Welcome to Sanghee Oh's Homepage
shoh {at} email {dot} unc {dot} edu
My primary research focus is in information need and information seeking behavior assessment. I¨m particularly interested in understanding how people seek, share and evaluate information in an online environment and applying the human characteristics of information seeking in designing and developing information systems.
Areas:
∈ Everyday life information seeking behaviors
∈ Web browsing and searching behaviors
∈ Social Questioning & Answering [more]
∈ Personal health records system design and development
∈ Digital libraries
∈ Human-computer interaction
∈ User-centered system design and development
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Ph.D. student in Information & Library Science, 2004-present
University of California at Los Angeles, CA, USA
M.L.I.S. in Library & Information Science, June 2004
Seoul Women¨s University, Seoul, Korea
B.A. in Library & Information Science, Summa cum Laude, March 2000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL, School of Information & Library Science, Chapel Hill, NC
Graduate Research Assistant (March 2006 – present)
Project Title: The Digital Library Curriculum Development Project
PI: Dr. Edward Fox (VT), PI: Dr. Barbara Wildemuth (UNC-CH), Co-PI: Dr. Jeff Pomerantz (UNC-CH)
Graduate Research Assistant (January 2006 – June 2006)
Project Title: Usability of Personal Health Records
PI: Dr. Gary Marchionini, Co-PI: Dr. Barbara Wildemuth
[Homepage]
Graduate Research Assistant (September 2004 – May 2005)
Project Title: Establishing a Research Agenda for Studies of Online Search Behaviors: A Delphi Study
PI: Dr. Barbara Wildemuth, Co-PI: Dr. Carol Barry
[Homepage]
PogoHealth [Homepage]
Interface Design Evaluation (August - November 2007)
CENTER FOR NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT [Homepage], Nonprofit Resource Library, LA, CA
Library Intern (August 2003)
YAHOO! KOREA [Homepage], Department of Web Surfing, Seoul, Korea
Web Surfer (December 1999 – September 2001)
2009
Kim, S.* & Oh, S* (accepted). User's Relevance Criteria for Evaluating Answers in a Social Q&A site. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology. (*The authors made an equal contribution to the authorship of this study)
Oh, S. & Wildemuth, B. (under construction). Think-aloud Protocols. In B. Wildemuth (Ed.), Applications of Research Methods in Information and Library Science. [The book is under contract with Libraries Unlimited]
2008
Kim, S., Oh, S., & Oh, J. (2008, in press). Evaluating Health Answers in a Social Q&A Site. Poster Presentation at the 71st Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.
Oh, S., Oh, J., & Shah, C. (2008, in press). The Use of Information Sources by the Internet Users in Answering Questions. Proceeding of the 71st Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. [Paper]
Pomerantz, J., Wildemuth, B., Oh, S., Yang, S., Fox, E. (2008). Evaluation of a Curriculum for Digital Libraries. Poster Presented at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. Pittsburgh, PA, June 16 - 20. (3rd Place Winning Poster)
Shah, C., Oh, J., & Oh, S. (2008). Exploring Characteristics and Effects of User Participation in Online Social Q&A Sites, First Monday, 13 (9) [Paper]
2007
Kim, S.*, Oh, J.* & Oh, S.* (2007) Best-Answer Selection Criteria in a Social Q&A site from the User Oriented Relevance Perspective. Proceeding of the 70th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (*The authors made an equal contribution to the authorship of this study) [paper]
Park, E., Nam, Y, & Oh, S. (2007) An Integrated Framework for Electronic Theses and Dissertations in the Korean Context. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 33(3).
Pomerantz, J., Oh, S., Wildemuth, B., Yang, S. and Fox, E. A. (2007). Digital Library Education in Computer Science Programs. The 7th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, June 18-23, 2007). [paper]
Yang, S., Oh, S.,Pomerantz, J., Wildemuth, B. & Fox, E. A. (2007). Improving Education and Understanding of NDLTD. The 10th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations, Uppsala, Sweden, June 13-16, 2007.[paper]
Yang, S., Wildemuth, B. Kim, S., Murthy, U., Pomerantz, J., Oh, S. & Fox, E. A. (2007). Digital Library Curriculum Module Evaluation and Tools to Enhance Modules and Visualize Their Usage. The 10th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, Hanoi, Vietnam, Dec. 10-13, 2007.
