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Affiliate Positions

  • Affiliate Faculty, Center for an Informed Public
  • Founder and Director, UW Game Research (GAMER) Group

Specializations

  • Music, Multimedia, and Interactive Media Information Retrieval
  • Organization and Preservation of Popular Cultural Objects
  • User Behavior Related to Popular Cultural Media

Research Areas

Courses

Biography

Jin Ha Lee is an Associate Professor at the Information School in University of Washington and the director of the GAMER (GAME Research) Group. Her research interests include: music, game, and multimedia information seeking and retrieval, information organization and access, and knowledge representation. The GAMER Group explores new ideas and approaches for organizing and providing access to video games and interactive media, understanding user behavior related to video games, and using video games for informal learning. She is a recipient of the Fulbright Award for Graduate Study as well as the Jean Tague-Sutcliffe Award and the Berner-Nash Memorial Award for her dissertation research, “Analysis of Information Features in Natural Language Queries for Music Information Retrieval: Use Patterns and Accuracy.” She holds an M.S. (2002) and a Ph.D. (2008) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Education

  • Ph D, Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 2008
  • MS, Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 2002
  • BA, Library and Information Science, Ewha Womans University, 2000

Awards

  • iConference 2020 Best Short Research Paper Award - iConference, 2020
  • Finalist for the Most Interesting Preliminary Paper Award - iConference, 2017
  • WiMIR (Women in Music Information Retrieval) Award - Smule, Shazam, 2016
  • PROF Award - University of Washington Information School, 2014
  • Finalist for the Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award - ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2012
  • Nominated for PROF Award - University of Washington Information School, 2012
  • Berner-Nash Memorial Award - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009
  • Beta Phi Mu, 2009
  • Graduate School of Library and Information Science Fellowship - GSLIS, UIUC, 2008
  • Jean Tague-Sutcliffe Award - ALISE, 2007
  • List of Teachers Ranked Excellent by Their Students - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004
  • ISMIR (International Society for Music Information Retrieval) 2002 Scholarship - ISMIR, 2002
  • Phi Kappa Phi, 2002
  • Fulbright Scholarship for Graduate Study - Institute of International Education, 2000
  • Best Paper - CHI 2021, 2021
  • Top Paper - ICA 2021, 2021

Consulting and Other Projects

  • UCSC / Stanford Game Metadata and Citation Advisory Panel, 2013
  • Washington State Libraries, Office of the Secretary of State, and Oculus

Memberships

  • American Library Association
  • American Society for Information Science & Technology
  • International Society for Music Information Retrieval
  • Korea Society for Information Management

