School of Information
University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station, D7000
Austin, TX 78712-0390

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Education

• Ph.D, School of Information, University of Texas at Austin, spring 2008 (Expected)
• Enrolled in MIME (Master of Immersive Media Environment), Indiana University, Bloomington, 1999-2002
• M. A., Communication, Ewha University, Seoul, Korea, 1998
• B. A., Journalism and Broadcasting, Ewha University, Seoul, Korea, 1994

Research Interest Areas

Scholarships & Awards

• 2007-2008 Catheryne S. Franklin Centennial Endowed Scholarship, School of Information, University of Texas at Austin
• 2006-2007 Temple Foundation Centennial Scholarship, School of Information, University of Texas at Austin
• 2004-2006 Benonine Muse Scholarship, School of Information, University of Texas at Austin
• 2002-2003 Catheryne S. Franklin Centennial Endowed Scholarship, School of Information, University of Texas at Austin
• 1995 Korean Parliament scholarship, Korean Parliament
• 1994-1995, Department Scholarship, Communications Dept, Ewha University
• 1992 Department Scholarship, Journalism and Broadcasting Dept, Ewha University

Publications

• Liu, M., Traphagan, T., Huh, J., Koh, Y. I., Choi, G., & McGregor, A. (2008). Designing w eb sites for ESL learners: A usability testing study. The CALICO Journal, 25(2).

• Choi, G .(2007). Wayfinding Affordance Design and its Influence on User's Perceptual Experience in Desktop Virtual Environments. ALISE '0 7 Annual Meeting: Habits of Mind and Practice: Preparing Reflective Professionals. (Jan 15-18, 2007, Seattle , Washington). (Poster)

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

• Choi, G ., & Chen, H. (2006). The influence of a sign system on the sense of presence in a desktop virtual environment. ASIS&T '0 6 Annual Meeting: Information Realities . (Nov 3-8, 200 6 , Austin , TX). (Poster)

• Y. I. Koh, G. Choi, J. Huh, M, Liu, A. McGregor, & T. Traphagan (2006). Designing websites for ESL learners : A usability testing study. CALICO (the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium) '06 Annual Meeting: Online Learning Come Ride the Wave . (May 16-20, 2006, University of Hawaii).

• Dillon, A., Kleinman, L., Choi, G., & Bias, R. (2006). Two experiments: Reading and searching electronic documents with enhanced screen displays. CHI '06 Interact. Inform. Inspire. (April 22-27, 2006, Montreal).

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

• Dillon, A., Kleinman, L., Bias, R., & Choi, G. (2004). Reading and searching electronic documents: An experimental study of regular and enhanced screen displays. ASIS&T '04 Annual Meeting: Managing and Enhancing Information . (Nov 13-18, 2004, Providence , RI).

Working Experience

• Teaching Assistant for Understanding and Serving Users , Digital Media Design I, Information Resources in the Social Sciences and Public Libraries, School of Information, University of Texas at Austin (9, 2006 - 12, 2006)

• Website Developer for Squarefishpinkcake.com (7 , 2006- current)
  : Developed the company website with Flash, PHP, and MySQL

• Website Developer for ~Fast Tex Project (5, 2006 - current)
  : Added interactive functions to Longhorn Stamped website and generated graphs and tables with user inputs and a database

• User Interface Developer and PHP Programmer for Colere Group (4, 2006- current)
  : Developed AgentPro with CMS, PHP, and MySQL

• Website Developer for the ARMA (Association of Information Management Professionals)(9, 2005-1, 2006)
  : Redesigned the original ARMA Austin Chapter website (internship)

• Teaching Assistant for Understanding and Serving Users and Digital Media Design I, School of Information, University of Texas at Austin (9, 2005-5, 2006 )

• Website Developer for ~Fast Tex Project (1, 2005-12, 2005)
  : Developed a website for Ethnicity, Culture and Substance Use Disorder
  : Developed a new search scheme and administration pages for Texas German Dialect Project

• Teaching Assistant for Understanding and Serving Users and Digital Media Design I, School of Information, University of Texas at Austin (9, 2004-5, 2005 )

• Research Assistant for School of Information, University of Texas at Austin (6, 2003-8, 2004)
  : Conducted a series of studies on user responses on ClearType text style
  : Sponsored by Microsoft Corporation

• Teaching Assistant for Understanding and Serving Users, School of Information, University of Texas at Austin (7-8, 2003)

• Web Developer and Usability Specialist for ITAL (Institute for Technology and Learning ), University of Texas (internship) (1-6, 2003)
  : Tested usability of University of Texas website in terms of accessability (particularly focused on disability)
  : Created captioned videos using Quick Time Pro and SMIL (Synchronized Multmedia Integration Language)

• Interface Designer for CourseShare.com (internship) (7-12, 2001)
  : Created new web pages and maintaining the company website

• Research Assistant for Korean Broadcasting Institute (2-10, 1997)
  : Conducted research on media regulation policy in European Countries

• Research Assistant for Korean Press Institute (10-12, 1995)
  : Conducted research on disaster reports of Korean newspapers

• Account Executives for Jaeil Advertising Company (internship) (7, 1995)

• Department Assistant in Communication Dept., Ewha University (1994-1995)

Academic Activities

• Peer Reviewer, Post-Tracks (www.webjunction.org)

Computer Experience

• Web Applications- DreamWeaver, Firework
• Web related script and programming languages- Java, (X)HTML, CSS, Javascript, (DHTML), PHP, ASP, Perl (& CGI)
• Graphics - Photoshop, Illustrator
• Video-Finalcut Pro, iMovie
• Multimedia - Director and Lingo, Flash and ActionScript, QuickTime VR
• Sound editing - Sound Forge
• Database - mySQL, SQL, Access, ColdFusion
• Server-Apache
• OS - Windows, Macintosh, Unix (Linux)