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Soo Young Rieh Associate Professor
BA and MA in library and information science, Ewha Womans University; Ph.D. in communication, information, and library studies, Rutgers University
(734) 647-8040
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E-mail: rieh@umich.edu
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Soo Young Rieh is an associate professor at the School of Information where she teaches courses on information-seeking behavior, use of information, and evaluation of systems and services.
Rieh's research seeks to better understand people's information-seeking behavior in various information use environments, such as the Web, libraries, home, and repositories. She has been particularly interested in credibility judgments people make in the process of human information interaction. She has conducted and published research on Web information quality and cognitive authority; credibility in digital media; mental effort in Web searching; information-seeking in the home environment; search query strategies and patterns in Web search engines; and institutional repositories.
Rieh is 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. This project investigates the development of institutional repositories in colleges and universities to identify models and best practices in the administration, technical infrastructure, and access to repository collections. Rieh is particularly interested in identifying success factors in institutional repositories from multiple perspectives including administrators, faculty contributors, and users.
Rieh is also participating in MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning Working Group on Credibility. Her project examines the concept of credibility in the context of youths' everyday life information-seeking by focusing on the relationship between information seeking strategies and credibility judgments.
Previously Rieh held a position as a human factors research engineer at Excite@Home Search and Directory Group. Her responsibilities included conducting usability tests and field studies on new products or features, designing online user surveys, analyzing market research for search engines, and participating in user-interface design process.
She is a recipient of several awards, including the John Wiley Best JASIST Paper Award (ASIS&T 2005) for "On the Web at Home: Information Seeking and Web Searching in the Home Environment," and the Eugene Garfield-ALISE Doctoral Dissertation Award (ALISE 2002) and Doctoral Student Best Poster Award (ALISE 2000) for her dissertation, "Information Quality and Cognitive Authority in the World Wide Web."
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