Dr. Ying-Hsang Liu

• 2022–2024: Researcher, CAPTURE (CApturing Paradata for documenTing data creation and Use for the REsearch of the future) project, ERC, with Prof Isto Huvila
• 2022-2023: Senior Researcher, PICCH (Polyvocal Interpretations of Contested Colonial Heritage) project, JPICULTURE-Cultural heritage and global change, with Prof Pia Borlund and Prof Nils Pharo

• 2022: Chief Investigator, User Study of Data Discovery, Health Studies Australian National Data Asset (HeSANDA) User Interview, research consultancy project with Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC), with Dr Mingfang Wu and Dr Megan Power
• 2021–2022: Chief Investigator, User Study of Data Discovery, research consultancy project with Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC), with Dr Mingfang Wu and Dr Megan Power
• 2019–2020: Chief Investigator, Future Cognitive Agents to Support Aeronautical Actors, research consultancy with Airbus AI research team, funded by Airbus Central Research & Technology
• 2014–2017: Chief Investigator, Computational Intelligence for Complex Structured Data, collaborative research with Prof Tamás (Tom) Gedeon, Dr Richard Jones, Prof Andreas Nürnberger and Prof Peter Baranyi
• 2014–2015: Co-Principal Investigator, National Learning and Teaching Resource Audit and Classification, collaborative research with Philip Hider, Barney Dalgarno, Sue Bennett, Carole Gerts, Carla Daws, Lance Deveson, Barbara Spiller and Robert Parkes
• 2012–2015: Principal Investigator, Natural Search User Interfaces for Complex Biomedical Search, collaborative research with Prof Tom Gedeon, Dr Paul Thomas and Marijana Bacic.
• 2010-2012: Co-Principal Investigator, The Actual Importance of RDA (Resource Description & Access) Elements in Supporting Key User Tasks, collaborative research with Dr Philip Hider.
• 2004–2007: Graduate Assistant, A Better Book Browser: How to Read a Million Books, supervised by Profs Michael Lesk and Nina Wacholder.
• 2004: Research Assistant, HARD (High Accuracy Retrieval from Documents) Evaluation Track within TREC (Text REtrieval Conference), supervised by Prof Nicholas Belkin.
• 2002–2003: Research Assistant, Robust Face Recognition from a High Stakes Paradigm, supervised by Prof Mark Frank.
• 2002: Research Assistant, Research on Reading Electronic Documents on the Web, supervised by Prof Shan-Ju L. Chang.
• 1999–2001: Research Assistant, Elicitation Behavior during Information Retrieval Interaction, supervised by Prof Mei-Mei Wu.
• 1999-2000: Research Assistant, Exploring Aspects of Lexical Semantics in Taiwanese, supervised by Prof Chinfa Lien.
• 1999: Research Assistant, An Evaluation Test-bed for Chinese Information Retrieval, supervised by Prof Mei-Mei Wu.
• 1999: Research Assistant, Tone Sandhi of Liujia Yaoping Hakka Dialect, supervised by Prof Hui- Chuan Hsu.
• 1996–1998: Research Assistant, Research on Browsing Behavior in the Libraries, Information Seeking and Use Behavior of Humanities Scholars, supervised by Prof Shan-Ju L. Chang.

• 2022–present: Researcher, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. Work on EU-funded ERC CAPTURE (CApturing Paradata for documenTing data creation and Use for the REsearch of the future) project.
• 2022: Visiting Scholar, Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany. Work with Professorship of Predicative Analytics on cognitive modelling.
• 2021–present: Owner, Wissen Insight, Canberra, Australia. IT consulting business.
• 2021–2022: Senior Researcher, Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway. Work on EU-funded PICCH (Polyvocal Interpretations of Contested Colonial Heritage) project.
• 2020–2021: Associate Professor, University of Southern Denmark, Kolding, Denmark. Full-time research and teaching position.
• 2019–2020: Research Fellow, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT, Australia. Work on research consultancy project with Airbus at Research School of Computer Science.
• 2012–2019: Visiting Fellow, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT, Australia. Collaborative research project on user search interface design at Research School of Computer Science. 1 of 16
• 2009–2019: Lecturer in Information Management, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga NSW, Australia. Full-time research and teaching position, confirmed in March 2012.
• 2008–2009: Teaching Assistant, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. Worked as teaching assistant for graduate courses.
• 2007–2008: Visiting Assistant Professor, Pratt Institute, New York City, USA. Taught face-to-face graduate courses in Online Database Searching and Services, Internet Services and Sources.
• 2005: Part-Time Lecturer & Teaching Assistant, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. Taught face-to-face graduate course in Organizing Information.
• 2004–2007: Graduate Assistant, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. Worked with Drs. Michael Lesk and Nina Wacholder on A Better Book Browser: How to Read a Million Books research project.
• 2003–2004: Teaching Assistant, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. Guest lecturing, class administration, course coordination using the eCollege and Turnitin systems, marking papers for various undergraduate and graduate courses.
• 2001–2002: Knowledge Analyst, Knowledge Express Technology, Hsinchu, Taiwan. Conducted research on segmentation issues in Chinese natural language processing and user interface design.

