Chirag Shah gave a keynote titled “Toward Transmodal Information Experiences (TIE)” at the Workshop on Multimodal Search and Recommendations at ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM).
Jason Yip, along with co-authors Anh Le, Michelle Ma, Linh Bui, Anna Shi, Linh Pham, and Carmen Gonzalez, received a DEI Recognition Award at the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW) 2024 for their paper titled, “’I felt like I was doing grown-up things’: Young Adult Reflections on their Childhood Experiences of Online Searching and Brokering in Immigrant Families.”
Chirag Shah gave a keynote titled “Toward Transmodal Information Experiences (TIE)” at the Workshop on Multimodal Search and Recommendations at ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM).
Aylin Caliskan and co-author Gandalf Nicolas’s paper titled “Directionality and Representativeness are Differentiable Components of Stereotypes in Large Language Models,” was published in PNAS Nexus.
The iSchool was well-represented at the 2024 ASIS&T Annual Meeting [asist.org]
Award: Earlier this year, Chirag Shah received the 2024 ASIS&T Research in Information Science Award, which recognizes a scholar or team each year for their contributions to the field.
Paper: Carole Palmer and co-authors Sebastian Karcher, Miranda Belarde-Lewis, Sandy Littletree, and Nestor Guerrero’s paper “Stewarding Contextual Integrity in Data Services for Indigenous Scholarship” received the Best Short Paper Award.
Paper: Richardo Gomez and Mauricio Beltran: “Fostering Community Dialogue Through Participatory Methods: A People-First Approach in Participatory Development Activities.”
Paper: Michele Newman, Drew Favors, Lane Koughan, and Jin Ha Lee: “Participatory Media and Game Preservation: A Taxonomy of YouTube Game-Related Content.”
Panel: Carole Palmer and Chris Coward organized and presented: “Provocations on iSchools and Librarianship: New Priorities for LIS Forward,” with Allen Renear, Lorcan Dempsey, Tracie D. Hall, Gary Marchionini, and Mega Subramaniam.
Panel: Patrick Keilty, Marika Cifor, Bri Watson, and Andrew Wiebe: “Queer Data.”
Poster: Mouly Dewan, Chirag Shah: “Mind Over Misinformation: Investigating the Factors of Cognitive Influences in Information Acceptance.”
Chirag Shah and co-authors Gary Hsieh and Ruoxi Shang’s paper titled “Trusting Your AI Agent Emotionally and Cognitively: Development and Validation of a Semantic Differential Scale for AI Trust,” was accepted to AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AIES).
Chirag Shah and co-authors Maryam Amirizaniani, Elias Martin, Maryna Sivachenko, and Afra Mashhadi’s paper titled “Can LLMs Reason Like Humans? Assessing Theory of Mind Reasoning in LLMs for Open-Ended Questions,” was accepted to ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM).
Chirag Shah and co-authors Maryam Amirizaniani, Elias Martin, Tanya Roosta, and Aman Chadha’s paper “Audit LLM: A Tool for Auditing Large Language Models Using Multiprobe Approach” was accepted to ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM).
Chris Coward, Jin Ha Lee, and K. Ločmele’s paper titled “The Importance of Social Engagement and Local Context: Findings from the Euphorigen Investigation Misinformation Escape Room” was accepted and presented at the 10th European Communication Conference.
Tessa Rose Campbell, Miranda Belarde-Lewis, Clarita Lefthand-Begay, Sandra Littletree, Nicole Kuhn, and all current Native Faculty and Native students from the Native North American Indigenous Knowledge Group (NNAIK) presented a juried panel titled “Hear Our Stories: A Call to Action for Indigenizing Information Science Educational Spaces” at The Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Conference.
Chirag Shah gave an invited talk titled “Envisioning the Future of AI-Driven Information Access” by the Federal Aviation Administration.
Chirag Shah was quoted in the article “The Problem with “Perfect” Answers: GenAI and Academic Research Tools,” in EDUCASE Review.