EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Ph.D. Information Structures and Systems
School of Communication, Information and Library Studies,
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ                            October 1998 

M.L.S. Library Service
School of Library and Information Studies,
Alabama University, Tuscaloosa, AL                                  August 1992

M.I.S. Information Science
Information Institute
Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Shanghai, China    July 1989

B.S. School of Library and Information Studies
East China Normal University      
Shanghai, China

POSTGRADUATE PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2009 - Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

2003 - Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

1998 - 2002 Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukeenbsp

HONORS RECEIVED

2001 ALISE/OCLC Research Award
“Ease of use versus user control: Desired interface model and functionalities for Web-based online databases.”

2001 UWM Graduate School Research Award
“Supporting Shifts of Information Seeking Strategies in a Corporate setting at digital age: Implications for the Design of Digital Libraries”

2000 UWM/UWS Faculty Development Award
“Promoting Interactions in Distance Education.”

1999 ALISE Dissertation Award
“Planned and Situated Aspects in Interactive IR: Patterns of User Interactive Intentions and Information Seeking Strategies.”  awarded by Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE).

RESEARCH GRANTS RECEIVED

“Multiple information seeking strategies in information retrieval: User involvement and system role.” Hong (Iris) Xie, Research Growth Initiative 2 (RGI 2), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.  2007-2008. Amount $30,078.00.

“Designing Interactive Help Mechanisms for Novice Users of Digital Libraries.” Hong (Iris) Xie and Colleen Cool.  Institute for Museum and Library Services National Leadership Grant – Research & Development competition, 2005-2007. Amount: $189,540.00.

“Creating Milwaukee Art Museum Digital Collections: A pilot project” Hong (Iris) Xie and Beret Balestrieri.  UWM Culture and Community Grant for 2005-2006, $3,500.00.

“Ease of Use versus User Control: Desired Interface Model and Functionalities for Web-based Online Databases.” Hong (Iris) Xie, ALISE/OCLC research award for 2001, $5,805.00.

 “Supporting Shifts of Information Seeking Strategies in a Corporate setting at digital age: Implications for the Design of Digital Libraries” Hong (Iris)  Xie.  UWM Graduate School Research Award for 2001- 2002, $14,426.22.

 “Promoting Interactions in Distance Education.” Hong (Iris) Xie, UW System Faculty/Staff Development  Award for 2000-2001, $7,803.00.

 “Comparing Web-based and Classroom Instruction: An Assessment Project Studying Effects of Integrating Technology into the Curriculum.” Judy Senkevitch, Dietmar Wolfram, Hong (Iris) Xie, and Elizabeth Buchanan. UW System Curricular Redesign Grant Funds 1999-2000, $53,600.

“Evaluating the Use of a State Digital Library.”  Dietmar Wolfram and Hong (Iris) Xie, State of Wisconsin, Department of Public Instruction, 1999-2000, $5,800.

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

Book

Xie, I. (2008). Interactive information retrieval in digital environments. Hershey, PA : IGI Pub.

Research Articles

Xie, I. & Wolfram, D. (2009). A Longitudinal Study of Database Usage Within a General Audience Digital Library. Accepted, to be published by Journal of Digital Information

Xie, I. & Cool, C. (2009). Understanding Help-Seeking within the context of searching digital libraries. Journal of American Society for Information Science and Technology. 60(3), 477-494.

Xie, I. (2009). Dimensions of Tasks: Influences on Information Seeking and Retrieving Process Journal of Documentation. 65(3), 339-366.

Xie, H. & Browser, A. (2009). Examining Online Help Features. Online. 33(1), 24-32.

Xie, H. (2008). Users' Evaluation of Digital Libraries: Their uses, their criteria, and their assessment. Information Processing & Management.44(3), 1346-1373.

Xie, H. (2007).  Shifts in information seeking strategies in information retrieval in the digital age: Planned-situated model.  Information Research, 12(4) Available at http://InformationR.net/ir/12-4/colis/colis22.html

Xie, H. (2007).  Help Features in Digital Libraries: Types, Formats, Presentation Styles, and Problems.  Online Information Review, 31(6), 861-880.

