iSquares.info
  • Welcome
    • iSquare Team
    • Theoretical Framework
    • The Draw-and-Write Technique
    • Publications
  • Corpus
  • Archive of Studies
  • iSquare Protocol
  • Educational Applications
  • Participate & Contact

Archive  of  studies    of   Information  (2010-2020)


first   isquare  study (2011)

Picture
The first 137 iSquares were drawn by students at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto during the summer of 2011. Through this initial study we learned how people draw 'information.'  Learn more...

INF3001:  (PhD)  foundations,  second  isquare   study (2013)

Picture
During fall 2013,  doctoral students in INF3001: Foundations  explored the nature of information through its visual dimension.  Learn more...

info   behaviour  illustrated   (2013)

Picture
126 iSquares that included human figures or their body parts (coined 'information behaviour squares' or ibSquares), were analyzed for insights into information behaviour.  Learn more...

reverse  side  study (2013)

Picture
​On the reverse side of the iSquare, participants respond to the prompt, "Information is..." using words. Heather Simmonds conducted a content analysis of these text responses.  Learn more...

INF2332: Information   Behaviour, "interdisciplinary   isquare   study" (2014)

Picture
During winter 2014, students of INF2332: Information Behaviour investigated visual conceptions of information outside the field of information studies. ​

 international  isquare   study (2015)

Picture
An international team of information scholars at 12 iSchools are exploring visual conceptions of information worldwide.  Learn more...

inf1300: Foundations  of  LIS, "information / internet / librarian" (2015)

Picture
During fall 2015, students of INF1300: Foundations of Library and Information Science discovered visual conceptions of information, Internet, and librarian. Learn more...

interdisciplinary   isquare   study (2016)

Picture
iSquares were collected from several Faculties across the University of Toronto in order to investigate the impact of academic cultures on visual conceptions of information.

pictorial   metaphor   study (2016) 

Picture
With Dr. Reijo Savolainen, the pictorial metaphors of information that appear in the iSquare corpus were analyzed. The resulting manuscript appeared in Journal of Documentation.


records  and  archives  management (RAM)   isquare   study (2014)

Picture
Dr. Pauline Joseph of Curtin University is spear-heading research into visual conceptions of information among Records and Archives Management students and practitioners in Australia. Learn more...

JhI  summer   Fellows  (2017)

Picture
During May, 2017, five exceptional undergraduate students from across the University of Toronto joined the iSquare Team, as part of the Jackman Humanities Institute Scholar's-in-Residence Program. Learn more...

related   work  (applications   of  the  isquare  protocol  to  other  concepts)

Group work study 

Picture
Pamela McKinney of the Information School at the University of Sheffield (UK) has used visual approaches to  study student conceptions of group work. See Pamela's slide presentation on the research or a poster on the study by Chloe Cook.

digital  library study

Picture
As a part of a dissertation, doctoral candidate Wen Lou from Wuhan University, China has asked undergraduate students to draw a a digital library.

knowledge   squares  (k-Squares)

Picture
Marcos Cavalcanti and Larriza Thurler, from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), in Brazil, asked undergraduate and graduate students to draw what is knowledge and compared its findings with I-Square drawings.