iSchool researchers present at CSCW 2023

Several faculty and students will present their research at the 2023 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW 2023), which will be held in Minneapolis, Minneapolis, from October 14-18. CSCW is the premier venue for experts from industry and academia to explore the technical, social, material, and theoretical challenges of designing technology to support collaborative work and life activities.

*Papers selected for conference awards.

Saturday, October 14

PhD student Kyrie Zhixuan Zhou will present as a part of the workshop, "Supporting User Engagement in Testing, Auditing, and Contesting AI," at 10:30 a.m.

PhD student Si Chen will present as a part of the workshop, "Understanding and Mitigating Cognitive Biases in Human-AI Collaboration," at 1:00 p.m.

Monday, October 16

Affiliate Professor Karrie Karahalios will present her paper, "Measuring User-Moderator Alignment on r/ChangeMyView," at 11:00 a.m. *Best Paper Award

Affiliate Professor Karrie Karahalios will present the paper, "Composing Team Compositions: An Examination of Instructors’ Current Algorithmic Team Formation Practices," at 2:30 p.m.

Assistant Professor Rachel M. Magee and PhD student Daniela M. Markazi will present their poster, "Animal Narratives and Emotional Resonance in #ClimateChange Discourse on Social Media: A Qualitative Content Analysis," at 6:30 p.m.

Affiliate Professor ChengXiang Zhai will present a demo, "The CDL: An Online Platform for Creating Community-based Digital Libraries," at 6:30 p.m.

PhD student Kyrie Zhixuan Zhou will present his poster, "More Than a Wife and a Mom: A Study of Mom Vlogging Practices in China," at 6:30 p.m.

Tuesday, October 17

Associate Professor Yun Huang and PhD student Si Chen will present their paper, "'My Culture, My People, My Hometown' Chinese Ethnic Minorities Seeking Cultural Sustainability by Video Blogging," at 10:00 a.m.

Affiliate Professor Karrie Karahalios will present the paper, "It Is All About Criticism: Understanding the Effect of Social Media Discourse on Legal Crowdfunding Campaigns," at 11:00 a.m.

Wednesday, October 18

PhD student Kyrie Zhixuan Zhou will present his paper, "Towards Equitable Online Participation: A Case of Older Adult Content Creators’ Role Transition on Short-form Video Sharing Platforms," at 9:00 a.m. *Recognition for Contribution to Diversity and Inclusion

Associate Professor Yun Huang and PhD students Si Chen and Haocong Cheng, and Computer Science student Jason Jun Situ will present their paper, "MirrorUs: Mirroring Peers’ Affective Cues to Promote Learner's Meta-Cognition in Video-based Learning," at 10:00 a.m.

Associate Professor Yun Huang and Informatics PhD student Yiren Liu will present their paper, "Discovering the Hidden Facts of User-Dispatcher Interactions via Text-based Reporting Systems for Community Safety," at 2:30 p.m.

Associate Professor Yun Huang, PhD student Qingxiao Zheng, Informatics PhD student Yiliu Tang, and MSIM student Rohan Charudatt Salvi will present their paper, "Understanding Safety Risks and Safety Design in Social VR Environments," at 3:10 p.m.

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