Andrew Dillon

Andrew Dillon, Credit The University of Texas at Austin School of Information

Andrew Dillon is the V.M. Daniel Regents Professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Information. His background is in psychology, with an emphasis on how humans interact with technology. Dillon is the recipient of the 2023 Award of Merit from the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T).

Life

Dillon completed B.A. (double honours) and M.A. (1st class) degrees in Psychology from University College Cork in Ireland, then went on to earn his Ph.D. in Psychology at Loughborough University in Leicestershire, England. He completed a postdoctoral appointment at Indiana University in psychology.

Contributions

Dillon was was appointed Research Fellow at the Human Sciences & Advanced Technology (HUSAT) Research Institute in Loughborough. In 1995 he moved to Indiana University where he developed and served as the founding Director of the Masters in Human-Computer Interaction and faculty member of the new School of Informatics. In 2002 he became the V.M. Daniel Professor of Information in the School of Information, University of Texas at Austin, where he served as Dean until 2017. During that time Dillon led the school's transition to a leading iSchool. Upon completion of his term as dean, friends and donors to the iSchool created the Andrew Dillon Endowed Award for Education and Research in Social Justice at the University of Texas.

Dillon was elected and served as ASIS&T President in 2013. He serves as Director of Research Dissemination and Co-Investigator of the National Disability Center for Student Success. He serves on the Faculty Advisory Board of the IC² Institute at the University of Texas.[1] Since 2023 he serves as Editor in Chief of Information & Culture: A Journal of History. He has authored more than 100 articles and books on information behavior and design.

Publications

Dillon, A. (2024). "Why do people collect? The psychologist’s view". The Art Basel and UBS Survey of Global Collecting in 2023.[2]
Dillon. A. (2023). Understanding Users: Designing Experience through Layers of Meaning. Routledge.
Ayon, V. & Dillon, A. (2021). Assistive Technology in Education: Conceptions of a Socio-technical Design Challenge. International Journal of Information, Diversity and Inclusion 5 (2): 174-184. https://doi.org/10.33137/ijidi.v5i3.36136
Dillon, A. (2013). President's page. Bulletin of ASIST 39 (5): 3-5. https://doi.org/10.1002/bult.2013.1720390502
Trace, C.B., Dillon, A. (2012). The evolution of the finding aid in the United States: From physical to digital document genre. Archival Science 12 (4): 501–519. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-012-9190-5
Dillon, A. (2012). What it Means to be an iSchool. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 53 (4): 267–273. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43686920
Dillon, A. (2008). "Accelerating Learning and Discovery: Refining the Role of Academic Librarians". In No Brief Candle: Reconceiving Research Libraries for the 21st Century (CLIR pub 142). https://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub142/dillon/
Dillon, A. (2007). "CoLIS Keynote address: LIS as a research domain: problems and prospects " Information Research 12 (4): paper colis03. https://informationr.net/ir/12-4/colis03.html
Dillon, A. (2002). Information architecture in JASIST: Just where did we come from? JASIST 53 (10): 821-823. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.10090
Dillon, A. (1997). Introduction [Special Issue: Current Research in Human–Computer Interaction]. JASIS 48 (11): 965-969. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199711)48:11<965::AID-ASI1>3.0.CO;2-#
McKnight, C., Dillon, A., and Richardson, J. (1996). User Centered Design of Hypertext and Hypermedia for Education. In D. Jonassen (ed.), Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology (pp. 622-633). New York: Macmillan.
C. McKnight, A. Dillon and J. Richardson. (1991). Hypertext in Context. Cambridge University Press.

Awards

Stanley Caplan User-Centered Product Design Awards: Category Excellence Award, inaugural 2025 for Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS) Website Redesign by Mrunmai Abhyankar, Anajana Menon, and Andrew Dillon
Best Student Paper, CAIS 2024 for "Exploring the Intersection of Digital Placemaking and Information Science in Smart Cities" by Takayuki Suzuki (student), Andrew Dillon, & Kenneth R. Fleischmann
ASIST Award of Merit, 2023
North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization (NASKO) Best Paper Award, 2019 for "Mapping the KO Community" by Heather Moulaison-Sandy and Andrew Dillon in Knowledge Organization 46(8)
Rudolph J. Joenk, Jr. Best Paper Award, 2006 for “Query by Templates: Using the Shape of Information to Search Next-Generation Databases” by Arijit Sengupta and Andrew Dillon in IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication
Teaching Excellence Recognition Award (TERA), Indiana University, three consecutive years

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