Baguio City, Philippines — Lance Timothy San Juan, a BLIS student at the University of the Philippines School of Library and Information Studies (UP SLIS), presented his research at the 2025 CHI in the Philippines Research and Practice (CHIRP) conference, held on May 8 in Baguio City. His work, titled “Integration of Personal Informatics and Library and Information Services in Academic Libraries in the Philippines,” explores how academic libraries can leverage personal informatics systems to enhance user engagement and self-directed insight through personalization.
San Juan’s study responds to the growing need for user-centered library services in the digital age. By integrating tools commonly used in self-tracking domains such as fitness and health into academic library systems, his work proposes a new model for how students and researchers might better interact with the wealth of information available to them. The paper was presented under CHIRP’s Work-in-Progress track, which highlights emerging HCI research in the Philippines.
San Juan was mentored by Assistant Professor Dan Anthony Dorado and Dr. Benedict Salazar Olgado. His research and conference participation were supported by Dr. Olgado’s Publics, Archives, and Data (PANDA) Lab, with funding support provided by the Office of the Chancellor of the University of the Philippines Diliman, through the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Development, through the PhD Incentive Award Grant 252508 YEAR 1.
CHIRP 2025 gathered researchers, practitioners, and students from across the Philippines to present cutting-edge work in human-computer interaction. San Juan’s contribution reflects a promising direction for local LIS scholarship engaging with contemporary HCI paradigms—an area in which UP SLIS is taking an active and leading role.
Published: 2025-05-08 13:33:23