Wilfrid Laurier University

Vice President, Research, Vice President Research

Vice-President: Research

Thesis Title: Evaluation of Text-Based and Image-Based Representations for Moving Image Documents

About

Dr. Abby Goodrum is the Vice President for Research at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario.

Dr. Goodrum has authored more than fifty book chapters, journal articles and conference papers. She sits on the boards of The Canadian Technology Triangle, The Canadian Digital Media Network, The Accelerator Centre, SHARCNET, and C4. She also serves on the editorial boards of  Journalism & Mass Communication Educator, and the Journal of Communication Studies.

Dr. Goodrum serves as Director for Social Science and Humanities Research for a large scale, national Network of Centres of Excellence in Graphics, Animation and New Media (NCE GRAND) http://grand-nce.ca/

Since 2004, she has participated in grant-funded research totaling over 30 million dollars.  She was the Principal investigator on the Canadian Foundation for Innovation -funded Digital Cinema Research Lab, and on the Ontario Centres for Excellence- funded Viral Video project.

Although she is a highly cited researcher in information science, her work bridges multiple disciplines and appears in the journal literature of Computer Science, Humanities, Communication Studies, Information Management, and Film Studies.  For over 15 years, Dr. Goodrum's research has focused on Media Informatics: the study of how humans seek, use, share, manipulate, store, retrieve, and organize digital multimedia.  Closely related to Informatics, Media Informatics studies the behaviors and practices related to new media objects and environments including social, network, political, entertainment, communication and information aspects of new media content.