EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
Ph.D. Library and Information Science, 12/1999
Dissertation: "An Analysis of Image Queries and Image Retrieval Tasks in the Field of Art History"
Beta Phi Mu, Library and Information Science honorary society

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
M.A. Educational Communication and Technology, 09/1995
Thesis: "A Computer-based Slide Catalogue"

FU-JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY, TAIWAN, R.O.C.
B.A. Library Science, 06/1992
Honored on the Dean's List  

TAIPEI MUNICIPAL TEACHERS COLLEGE, TAIWAN, R.O.C.
Diploma, Elementary Education, 06/1985
Honored on the Dean's List

RESEARCH
AREAS

Digital Media Design, Management and Retrieval
Digital Libraries and Museums
Human Information Interaction
User Studies
Information Visualization and Presentation
Instructional Technology

GRANTS

Principal Investigator

January-July, 2005

CO-PI, Video Exploration of the Soil Animal World (with Drs. R. Richardson and P. Richardson)
The Center for Instructional Technologies
University of Texas at Austin, $1,000

2004-2005

PI, Re-positioning Art and History Museums in the Virtual World
Alumni Teaching Fellowship
School of Information, $3,000

2003-2004

PI, The Digital Video Library
Temple Teaching Fellowship
School of Information, $4,000

2002-2003

PI, The Challenge of the Chinese Heritage: Digitizing and Managing Museum Collections
Faculty Development Program Summer Research Assignment, University of Texas-Austin, $11,818
Temple Teaching Fellowship, School of Information, $2,500

Research Associate
Russian History Online, (PI: David B. Gracy II, School of Information)
Carnegie Corp., $50,000

PUBLICATIONS

Monograph

Rice-Lively, M. L. & Chen, H. (2006). Scenarios and information design: A user-centered practical guide. Oxford, England: Chandos Publishing

Book Chapter

Roy, L., Chen, H., Cherian, A., and Tuiono, T. (accepted). The relationship of technology, culture and demography. In The International Handbook of Information Technology in Education. New York: Springer

Refereed/Scholarly Papers

Chen, H. (2007). A socio-technical perspective of museum practitioners' image-using behaviors. The Electronic Library, 25(1), 18-35

Chen, H., and Choi, G-O. (2006). An online font library: Evaluation by graphic design students. The Electronic Library, 24(6), 774-790

Chen, H. & Doty, P. (2005). Digital libraries for K-12 mathematics education part 2: New educational standards, policy making, and accountability. Library Quarterly, 75(3), e1-27 (available online only)

Chen, H. & Doty, P. (2005). Digital libraries for K-12 mathematics education part 1: Information organization, information literacy, and integrated learning. Library Quarterly, 75(3), 231-261

Chen, H., & Choi, G-O. (2005). Construction of a digital video library: A socio-technical pilot study on college students' attitudes. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 31(5), 469-476

Chen, H. (2004). Chinese collections in museums on the Web: Current status, problems, and future. Journal of Internet Cataloging, 7(1), 89-102

Chen, H. (2003). Instructional technology. Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, 1373-1378

Xu, H., & Chen, H. (2001). Can we meet the challenge? The educating systems librarian research project report 3. The Electronic Library, 19(5), 315-326

Chen, H. (2001). An analysis of image retrieval tasks in the field of art history. Information Processing and Management, 37(5), 701-720 (Google Scholar: cited by 10)

Chen, H. (2001). An analysis of image queries in the field of art history. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 52(3), 260-273 (Google Scholar: cited by 12)

Xu, H., & Chen, H. (2000). Whom do employers actually hire? The educating systems librarian research project report 2. The Electronic Library, 18(3), 171-182 (Google Scholar: cited by 5)

Xu, H., & Chen, H. (1999). What do employers expect? The educating systems librarian research project report 1. The Electronic Library, 17(3), 171-179 (Google Scholar: cited by 7) 

Chen, H. & Rasmussen, E. M. (1999). Intellectual access to images. Library Trends, 48(2), 289-300 (Google Scholar: cited by 13)

Conference Papers (Refereed)

Chen, H., and Williams, J. P. (2007). Impact of media and interaction variety on student attitudes in a web-based undergraduate course. ED-MEDIA: World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, Vancouver, Canada

Huang, S-C., Chen, C-H., and Chen, H. (2004). A case study of communication channels in a graduate program. Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Providence, RI., 147-155 

Letalien, B., & Chen, H. (2003). Fitting users? Needs into Web-based area studies resources: A study of the Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC). Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Long Beach, CA., 306-315

Alexander, M., & Chen, H. (2003). Perceptions and effects of a system's usability by experience level. Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Long Beach, CA., 389-397

Su, L., & Chen, H. (1999). User evaluation of the Web search engines as prototype digital library retrieval tools. Proceedings of the 3^rd International Conference on Concepts in Library and Information Science, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 73-86

