Twenty faculty members, students, and two recent graduates from The University of Texas at Austin School of Information presented at the 27th ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW) in San José, Costa Rica, on November 9-13, 2024. CSCW is the premier venue for research in the design and use of technologies that affect groups, organizations, communities, and networks.
The paper “Human-centered NLP Fact-checking: Co-Designing with Fact-checkers using Matchmaking for AI”, co-authored by doctoral student Houjiang Liu, professor Matt Lease, assistant professor Min Kyung Lee, graduated doctoral student Anubrata Das, master’s student Daisy Pinaroc, and Informatics minor, Alexander Boltz, received an honorable mention.
Assistant professor Ahmer Arif, and doctoral students Ayesha Bhimdiwala and Krishna Akhil Kumar Adavi presented their paper, "Fighting for Their Voice: Understanding Indian Muslim Women's Responses to Networked Harassment." Doctoral student Tina Lassiter presented the paper “’Something Fast and Cheap’ or ‘A Core Element of Building Trust’? AI Auditing Professionals’ Perspectives on Trust in AI” co-authored with professor Ken Fleischmann. Tina Lassiter also presented “The Role of Algorithmic Audits and other Soft Law approaches in Building Users’ Calibrated Trust in Artificial Intelligence Tools” in the Doctoral Consortium. Assistant professor Brian McInnis presented the paper, “Exploring the Future of Informed Consent: Applying a Service Design Approach,” co-authored with other colleagues. Doctoral student Hana Frluckaj and Interim Associate Dean for Research James Howison presented their paper, “Understanding Trans Experiences in Open Source Software Projects,” co-authored with other colleagues.
Postdoctoral fellow Lingyuan Li co-authored three full papers with other colleagues: “Beyond Just Money Transactions: How Digital P2P Payments (Re)shape Existing Offline Interpersonal Relationships”, “Does Who You Are or Appear to Be Matter?: Understanding Identity-Based Harassment in Social VR Through the Lens of (Mis)Perceived Identity Revelation”, and “Mitigating Gender Stereotypes Toward AI Agents Through an eXplainable AI (XAI) Approach”. Additionally, Lingyuan Li presented a poster with former iSchool faculty Jakki Bailey called “Understanding and Mitigating New Harms in Immersive and Embodied Virtual Spaces: A Speculative Dystopian Design Fiction Approach.” Postdoctoral fellow Sanjana Gautam presented the poster “Towards Dynamic Learning: A Framework for Simulating Adaptive Learning Systems.”
Doctoral student Jiaying Liu presented a paper co-authored with professor Yan Zhang entitled “Modeling Health Video Consumption Behaviors on Social Media: Activities, Challenges, and Characteristics". Jiaying Liu and doctoral student Yihang (Sam) Su along with Yan Zhang presented the poster "Harnessing LLMs for Automated Video Content Analysis: An Exploratory Workflow of Short Videos on Depression". Riya Sinha, MSIS Graduate and Research Associate working with Hanlin Li presented the poster “Understanding Creators' Acceptance of Content Reuse”. Hanlin Li organized a Special Interest Group workshop session called “Community-Driven Models for Research on Social Platforms.”
Doctoral student Angie Zhang presented “Empowering and Centering Impacted Stakeholders in AI Design” in the Doctoral Consortium. Angie Zhang and assistant professor Min Kyung Lee organized a workshop called “Worker Data Collectives to Improve Accountability, Combat Surveillance and Reduce Inequalities.” Assistant professor Angela D. R. Smith organized the workshop “Envisioning New Futures of Positive Social Technology: Beyond Paradigms of Fixing, Protecting, and Preventing” and co-authored the poster “Technology Use in the Black Church: Perspectives of Black Church Leaders Preliminary Findings” with master’s student Gabriella Thompson. Recent Informatics Honors Bachelor’s graduate Alesandra Baca-Vasquez, together with assistant professors Angela D. R. Smith and Kayla Booth presented the poster “Maintaining a Community of Care: Opportunities and Challenges of ICTs for Contemporary Mutual Aid.”
James Howison served on the program committee as an Area Chair finding reviewers for papers as well as one of the communication chairs. Many other iSchoolers participated in the reviewing process for the Reviewing and Program Committee.