Symposium Format and Schedule
The symposium will take place during the ASIS&T Annual Meeting in Thailand on Friday, 6 November 2026, from 1 to 5 pm. The symposium is designed to be interactive and collaborative. The working shedule is as follows:
1:00–1:15 Introductions (Haiming Liu, Maja Krtalić, Rob Capra)
1:15–2:30 Part 1: Challenging assumptions (opinion pieces)
Katriina Byström (OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University). Blurring the Boundary Between Information Seeking and Searching in the Workplace: ‘Why would I ask a colleague…?’
Orland Hoeber (University of Regina). Rethinking Information Interaction in AI-Mediated Search
Yuxiang Chris Zhao (Nanjing University). Rethinking the Boundaries of Information Interaction: An Affordance Perspective on Human-AI Engagement
Tianji Jiang (Sun Yat-sen University). More Trusted with Vintage, Less Applicable over Time? The Dual Temporal Effect in Data Reusability
Michael Twidale (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.). On Studying Messiness: An Opinion Piece
2:30–2:45 Break
2:45–03:15 Group discussions
Participants will be working in small groups on challenges identified during Part 1.
3:15–4:15 Part 2: Paper presentations
Xiaoqian Zhang. “If you have a question, just ask Doubao”: Chinese older adults’ engagement with AI in health information behavior
Clarence Maybee. Bolstering Human Agency in AI Interactions: A New Role for Information Literacy
4:15–4:45 Panel discussion on future directions
4:45–5:00 Closing