• 2002–2009: Ph.D. in Information Science, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA. Dissertation Title: The impact of MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) terms on information seeking effectiveness Committee: Nina Wacholder (Chair), Michael Lesk, Paul Kantor, Chung-chieh Shan
• 1997–2000: M.A. in Linguistics, Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. Thesis Title: A study of Tungshih Hakka modality: With particular reference to grammaticalization of Oi and Voi
• 1993-1997:.A. in Library Science, Department of Library Science, National Taiwan University, Taiwan.

The goal of any university faculty member should be to integrate theory and practice at all levels of the educational experience. I consider teaching to be an important part of my professional development and personal satisfaction. I have taught a wide variety of face-to-face courses as a teaching assistant, part-time lecturer, visiting assistant professor and lecturer at several institutions. I taught the lead course Organizing Information while I was a PhD student at Rutgers University. At Pratt Institute in New York City, I taught Online Database Searching and Services and Internet Services and Sources.

At Charles Sturt University I have taught various online courses and participated the curriculum renewal and creation of the Honors program by designing learning activities and writing course materials in collaboration with colleagues. Currently, I am delivering several courses within and outside areas of specialist research interests, including The Digital Environment, Describing and Analyzing Information Resources, Advanced Information Retrieval, Advanced Web Design and Publishing and Information Architecture for the Web.

My teaching philosophy is to encourage students to develop their critical thinking skills through the reflection of their learning processes and the engagement with class discussions. To achieve these objectives, I have encouraged students to formulate their own questions by reflecting on their understanding of course materials on discussion forums through various exercises and learning activities. In addition, I take the experiential learning approach to the learning and teaching of procedural knowledge, with particular reference to the use and application of information technologies.

• User evaluation of conversational agents for aerospace domain, Ying-Hsang Liu, Alexandre Arnold, Gérard Dupont, and Catherine Kobus, Francois Lancelot, Géraud Granger, Yves Rouillard, Alexandre Duchevet, Jean-Paul Imbert, Nadine Matton International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 2023
• Elicitation of contexts for discovering clinical trials and related health data: An Interview Study (ARDC user study of data discovery project report 2) , Ying-Hsang Liu,Mingfang Wu, Megan Power, and Adrian Burton.
  2023
• Search interfaces for biomedical searching: How do gaze, user perception, search behaviour and search performance relate? , Ying-Hsang Liu,Paul Thomas, Tom Gedeon, and Nicolay Rusnachenko.
  In CHIIR ’22: Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, 2022
• Information behavior and practices research informing information systems design , Isto Huvila, Heidi Enwald, Kristina Eriksson-Backa, Ying-Hsang Liu,and, Noora Hirvonen.
  Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 2022
• Search interface design and evaluation, Chang Liu, Ying-Hsang Liu, Jingjing Liu, and Ralf Bierig
  Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval, 2021
• Information and Knowledge Organisation in Digital Humanities, Koraljka Golub, Ying-Hsang Liu
  2021
• Predicting visual search task success from eye gaze data as a basis for user-adaptive information visualization systems, Moritz Spiller, Ying-Hsang Liu, Md Zakir Hossain, and Tom Gedeon, Julia Geissler, Andreas Nürnberger
  ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, 2021
• The effect of numerical and textual information on visual engagement and perceptions of AI-driven persona interfaces Joni Salminen,Ying-Hsang Liu, Sercan Şengün, and João M. Santos, Soon-gyo Jung, Bernard J. Jansen Nürnberger
  In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2020
• User engagement with driving simulators: An analysis of physiological signals , Ying-Hsang Liu,Moritz Spiller, Jinshuai Ma, and Tom Gedeon, Md Zakir Hossain, Atiqul Islam, Ralf Bierig
  In HCI International 2020 –Late Breaking Papers: Digital Human Modeling and Ergonomics, Mobility and Intelligent Environments, 2020