Dr. Min Sook Park specializes in data-intensive, user-centered health informatics, focusing on chronic conditions and their caregivers. Her research explores the relationship between information technology and health users to support individuals managing hypertension, diabetes, cancer, and dementia.
Collaborating with interdisciplinary teams, she develops innovative health applications, including a voice-activated mobile health app for chronic disease management. Utilizing computational methods, Dr. Park analyzes user-generated data from social media to uncover insights into health information needs and behaviors.
Research Interests
Health informatics, health information seeking, data science, STEM education
Teaching Interests
Health informatics, System design
Publications & Research
Selected Publications
Park, M., Bak, H, C., Park, H. J. & Kim, H. (2023)
Measuring citizen’s perceptions of AI adoption for instrumental and value-added tasks. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology 60(1):1099-1101. London, UK, 27-31 October, 2023. doi: 10.1002/pra2.957. 1st place winner of the Best Poster Award at ASIS&T 2023
Measuring citizen’s perceptions of AI adoption for instrumental and value-added tasks. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology 60(1):1099-1101. London, UK, 27-31 October, 2023. doi: 10.1002/pra2.957. 1st place winner of the Best Poster Award at ASIS&T 2023
Park, M., Park, J., Lee, J., Kim, H., & Park, H. (2023)
Measuring the impacts of trustworthiness and quantity of information on COVID-19 vaccination intent. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIS&T). 74(7). 846-865. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.24760
Park, M., Upama, P. B., Anik, A. A., Ahamed, S. I., Luo, J., Tian, S., Rabbani, M., & Oh, H. (2023)
A survey of conversational agents and their applications for self-management of chronic conditions. IEEE Computer Society Signature Conference on Computers, Software, and Applications (COMPSAC `23). Hybrid (Virtual & Torino, Italy), June 26-30, 2023. 1064–1075. doi: 10.1109/COMPSAC57700.2023.00162. PMID: 37750107
A survey of conversational agents and their applications for self-management of chronic conditions. IEEE Computer Society Signature Conference on Computers, Software, and Applications (COMPSAC `23). Hybrid (Virtual & Torino, Italy), June 26-30, 2023. 1064–1075. doi: 10.1109/COMPSAC57700.2023.00162. PMID: 37750107
You, S., Park, M*., & Joo, S. (2022)
Practicability of ensemble artificial neural network models for a classification task: An optimal approach for reproducing classification practices of health consumers generated text on social media. Journal of Library and Information Studies. 20(1). 1-30. doi: 10.6182/jlis.202206_20(1).001
Practicability of ensemble artificial neural network models for a classification task: An optimal approach for reproducing classification practices of health consumers generated text on social media. Journal of Library and Information Studies. 20(1). 1-30. doi: 10.6182/jlis.202206_20(1).001
Lee, J. H., Park, M. & Lee, S. (2021)
Spatiotemporal evolution and the diffusion pattern of COVID-19 in South Korea in three waves. The Korea Spatial Planning Review. 110, 43~62. http://dx.doi.org/10.15793/kspr.2021.110.003. First Place Best Paper Winner at KRIHS 2021.
Park, M.* (2019)
Understanding characteristics of semantic associations between health consumer generated knowledge representation in social media. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 70(11).1210-1222. doi: 10.1002/asi.24198
Grants & Awards
Selected Grants
Interdisciplinary Research Grant by the National Research Foundation of Korea. (KWR 565,803,000, # 2023S1A5A2A21087977) AI-based data visualization platform development research for regional information inequality using public library data. 2023.6-2026.5. Co-I with Dr. Jongwook Lee as PI
Team Grant Program, Concordia University (Internal Grant, CAD $50,000). The impact of gamification in the creation and exchange of informal knowledge, focusing on user emotion, cognition, and behavior. 04/01/2023 – 03/31/2025. Collaborator with Dr. Sumin Song as PI
National Institute of Health (NIH) Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Award ($441,152, # 1R21NR019707-01). Self-monitoring support application for adults with diabetes and hypertension. 07/28/2021-06/30/2024. Co-investigator with Dr. Hyungkyoung Oh as PI.
National Science Foundation (NSF) DUE IUSE RAPID Response Research ($193,101, #2032688). Creating opportunities for visualization of data: Applying STEM education research. 07/09/2020 – 07/08/2022. Consultant as Cameron Byerley as PI
Selected Awards
The 86th Annual Conference of the American Society for Information Science Technology (ASIS&T' 23). Best Poster Award (1st place), 2023
amp;
The 2021 Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements Research (KRIHS) Best Paper Award (1st place), 2022
The Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE' 17), 2017
amp;
Jean Tague-Sutcliffe doctoral research poster competition (3rd place), 2017
Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 2016
Jesse H. Shera Award for the Support of Dissertation Research, 2016
Most Interesting Preliminary Results Paper at iConference (Runner-up), 2016