Xie, H. & Cool, C. (2007).  Types of Help-seeking Situations for Novice Users of Digital Libraries: A preliminary study.  Proceedings of the 70th American Society of Information Science Annual Meeting, 44.

Xie, H. (2006). Understanding human-work domain interaction: Implications for the design of a corporate digital library.  Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 57, 128-143.

Xie, H. (2006). Evaluation of Digital Libraries: Criteria and problems from users' perspectives, Library and information Science Research, 28, 433-452.

Rieh, R. & Xie, H. (2006). Analysis of multiple query reformulations of the Web: The interactive information retrieval context.  Information Processing and Management, 42, 751-768.

Xie, H. & Cool, C. (2006).  Toward a Better Understanding of Help Seeking Behavior: An Evaluation of help mechanisms in Two IR systems. Proceedings of the 69th American Society of Information Science Annual Meeting, 43 http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00008279/01/Xie_Toward.pdf

Xie, H. (2004). Online IR system evaluation: Online databases versus Web search engines. Online Information Review, 28(3)211-219.

Colleen, C. & Xie, H. (2004).  How can IR help mechanism be more helpful to users? Proceedings of  the 67th American Society of Information Science Annual Meeting, 41, 249-255.

Ajiferuke, I; Wolfram, D. & Xie, H. (2004).  Modelling Website Visitation and Resource Usage Characteristics by IP Address Data.  Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science.  Available from: http://www.cais-acsi.ca/ajiferuke_2004.pdf

Xie, H.  (2003). Supporting ease-of-use and user control: Desired features and structure of  Web-based online IR systems.  Information Processing & Management, 39, 899-922.

Xie, H.  (2003). Dimensions of human-work domain interaction: A preliminary analysis for the design of a corporate digital library.  Proceedings of the 66th American Society of Information Science Annual Meeting, 40, 109-118.

Xie, H. & Wolfram, D.  (2002). State digital library usability: Contributing organizational factors.  Journal of American Society for Information Science and Technology, 53, 1085-1097.

Wolfram, D., & Xie, H. (2002). Traditional IR for Web users: A context for general audience digital libraries. Information Processing & Management, 38, 627-648.

Xie, H.(2002). Patterns between interactive intentions and information seeking strategies.  Information Processing & Management, 38(1):55-77.

Wolfram, D., & Xie, H. (2001). State digital libraries: Developing systems for general audiences.  Proceedings of the 4th International Conference of Asian Digital Libraries. Mandaveli, Chennai: Multi Craft. (pp. 62-74).

Rieh, H., & Xie, H. (2001). Patterns and sequences of multiple query reformulations in Web searching: A preliminary study.  Proceedings of the 64rd American Society of Information Science Annual Meeting, 38, 246-255.

Buchanan, E., Xie, H., Brown, M & Wolfram, D. (2001).  A systematic study of Web-based and traditional instruction in an MLIS program: Success factors and implications for curriculum design.  Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 42(4):274-288.

Sabin-Kildiss, L., Cool, C. & Xie. H. (2001). Web-based online database functionality: Assessed and ranked. Online, 25(2): 18-26.

Xie, H. (2000).  Shifts of interactive intentions and information seeking strategies in interactive information retrieval.  Journal of American Society for Information Science, 51(9): 841-857.

Xie, H. & Cool, C. (2000). Ease of use versus user control: An evaluation of web and non-web interfaces of online databases. Online Information Review, 24(2): 102-115.

Colleen, C. & Xie, H.  (2000).  Patterns of information use, avoidance and evaluation in a corporate engineering environment. Proceedings of the 63rd American Society of Information Science Annual Meeting, 37, 462-472.

Xie, H. & Cool, C. (2000). Online interface comparison: Features and functionalities.  In  M. E. Williams (Ed.) Proceedings of the 21th National Online Meeting. Medford, NJ: Information Today.  pp. 513-522.

Wolfram, D. & Xie, H. (2000). End user database searching over the Internet: An analysis of the state of  Wisconsin's BadgerLink Service.  In M. E. Williams (Ed.) Proceedings of the 21st National Online Meeting.   Medford, NJ: Information Today.  pp. 503-512.

