Contact Information Soo Young Rieh Associate Professor School of Information, University of Michigan 304 West Hall 1085 South University Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1107 Voice: (734) 647-8040 Fax: (734) 764-2475 E-mail: rieh at umich.edu Office Hours (Fall 2008): Mondays 4-5 pm and Tuesdays 12-1 pm Curriculum Vitae in PDF or in HTML

About Soo

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. 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.

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 ASIST SIGUSE Best Information Behavior Conference Paper, the John Wiley & Sons Best JASIST Paper Award, the Eugene Garfield-ALISE Doctoral Dissertation Award. She earned her PhD in Communication, Information, and Library Studies from Rutgers University.

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