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Iris Xie is a Professor in the School of Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She received her PhD from the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University. Her research interests focus on the design and evaluation of digital libraries, interactive information retrieval, human–computer interaction, user studies and research methods. In additional to numerous journal papers, she has published two books: Interactive Information Retrieval in Digital Environments (IGI Publishing, 2008) and Discover Digital Libraries: Theory and Practice (Elsevier, 2016), co-authored with Krystyna Matusiak.

Dr Rakesh Babu is a Lead Accessibility Scientist in Envision, Inc. His research interests include accessibility and usability, digital libraries, mobile assistive technology, mental models and technology affordances. His research attempts to empower blind people in the information society. His interdisciplinary, socially relevant research has been funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, Online Computing Library Center, National Science Foundation and Research Council of Norway. He has published journal articles and refereed conference papers on the under-researched topic of information technology (IT) accessibility and users with vision impairment. He serves as a Reviewer for multiple journals and international conferences.

Shengang Wang is a Doctoral Student at the School of Information Studies, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His research interests include information behaviors of vulnerable populations, health informatics and qualitative research methods. His research has been published in venues like the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association and Information Processing and Management.

Hyun Seung Lee is a Doctoral Student at the School of Information Studies, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She received her Master of Library and Information Science from the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University. Her research interest lies in information behavior and health information behavior, specifically in social media context and information serendipity. Her research has been published in the Journal of Association for Information Science, Information Processing and Management, and Technology and International Journal of Medical Informatics.

Tae Hee Lee is a PhD student in the School of Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. He has over eight years of working experience in the information technology (IT) fields, including an IT project and operation manager in the department of supporting information technology at the Samsung Fire and Marin Insurance, before studying at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. His current research relates to professionals or marginalized groups’ user experience and information behavior. He has published articles in Information Processing and Management and the Journal of Association for Information Science and Technology.