Co-director: Information eXperience Lab
Associate Professor iSchool
G-Scholar citations: 3781 h-index: 33 i10-index: 69
LINKS TO MY PROFILES
Google Scholar | Semantic Scholar
AFFILIATIONS
ACM Senior Member (SIGCHI)
ASIS&T (SIG-USE)
Sigma XI
Distinguished Fellow of the Kosciuszko Foundation Collegium of Eminent Scientists
TRAVEL / EVENTS
October 25-28, 2020.
ASIS&T’2020
Online
October 19, 2020.
IWILDS’2020
Online
August 13-14, 2020.
March 14-18, 2020
CHIIR’2020
Online Vancouver, Canada
June 2-5, 2020
ETRA/ETWEB’2020
(Stuttgart, Germany)
June 2-5, 2020
NeuroIS’2020
Online (Wien, Austria)
September 11-14, 2019
II Światowe Forum Nauki Polskiej poza Granicami Kraju
(The second World-wide forum of Polish Science Abroad)
Warszawa/Pułtusk, Poland
July 23-25, 2019
SIGIR’2019
Paris, France
June 4-6, 2019
NeuroIS’2019
Wien, Österreich
March 10-14, 2019
CHIIR’2019
Glasgow, Scotland, UK
November 11-14, 2018
ASIST’2018
Vancouver, Canada
June 19 – 21, 2018
NeuroIS’2018
Vienna , Austria
June 14 – 17, 2018
ETRA’2018
Warszawa, Poland
ABOUT ME
How to pronounce my names? Jacek: [ˈyat͡sɛk] WAV MP3 Gwizdka: WAV MP3
I am an applied natural scientist, with a PhD and two masters’ degrees in engineering (industrial and electrical) and a postdoc in cognitive psychology. I study human information interaction and retrieval and apply cognitive psychology and neuro-physiological methods to understand information searchers and improve search experience. I am particularly interested in creating models that describe and predict cognitive and affective phenomena in human information interaction. My recent projects investigate search as a learning process and employ eye-tracking in assessment of reading, mind-wandering and in inferring information relevance. Full_CV | Short Bio PDF
I have a keen interest in neuroscience, philosophy, and philosophy of science.
Related: Neuro-Information Science | NeuroIR | Cognitive Load in Information Seeking
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2019 – current: Associate Professor, School of Information (iSchool), University of Texas at Austin
2015 – 2019: Assistant Professor, School of Information (iSchool), University of Texas at Austin
2013 – 2014: Lecturer, School of Information (iSchool), University of Texas at Austin
2005 – 2012: Assistant Professor, School of Comm. & Info (iSchool), Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
2004 – 2005: Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Information Studies (iSchool), University of Toronto, Canada
1997 – 2001: Summer research student intern at Xerox PARC, FXPAL, HP Labs, Palo Alto, CA
EDUCATION
PostDoc 2005 University of Toronto, Psychology / HCI
Ph.D. 2004 University of Toronto, Industrial Eng. / HCI dissertation PDF
M.A.Sc. 1998 University of Toronto, Industrial Eng. / IS thesis PDF
n.d. 1988 Politechnika Łódzka, Computer Science
M.Eng. 1985 Politechnika Łódzka, Electrical Eng.
ART & HOBBY
I am an avid photographer with artistic ambitions. My recent galleries: Cogitationes Aqua | Ramis Neuronis | Jazz musicians-1 | part-2 . I also like to create electronic sounds, ski in high mountains and dance.
Video Introduction
Talk at UT Applied Research Lab (December 2019): “Neuro-physiological evidence as a basis for understanding human-information interaction”
NEWS
2021.04.17: My G-Scholar h-index=33
2021.04.01: New upcoming conference paper Gwizdka, J. (accepted, 2021). ““Overloading” Cognitive (Work)Load: What Are We Really Measuring?”. To appear in NeuroIS’2021.
