Research Showcase

Schedule of Events

12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Poster Session I 

1:00 – 1:30 p.m. Opening Remarks & Keynote Speaker

• Opening Remarks: Interim Dean Emily Knox and J. Stephen Downie, Executive Associate Dean and Associate Dean of Research
   
• Keynote: Kevin Hamilton, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research & Innovation – Humanities, Arts & Related Fields
  
  Hamilton's recent research on the role of photography in nuclear weapons research culminated in his book with Ned O’Gorman, Lookout America! The Secret Hollywood Studio at the Heart of the Cold War (Dartmouth College Press, 2018). Previous efforts include artwork on race and public memory, publication on interdisciplinary research methods, and examination of racial bias in algorithmic systems. 

1:30 – 2:15 p.m. Presentation Session I

• Shadow Banking in Plain Sight: The Footprint of Crypto ATMs
  Anita Nikolich
   
• Search as a Mechanism for Learning
  Jessie Chin
   
• CRABS: A Syntactic-Semantic Pincer Strategy for Bounding LLM Interpretation of Python Notebooks
  Meng Li, Timothy M. McPhillips, Dingmin Wang, Shin-Rong Tsai, Bertram Ludäscher 
   
• Keeping Afloat: Water, War, and Vietnamese Diaspora in Picture Books
  Michelle Le, Sarah Park Dahlen

2:15 – 2:30 p.m. Break

2:30 – 3:15 p.m. Presentation Session II

• Whither the HathiTrust Research Center?  From Closed Books, to Open Data, to Better Research & Healthier AI
  Glen Layne-Worthey
   
• Evaluating LLMs as Peer Reviewers: Sleepy Gatekeepers, or Benevolent Critics?
  Nitin Verma
   
• DeepGit: Promoting Exploration and Discovery of Research Software with Human-Curated Graphs
  Yilin Xia
   
• Mapping the Distance: Fostering Responsible and Reproducible Practices in AI-Supported Research
  Peter Darch, Kyra Abrams, Ivan Kong

3:15 – 3:30 p.m. Break

3:30 – 4:30 p.m. Poster Session II

Posters

Information Behavior: A Way Forward in Research on Race and Gender?
Joanna Adewunmi, Melissa Ocepek

ResMoE: Space-efficient Compression of Mixture of Experts LLMs via Residual Restoration
Mengting Ai

The Innocent Have Nothing to Fear: How Social Norms Shape Individuals’ Perceptions of Privacy in Libraries
Rawdah Alfadhley

Helping Patrons Find Invisible Histories: What We Learn from Searching for Deep Southern LGBTQ+ Archival Materials
Evan Allgood

Self-reported identity data improves accuracy of machine learning predictions in educational contexts
Clara Belitz, Zoe Hanson, Autumn Rosedale

Dimensions of Access in Archaeological and Cultural Heritage Fields: a Scoping Review
Sydney Benning

Restricting the Scholarly Deepfake: Copyright for Legal Scholarship in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence
Maya Bergamasco

Preserving Pre-Internet Queer Digital Histories
Emrys Brandt

Building Educational Partnerships to Design Data Science Programs: Practice, Research, and Policy
Janaynne Carvalho do Amaral, J. Stephen Downie

Can Conversational AI Counsel for Change? A Theory-Driven Approach to Supporting Dietary Intentions in Ambivalent Individuals
Jessie Chin, Michelle Bak (first author), Kexin Quan, Tre Tomaszewski

Activating a Peer-to-Peer Train the Trainers Network for Digital Equity Network in East Central Illinois: Advancing Racial Justice in Non-Profit Digital Navigation Programs
Julian Chin, Jiwon Jenn Oh, Anita Say Chan

The Effects of Thinking Aloud on Participants during Search and Sensemaking
Bogeum Choi

The Semantics of Active/Passive Pairs in Ontology Documentation: Informing as an Example
Puranjani Das, Allen Renear

Embedding WebAssembly in OCaml for Safe Program Construction
Hunter DeMeyer

Leveraging Pre-trained Molecular Embeddings and CatBoost for Olfactory Perception Prediction
Yikun Han, Evan Guerra, Halil Kilicoglu

