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shoh {at} email {dot} unc {dot} edu
My research interests focus on people's collaborative behaviors for seeking and sharing information in online environments. The The particular context that I'm investigating is social Q&A services (e.g., Yahoo! Answers, AnswerBag), which allow people to ask and answer questions, thus sharing information and social support.
In the past, people asked questions of family members, friends, colleagues or experts who were physically near to them and gave them emotional comfort. Nowadays, people use the internet to ask questions of anyone who has experience and expertise. To explore people's characteristics and their information seeking and sharing behaviors in social Q&A, my colleagues and I have conducted several preliminary studies (Kim, Oh & Oh, 2007, 2008; Oh, Oh & Shah, 2008; Shah, Oh & Oh, 2008; Kim & Oh, 2009, Shah, Oh & Oh, in press).
Another important stream of my research is health information seeking and sharing behaviors. Health is one of the most popular topics in everyday life. In a project about the use of personal health records (PHRs) (Wildemuth, et al., 2006), I interviewed patients, elders, and parents with sick children, and gained an understanding of their need to use effective systems for searching and organizing health information. Thus, I developed user interfaces to support PHR management for a specific group, pregnant women and their families (Oh, Sheble, & Choemprayong, 2006), and helped a health company, PogoHealth, to update their PHR user interfaces. This research experience revealed people's heavy dependency on online information sources. In addition, I learned that people are willing to expose their conditions and problems in order to obtain not only information but also social support from others. It led me to choose social Q&A as a research venue where people share thoughts, information, experience and emotions related to health problems, with particular emphasis on health information seeking and sharing behaviors.
In my dissertation research, I'm particularly interested in answerers in social Q&A. They spend their time and effort to answer health questions from anonymous others . I'm studying their motivations and the strategies they use to provide effective answers in health.
Areas of Interest
* The PDF version of CV is available here.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Ph.D. student in Information & Library Science, Expected to gradaute in May 2010.
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)
Book Chapters
Oh, S . & Wildemuth, B. M. (2009). Chapter 19: Think-aloud Protocols. In B. Wildemuth (Ed.), Applications of Research Methods in Information and Library Science (pp.178-188). Westport, Connecticut: Libraries Unlimited .
Yang, S., Fox, E., Wildemuth, B., Pomerantz, J., & Oh, S. (2009). Core Topics in Digital Library Education . In Theng, Foo, Goh, and Na (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Digital Libraries: Design, Development and Impact (pp.493-505). IGI Global.
Referred Journal Articles
Shah, C., Oh, S ., & Oh, J-S. (2009). Research Agenda for Social Q&A Research. Library and Information Science Research . 11(4), 205-209.
Kim, S.* & Oh, S* (2009). User's Relevance Criteria for Evaluating Answers in a Social Q&A site. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology , 60(4), 716-727. (*The authors made an equal contribution to the authorship of this study)
Shah, C., Oh, J-S., & Oh, S. (2008). Exploring Characteristics and Effects of User Participation in Online Social Q&A Sites, First Monday, 13 (9). Available at: http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2182/2028
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). 338-346.
Invited Journal Articles
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). Available at: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november06/pomerantz/11pomerantz.html
Referred Conference Papers
Oh, S ., Oh, J-S., & Shah, C. (2008). 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 (ASIST'08), 45. [Paper]
Kim, S.*, Oh, J-S.*, 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 (ASIST'07), 44. (*The authors made an equal contribution to the authorship of this study) [paper]
Yang, S., Oh, S .,Pomerantz, J., Wildemuth, B.M. & Fox, E. A. (2007). Improving Education and Understanding of NDLTD. Paper presented at the 10th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations, Uppsala, Sweden, June 13-16, 2007. [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, O N , Canada, October 14 -19, 2006. Available at: http://www.mednetcongress.org/ocs/viewabstract.php?id=421
Referred Conference Posters
Oh, J -S. , Shah, C., & Oh, S . (2009, in press). User Participation Patterns Over Time in Yahoo! Answers. Proceeding of the 72nd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST'09), 46 .
Oh, S., Wildemuth, B. M., Pomerantz, J., Yang, S., & Fox, E. (2009, in press). Using a Wiki as a Platform for Formative Evaluation. Proceeding of the 72nd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST'09), 46.
Wildemuth, B. M., Pomerantz, J., Oh, S ., Yang, S., & Fox, E.A. (2009). I-School as a Natural Home for Digital Libraries Education. Poster presented at iConference, Chapel Hill, NC, February 8-11, 2009.
Wildemuth, B.M., Pomerantz, J., Oh, S ., Yang, S., & Fox, E.A. (2009). The Variety of Ways in Which Instructors Implement a Modular Digital Library Curriculum. Poster presented at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Austin, TX, June 15-19, 2009.
Kim, S. , Oh, S ., & Oh, J -S. (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 (ASIST'08), Columbus, OH, October 24-29, 2009.
Pomerantz, J., Wildemuth, B. M. , 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. ( The 3rd Place Winning Poster)
Pomerantz, J., Oh, S. , Wildemuth, B. M., Yang, S. and Fox, E. A. (2007). Digital Library Education in Computer Science Programs. Poster presented at the 7th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. Vancouver, BC, Canada, June 18-23, 2007. [paper]
Choemprayong, S., Oh, S. & Sheble, L. (2006). Interfaces for t he 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 presented at the 69th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST '06), Austin, TX, November 3-9, 2006. [poster] [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, Poster presented at Critical Issues in eHealth Research, Bethesda, M D, September 11-12, 2006. [poster]
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Information and Library Science, USA
Guest Lecture, 2009
INLS 501: Information Sources & Services (A Reference Service Course)
Title: Social Q&A: Quesitoners & Answerers
Guest Speaker, 2008
INLS 501: Information Sources & Services (A Reference Service Course)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Librarian's Association: The University of North Caronlina at Chapel Hill (LAUNC-CH), USA, 2006
Presenter
2006 Annual Research Forum of LaunC-CH
Congruence between Information Known and Information Used in Conducting Known-Item Searches, May, 2006, Co-presenting with Dr. Barbara M. Wildemuth.
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]
INLS 461 Information Tools, UNC-CH, SILS (Graduate Required Course)
2009 Fall: [Course Syllabus]
Academic Honors
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Center for Teaching and Learning
Future Faculty Fellowship, 2009
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)
Association of Library and Information Science Education (ALISE)
Services
Journal of American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST)
Reviewer, 2009
School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Doctoral Student Committee Member
Undergraduate Committee, Fall 2008- Spring 2009
Task Force Committee, Summer 2009
Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
Student Volunteer, 2007.
Annual Conference of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 2006.
Student Volunteer, 2006
Last Updated: 11/05/2009