University at Buffalo

South Korea

• E-government
• Implications of Information Assurance (Information Security, Privacy in Online Environments)
• Behavioral Impacts of Information Security on Public and Private Sector
• Impacts of Individual Factors on IS Implementation/Effectiveness in public/private Organizations
• Behavioral Decision-Making

I have been interested in behavioral issues which might happen in everywhere/every contexts including online/offline, private/public sectors. These interests have lead me to do various research such as user’s behavior in digital government, user’s protecting behavior on email spam, and the role of third party assurance seals on online transactions. I have worked for business consulting firm in Korea for six years before attending the University at Buffalo.

I have been interested in user behavior in digital government for a couple of years. During the first year of my doctoral study, I focused on digital democracy that examined the effect of the Internet on intention to vote. Specifically, my colleagues and I explored how Interactivity and credibility as the characteristics of Internet influence apolitical and political internet users’ intention to vote. This study has been presented in AMCIS in 2004. In my second year, my colleagues and I developed an integrated framework that incorporated confidential information shared by users as one factor and e-government satisfaction derived from service performance as another factor. In this research, we found that user intention to continue using government websites is related to user satisfaction, perceived performance of the website and the requirement for confidential information. This research has been published at International Journal of Electronic Government Research in July-Sep 2006 Vol. 2 No. 3.