Research

• User Information Behavior and Human Information Interaction (HII)

• User Created Content and Social Media

• Health Informatics and Health Information Behavior

• Personal Information Management, Personal Digital Archiving

• Human Computer Interaction (HCI), User Experience (UX) and Usability Studies

User Information Behavior

Communication during a health crisis

• • Related publications: Syn (2015), Syn (2021), Oh & Syn (accepted)

Information behavior with eye movement

• Health information behavior with eye movement

  • Related publications: Syn (2016), Yoon, Syn, & Tippett (2019), Yoon & Syn (2021), Syn & Yoon (2021), Yoon & Syn (2023), Syn (accepted)

Information behavior on social media

• Health information behavior on social media

  • Related publications: Syn & Kim (2013), Kim & Syn (2014), Syn & Kim (2016), Kim & Syn (2016)

• Users' engagement and information sharing in social media

• • • Related publications: Syn & Oh (2011), Syn & Oh (2015), Oh & Syn (2015), Oh & Syn (2017) 

Information and Data Management

Research data management

• • Related publications: Syn & Kim (2019), Kim & Syn (2021), Syn & Kim (2022), Lee, Syn & Kim (accepted)

Personal information management

• • Personal information management and personal digital archiving

    • Related publications: Sinn, Kim & Syn (2017), Syn, Sinn & Kim (2017), Kim, Syn & Sinn (2018), Kim, Sinn, & Syn (2018), Sinn, Kim, & Syn (2019), Kim, Sinn, & Syn (2020), Syn, Sinn, & Kim (2020)

  • Personal documentation on the Web and Social Media

• • • Related publications: Sinn, Syn & Kim (2011), Sinn & Syn (2014), Syn & Sinn (2015)

Innovative Library Services

Innovative Public Library Services during the Pandemic

• • Related publications: Syn, Sinn, & Kim (2023), Sinn, Kim, & Syn (2023) 

Use of User-Generated Information

Analysis of social tags/folksonomy

• • Social tags as metadata

    • Related publications: Syn (2009), Syn & Spring (2009), Syn (2011), Syn & Spring (2013), Syn (2014)

  • Social tags in Humanities

• • • Related publications: Choi & Syn (2012), Choi & Syn (2014), Choi & Syn (2016) 

  • Folksonomy and the Semantic Web / Linked Data

    • Related publications: Bruhn & Syn (2018), Syn (2018) 

Metadata generation by novice users

• • Related publications: Syn & Spring (2007), Syn & Spring (2008) 

Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T)

Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE)

American Library Association (ALA)

Medical Library Association (MLA)