The iSchool was well represented at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2025):
Awards
· Kate Starbird was recognized as a member of the SIGCHI Academy, which recognizes leaders who have shaped the field of human-computer interaction.
· Alexis Hiniker received the SIGCHI Societal Impact Award, which recognizes researchers who have demonstrated a commitment to using human computer interaction research to address pressing social needs.
· Robert Wolfe (PhD Student), Jason Yip, Alexis Hiniker, and Ishita Chordia’s paper “Building the Beloved Community: Designing Technologies for Neighborhood Safety” received Best Paper Honorable Mention.
SIG Presentations
· Hua Shen (Postdoctoral Scholar), Tanu Mitra, Tiffany Knearem, Reshmi Ghosh, Michael Xieyang Liu, Andres Monroy-Hernandez, Tonshuang Wu, Diyi Yang, Yun Huang, Yang Li, and Marti Hearst presented: “Bi-Directional Human-AI Alignment: Emerging Challenges and Opportunities”
· Jason Yip, Juan Pablo Hourcade, Ewelina Bakala, Elizabeth Bonsignore, Flannery Hope Currin, Jerry Alan Fails, Amy Gilhoi, Nuria Medina Medina, Delaney Norris, Meredith Onions, Ana Cristina Pires, Greg Walsh, and Svetlana Yarosh presented: “Conducting Ethical Research on Emerging Technologies for Children”
Papers
· Rachel Moran, Kate Starbird, Mert Bayar (Postdoctoral Scholar), and Joseph Schafer: “The End of ‘Trust and Safety’?: Examining the Future of Content Moderation and Upheavals in Professional Online Safety Efforts”
· Katie Davis, Rotem Landesman (PhD Student), Alexis Hiniker, JaeWon Kim, Jina Yoon, Daniela Munoz Lopez, and Lucia Magis-Weinberg: “You Go Through So Many Emotions Scrolling Through Instagram’: How Teens Use Instagram to Regulate Their Emotions”
· Alexis Hiniker, Yue Fu, Samuel Schwamm, Amanda Baughan, Nicole Powell, Zoe Kronberg, Alicia Owens, Emily Renee Izenman, Dania Alsabeh, Elizabeth Hunt, Michael Rich, David Bickham, and Jenny Radesky: “Understanding Children’s Avatar Making in Social Online Games”
· Alexis Hiniker, Longjie Guo, Yue Fu, Xiran Lin, Xuhai “Orson” Xu, and Yung-Ju Chang: “What Social Media Use Do People Regret? An Analysis of 34K Smartphone Screenshots with Multimodal LLM”
· Amy Ko, Carlos Aldana Lira, and Isabel Amaya: “Wordplay: Accessible, Multilingual, Interactive Typography”
· Jason Yip, Casey Lee Hunt, Kaiwen Sun, Zahra Dhuliawala, Fumi Tsukiyama, Allison Druin, Amanda Huynh, and Daniel Leithinger: “Children Using Tabeltop Telepresence Robots for Collaboration: A Logitudinal Case Study of Hybrid and Online Intergenerational Participatory Design”
· Jin Ha Lee, Runhua Zhao (PhD Student), and Nisha Devasia: “Does the Story Matter? Applying Narrative Theory to an Educational Misinformation Escape Room Game”
· Rotem Landesman (PhD Student), Jason Young, Katie Davis, Eunhye Grace Ko, Ahmer Arif, and Angela Smith: “Domain Experts, Design Novices: How Community Practitioners Enact Participatory Design Values”
· Seokhyun Hwang (PhD Student), Bocheon Gim, Seongjun Kang, Gwangbin Kim, Dohyeon Yeo, and SeungJun Kim: “I Want to Break Free: Enabling User-Applied Active Locomotion in In-Car VR Through Contextual Clues”
· Seokhyun Hwang (PhD Student), Seongjun Kang, Jeongseok Oh, Jeongju Park, Semoo Shin, Yiyue Luo, Joseph DelPreto, Sangbeom Lee, Kyoobin Lee, Wojciech Matusik, Daniela Rus, and Seungjun Kim: TelePulse: “Enhancing the Teleoperation Experience through Biomechanical Simulation-Based Electrical Muscle Stimulation in Virtual Reality”
· Zhuohao (Jerry) Zhang (PhD Student), Jiahao Nick Li, and Jiaju Ma: “OmniQuery: Contextually Augmenting Captured Multimodal Memories to Enable Personal Question Answering”
· Jake Wobbrock, Mingyuan Zhong, Ruolin Chen, Xia Chen, and James Fogarty: “ScreenAudit: Detecting Screen Reader Accessibility Errors in Mobile Apps Using Large Language Models”
· Jake Wobbrock, Junhan Kong (PhD Student), Tianyuan Cai, and Zoya Bylinskii: “Supporting Mobile Reading While Walking with Automatic and Customized Font Size Adaptations”
· Hua Shen (Postdoctoral Scholar), Snehal Prabhudesai, Ananya Kasi, Anmol Mansingh, Anindya Das Antar, and Nikola Banovic: “Here the GPT Made a Choice, and Every Choice Can be Biased': How Students Critically Engage with LLMs Through an End-User Auditing Activity"
· Vannary Sou (Undergraduate Student), Samuel So, Sean Munson, and Sucheta Ghoshal: “The Cruel Optimism of Tech Work: Tech Workers’ Affective Attachments in the Aftermath of the 2022-23 Tech Layoffs”
Case Studies
· Hyeyoung Ryu (PhD Student) and Sungha Kang (MLIS Student): “Exploring Design Tensions in Countering Microaggressions in Online Communities for Stigmatized Health Support”
Joe Janes and co-authors Karen Boxx, and Terry Price’s paper titled “Beyond Marvin v. Marvin: How Washington Leads the Way in Protecting Unmarried Cohabitants,” was published in the Washington Law Review.
Shahan Ali Memon (PhD student) and co-authors Shehryar Ahmed Subhani, and Bedoor AlShebli’s paper titled "CareerMap: A Large-Scale Dataset of Career Trajectories Across 572 Million Records" was accepted to the 11th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) for a poster presentation.
Kyra Wilson (PhD Student)’s policy piece titled “Gender, Race, and Intersectional Bias in Resume Screening via Language Model Retrieval,” covering her and Aylin Caliskan’s paper of the same name was published by the Brookings Institute.
Melanie Walsh gave an invited talk titled “What Do LLMs Know About Poetry” at the Humanities AI Conference at Lehigh University.
Chirag Shah was a panelist on a panel titled “Lab to Industries: Universities and Research labs Leading the AI Revolution” as part of Remarkable Women in AI 2025 (RWIAI 2025) held by the Transatlantic AI eXchange.
Melanie Walsh gave an invited talk titled “Provocations from the Humanities for Generative AI Research,” with Lauren Klein and Jessica Marie Johnson, about their co-authored paper of the same name at the Reframing Resistance to AI Symposium at The College of William & Mary.