From the moment a baby is born, it said that he recognizes his father's voice. "The fundamental human condition is to experience and collaborate," Professor Mike Nilan said. "Human beings help each other address uncertainty."
Nilan and Professor Michael D'Eredita suggested in their presentation on Friday at the 2008 iConference that iSchools are unique as field because they can drive technology development to help people solve problems. They examined how the Internet changed the way people communicate and work together, and how iSchool researchers can realize the Internet and all the related technologies' full potential.
"We're a fragmented field--information systems, library science, telecommunications, computer science, social sciences, and many others," he said. "What brings us all together? What are our researchers interested in?"
Nilan said one of the challenges for iSchools is that they need to collaborate more effectively with each other in order to understand collaborating as a human response to a changing environment.
"This is the source of our utility as a field," Nilan said, "the extent to which we can help other people collaborate."
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