When the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) hosts its annual meeting in Washington, D.C. this November 14-18, a large contingent of iSchool scholars will be on hand. Nineteen iSchool professors, postdoctoral fellows, PhD students, and graduates will have their work presented at the conference, led by our interim dean, Prof. Soo Young Rieh.
A few members of the iSchool community have earned special honors at this year’s ASIS&T. Prof. Yan Zhang and PhD student Jiaxin An won the ASIS&T SIG-AI Best AI Published Paper Award for their co-authored paper “College students' credibility assessments of GenAI-generated information for academic tasks: An interview study,” published in JASIST. Also, PhD student Akhil Adavi received a share of the Diversity Award from ASIS&T SIG-USE for contributions to the conference paper “‘Let's ask Meta AI!’: Information Seeking Practices with Meta AI on WhatsApp,” co-authored with former iSchool faculty member Amelia Acker, who also shared in the award.
Below is a full list of the iSchool-related papers, panels, and posters at ASIS&T 2025. If you’re in Washington, come say hello!
PAPERS
Assessing Large Language Models: Architectural Archive Metadata and Transcription
MSIS graduate Hannah C. Moutran
Assessing the Reliability of Large Language Models for Deductive Qualitative Coding: A Comparative Intervention Study with ChatGPT
Assistant Prof. Elliott Hauser, PhD student Angielin Hila
Can Large Language Models Grasp Concepts in Visual Content? A Case Study on YouTube Shorts about Depression
PhD student Jiaying “Lizzy” Liu
Enhancing Critical Thinking in Generative AI Search with Metacognitive Prompts
Prof. Soo Young Rieh, postdoctoral fellow Anjali Singh, and PhD student Zhitong Guan
Fueling Conversations: AI Education Across the iSchools in the US and Canada
Prof. Soo Young Rieh
Interactive Graph Visualization and Teaming Recommendation in an Interdisciplinary Project’s Talent Knowledge Graph
Prof. Ying Ding, PhD student Huimin Xu, and MSIS graduate Jui-Chien Chen
“Let’s ask Meta AI!”: Information Seeking Practices with Meta AI on WhatsApp
PhD student Akhil Adavi
“Sorry, I Cannot Fulfill That Request”: Analyzing Large Language Model Responses, Redirections, and Refusals to Polarized News Topics
PhD student Haley Triem
Prof. Soo Young Rieh, PhD student Yujin Choi, and PhD graduate Siqi Yi
Video-Mediated Emotion Disclosure: Expressions of Fear, Sadness, and Joy by People with Schizophrenia on YouTube
Prof. Yan Zhang and PhD student Jiaying “Lizzy” Liu
PANELS
Scholarly Productivity in Contentious Times: Future Considerations for Early Career Information Scholars
Assistant Prof. Angela D. Smith
Training Future LIS Faculty in AI and Data Science through a Library Rotation Education Model
Prof. Soo Young Rieh, PhD student Yujin Choi, PhD student Zhitong Guan, PhD student Haley Triem, and PhD student Huimin Xu
POSTERS
Generative AI for Art Therapy Informed Visual Emotional Expression
Prof. Andrew Dillon, Prof. Yan Zhang, PhD student Jiaying “Lizzy” Liu, and PhD student Xinyue Sally You