Publications and Contributions

Presentations

  • "Escape from Misinformation" (2021)
    TASCHA Public Library Colloquium - virtual
  • The Preservation of Video Games (2021)
    Replaying Japan 2021 Conference - Virtual
  • "Investigating user perceptions underlying social music behavior using Q methodology" (2020)
    International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR) - Montreal, Canada (virtual due to COVID-19 pandemic)
  • How music fans shape commercial music services: a case study of BTS and ARMY (2020)
    ISMIR - Montreal, Canada (virtual due to COVID-19 pandemic)
  • Human Versus Machine: Analyzing Video Game User Reviews for Plot and Narrative (2020)
    2020 ASIS&T Virtual Annual Meeting - Virtual
  • Librarian Perspectives on the Role of Virtual Reality in Public Libraries (2020)
    2020 ASIS&T Virtual Annual Meeting - Virtual
  • Researching BTS Through Data & Information Science (2020)
    Rhizome Connect - Virtual
  • “XR (Augmented, Virtual and Mixer Reality) Programming in Libraries: Integrating Immersive Media into Library Collections (2019)
    Symposium on the Future of Libraries. American Library Association (ALA) Mid-winter - Seattle, WA
  • Gaming, gambling, & the new monetization of digital play (2019)
    DiGRA 2019 - Kyoto, Japan
  • Location-based AR Research at the University of Washington (Preconference Workshop on The Future of Location-based Gaming Research (2019)
    DiGRA 2019 - Kyoto, Japan
  • Organizing and Preserving Game Development Artifacts (Preconference Workshop on Metadata in Game Studies: What It Is, What We Can Do With It, And Why It Matters (2019)
    DiGRA 2019 - Kyoto, Japan
  • Conceptualizing Superwork for Organizing Popular Cultural Objects (2018)
    Research meeting on organization of pop-culture objects and cultural heritage, Tsukuba University - Tsukuba, Japan
  • Ethics in Designing and Playing Augmented Reality Games (2018)
    Guest lecture in HCDE 210 "Explorations in Human Centered Design," University of Washington - Seattle, WA
  • Getting Real with Virtual Reality (Preconference Workshop) (2018)
    Washington Library Association (WLA) Conference - Yakima, WA
  • Influences on the Social Practices Surrounding Commercial Music Services: A Model for Rich Interactions (2018)
    International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2018) - Paris, France
  • Preserving Augmented Reality Games (2018)
    Video Game Preservation Workshop: Setting the Stage for Multi-Partner Projects, Stanford Libraries - Stanford, CA
  • Virtual Reality in Washington State Libraries (2018)
    Connected Learning Summit 2018 - Cambridge, MA
  • VR in Libraries (2018)
    Washington Library Association (WLA) Conference - Yakima, WA
  • Analyzing Anime Users' Online Forum Queries (2017)
    Joint Conferences on Digital Libraries 2017 - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • Collaborative scientizing in Pokémon GO online communities (2017)
    Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning - Philadelphia, PA
  • Metadata for Video Games and Interactive Media (2017)
    Data-based approaches to local and global video game cultures - Opportunities, Challenges, Future Directions Workshop, Leipzig University Library - Leipzig, Germany
  • More Than Form and Function: Developing a Design Course for Graduate Library Education (2017)
    ALISE 2017 - Atlanta, GA
  • Quests in the Ivory Tower: U. of Washington GAMER Group (2017)
    Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) West - Seattle, WA
  • Research on Pokemon GO and Ingress at the University of Washington (2017)
    Invited talk at Niantic Labs for CEO and founder, and senior management - US
  • A look at the cloud from both sides now: An analysis of cloud music service usage (2016)
    International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2016) - New York, NY
  • Elucidating user behavior in music services through persona and gender (2016)
    International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2016) - New York, NY
  • Masters of Library and Information Studies orientation (2016)
    Panel at University of Washington - iSchool - Seattle, WA
  • Media Format Matters: Users' Perceptions of Physical versus Digital Games (2016)
    Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIST 2016) - Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Video Game Metadata Schema (2016)
    UW-SNU Seminar, Graduate School of Convergence Science & Technology, Seoul National University - Suwon, South Korea
  • WiMIR: An informetric study on women authors in ISMIR (2016)
    International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2016) - New York, NY
  • Video game research at the iSchool (2015)
    Invited panel at University of Washington – Information School - Seattle, WA
  • A cross-cultural study on the mood of K-POP songs (2014)
    ISMIR - International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference - Taipei, Taiwan
  • MIREX Grand Challenge 2014: User Experience (2014)
    ISMIR - International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference - Taipei, Taiwan
  • Music information behaviors and system preferences of university students in Hong Kong (2014)
    ISMIR - International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference - Taipei, Taiwan
  • Ten Years of MIREX (Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange): Reflections, Challenges and Opportunities (2014)
    ISMIR - International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference - Taipei, Taiwan
  • Pretty as a pixel: Issues and challenges in developing a controlled vocabulary for video game visual styles (2013)
    ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries - Indianapolis, IN
  • User-centered approach in creating a metadata schema for video games and interactive media (2013)
    ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries - Indianapolis, IN
  • What exactly is an ?action-adventure? game, anyway?: Providing intelligent access to video games (2013)
    ALA Midwinter 2013 - Seattle, WA
  • Generating ground truth for music mood classification using Mechanical Turk (2012)
    ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries - Washington, DC
  • Music Information Retrieval (2012)
    UW-KAIST Seminar - Daejeon, Korea
  • Playing with information: information work in online gaming environments (2012)
    iConference - Toronto, ON, Canada
  • What does music mood mean for real users? (2012)
    iConference - Toronto, ON, Canada
  • "How similar is too similar?" Exploring users' perceptions of similarity in playlist evaluation (2011)
    ISMIR - International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference - Miami, FL
  • Thinking inside the XBox: Elements of information organization in video games (2011)
    iConference - Seattle, WA
  • An analysis of ISMIR proceedings: Patterns of authorship, topic, and citation (2009)
    ISMIR - International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference - Kobe, Japan
  • Analysis of information features in natural language queries for music information retrieval: Use patterns and accuracy (2007)
    ALISE Annual Conference - Seattle, WA
  • Evalutron 6000: collecting music relevance judgments (2007)
    ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries - Vancouver, BC, Canada
  • How incorrect information delivers correct search results: A pragmatic analysis of queries (2007)
    ASIS&T - Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology - Milwaukee, WI
  • Preliminary analyses of information features provided by users for identifying music (2007)
    ISMIR - International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference - Vienna, Austria
  • Factors affecting the response rates of real-life MIR queries (2006)
    ISMIR - International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference - Victoria, BC, Canada
  • Known-item searching: Variations on a concept (2006)
    ASIS&T - Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology - Austin, TX
  • Challenges in cross-cultural/multilingual music information seeking (2005)
    ISMIR - International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference - London, England, United Kingdom
  • Survey of music information needs, uses, and seeking behaviours: Preliminary finding (2004)
    ISMIR - International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference - Barcelona, Spain
  • Music representation systems (2003)
    Extreme Markup Languages 2003 - Montreal, QC, Canada
  • Armed in ARMY: A case study of how BTS fans successfully collaborated to #MatchAMillion for Black Lives Matter
    ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2021) - Virtual