Kyung Kim, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
kim@ci.fsu.edu

Focus : How humans search for and find information on the Web and in Digital Libraries

• Design & Evaluation of Library Websites
  • Design of search interface that incorporates users' cognitive processes and activities
  • Usability Evaluation
    • Model-based evaluation methods
    • Developing usability evaluation criteria for different types of Digital Libraries
  • Evaluation of Multimedia searching Website
    • Relationship between users' search engine preference and availability of specific file formats(such as MP3)
  • Evaluation of School Media Websites
    • Needs analysis of different stakeholders of school media websites

• Web (or DL) Searchers' Cognitive Activities and Processes
  • Effects of metacognition on user performance (experts vs. novice)
  • Cognitive Overhead problems & patterns in digital library use
  • Cognitive Overhead and User Breakdown
    • Are cognitive overhead problems a cause of users' mental and emotional breakdown?
    • How do users cope with the troublesome moments?
  • Develop a taxonomy (or a scheme) of searchers' cognitive activities
  • User Error Analysis
    • Apply Erik Hollnagle's “Taxonomy of Phenotypes of Errorneous Actions” to understand Web users' error analysis
    • Relationship of certain types of errors and the stages of information seeking process

• Model of Information Searching Process
  • Validate Kim's model of information searching process in a DL environment
  • Process Approach to Information Seeking

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