Writing and Speaking
Writing at MIT
Wildemuth, B. M., Kelly, D., Boettcher, E., Moore, E., & Dimitrova, G. (2018). Examining the impact of domain and cognitive complexity on query formulation and reformulation. Information Processing & Management, 54(3), 433-450.
Boettcher, E. (2016). Predicting the Difficulty of Trivia Questions Using Text Features (Unpublished master's thesis), University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.
When I was a contestant on Jeopardy!, I had the chance to discuss my graduate research with several publications. Favorites include write-ups in the New York Times and American Libraries.
Spotlights (staff profiles) for the RA Community News
Scholarship
Speaking
“Where Linked Data Can Impact User Experience", 2020 LD4 Conference on Linked Data for Libraries
"Coding and Clustering User Research Data" (workshop), Designing for Digital 2020 (with John Jung)
"Evaluating Discovery Architectures", DLF Forum 2018 (with David Bietila)
"'Get It': Streamlining Fulfillment at UChicago", BTAA Library Conference, Discovery in 2018: Issues and Trends (with David Bietila)
"Benefits of Homemade Smartphone Camera Rigs for UX Testing", Designing for Digital 2017 (with John Jung)
Trivia Writing
There's an art to writing a good trivia night: ensuring questions cover a range of topics and difficulty levels, connecting with what's relevant for your audience, and of course, triple-checking the facts themselves. I’ve written for multiple events at these organizations:
University of Chicago Library
Museum of the American Revolution