Author

Fisher Karen E

information school, university of washington - Cited by 9,628 - HCI - forced displacement - youth - information behavior - international development

Biography

Dr. Karen E. Fisher is a Professor at the Information School, and an Adjunct Professor in the Communication Department at the University of Washington. She is also a Consultant (embedded field ethnographer) for UNHCR Jordan, Adjunct Professor, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland, and Visiting Professor at the Information School, Siegen University, DE. An advocate of humanitarian research, her passion is how HCI-industry-NGO collaborations can help people displaced by conflict and build futures. Karen’s focus is the Syrian war and she works in the Levant.
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Opportunity for All: How the American Public Benefits from Internet Access at US Libraries.
S Becker, MD Crandall, KE Fisher, B Kinney, C Landry, A RochaInstitute of Museum and Library Services, 2010201
247
2010
Making sense of an information world: The everyday-life information behavior of preteens
EM Meyers, KE Fisher, E MarcouxThe Library Quarterly 79 (3), 301-341, 2009200
159
2009
The best, the worst, and the hardest to find: How people, mobiles, and social media connect migrants in (to) Europe
M Borkert, KE Fisher, E YafiSocial Media+ Society 4 (1), 2056305118764428, 2018201
151
2018
Mobile social networking as information ground: A case study
S Counts, KE FisherLibrary & Information Science Research 32 (2), 98-115, 2010201
117
2010
Information needs
CM Naumer, KE FisherEncyclopedia of library and information sciences 1, 2452-2458, 2010201
56
2010
Action! codesigning interactive technology with immigrant teens
KE Fisher, AP Bishop, L Magassa, P FawcettProceedings of the 2014 conference on Interaction Design and Children, 345-348, 2014201
37
2014
Adapting design thinking and cultural probes to the experiences of immigrant youth: Uncovering the roles of visual media and music in ICT wayfaring
KE Fisher, K Yefimova, AP BishopProceedings of the 2016 CHI conference extended abstracts on human factors …, 2016201
28
2016
Refugees & technology: determining the role of HCI research
K Aal, A Weibert, R Talhouk, V Vlachokyriakos, K Fisher, V WulfProceedings of the 2018 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group …, 2018201
26
2018
Information worlds of refugees
KE FisherDigital lifeline, 79-112, 2018201
23
2018
Using ICT design to learn about immigrant teens from Myanmar
A Peterson Bishop, KE FisherProceedings of the seventh international conference on information and …, 2015201
22
2015
Opportunity for all: How library policies and practices impact public Internet access
S Becker, MD Crandall, KE Fisher, R Blakewood, B Kinney, ...Institute of Museum and Library Services, 2011201
22
2011
eGovernment services use and impact through public libraries: Preliminary findings from a National Study of Public Access Computing in Public Libraries
KE Fisher, S Becker, M Crandall10 43rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 1-10, 101
20
2010
Refugees & HCI Workshop: The role of HCI in responding to the refugee crisis
R Talhouk, V Vlachokyriakos, A Weibert, K Aal, SI Ahmed, K Fisher, ...Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors …, 2017201
18
2017
Refugees & HCI SiG: Situating HCI within humanitarian research
R Talhouk, K Aal, A Weibert, M Krüger, V Wulf, K Fisher, F Tachtler, ...Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing …, 2019201
18
2019
InfoMe: A field-design methodology for research on ethnic minority youth as information mediaries
KE Fisher, AP Bishop, P Fawcett, L MagassaNew directions in children’s and adolescents’ information behavior research …, 202
14
2014
Youth Mobile Phone and Internet Use, January 2015, Za’atari Camp, Mafraq, Jordan
C Maitland, B Tomaszewski, KE FisherPenn State College of Information Sciences and Technology 19, 2015201
13
2015
InfoMe@ teen design days: a multi-disciplinary, design thinking approach to community development
KE Fisher, AP Bishop, P Fawcett, L MagassaProceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Information and …, 2013201
11
2013
People first, data second: A humanitarian research framework for fieldwork with refugees by war zones
KE FisherComputer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) 31 (2), 237-27, 2022202
9
2022
Technology at/of the Border: A Workshop about Stories and Experiences
M Krüger, K Aal, V Wulf, FM Tachtler, R Talhouk, AMB Duarte, KE Fisher, ...Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Communities …, 2019201
7
2019