Bogeum Choi
Postdoctoral Research Associate
PhD, Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
MS, Information Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
BS, Psychology and Information & Library Science, Sungkyunkwan University
Research focus
Information behavior, human-computer interaction, human-AI interaction, interactive information retrieval, search as learning, human factors, user research, health-related information seeking and use, the role of social media in health journeys.
Honors and Awards
- Best PC Member, ACM SIGIR '25
- Student Travel Grant, ACM SIGIR '20, '21, '22, '25
- Best Reviewer Award, ASIS&T '24
- Edward G. Holley Research Grant '23
- Honorable Mention of the Best Paper, CSCW '22
Publications & Papers
Kim, H., Choi, B., Daly, B. P., & Huh-Yoo, J. (2025). Understanding community likes and clinical perspectives in mental health discourse. CSCW 2025. (In press)
Understanding Community 'Likes' and Clinical Perspective in Mental Health Discourse: Insights from YouTube Comments on College Students' Mental Health
Choi, B., & Arguello, J. (2025, March). The Effects of Working Memory during a Search and Sensemaking Task. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (pp. 100-111).
Choi, B., Casteel, S., Arguello, J., & Capra, R. (2023). Better Understanding Procedural Search Tasks: Perceptions, Behaviors, and Challenges. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 42(3), 1-32.
Avula, S., Choi, B., & Arguello, J. (2023). Why and when: Understanding system initiative during conversational collaborative search. arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.13484.
Choi, B., Arguello, J., & Capra, R. (2023, March). Understanding procedural search tasks “in the wild”. In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (pp. 24-33).
Choi, B., Arguello, J., Capra, R., & Ward, A. R. (2023). The influences of a knowledge representation tool on searchers with varying cognitive abilities. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 41(1), 1-35.
Avula, S., Choi, B., & Arguello, J. (2022). The effects of system initiative during conversational collaborative search. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 6(CSCW1), 1-30.
Choi, B., Casteel, S., Capra, R., & Arguello, J. (2022, March). Procedural knowledge search by intelligence analysts. In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (pp. 169-179).
Choi, B., Kim, H., & Huh-Yoo, J. (2021). Seeking mental health support among college students in video-based social media: content and statistical analysis of YouTube videos. JMIR formative research, 5(11), e31944.
Presentations
The Effects of Working Memory During a Search and Sensemaking Task, CHIIR, Melbourne VIC, Australia. '25
Understanding Procedural Search Tasks “in the Wild”, CHIIR, Austin TX, USA. '23
Procedural Knowledge Search by Intelligence Analysts, CHIIR, Regensberg, Germany. '22
Seeking Mental Health Support on YouTube, American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Mental Health Informatics Working Group Meeting. '22
OrgBox: A Knowledge Representation Tool to Support Complex Search Tasks, CHIIR, Canberra ACT, Australia. '21
A qualitative analysis of the effects of task complexity on the functional role of information, CHIIR, Vancouver BC, Canada. '20
A comparative examination of factors that affect the credibility of health information on social media, ASIS&T, Vancouver BC, Canada. '18