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
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
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
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
Grants & Awards
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
Learning Labs’s AI FAST Challenge Program: Funding for Accelerated Study and Transformation, ($95,000). Collaborative AI integration in STEM education. Consultant with Dr. Hyunkyoung Yoon as PI. *Contract under development
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
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
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