Listening to Users: Privacy and Security in Mobile Health Apps
Muhammad Hassan

AnnotationWorld: A Multi-Agent, Task-Agnostic Framework for Schema-guided Text Annotation
Gibong Hong, Joseph Menke, Shiwei Liu, Halil Kilicoglu

Computational Narrative Analysis for Character Understanding
Xiaotong Hu

Pride and Prejudice: Representation of Interracial Relationship in China on Red
Inyoung Jang, Nini Zhou, Yingying Han

Examining the Value of Research Data in Earth Science: A Multi-Stakeholder Perspective
Chenyue Jiao

Exploring Links Between Informal Learning, Library Provision, and Recidivism Rates in the USA (1974 to 2024): A Thematic Literature Review
Kaden Kirtley, Victoria Van Hyning, Travis Wagner, Chris Bailey

Designing Beyond Sight: Hands-On Approaches to Information Access and Computational Thinking
Kyungwon Koh, Shinhye Alice Cha, Sara Ballenger, JooYoung Seo

From Condorcet to Chevron: Procedures for Representing Expertise and Collective Intelligence
Ted Ledford

Rethinking Reading Order in OCR for Visually-Rich Documents
Gaozheng Liu, Jill Neiman, J. Stephen Downie

ConSphere: Designing Conference Spheres to Nudge Researcher Exploration Beyond Their Comfort Zones
Yiren Liu

The Social Gaze of LLMs: A Literature Review of Multimodal Approaches to Human Behavior Understanding
Zihan (Hazel) Liu

First-Slug Perspective: Rethinking Human Senses When Trying to Understand Sea Slug Perception Using an Interactive Visual Simulator
Christopher Lueg, Jialuo Yang

Black Teens Matter: Examining the Experience of Black Teens in the Public Library
Jessie Mae Maimone

A Comparison of Self-Acknowledged Limitations with Risk of Bias Assessments from Systematic Reviews
Joe Menke

All Panels Considered: A Multi-Panel VQA Dataset for Chart Understanding
Jill Naiman, Daniel J Evans

Structuring Biomedical Literature: IMRaD Sentence Classification at Scale
Andrew Nam

Redesign Health Information For Older Adults with Different Levels of Health Literacy
Precious Olalere

Complicating Motherhood and Family in Fox TV Show The Resident
Emma Paulson

Towards AI as Colleagues: Multi-Agent System Improves Structured Professional Ideation
Kexin Quan, Dina Albassam, Mengke Wu

Locating Childness in Text-Based Digital Storytelling Navigation and Narratives
Cheeno Marlo Sayuno

The Hidden Lives of Social Machines: How Cognitive System Designs Influence Agent Behavior in Synthetic Societies
Tre Tomaszewski

Digital Navigators as the Social Subsystem of Sociotechnical Systems: A Case Study of Digital Inclusion in the Hudson Valley
Ebubechukwu Uba, Joanna Adewunmi, Colin Rhinesmith

Evaluating AI-Generative Music in Creativity: From Machine-Centric to Human-Centric
Ke-Rou Wang

Utilizing Haptics and Visualizations to Enhance Deaf or Hard of Hearing Musical Experiences
Olivia Wang, Yulan Shen, Kyrie Zhixuan Zhou, Deana McDonagh, Rachel F. Adler

Unveil the Truth: Designing Story-Based Mystery Games for Misinformation Awareness Across the Lifespan
Philo Wang, Jessie Chin

Information Hazing: An Examination through Computer Science Education
Elizabeth Wickes, Melissa Ocepek

Black Queer and Trans Men Online: Information Practices, Visibility, and Platform Constraints
Chris Wiley

DecViz: Domain-Knowledge-Driven Graph Visualization via Declarative Transformation
Yilin Xia

Interpretable Modeling of Music Aesthetics: Insights from Elastic Net and GAMs on the SongEval Dataset
Yiting Xia

PlainQAFact: Retrieval-augmented Factual Consistency Evaluation Metric for Biomedical Plain Language Summarization
Zhiwen You, Yue Guo

Safeguarding Youth in Generative AI: Risks, Frameworks, and Socio-Technical Safeguards
Yaman Yu

A Systematic Review of Interactivity in Game-Based Learning with AI
Roman Zapata, Alice Shinhye Cha, Jennie Lee