Several faculty members and doctoral students represented The University of Texas at Austin School of Information at the 2024 Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting, which was held in Calgary, Canada from October 25-29. The theme of the conference was “Putting People First: Responsibility, Reciprocity, and Care in Information Research and Practice.”
Associate professor Amelia Acker was a panelist for two panel presentations, “What Does It Mean to ‘Misuse’ Research Data?” and “Emphasizing the Social in Sociotechnical Approaches to the Digital Curation of Visual Information”, as well as the workshop “Research Proposal Writing for IMLS”.
Doctoral student Chelsea Collier presented in the workshop “Exploring Social Informatics in the Algorithmic Environment (SIG-SI)” and co-authored a long paper, Works for Me: Personalizing Skilled Trade Worker Training via Smart Hand Tools, with iSchool Professor Kenneth Fleischmann, doctoral student Tina Lassiter, Informatics student Jen Kim, and other colleagues from UT.
Doctoral student Jiaying Liu co-authored a short paper with professor Yan Zhang entitled Exploring Young Adults' Mental Health Help-Seeking Journey: Preliminary Findings on Resource Navigation Behavior, which won the SIG-USE Best Information Behavior Conference Paper award, and presented a poster, “Using Large Language Models to Assist Video Content Analysis: A Study of Videos on Depression”. Doctoral student Jessica Needle co-authored the long paper, Lawyers’ Perspectives on Surveillance in U.S. Immigration Enforcement, with Professor Kenneth Fleischmann. Doctoral student Haley Triem co-authored a long paper with Ying Ding, the Bill & Louis Suit Professor, called "Tipping the Balance": Human Intervention in Large Language Model Multi-Agent Debate. Doctoral student Jiaxin An presented a poster, “College Students’ Metaphors for ChatGPT: An Exploratory Study”, with colleagues from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Florida State University.