Chang, Wally Smith, George Buchanan

Journal article  |  2019  |  Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Libraries increasingly offer much of their collection online, rendering it invisible or unavailable to readers who, for reasons of..