Yan Zhang

Assistant professor, School of Information, the University of Texas at Austin
1616 Guadalupe, D8600
Austin, TX 78701-1213

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Education

Ph.D. School of Information and Library Science, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2009
M.S. Information Sciences, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2004
B.S. Information Management and Systems, Nanjing University, 2001

Research interests

My research interests are mainly within two areas: (1) users' perceptions of information systems, particularly web-based information retrieval (IR) systems, and (2) consumer health information needs and information seeking, as well as the design of consumer health information systems.

Current projects

Users' perceptions of social network sites as a venue for information seeking

Contextualize consumer health information searching: Characteristics of consumer health information needs

LIFEisGame: Learning of facial emotions using serious games

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Last updated: 10/1/2010