Su, L., & Chen, H. (1999). Evaluation of Web search engines by undergraduate students. Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, Washington, D.C., 98-114 (Google Scholar: cited by 5)

Su, L. T., Chen, H., and Dong, X. (1998). Evaluation of web-based search engine from the end-user's perspective: A pilot study. Proceedings of the 61^st Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, Pittsburgh, PA., 348-361 (Google Scholar: cited by 21)

Conference Presentations (Refereed/Invited)

Abbas, J., Chen, H., and Lomax, E. (2007). Who is tagging information? Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Milwaukee, WI

Chen, H. (2007). Humanities and Wikipedia: What influences scholars' attitudes for teaching and scholarly communication? The International Symposium on New Directions in the Humanities, Columbia University, New York, NY

Chen, H., and Williams, J. P. (2006). Impact of media and interaction variety on student attitudes in a web-based undergraduate course. Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Austin, TX

Choi, G-O., and Chen, H. (2006). The influence of a sign system on the sense of presence in a desktop virtual environment. Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Austin, TX

Marty, P., Chen, H., Hamma K., White, L., & Gilliland-Swetland A. (2005). The digital museum in the life of the user. Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Charlotte, NC

Chen, H., Wu, Y., & Yu, H. (2005). Serving non-English speaking patrons in an e-environment. The 2005 Texas Library Association Annual Conference. Austin, TX. April 5-8

Chen, H. (2003). Chinese collections in museums on the Web: Current status, problems, and future. The 2003 Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing. Athens, GA. May 29-June 2

Alexander, M., & Chen, H. (2003). Employees' experience levels and the relation to usability in a Web-based information system. ASIST 2003 Information Architecture Summit, Portland, OR, March 21-23 

Lee, P., Chen, H., & Liebert, J. (2003). Student portal: Content management and organization law student central at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law. ASIST 2003 Information Architecture Summit, Portland, OR, March 21-23

Chen. H. (2002). Multimedia design and school librarianship. Media and Related Technologies Round Table. 2002 Texas Library Association Annual Conference, Dallas, TX, April 23-26

Chen, H. (2001). Image retrieval knowledge and art history curriculum in the digital age. The 2001 Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing. New York, NY, June 13-17

Chen, H. (2001). Information literacy for international students at American universities. The National Conference on Asian Pacific American Librarians. San Francisco, CA, June 13-15, 2001

Chen, H. (2001). The challenge of the Chinese heritage: Digitizing and managing museum collections. The National Conferences of National Association of African American Studies, National Association of Hispanic & Latino Studies, National Association of Native American Studies, & International Association of Asian Studies. Houston, TX. February 12-17, 2001

Xu, H., & Chen, H. (2001). Systems librarians: What do they do and how to educate them. The ALISE Annual Conference. Washington, D.C. January 9-12

AWARDS

Jay Daily Award, School of Information Sciences Alumni Society 04/98

Graduate Research Assistantship, University of Pittsburgh, 1997-1999

C. C. Seetoo Scholarship, Chinese American Librarians Association 06/97

EXPERIENCE

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR 09/00-present
School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin

• teaching Understanding and Serving Users (master's core course), Digital Media Design I and II, Human Information Interaction, and Developing and Organizing Media Collections courses

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR 09/99-08/00
School of Library and Information Science, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

• taught instructional technology, information seeking and multimedia production courses

GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCHER 09/98-08/99
Department of Library and Information Science, University of Pittsburgh

• worked on the project of systems librarian education for Dr. Hong Xu

GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCHER 08/97-08/98
Department of Library and Information Science, University of Pittsburgh

• worked on WWW search engine evaluation project for Dr. Louise Su

GRAPHIC DESIGNER (Intern) 01/96-05/96
Image Group, New York

• designed graphics for multimedia and WWW projects

TEACHING ASSISTANT (Intern) 01/95-06/95
Bobst Library, New York University

• taught Internet skills classes
• created networked electronic documents for bibliographic instruction program

LIBRARIAN 03/92-12/93
Chinese Public TV Library, Taiwan, R.O.C.

• acquired and electronically catalogued monographs, video tapes and serials
• performed reference duties

TEACHING ASSISTANT 08/92-12/93
Fu-Jen Catholic University, Taiwan, R.O.C.

• taught library professional experience course in library science program
• performed administrative duties for department chair

SUPERVISOR OF INFORMATION DIVISION 08/89-07/91
Taipei Municipal Teachers College Elementary School, Taiwan, R.O.C.

• managed technical and public services for the learning information center
• edited school publications
• helped compile Newton Children's Mandarin Dictionary

TEACHER 08/85-07/89
Taipei Municipal Mandarin Elementary School, Taiwan, R.O.C.

• taught Mandarin, mathematics, and handicrafts

PROFESSIONAL
AFFILIATIONS

Member, American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST), 09/96- present

Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 09/96-present