EDUCATION

University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA

Ph.D. in Information Sciences

National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

M.A. in Library and Information Science
B.A. in Library and Information Science
Certification of Knowledge Management Program

RESEARCH

Research  Interests

  • Cyberbullying
  • Affective Information Need
  • Information Behavior
  • Digital Literacy
  • Social Media & Social informatics
  • Youth Informatics
  • Human–Computer Interaction (HCI)

Current  Projects

  • Cyberbullying experiences on visual-based social media platforms and digital literacy among university students, National Science and Technology Council, R.O.C. (Taiwan)
  • Invisible Borders: The Geopolitics of Airline Websites

PUBLICATIONS

Journal  Articles

  • Bilal, D. & Huang, L. M. (2025). Users’ voice-switching behaviors, embodiments and perceptions of voice assistants. Information and Learning Sciences, 126(1/2), 29-55. [DOI]
  • Lee, W.C., Huang, L. M., Hirt, J., (2024). Embracing emojis: Prototyping mood enhanced information systems for fiction readers. Journal of Documentation. Ahead-of-print. [DOI]
  • Cho, H., Lee, W. C., Huang, L. M., & Urban, A. (2024). Reading when stressed: Understanding motivations for reading fiction and enhancing future recommendation services. The Library Quarterly, 94(3), 253-271. [DOI]
  • Lee, W. C., Huang, L. M. C., & Hirt, J. (2024). From amused to 😆: enriching mood metadata by mapping textual descriptors to emojis for fiction reading. Journal of Documentation, 80(2), 552-571. [DOI]
  • Cho, H., Lee, W. C., Huang, L. M., & Kohlburn, J. (2023). User-centered categorization of fiction moods. Journal of Documentation, 79(3), 567-588. [DOI]
  • Huang, L. M., & Bilal, D. (2019). Speaking out: international doctoral students’ information needs, seeking behaviors, feelings, and experience during the process of applying for graduate study in the US. Libri, 69(3), 213-228. [DOI]
  • Bilal, D. & Huang, L. M. (2019). Readability and word complexity of SERPS snippets and web pages on children’s search queries: Google vs. Bing. Aslib Journal of Information Management, 71(2), 241-259. [DOI]

Conference  Presentation

  • Huang, L. M. (2021). Young adults' perspectives of cyberbullying on Instagram. Doctoral Colloquium, iConference 2021.

Conference  Papers

  • Cho, H., Lee, W. C., Urban, A., Huang, L. M., & Long, Y. (2021). “I don't want a book that's going to make me sad or stressed out, especially in this day and age”: Fiction reading (and healing) in a pandemic. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 58(1), 420-424. [DOI]
  • Huang, L. M. (2019). Stand to stop: A content analysis of YouTube videos about cyberbullying in schools and library-based interventions. In ICERI2019 Proceedings (pp.8246-8255). [DOI]
  • Huang, L. M., & Bilal, D. (2019). Usability of University Recruitment Web Pages from International Doctoral Students’ Perspectives. In the proceeding of International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 505-521). Springer, Cham. [DOI]
  • Chen, H. H. & Huang, L. M. (2014). The study of fundraising in academic libraries. The 12th Conference on Library and Information Science across the Taiwan Straits. Tianjin, China.

Conference  Posters

  • Huang, L. M. (Accepted). What are we teaching? Digital literacy in iSchool Curricula. iConference Proceedings, Poster session.
  • Huang, L. M. (2022). University students’ perspectives of visual-based cyberbullying on Instagram. Poster was awarded the 2nd place of ALISE/Jean Tague Sutcliffe Doctoral Student Research Poster Competition.
  • Tahamtan, I., & Huang, L. M. (2019). # Cyberbullying in the digital age: Exploring people's opinions with text mining. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 56(1), 672-673.
  • Huang, L. M., & Tahamtan, I. (2018). Why do people come? The factors influencing public library visits. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 55(1), 832-833.
  • Huang, L. M., & Bilal, D. (2017). “Not what I thought!” information seeking behaviors of international students during the application for graduate study in the USA. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 54(1), 709-711.
  • Huang, L.M. & Bilal, D. (2017). International students’ information seeking behavior during the application for graduate study in the U.S. Poster presented at the meeting of the Association for Library and Information Science Education, Atlanta, GA.
  • Huang, L.M. (2017). Cyberbullying and School Librarians’ Role as Perceived in YouTube. iConference Proceedings, Poster session.

Doctoral Dissertation

  • Huang, L.M. (2022). University Students’ Perspectives of Visual-based Cyberbullying on Instagram. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA.

Master  Thesis

  • Huang, L.M. (2015). Research on fundraising for university libraries in Taiwan. Unpublished master’s thesis, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. [WorldCat Record]

TEACHING

Assistant Professor / National Taiwan University

  • LIS 7013: Seminar in Information Organization
  • LIS 5110: Digital Literacy and Social Innovation
  • LIS 5109: Psychological Theories in Library and Information Science Research
  • LIS 3001: Organization of Information (I)
  • LIS 3004: Organization of Information (II)
  • LIS 3035: Information Sources and Services in Social Science
  • LIS 1017: Library and Information Service Field Work (I)
  • LIS 1018: Library and Information Service Field Work (II)

Lecturer / University of Tennessee Knoxville

  • INSC 310: Information Seeking: Resources and Strategies
  • INSC 102: Technologies for Information Retrieval

SERVICES

Professional  Services

Executive Editor
      The Journal of Library and Information Science Research (JLISR) (TSSCI, ISSN: 2218-3388)
Journal Reviewer
      Frontiers in Psychology (SSCI, ISSN:1664-1078)
      Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace (SSCI, ISSN: 1802-7962)
      Journal of Library and Information Studies (TSSCI, ISSN 1606-7509)
Conference Reviewer
      ASIS&T 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
      ALISE 2020, 2021
Conference Session Chair
      12th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation
Committee
      UTK SIS Tenure Track Faculty Search Committee

Practical  Services

Online Course Learning Support
      School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Adam Brown Social Media Command Center Assistant
      College of Communication and Information, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Library Assistant
      National Taiwan University Library
      Department Library in Department of Library and Information Science, National Taiwan University
Internship
      Library of Intellectual Property Office (TIPO), Minister of Economic Affairs, R.O.C. (Taiwan)

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