Research, Assessment, and User Experience Work

Experience completing research and assessment projects using a variety of methodologies and analysis techniques.

Related Projects and Outputs:

Professional Service and Leadership Positions

• Convener, Assessment Core Team. October 2022 to present.
  Additional team members: Brandon Britt, Meg Brown, Joyce Chapman, Deric Hardy, Ira King, Abby Wickes.
• Chair, Spaces With Intentional Furniture Team (SWIFT). October 2020 to May 2021.
  Additional team members: Meg Brown, Ira King, Seth McCurdy.

Projects

• Assessing the Needs of Patrons with Disabilities
  July 2021 to present
• Breaking the Bundle: Analyzing Duke’s Journal Subscriptions
  November 2018 to March 2020
• Network Visualization Literacy: Task, Context, and Layout
  Fall 2010 to Spring 2018
• Wrangling Library Reservation Data
  August 2020 to August 2021
• Visualizing Manuscript Metadata
  March 2019 to July 2019
• Updating Maps of Science
  Jan. 2011 to July 2011
• SciSIP Community
  September 2010 to January 2012
• Redesigning Library Wayfinding and Signage
  November 2018 to July 2019
• Diseases across the Top Five Languages of the PubMed Database: 1961-2012
  January 2014 to June 2014
• Print Collections Circulation Dashboard
  April 2020 to October 2020
• NSF Discovery in Research Portfolio
  Apr. 2010 to Oct. 2010
• Mental Disorders Over Time
  June 2014 to January 2016
• Master’s Thesis – Sandbox
  January 2006 to May 2008
• MAPSustain
  Jan. 2010 to Dec. 2010
• JobMap
  Jan. 2009 to May 2010
• Imprints in the Museum
  Aug. 2004 to Dec. 2004
• Growth of Bibliometrics
  May to June 2012
• Evaluation of Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Centers (TTURC)
  Aug. 2008 to June 2010

Theses/Dissertations

• Zoss, Angela M. (2018). Network Visualization Literacy: Task, Context, and Layout (Doctoral dissertation). Supervised by Dr. Katy Börner. School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University: Bloomington, IN.
• Zoss, Angela M. (2008). From Measure to Leisure: Extending Theory on Technology in the Workplace (Master’s thesis). Supervised by Dr. Geri Gay. Department of Communication, Cornell University: Ithaca, NY.

Journal Articles

• Downey M, Lafferty-Hess S, Charbonneau P, Zoss A. (2021). Engaging Researchers in Data Dialogues: Designing Collaborative Programming to Promote Research Data Sharing. Journal of eScience Librarianship, 10(2), e1193. doi:10.7191/jeslib.2021.1193
• Stipelman, Brooke A., Hall, Kara L., Zoss, Angela M., Okamoto, Janet, Stokols, Daniel and Börner, Katy. (2014). Mapping the Impact of Transdisciplinary Research: A Visual Comparison of Investigator-Initiated and Team-Based Tobacco Use Research Publications. Journal of Translational Medicine & Epidemiology, 2(2), 1033.
• Zoss, Angela M. (2012). Seeding a field: The growth of bibliometrics through co-authorship ties. Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 38(6), 29-32. doi:10.1002/bult.2012.1720380608
• Börner, Katy, Klavans, Richard, Patek, Michael, Zoss, Angela M., Biberstine, Joseph R., Light, Robert P., Larivière, Vincent and Boyack, Kevin W. (2012). Design and update of a classification system: the UCSD map of science. PLoS One, 7(7), e39464. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0039464
• Zoss, Angela M. and Börner, Katy. (2012). Mapping interactions within the evolving science of science and innovation policy community. Scientometrics, 91(2), 631-644. doi:10.1007/s11192-011-0574-8
• Börner, K., Huang, W. (B.), Linnemeier, M., Duhon, R. J., Phillips, P., Ma, N., Zoss, Angela M., Guo, H. and Price, M. A. (2010). Rete-netzwerk-red: analyzing and visualizing scholarly networks using the Network Workbench Tool. Scientometrics, 83(3), 863-876. doi:10.1007/s11192-009-0149-0
• Börner, Katy, Ma, Nianli, Duhon, Russell J. and Zoss, Angela M. (2009). Science & technology assessment using open data and open code. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 24(4), 78-81. doi:10.1109/MIS.2009.68

Book Chapters

• Zoss, Angela M., Maltese, Adam, Uzzo, Stephen Miles and Börner, Katy. (2018). Network Visualization Literacy: Novel Approaches to Measurement and Instruction. In Cramer, Catherine, Porter, Mason A., Sayama, Hiroki, Sheetz, Lori and Uzzo, Stephen Miles (Eds.), Network Science In Education (pp. 169-187). Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-77237-0_11
• Zoss, Angela M. (2014). Cognitive processes and traits related to graphic comprehension. In Huang, M. and Huang, W. (Eds.), Innovative Approaches of Data Visualization and Visual Analytics (pp. 94-110). Hershey, PA: IGI Global. doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-4309-3.ch005

