Research at the Intersection of Information, Technology, and People

Demos

Documentation-First Development: Claude Code & GitHub for Medical Device Software

Ammar Darkazanli, School of Information


Exploring Multidimensional Checkworthiness: Designing AI-assisted Claim Prioritization for Human Fact-checkers

Houjiang Liu, School of Information


MetaCues: Leveraging Metacognitive Cues to Foster Critical Engagement in Generative AI-based Information Seeking

Anjali Singh, School of Information; Zhitong Guan, School of Information; Karan Taneja, Georgia Institute of Technology; Soo Young Rieh, School of Information


Preparing for the Worst: Cultural Heritage Risk Assessment for Catastrophic Events

Sarah Norris, School of Information


Reducing Over-Reliance on LLMs Through Design Interventions

Srilalitha Ravuri, School of Information; Anjana Menon, School of Information; Ishita Chitturi, School of Information; Min Kyung Lee, School of Information; Angie Zhang, School of Information


Using Virtual Reality as a Therapeutic Tool for Youths’ Mental Health and Wellbeing

Isabella Schloss, School of Information; Aarushi Gupta, UT Children’s Research Center; Dr. Andrew Dillon, School of Information


Posters

Academic Librarianship and AI: Semi-Structured Interviews on Patron Support Amid Technological Change

Haley Triem, School of Information


AI Didn’t Start the Fire: Examining the Stack Exchange Moderator and Contributor Strike

Yiwei Wu, School of Information; Leah Ajmani, Department of Computer Science & Engineering; Nathan TeBlunthuis, School of Information; Hanlin Li, School of Information


An Integrated Model of Data Return in Community-Based Participatory Research

Rui Wei, School of Information; Yan Zhang, School of Information


An OSS-ential understanding of early career contributors

Hana Frluckaj, School of Information


Beyond the Fine-Tuning Bottleneck: Low-Resource Brain-to-Text via Semantic Inversion

Christina Liu, School of Information; Akshaj Murhekar, School of Information; Abhijit Mishra, School of Information; Shounak Roychowdhury, School of Information; Jacek Gwizdza, School of Information


Beyond Touchscreens: Rethinking Accessibility in Self-Service Food Kiosks

Aditi Hambarde, School of Information; Victor Lopez, School of Information


Deceptive Patterns: What Can Really Be Done? An Exploratory Literature Review

Alex Guterbock, School of Information


Do AI Copilots Support Learning? An Eye-Tracking Study of Attention and Difficulty

Gavindya Jayawardena, IX Lab, School of Information; Li Shi, IX Lab, School of Information; Dan Zhang, IX Lab, School of Information; Kai-Yu (Kelly) Chang, IX Lab, School of Information; Cecelia Albright, IX Lab, School of Information; Hsin-Yu (Joyce) Chang, IX Lab, School of Information; Pranati Kompella, IX Lab, School of Information; Jacek Gwizdka, IX Lab, School of Information


Evaluating the Effectiveness and Patient Perception of AI-Assisted Patient Intake in Healthcare

Syedah Haleema Shah, School of Information


Exploring Multidimensional Checkworthiness: Designing AI-assisted Claim Prioritization for Human Fact-checkers

Houjiang Liu, School of Information


Generativity and Memory: GenAI as textual archive

Kurt Lemai-Nguyen, School of Information; Angjelin A. Hila, School of Information; Stephen C. Slota, School of Information; Elliott Hauser, School of Information


How People Pursue Interest During AI-Mediated Search: An Audio Diary Study

Yujin Choi, School of Information; Soo Young Rieh, School of Information


How Working Memory Shapes Cognitive Load and Emotion in Interactive Search

Gavindya Jayawardena, IX Lab, School of Information; Li Shi, IX Lab, School of Information; Jacek Gwizdka, IX Lab, School of Information


Infrastructures of Resistance: Community Archives as Liberatory Spatial Practice

Lester Li, School of Information; Angela D. R. Smith, School of Information


Is document remediation obsolete? A study of generative AI alternatives

Misha Ohri, School of Information; Erica Braverman, School of Education; Michael McQuaid, School of Information


iSchool 2050: Cultural Heritage Studies as the Beating Heart Amid Technological Change

Haley Triem, School of Information; Qianzi Cao, School of Information; R. David Lankes, School of Information


Making research software visible in the scholarly graph (Softcite + OpenAlex)

James Howison, School of Information


Navigating AI Governance in Classroom: A Large-Scale Analysis of AI Use Policies in Syllabi

Xinyue (Sally) You, School of Information; Ray Flanagan, Department of Computer Science; Min Kyung Lee, School of Information


PIE: Performance Interval Estimation for Free-Form Generation Tasks

Chi-Yang Hsu, School of Information; Alexander Braylan, Department of Computer Science; Yiheng Su, School of Information; Matthew Lease, School of Information; Omar Alonso, Amazon


Preparing for the Worst: Cultural Heritage Risk Assessment for Catastrophic Events

Sarah Norris, School of Information


"Prompting Destiny”: AI Divination and Pragmatic Mysticism among Contemporary Chinese Youth

Shuxian Liu, School of Information


Reaching a Self-Sustaining Equilibrium: Modeling the Critical Mass in Open Online Collaboration

Jianghui Li, School of Information; Nathan Teblunthuis, School of Information


Reducing Over-Reliance on LLMs Through Design Interventions

Srilalitha Ravuri, School of Information; Anjana Menon, School of Information; Ishita Chitturi, School of Information; Min Kyung Lee, School of Information; Angie Zhang, School of Information


Rethinking the Value of Multi-Agent Workflow: A Strong Single Agent Baseline

Jiawei Xu, School of Information; Ying Ding, School of Information


Revisiting “Attention” in CHIIR Research: A Review of Definitions and Measurements (2016–2025)

Dan Zhang, IX lab, School of Information; Gavindya Jayawardena, IX lab, School of Information; Jacek Gwizdka, IX lab, School of Information


Rodeo to Rendezvous: Preserving and Presenting Houston's History through the Digitization and Curation of KPRC-TV tapes

Caitlin Young, School of Information


State Libraries and AI

R. David Lankes, School of Information


The Value of NBA Lineup Continuity

Keegan Fleigner, School of Information; Jim Fleigner, Impact Consultancy LLC.; Joshua Fink, Business of Sports Institute


Understanding AI Readiness in Public Library

Qianzi Cao, School of Information; Jain Orr, School of Information; Haley Triem, School of Information; Kurt Lemai-Nguyen, School of Information; R. David Lankes, School of Information; Margo Gustina, University of New Mexico


User Perceptions of Transparency Cues in Instagram Recommendations: Designing for Agency

Manish Kumar, School of Information; Ryan Moore, School of Information


"We can't do without our language'': Community Motivations and Practices for Crowdsourcing Voice Datasets

Riya Sinha, School of Information; Jennifer Ding, Independent Researcher; Hanlin Li, School of Information


Who Gets to Define "Fair"? Participatory Workshops for Community-Driven AI Fairness Metrics

Whitney Nelson, School of Information; Min Kyung Lee, School of Information


Wrapper Boxes: Faithful Attribution of Model Predictions to Training Data

Yiheng Su, School of Information; Junyi Jessy Li, Department of Linguistics; Matthew Lease, School of Information