Dr Stephann Makri

Academic researcher in Human-Information Interaction

Understands how people find and engage with information in digital environments, including Web, social media and AI-based. Uses this understanding to inform design and policy. Particularly interested in how people find information serendipitously. Currently focused on understanding and reducing information harms, e.g. mis/disinformation, polarisation, echo chambers and all forms of 'information manipulation.'

Selected academic publications. For a full list, visit Stephann's Google Scholar profile.

Zappia, C. & Makri, S. (2022). “I Try to Find a Balance”: Investigating Strategies for Self‐Regulating Covid News Consumption. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 59(1), 368-380.
Guiterrez-Lopez, M., Makri, S., MacFarlane, A., Porlezza, C., Cooper, G. & Missaoui, S. (2022). Making Newsworthy News: The Integral Role of Creativity and Verification in the Human Information Behaviour that Drives News Story Creation. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 73(10), 1445-1460.
Guiterrez-Lopez, M., Porlezza, C., Cooper, G., Makri, S., MacFarlane, A. & Missaoui, S. (2022). A Question of Design: Strategies for Embedding AI-Driven Tools into Journalistic Work Routines. Digital Journalism
Beveridge, L., MacFarlane, A., & Makri, S. (2022). 'I’m just not sure': the persistence of uncertainty in the information seeking of undergraduate students with dyslexia. Proceedings of Information Seeking in Context (ISIC), 2022.
Lee, L., Ocepek, M.G., & Makri, S. (2022). Information Behavior Patterns: A New Theoretical Perspective from an Empirical Study of Naturalistic Information Acquisition. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 73(4), 594-608.
McKay, D., Makri, S. & Buchanan, G. (2022). More Comfortable with Chaos: Using Hypertext to Shatter Echo Chambers and Promote Creativity. Proceedings of ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, 244-247.
McKay, D., Owyong, K., Makri, S. & Guiterrez-Lopez, M. (2022). Turn and Face the Strange: Investigating Filter Bubble Bursting Information Interactions. In Proceedings of ACM Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR). NY, USA.
Buchanan, G., Kelly, R., Makri, S. & McKay, D. (2022). Reading Between the Lies: A Classification Scheme of Types of Reply to Misinformation in Public Discussion Threads. In Proceedings of ACM Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR). ACM, New York, NY, USA.
Komatsu, T., Gutierrez Lopez, M., Makri, S., Porlezza, C., Cooper, G., Macfarlane, A. & Missaoui, S. (2020). AI should embody our values: Investigating journalistic values to inform AI technology design. NordiCHI 2020. Tallinn, Estonia.
Erdelez, S. & Makri, S. (2020). Information encountering re-encountered: A conceptual re-examination of serendipity in the context of information acquisition. Journal of Documentation, 76(3), 731-751.
McKay, D., Makri, S., Guiterrez-Lopez, M., Macfarlane, A., Missaoui, S., Porlezza, C. & Cooper, G. (2020). We are the Change that we Seek: Information Interactions During a Change of Viewpoint. In Proceedings of ACM Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR’20). ACM, NY, USA.
McKay, D., Makri, S., Chang, S. & Buchanan, G. (2020). On Birthing Dancing Stars: The Need for Bounded Chaos in Information Interaction. In Proceedings of ACM Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR’20). ACM, NY, USA.
Cole, L., Macfarlane, A. & Makri, S. (2020). More than Words: The Impact of Memory on How Undergraduates with Dyslexia Interact with Information. In Proceedings of ACM Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR’20). ACM, NY.
Makri, S., Chen, Y-C., McKay, D., Buchanan, G. & Ocepek, M. (2019). Discovering the Unfindable: The Tension between Findability and Discoverability in a Bookshop Designed for Serendipity. In proc. INTERACT 2019. Paphos, Cyprus. Awarded best paper (reviewers' choice).
Makri, S., Hsueh, T-L. & Jones, S.V. (2019). Ideation as an intellectual information acquisition and use context: Investigating game designers’ information-based ideation behavior. Journal for the Association of Information Science and Technology, 70(8), 757-787.
Makri, S & Turner, S. (2019). “I can’t express my thanks enough”: The gratitude cycle in online communities. Journal for the Association of Information Science and Technology.
Makri, S & Buckley, L. (2019). Down the rabbit hole: Investigating disruption of the information encountering process. Journal for the Association of Information Science and Technology.
Blandford, A., Furniss, D. & Makri, S. (2016). Qualitative HCI Research: Going Behind the Scenes. Morgan & Claypool. London, UK.
Race, T. & Makri, S. (2016). Accidental Information Discovery: Cultivating serendipity in the Digital Age. Chandos Publishing.
Burnett, M., Stumpf, S., Macbeth, J., Makri, S., Beckwith, L., Kwan, I., Peters, A. & Jemigan, W. (2016). GenderMag: A Method for Evaluating Software's Gender Inclusiveness. Interacting with Computers. 5th most read IwC article in Feb. 2016.

Makri, S., Bhuiya, J., Carthy, J., Owusu-Bonsu, J. (2015). Observing Serendipity in Digital Information Environments. In proc. 77th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.
Makri, S., Blandford, A., Woods, M., Sharples, S. & Maxwell, D. (2014). Making my Own Luck:Serendipity Strategies and how to Support them in Digital Information Environments. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 65(11), 2179-2194.
Makri, S. & Blandford, A. (2012). Coming Across Information Serendipitously: Part 1 (A ProcessModel) and Part 2 (AClassification Framework). Journal of Documentation, 68(5), 684-705 and 706-724.
Makri, S., Blandford, A., Cox, A.L., Attfield, S. & Warwick, C. (2011). Evaluating theInformation Behaviour Methods: A Formative Evaluation of Two Methods forAssessing the Functionality and Usability of Electronic Information Resources. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 69(7-8), 455-482.
Makri, S. & Warwick, C. (2010). Information for Inspiration: Understanding Architects’ Information-Seeking and Use Behavioursto Inform Design. Journal for the American Society of Information Science and Technology, 61 (9), 1745-1770.
Makri, S., Blandford, A. & Cox, A.L. (2008). Using Information Behaviours to Evaluate the Functionality and Usability of Electronic Resources: From Ellis’s Model to Resource Evaluation. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59(14), 2244-2267
Makri, S., Blandford, A. and Cox, A.L. (2008). Investigating theInformation-Seeking Behaviour of Academic Lawyers: From Ellis’s Model to Design. Information Processing and Management 44(2), 613-634.
Makri, S., Blandford, A., Gow, J., Buchanan, G., Rimmer, J. & Warwick, C. (2007). A Library or Justanother Information Resource? A Case Study of Users' Mental Models ofTraditional and Digital Libraries. Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology 58(3), 433-445.

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