Conference Papers

• King, Ira, Daly, Emily, and Zoss, Angela. (2023). Superficially accessible: Moving from a compliant library to an inclusive library. Paper presented at ACRL National Conference 2023, Pittsburgh, PA.
• Zoss, Angela, King, Ira, and Daly, Emily. (2022). Assessing the Needs of Users with Disabilities in Pursuit of More Accessible, Inclusive Libraries. Paper presented at Library Assessment Conference 2022, virtual.
• Kouper, Inna, Zoss, Angela M., Edelblute, Trevor, Boyles, Michael and Ekbia, Hamid. (2016). Mental Disorders Over Time: A Dictionary-Based Approach to the Analysis of Knowledge Domains. Paper presented at iConference 2016 Proceedings, Philadelphia, PA. doi:10.9776/16303
• Stamper, Michael J., Kong, Chin Hua, Ma, Nianli, Zoss, Angela M. and Börner, Katy. (2011). MAPSustain: Visualising biomass and biofuel research. Paper presented at Proceedings of the ADS­VIS 2011: Making Visible the Invisible: Art, Design and Science in Data Visualization, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom.
• Zoss, Angela M., Conover, Michael and Börner, Katy. (2010). Where Are the Academic Jobs? Interactive Exploration of Job Advertisements in Geospatial and Topical Space. Paper presented at Advances in Social Computing: Third International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling and Prediction, SBP10, Bethesda, MD. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-12079-4_30
• Boehner, Kirsten, Thom-Santelli, Jenn, Zoss, Angela, Gay, Geri, Hall, Justin S. and Barrett, Tucker. (2005). Imprints of place: Creative expressions of the museum experience. Paper presented at ACM CHI 2005, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Portland, OR. doi:10.1145/1056808.1056881

White Papers

• Zoss, Angela, Brown, Meg, King, Ira, & McCurdy, Seth. (2021). Public Report on Inclusive Library Study Space Design. This report summarizes findings of a literature review focused on inclusive library space design. The report offers suggestions for different aspects of library space design, including furniture, noise, aesthetics, food and drink, signage, and related websites.
• Zoss, Angela M. (2018). Visualization Librarian Census. This blog post summarizes results of an informal survey of library professionals who have job responsibilities related to data visualizations..
• Börner, Katy and Zoss, Angela M. (2010). Evolving and emerging populations and topics. White paper for CISE/SBE Advisory Committee on Research Portfolio Analysis, National Science Foundation.

Awards/Honors

• Zoss, Angela M., Edelblute, Trevor and Kouper, Inna. (2014). Diseases across the Top Five Languages in PubMed. Visualization submitted to Data Challenge at ACM Web Science 2014 Conference. Bloomington, IN. Won Student Best Entry.

Event Participation

• Invited participant, Dagstuhl Seminar 21152: Multi-Level Graph Representation for Big Data Arising in Science Mapping (April 12-16, 2021). Organized by Katy Börner, Stephen G. Kobourov at Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics in Wadern, Saarland, Germany.

Semester-Length Teaching Experiences

• Krishna, Anirudh, Zoss, Angela M. and Nolan, Sarah. (Fall 2017 to Spring 2018). Visualizing Social Mobility in the Developing World. Year-long research-based course and project at Duke University, Durham, NC.
• Gay, Geri, Leshed, Gilly and Zoss, Angela M. (Spring 2006). Human-Computer Interaction. Semester-long course at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

