JULIA BULLARD
School of Information, 1616 Guadalupe Suite #5.202, Austin, TX 78701
512-574-0479 | julia.a.bullard@gmail.com
With an interest in infrastructure and values in design, I study information organization systems.
I employ qualitative methods, primarily ethnography, to help me understand the design of such
systems. I publish my work in information studies, human-computer interaction, and computersupported cooperative work.
EDUCATION
University of Texas, Austin, Texas
PhD in Information Studies
Co-advisors: Melanie Feinberg, Diane Bailey
Committee: Bill Aspray, David Ribes, Karen Wickett
in progress
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia
M.L.I.S.
Collaborative Research: Understanding the motivations of player-developers
2010
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
M.A. in Cultural Studies & Critical Theory
Major Research Project: Playing Utopia: Economic Fantasy within World of Warcraft
2007
St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia
B.A. Honours in English
Honours Thesis: Power and Loss: Melancholy and the Avatar in Digital Games
2006
REFEREED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
J. Howison & J. Bullard. (2015). Software in the scientific literature: Problems with seeing,
finding, and using software mentioned in biology literature. Journal of the Association for
Information Science and Technology. Currently in “Early View”. doi: 10.1002/asi.23538
J. Bullard & J. Howison. (2015). Learning from Elitist Jerks: Creating high quality knowledge
resources from ongoing conversations. Journal of the Association for Information Science and
Technology. Currently in “Early View”. doi: 10.1002/asi.23327
REFEREED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS0
J. Gruning, J. Bullard, & M. Ocepek. (2015). Medium, access, and obsolescence: What kinds
of objects are lasting objects? CHI '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on
Human Factors in Computing Systems, 3433-3442. doi: 10.1145/2702123.2702238
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M. Feinberg, D. Carter, & J. Bullard. (2014). A story without end: Writing the residual into
databases. DIS '14: Proceedings of the 2014 conference on Designing interactive systems,
385-394. doi: 10.1145/2598510.2598553
M. Feinberg, D. Carter, & J. Bullard. (2014). Always somewhere, never there: Using critical
design to understand database interactions. CHI '14: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference
on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1941-1950. doi: 10.1145/2556288.2557055
M. Feinberg, J. Bullard, & D. Carter. (2013). Using design experiments to investigate issues
in knowledge organization: An ongoing study. Proceedings of the Eighth International
Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1922 August, 2013, appearing in Information Research. http://www.informationr.net/ir/183/colis/paperC11.html (7000 words)
J. Bullard. (2013) Playfully serious information for serious play: The integration of
community values in an information resource. Proceedings of the 2013 iConference, p. 389397. doi: 10.9776/13218
J. Bullard. (2013). It takes a jerk to make a conversation into an archive. Proceedings of the
2013 iConference, p. 583-588. doi: 10.9776/13284
J. Bullard & H. O’Brien (2011). Information design in/as serious leisure: the case of
information databases to support online gaming. Proceedings of the 2011 iConference, p. 728729 (Abs).
REFERRED POSTER PRESENTATIONS
J. Bullard & H. O’Brien. (2011). Online synchronous interviewing of the info-savvy.
Proceedings of the 2011 iConference, p. 649-650 (Abs). doi: 10.1145/1940761.1940854
E. Gillette, H. O’Brien, & J. Bullard. (2011). Exploring technology through the design lens: a
case study of an interactive museum technology. Proceedings of the 2011 iConference, p.
583-590 (Abs). doi: 10.1145/1940761.1940840
PRESENTATIONS
J. Bullard & H. O’Brien. (2010). The motivations of video game database designers. 2010
Popular Culture Association & American Culture Association National Conference.
(Presentation).
WORKSHOP PAPERS
J. Bullard. (2014). Teaching classification construction as values in design. Values & Design
in HCI Education Workshop, CHI 2014.
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J. Bullard. (2014). Values and negotiation in classification work. CSCW Companion '14
Proceedings of the companion publication of the 17th ACM conference on Computer
supported cooperative work & social computing, 45-48. doi: 10.1145/2556420.2556820
AWARDS
CHI 2014 Best paper honorable mention award (top 5% of 2064 submissions). M. Feinberg,
D. Carter, and J. Bullard. Always somewhere, never there: using critical design to understand
database interactions. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in
Computing Systems—CHI 2014, 1941-1950.
SERVICE
North American Society for Knowledge Organization (NASKO) 2015 Program Committee.
Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology (JASIST) Reviewer,
2013-2014.
iConference 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 Reviewer.
Computer Human Interaction (ACM CHI) 2015 Reviewer.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Teaching Intern
2015
Faculty: Diane Baily & Randolph Bias
Course: Understanding Research
Teaching Assistant
2015
Faculty: Lecia Barker, Tanya Clement, Pat Galloway, & Unmil Karadkar
Courses: Understanding Research, Perspectives on Information, Historical Museums:
Context & Practice
2014
Faculty: Melanie Feinberg
Course: Digital Media Collections
2013
Faculty: James Howison
Course: Managing Online Communities
Research Assistant
2013-2014 Faculty: James Howison
Project: Software Citations in Science
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia
2009-2010 Graduate Academic Assistant – UBC Library, Humanities and Social Science Division
Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Vancouver, British Columbia
2009-2010 Classifier/Reviewer – British Columbia Headquarters Administrative Records
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
Teaching Assistant
2008
Faculty: Susie O’Brien
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2007
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Course: Contemporary Popular Culture
Faculty: Marc Ouellette
Course: Consumer Culture
AWARDS
UT Austin Continuing Fellowship
The Bruton Fellowship
The Bullard Fellowship
H.W. Wilson Scholarship
January 2009
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council – Master’s Scholarship
January 2008
Philip W. Oland Scholarship
MEMBERSHIPS
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM, SIG-CHI)
Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS)
Consortium for the Science of Sociotechnical Systems (CSST)
International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO)
2014-2015
2014
2011 – 2013
January 2008 –
January 2007 –
2002-2006