Refereed Publications
2021
 Making Sense of Risk Information amidst Uncertainty: Individuals' Perceived Risks Associated with the COVID-19 Pandemic
To Appear in ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '21) Full Paper Community Informatics HCI Qualitative Study |
 Multi-Generational Stories of Urban Renewal: Preliminary Interviews for Map-based Storytelling
To Appear in iConference 2021 Short Paper Community Informatics Data Management Qualitative Study |
2020
 Toward Understanding Civic Data Bias in 311 Systems: An Information Deserts Perspective
In CSCW Workshop on Civic Technologies: Research, Practice, and Open Challenges. ACM CSCW 2020. Workshop Paper Community Informatics Data Management Information Management |
 A Theoretical Analysis of Independent Business Owners’ Preferences for Informal Information Sources
In Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIST '20) Poster Community Informatics Information Behavior Information Management Theory Qualitative Study |
 Cultural Activity Diversity and Community Characteristics: An Exploratory Study
In iConference 2020 Proceedings, LNCS. 32-49. Cham: Springer. Borås, Sweden (March 23-26). Full Paper Big Data Community Informatics Information Management Theory Quantitative Study |
2019
 Local Information Landscapes: Theory, Measures, and Evidence
Doctoral Dissertation, University of Maryland Press. Thesis Big Data Community Informatics Data Management Geospatial Information Management Machine Learning Social Media Theory Quantitative Study |
 How are Information Deserts Created? A Theory of Local Information Landscapes
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 70(2). 101-116. Dean's Award for an Outstanding Doctoral Student Paper Full Paper Community Informatics HCI Information Behavior Information Management Theory |
2018
 Identifying Urban Neighborhood Names through User-contributed Online Property Listings
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (IJGI), 7(10). 388. MPDI. Full Paper Community Informatics Geospatial Machine Learning Social Media |
 Digital Curation of a World War II Japanese-American Incarceration Camp Collection: Implications for Sociotechnical Archival Systems
Digital Heritage 2018, International Congress. pp. 1-4. IEEE. Oct 26-30. San Francisco, U.S. Short Paper Data Management |
 Towards Understanding Communication Behavior Changes during Floods Using Cell Phone Data
International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo '18). Cham: Springer. Sep. 25-28. St. Petersburg, Russia. Short Paper Geospatial Quantitative Study |
 Toward Identifying Values and Tensions in Designing a Historically-Sensitive Data Platform: A Case-Study on Urban Renewal
iConference 2018 Proceedings. Springer. March 25-28, Sheffield, U.K. Short Paper Community Informatics Data Management Geospatial HCI Web Application |
2017
 Heuristics for Assessing Computational Archival Science (CAS) Research: The Case of the Human Face of Big Data Project
IEEE Big Data 2017, Workshop on Computational Archival Science, Dec. 11-14, Boston, U.S. Workshop Paper Community Informatics Software Development Web Application |
 Exploratory Cluster Analysis of Urban Mobility Patterns to Identify Neighborhood Boundaries
International Symposium on Location-Based Social Media Data and Tracking Data (LSMTD '17). July 1-2. Washington D.C., U.S. Extended Abstract Community Informatics Geospatial Quantitative Study |
 A Tool for Estimating and Visualizing Poverty Maps
NetMob 2017, April 5-7, Milan, Italy. Extended Abstract Big Data Community Informatics Data Management Geospatial HCI Machine Learning Web Application Quantitative Study |
2016
 Toward an Ecology Theory of Creativity in IT Products: A Study of Mobile Device Industry
International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS '16). Dec. 11-14, Dublin, Ireland. Best Paper Award (1st place) Full Paper Data Management Machine Learning Theory Quantitative Study |
 This Is Not Just a Café: Toward Capturing the Dynamics of Urban Places
International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM '16), The CityLab Workshop. May 17-20, Cologne, Germany. Workshop Paper Community Informatics Geospatial Machine Learning Social Media Qualitative Study Quantitative Study |
 Unlocking the Archives of Displacement and Trauma: Revealing Hidden Patterns of Exploring New Modes of Public Access through Innovative Partnerships and Infrastructure
Archiving Conference 2016 Proceedings. April 19-22. Washington D.C., U.S. Full Paper Geospatial |
2015
 "What Makes a Place More Familiar?": Implications of Geospatial Information Format and Content
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '15). April 18-23. Seoul, Korea. Extended Abstract Community Informatics Geospatial HCI Quantitative Study |
 Motherhood and Social Networking Sites: How do sociocultural contexts and technological factors affect Korean mothers’ KakaoStory use?
iConference 2015 Proceedings. March 24-27. Newport Beach, U.S. Lee Dirks Award for Best Paper, Runner-Up (top 5) Full Paper Social Media Qualitative Study |
2014
 Information Behavior of International Students Settling in an Unfamiliar Geo-spatial Environment
Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIST '14). Oct 31-Nov 5. Seattle, U.S. Full Paper Community Informatics Geospatial Information Behavior Qualitative Study Quantitative Study |
 "I know where that is": Cultural Differences in Perception of New Places
MIM Thesis, UMD iSchool & Poster at the iConference 2014 Proceedings, Berlin, Germany Thesis Community Informatics Geospatial HCI Software Development Web Application Quantitative Study |
2011
 MapReduce Framework for Swarm Robot Systems
Master of Science in Software Engineering Thesis, The Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology, Seoul National University Thesis Big Data Image Processing Software Development Quantitative Study Signal Processing |
2009
 Image Retrieval Systems based on Color Similarity and Edge Detection
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering Thesis, Seoul National University Thesis Data Management Image Processing Machine Learning Software Development |