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Soo Young Rieh
Associate Professor
School of Information, University of Michigan
4433 North Quad
105 S. State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285
Voice: +1 734-647-8040
Fax: +1 734-764-2475
E-mail: rieh at umich.edu
Soo Young Rieh is an Associate Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. Rieh’s research seeks to better understand people’s information seeking and online searching behavior in various information use contexts such as Web search engines, libraries, institutional repositories, and other information retrieval systems. Rieh’s research has focused on information behavior and human information interaction, specifically the ways in which people assess information credibility, cognitive authority, and information quality. Recently, she has been particularly interested in the credibility assessment heuristics that people use within the context of their everyday life information activities.
Rieh is the principal investigator of the Credibility Assessment in the Participatory Web Environment funded by the MacArthur Foundation from 2008-2011. The proposed project investigates what new sets of heuristics of credibility assessment have emerged in the participatory Web environment (Web 2.0). The heuristics are comprised of general rules used to make judgments of credibility across a variety of information use situation. The project addresses two main research questions: (1) how people assess the credibility of user-mediated news content (UMNC)-the summarized, edited, and commented versions of the original published news content; and (2) what heuristics the participatory users (content contributors) employ to make credibility judgments when creating user-generated content (UGC).
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 Best Conference Paper Award (2010), ASIST SIGUSE Best Information Behavior Conference Paper (2007), the John Wiley & Sons Best JASIST Paper Award (2005), the Eugene Garfield-ALISE Doctoral Dissertation Award (2002). She earned her PhD in Communication, Information, and Library Studies from Rutgers University.
News
School of Information have moved to new space - finally! I am now in the new North Quad Residential and Academic Complex Room 4433. Please note my new mailing address.
I am co-chairing the Interactive Information and Design Track with Jim Jansen for the ASIST 2011 Conference.
I served as a Chair for ASIS&T Speical Interest Group in Information Need, Seeking, and Use (SIG USE) in 2009-2010.
Next Conference Trips
October 7-12, 2011. ASIST 2011. New Orleans, LA.
Recent Publications
Kim, Y. M. & Rieh, S. Y. (2011). User perceptions of the role and value of tags. SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2011), 671-674.
St. Jean, B., Rieh, S. Y., Yakel, E., Markey, K. (2011). Unheard voices: Institutional repository end-users. College and Research Libraries, 72(1), 21-42.
Rieh, S. Y. (2010). Participatory web users’ information activities and credibility assessment. Proceedings of the International Conference commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science. Seoul, Korea, 279-302.
Rieh, S. Y. (2010). Credibility and cognitive authority of information. In M. Bates & M. N. Maack (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, 3rd Ed. (pp. 1337-1344), New York: Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.
Rieh, S. Y., Kim, Y. M., Yang, J. Y., and St. Jean, B. (2010). A diary study of credibility assessment in everyday life information activities on the Web: Preliminary findings. Proceedings of the 73rd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.
Rieh, S.Y., Yang, J.Y., Yakel, E., and Markey, K. (2010). Conceptualizing institutional repositories work: Using co-discovery to uncover mental models. Information Interaction in Context Symposium 2010, New Brunswick, NJ, August 18-22, 2010.
Jansen, J. & Rieh, S. Y. (2010). The Seventeen theoretical constructs of information searching and information retrieval. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61, 1517-1534.
Markey, K., Leeder, C., Peters, G. R. Jr., Jennings, B., Rosenberg, V., St. Jean, B., Rieh, S. Y., Carter, G. V., Packard, A., Frost, R. L., Mbabu, L., & Calvetti, A. (July/August, 2010). The benefits of integrating an information literacy skills game into academic coursework: A Preliminary evaluation. D-Lib Magazine. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july10/markey/07markey.html