2021.01.02: New year, and a new journal article! First author is our post doctoral fellow Robert Bautista, co-authored with iSchool collegue Yan Zhang. Bautista, J. R., Zhang, Y., & Gwizdka, J. (2021). Healthcare professionals’ acts of correcting health misinformation on social media. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 104375. DOI_LINK FREE_ACCESS_TILL_Mar_06_2021
2020.11.09: New journal article: First author is my doctoral student Yung-Sheng Chang, co-authored with iSchool collegue Yan Zhang. Chang, Y.-S., Zhang, Y. & Gwizdka, J. (in press). The effects of Information Source and eHealth Literacy on Consumer Health Information Credibility Evaluation Behavior. Published first online in Computers in Human Behavior. LINK_via_UT LINK_to_publisher DOI_LINK
2020.11.02: My G-Scholar h-index=32
2020.10.25 : Conference paper online Chang, Y.-S., Gwizdka, J., & Zhang, Y. (2020). eHealth literacy, information sources, and health webpage reading patterns. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 57, e234. DOI_LINK
2020.10.15: Workshop paper online Bhattacharya, N., & Gwizdka, J. (2020). Visualizing and Quantifying Vocabulary Learning During Search. Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Investigating Learning During (Web) Search (IWILDS) Co-Located with 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2020), 2699, 4. LINK_PDF
2020.10.12: Conference paper online Jia, C., & Gwizdka, J. (2020). An Eye-Tracking Study of Differences in Reading Between Automated and Human-Written News. In F. D. Davis, R. Riedl, J. vom Brocke, P.-M. Léger, A. B. Randolph, & T. Fischer (Eds.), Information Systems and Neuroscience (pp. 100–110). Springer International Publishing. DOI_LINK
2020.08.24: New workshop paper accepted to IWILDS’2020 Bhattacharya, N., & Gwizdka, J. (2020). Visualizing and Quantifying Vocabulary Learning During Search. To appear in Proceedings of 1st International Workshop on Investigating Learning During Web Search. Workshop site.
2020.06.02: New book chapter paper online. Gwizdka, J., & Dillon, A. (2020). Eye-Tracking as a Method for Enhancing Research on Information Search. In W. T. Fu & H. van Oostendorp (Eds.), Understanding and Improving Information Search: A Cognitive Approach (pp. 161–181). Springer International Publishing. DOI_LINK
2020.06.02: New conference paper accepted to ASIS&T’2020. Chang, Y.-S. , Gwizdka, J., Zhang, Y. (in press 2020). E-Health Literacy, Information Sources, and Health Webpage Reading Patterns. To appear in ASIST’2020 Proceedings.
2020.04.01: New conference paper accepted to NeuroIS’2020 . Jia., C. & Gwizdka J., (in press). An eye-tracking study of differences in reading between automated and human-written news. To appear in proceedings of NeuroIS’2020.
2020.03.31: New conference paper accepted ETRA-ETWEB’2020. Bhattacharya, N., Rakshit, S., & Gwizdka, J. (2020). Towards real-time webpage relevance prediction using convex hull based eye-tracking features. Proceedings of the 2020 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (ETRA ’20 Adjunct). https://doi.org/10.1145/3379157.3391302
2020.02.28: New funded project. Consumer Longitudinal Health Information Needs and Search Behavior. Google Faculty Award. Yan Zhang (PI), Jacek Gwizdka (co-PI).
2019.12.10: New conference paper accepted to CHIIR’2020: Bhattacharya, N., Rakshit, S., Gwizdka, J., & Kogut, P. (2020). Relevance Prediction from Eye-movements Using Semi-interpretable Convolutional Neural Networks. Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, 223–233. https://doi.org/10.1145/3343413.3377960
2019.11.26: New funded project. Health Information Search Behavior as a Manifestation of Cognitive Impairment: An Eye-Tracking Study. with UT colleagues Maya Henry (Communication Sciences & Disorders) and Kavita Radhakrishnan (Nursing), Funded by UT Austin VPR Office. LINK
2019.10.09: New journal paper (early online view) with iSchool colleagues Yan Zhang and Andrew Dillon : Gwizdka, J., Zhang, Y., & Dillon, A. (2019). Using the eye-tracking method to study consumer online health information search behaviour. Aslib Journal of Information Management, pp. 16. LINK
2019.07.08: New Guest Editorial for the special issue on Neuro-Information Science in JASIST. Gwizdka, J., Moshfeghi, Y., & Wilson, M. L. (n.d.). Introduction to the special issue on neuro-information science. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 0(0). LINK to editorial Special Issue TOC