Selected Publications
- A complete list of my publications is available from Google Scholar.
- ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9063-5699
- Note that my family name changed from Freund to Sinnamon in 2020
Sinnamon, L., Tamim, L., Dodson, S. & O’Brien, H.L. (2021) Rethinking interest in studies of interactive information retrieval. Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR 2021). Open access https://doi.org/10.1145/3406522.3446031
Sinnamon, L., Dodson, S., & Kopak, R. (2021) Reading measures for searching as learning applications. Made to Measure: Workshop on Human-Centred Metrics for Information Seeking at the CHIIR 2021 Conference.
Zhu, Julia & Freund, L. (2020) Exploring open data initiatives in higher education, iConference 2020, Gothenburg, Sweden, March 22-27, 2020.
Barnes, L., Freund, L., Giustini, D. (2020) The information needs of Canadian midwives and their evidence informed practices. Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 15(2) 3-23. https://doi.org/10.18438/eblip29616.
Paige, B. & Freund, L. (2019) A case study of New England open data portals. JeDEM – eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government, 11(1), 59-80. https://doi.org/10.29379/jedem.v11i1.541.
Dodson, S., Freund, L. & Kopak, R. (2018) The role of pre-existing highlights in reader-text interactions and outcomes. Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL, 2018), Fort Worth, TX, June 3-7, 2018.
Dodson, S., Freund, L. & Kopak, R. (2017) Do highlights affect comprehension? Lessons from a user study. Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR, 2017), Oslo, Norway.
Freund, L., Kopak, R. & O’Brien, H.L. (2016) The effects of textual environment on reading comprehension: implications for searching as learning. The Journal of Information Science, 42(1), 79-93.
Freund, L., Dodson, S. & Kopak, R. (2016). On measuring learning in search: a position paper. Search as Learning Workshop, 39th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2016), Pisa, Italy.
O’Brien, H.L., Freund, L. & Kopak, R. (2016). Investigating the role of user engagement in digital reading environments. Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR 2016), New York, N.Y. ACM.
Swamiraj, M. & Freund, L. (2015) Facilitating the discovery of open government datasets through an exploratory data search interface. Open Data Research Symposium, Ottawa, May 27, 2015. www.opendataresearch.org/dl/symposium2015/odrs2015-paper23.pdf
Steichen, B. & Freund, L. (2015) Supporting the modern polyglot: a comparison of multilingual search interfaces CHI ’15 – Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 3483-3492.
Freund, L. & Toms, E.G. (2015) Interacting with archival finding aids. Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology. 67(4), 994-1008.
Freund, L. (2014) Contextualizing the Information Seeking Behaviour of Software Engineers. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 66(8), 1594-1605.
Wildemuth, B.W., Freund, L. & Toms, E.G. (2014) Untangling search task complexity and difficulty in the context of interactive information retrieval studies. Journal of Documentation . 70(6), 1118 – 1140.
O’Brien, H.L., Freund, L., Jantzi, L. & Sinanan, S .(2014) Investigating a peer-to-peer community service learning model for LIS Education. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science. 55(4), 322-335.
O’Brien, H.L., Freund, L. & Westman, S. (2014) What motivates the online news browser? News item selection in a social information seeking scenario. Information Research . 19(3). http://informationr.net/ir/19-3/paper634.html
Freund, L. (2013). A cross-domain analysis of task and genre effects on perceptions of usefulness. Information Processing and Management.49(5), 1108-1121.
Cherry, J., Freund, L. & Duff, W. (2013). Student Perceptions of Information Programs in Canada. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science . 54(3),174-190.
Wildemuth, B.M., Freund, L. & Toms, E.G. (2013). Designing known-item and fact-finding search tasks for studies of interactive information retrieval. ASIST European Workshop, 131-162.
Wildemuth, B.M. & Freund, L. (2012). Assigning search tasks designed to elicit exploratory search behaviors. Human Computer Information Retrieval (HCIR) Symposium, Cambridge, MA, 2012.
Cherry, J.M., Duff, W.M., Singh, N., & Freund, L. (2011). Student perceptions of their master’s program in information studies and the information professions: A longitudinal study. Library & Information Science Research , 33(2), 120-131.
Kopak, R., Freund, L. & O’Brien, H.L. (2011). Digital Information Interaction as Semantic Navigation in Innovations in IR: Perspectives for Theory and Practice , eds. Allen Foster and Pauline Rafferty. Facet Publishing.
Freund, L. (2010). Genre searching: a pragmatic approach to information retrieval in The Janus Faced Scholar, a Festschrift in Honour of Peter Ingwersen. Special volume of the e-zine of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics, 6, 35-42.
Freund, L. & Berzowska, J. (2010). The Goldilocks effect: task-centred assessments of e-government information. 72 nd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, Pittsburgh, PA.
Westman, S. & Freund, L. (2010). Information interaction in 140 characters or less: genres on Twitter. Information Interaction in Context (IIiX), New Brunswick, NJ, August 18-22.
Freund, L. (2008). Exploiting task-document relations in support of information retrieval in the workplace (Doctoral dissertation). University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario.
Freund, L. & Butterworth, R. (2008). Tagging for Use: an analysis of use-centred resource description. Information Interaction in Context (IIiX), London, UK, October 2008.
Freund, L. & Nilsen, C. (2008). Assessing a genre-based approach to online government information. Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science, Vancouver, B.C., June 2008.
Freund, L. (2008). Situating relevance through task-genre relationships. Bulletin for the American Society for Information Science and Technology , 34 (5), 23-26.
Freund, L. & Toms, E.G. (2007). Revisiting informativeness as a process measure for information interaction. Web Information Seeking and Interaction Workshop at the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Cherry, J., Duff, W. & Freund, L. (2007). Usability beyond the interface: designing a portal for text analysis. Presented at 70th annual meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T 2007), Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Yeung, P.C. & Freund, L., & Clarke, C.L. (2007). X-Site: A workplace search tool for software engineers. Presented at the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Freund, L., Clarke, C.L.A. & Toms, E.G. (2006). Towards genre classification for IR in the workplace. Information Interaction in Context (IIiX), Copenhagen, Denmark, October 2006.
Freund, L & Toms, E.G. (2006). Enterprise search behaviour of software engineers. Presented at 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington (pp. 645-646).
Freund, L., Toms, E.G. & Waterhouse, J. (2005). Modeling the information behaviour of software engineers using a work – task framework. Presented at 68th annual meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T 2005), Charlotte, NC.
Freund, L. & Toms, E.G. (2005). Contextual search: from information behaviour to information retrieval. Presented at the Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, June 2-4, 2005.
Freund, L., Toms, E.G. & Clarke, C.L.A. (2005). Modeling task-genre relationships for IR in the workplace. Presented at the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, Salvador, Brazil.