Buchanan, E., Brown, M., Wolfram, D., & Xie, H. (2000). Web-based and traditional instruction: A systematic study of student and instructor perceptions from a graduate MLIS program. Teaching with technology today, 7(1), Available from: http://www.uwsa.edu/olit/ttt/buchanan.htm (Note: content is based on WebNet proceedings paper above).

Warwick, S. & Xie, H. (1999). “Copyright management information in electronic forms: User compliance and modes of delivery.” Proceedings of the 62nd ASIS Annual Meeting, 36, 292-301.

Xie, H. (1999). Web browsing: Current and desired capabilities. Proceedings of the 20th National Online Meeting, May 1999. Medford, NJ: Information Today, Inc. pp.523-537.

Xie, H. & Cool, C. (1998). Online searching in transition: The importance of teaching interaction in library and information science education. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 39(4): 323-331.

Xie, H. (1998).  Access to online databases: An exploration of users’ experiences with Web interfaces.  In M. E. Williams (Ed.) Proceedings of the 19th National Online Meeting. Medford, NJ: Information Today, Inc. pp481-494.

Belkin, N.J., Perez-Carballo, J., Cool, C., Lin, S., Park, S.Y., Rieh, S.Y., Savage, P., & Xie, H. (1998). Rutgers' TREC-6 Interactive Track experience. In D. Harman (Ed.), Proceeding of the Sixth Text REtrieval Conference.  Washington, DC: GPO. pp.597-610. (selected by NIST based on the results of each group’s information retrieval experiment)

Belkin, N.J., Cabezas, A., Cool, C. Kim, K., NG, K.B., Park, S., Pressman, R., Rieh, S. Y., Savage, P.A. & Xie, H. (1997). Rutgers interactive track at TREC-5.  In D. Harman (Ed.), Proceedings of the Fifth Text REtrieval Conference.  Washington, DC: GPO.  pp257-265.  (selected by NIST based on the results of each group’s information retrieval experiment)

Xie, H. (1997). Planned and situated aspects in interactive IR: Patterns of user interactive intentions and information seeking strategies.   In C. Schwartz & M. Rorvig (Eds.), Proceedings of the 60th ASIS Annual Meeting, 34, 100-122.

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Book Chapters

Xie, I. (2009). Information searching and search models. Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science. Taylor and Francis LLC.

Kern, M., Just, M., Crigler, A. & Xie, H, (2000). Using the Internet in political campaign: campaign evidence from interactive interviews with novice users.   In C. De Landgheer & D. Feldman (Eds.) Beyond Public Speech and Symbols: Exploration in the Rhetoric of Politicians and the Media. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. pp. 192-225.

Book Review and minor papers

Xie, H. (2005). Digital Library Use: Social Practice in Design and Evaluation, edited by Ann Peterson Bishop, Nancy A. Van House, and Barbara P. Buttenfield. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. Information Society, 21, 397-398.

Drew, S., Wolfram, D & Xie, H. (2000).  An analysis of BadgerLink, Part III. Channel, 35(5):  4-5, 18.

Drew, S., Wolfram, D & Xie, H. (2000).  An analysis of BadgerLink, Part II. Channel, 35(4): 1, 4-5.

Drew, S., Wolfram, D., & Xie, H. (1999). Summary of BadgerLink Usage January-June 1999. Channel, 35(2): 1, 6-7.

Savage, P., Belkin, N.J., Cool, C. &  Xie, H. (1997).  An Investigation of Mental Models and Information Seeking Behavior in a Novel Model.  In N.J. Belkin, A. D. Narasimhalu & P. Willett (Eds), SIGIR’97, Proceedings of the 20th Annual ACM SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.  New York, ACM.

PRESENTATIONS

Peer Reviewed

Xie, H. & Cool, C. (2007).  Types of Help-seeking Situations for Novice Users of Digital Libraries: A preliminary study.  Will present at the 70th American Society of Information Science Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October, 2007

Xie, H. & Cool, C. (2006).  Toward a Better Understanding of Help Seeking Behavior: An Evaluation of help mechanisms in Two IR systems. Presented at  the 69th American Society of Information Science Annual Meeting.  Austin, Texas, November, 2006

Wolfram, D. & Xie, H. (2006). A Longitudinal Study of Database Usage within a General Audience Digital Library.   Presented at General Online Program (GOR), German, March, 2006.

