SLIM Faculty

Dr. Jeonghyun Kim

Jeonghyun “Annie” Kim received her B.A. and M.A. in Library and Information Science from Ewha Womans University, Korea and her Ph. D. from School of Communication, Information and Library Studies at Rutgers University. While at Rutgers, she participated in various research projects and worked as a Web designer. She defended her dissertation entitled “Task as a Predictable Indicator for Information Seeking Behavior on the Web,” under the direction of Dr. Nicholas J. Belkin in April 2006. Then she joined SLIM in the Fall of 2006.

Annie's research interests focus on human-Web interaction, including human factors, cognition, and perception. She presented her researches at various conferences, including the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Association of Library and Information Science Education, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, and American Society for Information Science and Technology.  

Recently, her full paper entitled “Perceived difficulty as a determinant of Web search success” was accepted to Information Seeking in Context (ISIC) 2008, held in Vilnius, Lithuania on September 17- 20, 2008.  She also will be presenting a paper entitled “Web searchers are confident, satisfied and trusting: Is that true?” at the Internet Research 9.0 held in Copenhagen, DK, on October 15 - 18, 2008.

 

E-mail address is: jkim5@emporia.edu