Research Interests

My current research examines usage issues in the context of health portals through the means of usage data analysis. Unlike the web, health portals have some unique problems arising from the stringent control of information resources, the intrinsic problems of online health information, coupled with the complex tasks of health search and the deficiencies of consumer search skills.

The first phase of the research identifies a basic taxonomy of usage issues, empirically tested through usage data, which are important to health portals. The taxonomy can be to used to guide problem-solving approaches to improve HIPs. In the second phase, one particular focus is on the utility of usage analysis and usage-driven approaches in sustaining health portals. We demonstrate the implementation of usage-driven portals design, combining usage data analytics and dashboard technologies to provide data-driven decision making for portals.

As a design-science research, I also implemented different back-end and front-end Web application components to showcase the concepts. The implementations have also been successfully deployed to real-world portals.


My public weekly research log (2011). Archive: 2009-2010.

Some of my past research (and of interests!):

Publications

  1. B.V. Nguyen, F. Burstein, J. Fisher, C. Wilson, Taxonomy of usage problems for improving user-centric online health information provision, In Proceedings of the 17th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2011 (A-rank) , Detroit, Michigan, USA. 2011 | PDF | Nominated for best paper.
  2. B.V. Nguyen, F. Burstein, Usage-Driven Health Information Portals: A Concept and Design, In Proceedings of the Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (A-rank), 2013 , Jeju, Republic of Korea. 2013 | PDF | Nominated for best paper award.
  3. H. C. Lau, K. W. Lye, V. B. Nguyen, A Combinatorial Auction Framework for Solving Decentralized Scheduling Problems (Extended Abstract), In Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems , Vol 5015, 2008 (333-337), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 2008 | PDF | (courtesy of Springer)
  4. Bang Viet Nguyen and Min-Yen Kan, Functional Faceted Web Query Classification. Proceedings of Query Log Analysis Workshop, International World Wide Web 2007 , Banff, Canada. 2007 | PDF | SLIDE |
  5. Hoong Chuin Lau and Bang Viet Nguyen, Solving Generalized Open Constraint Optimization Problem using Two-Level Multi-Agent Framework: Improved Results. European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) Verona, Italy. August 2006.

Vitae

My professional CV (mixed with academic experiences). Updated August 2009.