Colleen, C. & Xie, H. (2004).  How can IR help mechanism be more helpful to users? presented at the 66th American Society of Information Science Annual Meeting. Providence, Rhode Island.

Ajiferuke, I; Wolfram, D. & Xie, H. (2004).  Modelling Website Visitation and Resource Usage Characteristics by IP Address Data.  Presented at  the 32nd Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Xie, H.  (2003). Dimensions of human-work domain interaction: A preliminary analysis for the design of a corporate digital library.  Presented at the 66th American Society of Information Science Annual Meeting.

Rieh, H., & Xie, H. (2001). Patterns and Sequences of Multiple Query Reformulations in Web Searching: A Preliminary Study.  Presented at the 64rd American Society of Information Science Annual Meeting.  Washington, D.C.

Brown, B., Wolfram, D., Buchanan, E., & Xie, H.  (2001).  A Systematic Study of Web-based and Traditional Instruction in an MLIS Program.  Presented at the ALISE 2001 Annual conference.  Washington, D.C.

Xie, H.  & Wolfram, D. (2000).  General Use of Online Databases in a Statewide Digital Library.   Presented at the 63rd American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting, Chicago.

Colleen, C. & Xie, H.  (2000).  Patterns of Information Use, Avoidance and Evaluation in a Corporate Engineering Environment.  Presented at the 63rd American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting, Chicago.

Xie, H. & Cool, C. (2000). Online Interface Comparison: Features and Functionalities. Presented at the 21st National Online Meeting, New York.

Wolfram, D. & Xie, H. (2000). End User Database Searching Over the Internet: An Analysis of the State of Wisconsin's BadgerLink Service. Presented at the 21st National Online Meeting, New York.

Warwick, S. & Xie, H.  (1999). “Copyright Management Information in Electronic Forms User Compliance and Modes of Delivery.”  Presented at the 62nd American Society for Information Science (ASIS) Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.

Kern, M., Just, M., Crigler, A. & Xie, H.  (1999). “Citizens and Electoral World Wide Web Sites: Patterns of Information Use.”  Presented at the 22nd annual scientific meeting of the International Society for Political Psychology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Xie, H. (1999). Web Browsing: Current and Desired Capabilities. Presented at the 20th National Online Meeting, New York, 1999.

Xie, H. (1999). Planned and Situated Aspects in Interactive IR: Patterns of User Interactive Intentions and Information Seeking Strategies. Presented at Association of Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1999.

Savage, P., Belkin, N.J., Cool, C. & Xie, H. (1998). Mental Models: Benefits, Limitations, and Implications for System Design. Presented at Lucent Usability Symposium, New Jersey 1998.

Xie, H. (1998).  Access to Online Databases: An Exploration of Users’ Experiences with Web Interfaces.  Presented at the 19th National Online Meeting, New York, 1998.

Xie, H. & Cool, C. (1998). Online Searching in Transition: The Importance of Teaching Interaction in Library and Information Science Education.  Presented at Association of Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Conference, New Orleans 1998.

Xie, H. (1997). Planned and Situated Aspects in Interactive IR: Patterns of User Interactive Intentions and Information Seeking Strategies. Presented at the 60th American Society of Information Science (ASIS) Annual Meeting, Washington, DC 1997.

Invited Presentations

Wolfram, D. & Xie, H. (2006). A Longitudinal Study of Database Usage within BadgerLink Services.  Presented at COLAND meeting, Kenosha, Wisconsin, September, 2006.

Xie, H. (2005). “Pattern of Information Use: Implication for IR system design” Presented at East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, November, 2005.

Xie, H. (2004).“Analysis of dimensions of human-work domain interaction:  Implications for the design of a corporate digital library”  Presented at Cognitive Work Analysis Workshop Sponsored by The Center for Human-Information Interaction (CHII) at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, November 2004.       