Presentations at Conferences, Professional Gatherings

• Daly, Emily, King, Ira, and Zoss, Angela. (November 2, 2022). Assessing the Needs of Users with Disabilities in Pursuit of More Accessible, Inclusive Libraries. Presentation at Library Assessment Conference 2022, virtual.
• Zoss, Angela M. (August 4, 2022). Wrangling Library Reservations Data. Presentation at NCSU Technology Jumpstart Program, virtual.
• Brown, Meg, Daly, Emily, Healy, Ciara, King, Ira, Wickes, Abby, & Zoss, Angela. (February 23, 2022). Meeting the needs of patrons with disabilities. Lightning talk at Duke University Libraries series – DivEing-In to the Racial Justice Roadmap, Durham, NC.
• Zoss, Angela M. (February 3, 2021). Wrangling Fall 2020 Reservation Data. Presentation at Duke University Libraries – First Wednesday Series, Durham, NC.
• Ogdon, Dorothy, Rutkowski, Andy, & Zoss, Angela M. (November 17, 2020). Visualization in Library Assessment. Webinar at Visualizing the Future Viz and Tell monthly webinar series, virtual.
• Kosokoff, Jeff and Zoss, Angela M. (July 31, 2020). Print Circs! A tool to inform understanding of 10 years of print acquisitions at Duke. Presentation at 2020 TRLN Annual Meeting, virtual.
• Daly, Emily, Chapman, Joyce and Zoss, Angela M. (May 28, 2020). The 2020 Biennial User Satisfaction Survey: Undergraduate and Graduate Students. Presentation at Duke University Libraries – Open Forum, virtual.
• Zoss, Angela M. (March 10, 2020). Partnering with Data Science Students on Journal Usage Analysis. Presentation at 2020 Electronic Resources & Libraries Annual Conference (ER&L2020), Austin, TX.
• Gambrow, Stever, Zoss, Angela M., Schick, Robert, Tackett, Maria. (November 22, 2019). Research Reproducibility: Education and Practice. Panel presentation at Center for Data and Visualization Sciences Data Management panel series, Durham, NC.
• Kosokoff, Jeff and Zoss, Angela M. (October 2, 2019). Breaking the Bundle: A Duke Libraries Data+ Project. Presentation at Duke University Libraries – First Wednesday Series, Durham, NC.
• Lyon, Meghan and Zoss, Angela M. (July 11, 2019). Exploring and Visualizing Manuscript Metadata for Project Prioritization. Presentation at 2019 TRLN Annual Meeting, Chapel Hill, NC.
• Chapman, Joyce and Zoss, Angela M. (November 16, 2018). Learning from students & faculty: 2018 user surveys. Presentation at Duke University Library Advisory Board Fall 2018 Meeting, Durham, NC.
• Zoss, Angela M. (October 24, 2014). Text-based disease classification of medical literature. Presentation at the Duke Visualization Friday Forum, Durham, NC.
• Zoss, Angela M. (November 1, 2017). Network Visualization Literacy. Presentation at Indiana University Network Science Institute Open Science Forum, Bloomington, IN.
• Zoss, Angela M. (February 11, 2015). Text-based disease classification of medical literature. Presentation at the Duke Center for Health Informatics Informatics Research Seminar Series, Durham, NC.
• Zoss, Angela M. (October 24, 2014). Text-based disease classification of medical literature. Presentation at the Duke Visualization Friday Forum, Durham, NC.
• Zoss, Angela M. (May 28, 2014). Coauthorship and email networks as proxies for collaboration. Presentation at the HASTAC NSF EAGER-sponsored event entitled Big (and messy) Data & Collaboration Workshop & Conference, Durham, NC.
• Zoss, Angela M. and Börner, Katy. (July 6, 2011). Mapping interactions within the evolving Science of Science and Innovation Policy community. Accepted presentation at 13th International Society of Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI) conference, Durban, South Africa.
• Zoss, Angela M. (July 4, 2011). Testing comprehension of informetric visualizations. Accepted presentation at Doctoral Forum of the 13th International Society of Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI) conference, Durban, South Africa.
• Zoss, Angela M. (February 8, 2011). Analysis and Visualization of Science. Presentation at Workshop on Scholarly Communication and Bibliometrics, iConference 2011, Seattle, WA.
• Zoss, Angela M., Conover, Michael and Börner, Katy. (March 31, 2010). Where are the academic jobs? Interactive exploration of job advertisements in geospatial and topical space. Presentation at 2010 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, & Prediction (SBP10), Bethesda, MD.
• Zoss, Angela M. and Börner, Katy. (November 8, 2008). Mapping Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Centers (TTURC) Publications onto the Landscape of the Tobacco Research Field. Accepted presentation at 2008 Annual Conference of the American Evaluation Association, Denver, Colorado.
• Wei, Carolyn and Zoss, Angela M. (August 1, 2005). Patterns of communication and information exchange in software development. Presentation at Sandia National Laboratories, Student Internship Symposium 2005, Albuquerque, NM.
• Boehner, Kirsten, Thom-Santelli, Jenn, Zoss, Angela M., Gay, Geri, Barrett, Tucker and Hall, Justin S. (May 29, 2005). Imprints in the Museum: Social Navigation Technology for Participatory Expression. Poster presentation at International Communication Association (ICA) 2005, New York City, NY.

Guest Lectures

• Zoss, Angela M. (November 18, 2021). Visual Analytics in Libraries. Guest lecture at undergraduate/graduate Information and Library Science course on Visual Analytics, Chapel Hill, NC.
• Zoss, Angela M. (February 8, 2019). Usability Studies for Data Visualization. Guest lecture and activity at graduate Interdisciplinary Data Science course on Data Visualization, Durham, NC.
• Zoss, Angela M. (November 27, 2018). Visual Analytics in Libraries. Guest lecture at undergraduate/graduate Information and Library Science course on Visual Analytics, Chapel Hill, NC.

Short-form Instruction Experience

• Hirsh, Lauren and Zoss, Angela M. (April 11, 2018). UX of data visualization. Presentation at Duke Innovation Co-Lab Roots workshop series, Durham, NC.