2006
Choemprayong, S., Oh, S. & Sheble, L. (2006). Interfaces for The Personal Pregnancy Health Records (PregHeR) System: Facets in Time. Poster session presented at the Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Oh, S., Sheble, L., & Choemprayong, S. (2006). Personal Pregnancy Health Records (PregHeR): Facets to Interface Design, Poster session presented at the 69th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST), Austin, TX, U.S.A. [poster] [paper]
Pomerantz, J., Oh, S., Yang, S., Fox, E. A. & Wildemuth, B. M. (2006). The Core: Digital Library Education in Library and Information Science Programs. D-Lib Magazine, 12(11). [paper]
Pomerantz, J., Wildemuth, B. M., Oh, S., Yang, S., & Fox, E. A. (2006). Briefing: Digital libraries curriculum development. D-Lib Magazine 12(7/8).[paper]
Sheble, L., Oh, S., Choemprayong, S. & Marchionini, G. (2006). Use of Time-based Visual Metaphors in Pregnancy PHR Interface Design, Paper presentation at the 11th World Congress of Internet in Medicine (MedNET), Toronto, ON, Canada. [paper]
Wildemuth, B.M, Blake, C.L., Spurgin, K., Oh, S. & Zhang, Y. (2006) Patients¨ Perspectives on Personal Health Records: An Assessment of Needs and Concerns, A poster session presented at Critical Issues in eHealth Research, Bethesda, Maryland. [poster]
Yang, S., Fox, E. A., Wildemuth B. M., Pomerantz, J., & Oh, S. (2006) Interdisciplinary Curriculum Development for Digital Library Education. Paper presentation at the 9th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL), Kyoto, Japan.
Yang, S., Wildemuth, B., Pomerantz, J., Oh, S. & Fox, E. A. (2006). Core topics in digital library education. Encyclopedia of Digital Libraries. Accepted for publication.
The Use of Information Sources by the Internet Users in Answering Questions. Paper Presentation at the 71st Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Columbus, OH, October, 2008
Evaluating Health Answers in a Social Q&A Site. Poster Presentation at the 71st Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Columbus, OH, October, 2008. Co-presenting with Jungsun Oh.
Evaluation of a Curriculum for Digital Libraries. Poster Presented at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. Pittsburgh, PA, June 16 - 20, 2008. Co-presenting with Dr. Barbara Wildemuth, & Dr. Ed Fox. (3rd Place Winning Poster).
Best-Answer Selection Criteria in a Social Q&A site from the User Oriented Relevance Perspective, Paper presentation at the 70th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST), Milwaukee, WI, October, 2007
Congruence between Information Known and Information Used in Conducting Known-Item Searches, the Annual Research Forum of Librarian¨s Association of UNC-CH (LAUNC-CH), Chapel Hill, NC, May, 2006, Co-presenting with Dr. Barbara M. Wildemuth.
Use of Time-based Visual Metaphors in Pregnancy PHR Interface Design, the 11th World Congress of Internet in Medicine (MedNET), Toronto, ON, Canada. 2006. Co-presenting with Laura Sheble.
Personal Pregnancy Health Records (PregHeR): Facets to Interface Design, Poster presentation at the 69th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST), Austin, TX, U.S.A. 2006.
Inspirational Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams: The Last Lecture of Randy Pausch
INLS 200 Retrieving and Analyzing Information, UNC-CH, SILS (Undergraduate Required Course)
2008 Spring: [Course Syllabus]
2008 Fall: [Course Syllabus]
2009 Spring: [Course Syllabus]
Academic Honors
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Information and Library Science
Lester E. Asheim Scholarship, 2004-2006.
Seoul Women's University, Department of Library and Information Science
University Scholarship for Academic Excellence, 1996-1999.
Professional Membership
American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T)
Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)
Student Volunteer Works
Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. 2007.
Annual Conference of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 2006.
Last Updated: 01/12/2009