Xie, H. (2004). “Digital Libraries development and evaluation” presented at Special Library Association Wisconsin Chapter Meeting, Milwaukee, WI, October 2004.

Wolfram, D., & Xie, H. (2001). State digital libraries: Developing systems for general audiences.  Presented at the 4th International Conference of Asian Digital Libraries.  Bangalore, India.

Wolfram, D. & Xie, H. (2001).  BadgerLink Usage: The Unedited Story.  Presented at the Wisconsin Library Association Annual Meeting.  Appleton, Wisconsin.

Belkin, N.J., Perez-Carballo, J., Cool, C., Lin, S., Park, S.Y., Rieh, S.Y., Savage, P., & Xie, H. (1997). Rutgers' TREC-6 Interactive Track Experience. Presented at the Sixth Text REtrieval Conference, Washington DC, 1997 (selected by NIST based on the results of each group’s information retrieval experiment)

Belkin, N.J., Cabezas, A., Cool, C. Kim, K., NG, K.B., Park, S., Pressman, R., Rieh, S. Y., Savage, P.A. & Xie, H. (1996). Rutgers interactive tract at TREC-5.  Presented at the Fifth Text REtrieval Conference.  Washington, DC. 1996. (selected by NIST based on the results of each group’s information retrieval experiment)

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND ASSOCIATION

Association for Library and Information Educators (ALISE), member, 1998-2003.
2001-2003      
ALISE Web Publication Committee, member

2001-2003
ALISE Research Committee, member

American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST), member, 1996-

2005, 2006
ASIST ProQuest Doc Dissertation committee, jury      

2003
Wisconsin American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) Chapter, Chair

2000-2002
Wisconsin American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) Chapter, Chair-elect

2000-
Student Advisor, American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST), UWM student chapter.

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), member, 2004-            

OTHER PROFESSIONAL AND RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

2005 – Editorial Board, Journal of Library and Information Science

2004 - Review for the following Grant Funding Agency:Kentucky Science and Engineering Foundation (KSEF)

2000 - Review for Journals and Juried Conference Programs: Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST)    
Information Processing and Management (IPM) Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science National Online Meeting

2000 - Member, Organizing and Reviewing Committee of National Online Meeting.

2000 - Panel convener for the New Faculty SIG (Topic: "Education for Digital Libraries: Issues and Challenges.") at Association of Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Conference.

LOCAL INSTITUTIONAL ACTIVITIES

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

2006 - 2009
Awards and Recognition Committee

2004 – 2007
Professional Executive Committee

2004-2007
University of Wisconsin Digital Collection Committee (UWDC)

2001 - 2004
Academic Program & Curriculum Committee
                       
2001 - 2004
Graduate Faculty Council (2003-2004, Secretary)

2001- 2003
Committee on Reviews

2000 – 2002
Graduate School Appeal Committee
School of Information Studies
           
2006-2007
Executive Committee, Chair
Graduate Admission and Awards Committee, member
Appeal Committee, member
PhD. Committee, member
Associate Dean Search Committee, member

2005-2006
Executive Committee, member
Graduate Admissions and Scholastic Standing Committee, Chair
Search and Screen Committee (Dean position), member

2004-2005
Executive Committee, member
Admission and Award Committee, Chair
Search and Screen Committee (Dean position), member

2003-2004
Executive Committee, member
Undergraduate Program Committee, chair
Admission and Award Committee, member
Search and Screen Committee (Dean position), member

2002-2003
Undergraduate Program Committee, member

2001-2002
Academic Planning Committee, Chair
Search and Screen Committee (BSIR positions), Chair
Search and Screen Committee (Associated Dean position), member
Admission and Awards Committee, member
Curriculum Committee, member

2000–2001
Admission and Awards Committee, Chair
Curriculum Committee, Member
Academic Planning Committee, Member
Search and Screen Committee (Instructional Technology), member

1999–2000
Curriculum Committee, Chair
School Name Change Committee, Member
Minority Recruitment Committee, Member

1998-1999
Comprehensive Examination Committee, Member
Curriculum Committee, Member
Scholastic Standing and Appeals Committee, Member

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