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Laura Muir is an Associate Professor at the School of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University, affiliated with the Centre for Social Informatics. Her work focuses on the intersection of information science, workplace learning, and innovation.
- Research areas: Enterprise search, information behavior, and metacognition
- Collaborators: Hazel Hall, Lyndsey Middleton, Tom Flint, Todd Richter
Her research investigates how information literacy drives innovative work behavior, particularly in Finnish organizations. She explores how knowledge organization systems can detect forward-looking sentiment in corporate reports to infer social phenomena. A key focus is on exploratory information searching in enterprises, analyzing factors affecting user satisfaction and task performance through mixed-methods studies.
Muir contributes to academic events like iDocQ8 (UK doctoral colloquium) and i3-Information: Interactions and Impact conferences. Recent publications highlight challenges in enterprise search systems, including overestimation of search expertise and lack of organizational feedback loops.
