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Yongxia Xia

Xia, Yongxia

Email: ys11@txstate.edu

Office Phone: 512.245.4402

Education

Ph.D. (2002). Geography, Texas State University. San Marcos, Texas.
Dissertation: Visitor’s Optimal Experience to a Virtual Tour Website
M.S. (1990). Geography, Beijing Normal University. Beijing, China.
B.S. (1985). Geography, Beijing Normal University. Beijing, China.

Current Position:

Director, Electronic Research Administration

Office of the Associate Vice President for Research and Federal Relations

Texas State University

Employment History

2006 – 2009

Assistant Director –Information Technology & Research, River Systems Institute, Texas State University

2001 to 2006

Extension Associate – Programmer/Analyst. Texas Cooperative Extension, Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences, Texas A&M University

1996 to 2001

Research Assistant, Department of Geography, Texas State University

1994 to 1996

Head of Registration Division, Chemical Registration Center, State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) of China

1987 to 1994
Research staff, Institute of Ecology, Chinese Academy of Environmental Sciences

Selected IT Systems Designed and Programmed

Institutional Review Board (IRB) Online Application Management System. This system is developed to facilitate the IRB to evaluate research projects involving human subjects. This system is currently used by Texas State University.

River Systems Online Project Database. The system was developed with Visual Studio 2005(Visual Basic). The system features membership creation for authors to upload project reports, data and images. Visitors can search the database by author, project title and key words

Texas Fish Habitat Online Survey and Reporting. This web site will be used for a state-wide fish habitat survey conducted by Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and Texas State University.

TexBox. This online system is a traveler information kiosk network developed for the Texas Department of Transportation. The kiosks were installed at seven TxDOT rest area locations. The system connected over 200 communities. Travelers could search and locate over 9000 businesses such as accommodations, services, attractions, and public agencies in these communities.

Online Management System for Distance Learning Classes. The system supports online registration, tuition management, progress reporting, online testing, quiz generation and grading, etc. After registration and “sign-in”, students can access to their own personal classrooms according to their own course enrollment.

Tourism Market Match. The online system consists of an on-line survey builder and a statistical market analysis engine. The on-line survey builder dynamically generates online surveys and databases to capture customer data. The market analysis engine translates the data collected via the online survey into a variety of reports including tabular and graphical formats.

Peer Reviewed Publications

Skadberg, Y. X. and A. Skadberg. Web-based market analysis system for rural and small tourism businesses: The Tourism Market Match approach. Submitted to Information Technology & Tourism. In revision.

Skadberg, Y. X., T. Jamal and A. Skadberg. 2005. An IT and GIS exploration of web-based nature tourism enterprises in the rural agricultural sector in Texas. International Journal of Service Technology and Management, Vol 6(2).

Skadberg, A., Y. X. Skadberg. Developing online resources to address the needs of landowners and communities interested in nature tourism as an economic diversification strategy. Journal of Extension. (In press).

Skadberg, Y. X. and J. R. Kimmel. 2005. Visitors’ optimal experience while browsing a tourism web site. Information Technology & Tourism. Vol. 7, No. 3-4, pp. 147-156.

Skadberg, Y. X. and J. R. Kimmel. 2004. Visitors' flow experience while browsing a Web site: Its measurement, contributing factors and consequences. Computers in Human Behavior, 20, pp.403-422.

Xia, Y. 1994. Research on a comprehensive land resource use planning of Chengde. In Research on ecological environment and the ecological planning in Kangxi Summer Palace, ed. Benjin Yang. Beijing: Chinese Environmental Science Press.

Wang, Jiaji and Y. Xia.1996. Landscape ecology assessment in tourist city planning--a case study in Nantian, Hainan Island. Research on Environmental Sciences, 1996(1).

Book Review

Xia, Y. 1997. Land Degradation (Book Review). By Douglas L. Johnson and Laurence A. Lewis. Social Science Quarterly, Vol 78, No. 4.

Book

Xia, Y. and Y. Gao 1996 (Eds). Environmental Management on Import/Export of Chemicals. Beijing: Chinese Environmental Science Press.

Professional Reports

Xia, Y. and Y. Gao. Technical guidance on reporting for the Inventory of the Existing Chemical Substances in China. State Environmental Protection Administration of China, February 1996.

Xia, Y. and Y. Gao. Detailed on Implementing the Registration of the Environmental Management on the First Import of Chemicals and the Import/Export of Toxic Chemicals. Chemical Registration Center, State Environmental Protection Administration of China, February 1995.

Grants & Contracts

Principle Investigator :: Blanco River Watershed Land Use Change and Its Impact Decision Support System, $200,000.

Principle Investigator :: Renewable Resource Extension Act, USDA CREES Grant, $7,000. Development of three online GIS courses: GIS for Natural and Cultural Resource Management, GIS for Tourism Management and Planning, andGIS for Community and Regional Tourism.

Principle Investigator :: Texas A&M University, Technology Assisted Learning, $6000. Development of an online course entitled “Tourism and Online Technology”.

Principle Investigator :: Renewable Resource Extension Act, USDA CREES Grant, $7,400. Tourism Market Match.

Co-PI :: Renewable Resource Extension Act, USDA CREES Grant, $8,000. Texas INFRONT.

Co-PI :: Renewable Resource Extension Act, USDA CREES Grant, $7,700. Development of CD-ROM/Web-based Texas Friendly training

Co-PI :: Texas Department of Transportation, $44,344. Texas Travel Kiosk Information System – TexBox.

Principle Investigator :: State Environmental Protection Administration of China. $2,500 (RMB 20,000). Technical guidance on reporting for the Inventory of the Existing Chemical Substances in China.

Co-PI :: State Environmental Protection Administration of China, $48,000 (RMB 400,000). Compilation of the "Inventory of the Existing Chemicals in China.

Principle Investigator :: British Council and Liverpool University, UK. Land Resource Evaluation for Chengde City, China.

Co-PI :: State Science Committee, $6000 (RMB 50,000). Land Evaluation and Restoration Plan of Tangshan, China.