Soo Young Rieh - Principal Investigator

Associate Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan

rieh at umich.edu | 734-647-8040 | http://www.si.umich.edu/rieh

Soo Young Rieh is an associate professor in the School of Information (SI) at the University of Michigan. Rieh’s research interests include credibility assessment, information quality and cognitive authority, information-seeking in everyday life context, mental effort in web searching, and institutional repositories. Rieh is the principal investigator of the Credibility Assessment in the Participatory Web Environment funded by the MacArthur Foundation from 2008-2011. This project investigates what kinds of heuristics Web users employ to make credibility judgments when using user-generated or user-mediated content. Rieh is also the principal investigator of the MIRACLE (Making Institutional Repositories a Collaborative Learning Environment ) project (with Professor Karen Markey and Associate Professor Elizabeth Yakel) funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) from 2005-08. Previously Rieh held a position as a human factors research engineer at Excite@Home Search and Directory Group. She is a recipient of several awards, including the John Wiley & Sons Best JASIST Paper Award, the ASIST SIGUSE Best Information Behavior Conference Paper Award, and the Eugene Garfield-ALISE Doctoral Dissertation Award. She earned her PhD in Communication, Information, and Library Studies from Rutgers University.

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Yong-Mi Kim - Research Assistant

Pursuing PhD, School of Information, University of Michigan

kimym at umich.edu

Yong-Mi Kim is a doctoral student in the School of Information. Her research interests include user-oriented information retrieval, and information seeking and sharing on sites built around user-generated content, such as online question-and-answer sites. She holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science from Virginia Tech, M.S. in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the MSI (Library & Information Services specialization) from the School of Information. Prior to SI, she was a software engineering consultant specializing in software process improvement.

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Beth St. Jean - Research Assistant

Pursuing PhD, School of Information, University of Michigan

bstjean at umich.edu

Beth St. Jean is a doctoral student in the School of Information at the University of Michigan and a Graduate Student Research Assistant for the IMLS-funded MIRACLE (Making Institutional Repositories A Collaborative Learning Environment) project. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics from Smith College and a Master’s Degree in Information from the University of Michigan. Her research interests include consumer health information behavior, credibility assessment, information literacy, institutional repositories, and relevance.

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Ji Yeon Yang - Research Assistant

Pursuing PhD, School of Information, University of Michigan

jiyeon at umich.edu

Ji-Yeon Yang is a doctoral student in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from Ewha Woman’s University and a Master’s Degree in Information from the University of Michigan. Her research interests focus on the credibility assessment of information in organizational work settings, including issues related to collaborative information retrieval and expertise location.