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Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Kyung Kim
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Kyung Kim, Ph.D.
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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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