Elaine G. Toms
Elaine G. Toms is a Canadian information scientist working in human–computer interaction and known for her research on information retrieval, usability of web sites, and the measurement of user engagement. She is Professor of Information Innovation & Management at the Sheffield University Management School, part of the University of Sheffield in England.[1]
Education and career edit
Toms was a student at Dalhousie University,[2] and completed a Ph.D. in 1997 at the University of Western Ontario.[3]
Toms was president of the Canadian Association for Information Science for 1998–1999.[4] After four years in the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto, she returned to Dalhousie in 2004, as associate professor and Canada Research Chair in Management Informatics.[2] She moved from Dalhousie to Sheffield in 2011.[5]
References edit
- ^ Professor Elaine Toms, Sheffield University Management School, 18 May 2020, retrieved 2021-01-05
- ^ a b Young, Catherine (29 October 2004), "Maritime university offers researcher a "fabulous opportunity"", Dal News, Dalhousie University
- ^ "Elaine Toms", ORCID, retrieved 2021-01-05
- ^ Executive Board for 1998–1999, Canadian Association for Information Science, retrieved 2021-01-05
- ^ Welcome new arrivals, Information School, University of Sheffield, 2011, pp. 4–5
External links edit
- Elaine G. Toms publications indexed by Google Scholar