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Each year, the Research Showcase shares human-centered, interdisciplinary research through a keynote speech and a series of short presentations and posters.

2024 Research Showcase

Wednesday, November 6, 2024
Room 314, Illini Union
1401 W. Green Street, Urbana

Schedule of Events

12:00-1:00 p.m. Poster Session I 

1:00-2:00 p.m. Presentation Session I

Welcome from Dean Eunice E. Santos

Master of Ceremonies J. Stephen Downie, Professor and Associate Dean for Research

  • Children and Game Machines: Representations of Technology in Picture Books Vis-A-Vis the Agency of the Child in the Digital Spaces in the Philippine Context 
    Cheeno Sayuno
  • LERCause: Deep Learning Approaches for Causal Sentence Identification from Nuclear Safety Reports    
    Jinmo Kim
  • Accessing Tomorrow: Expanding Software Accessibility in K-8 Education
    Chunyu Liu
  • The Ethics of Human-AI Collaboration: Navigating Innovation, Risk, and Value Alignment    
    Yun Huang

2:00-2:45 p.m. Poster Session II

2:45-3:30 p.m. Presentation Session II

  • Information Landscapes for an Inclusive STEM workforce    
    William K. Langston
  • Addressing Unreliability Propagation in Scientific Digital Libraries
    Heng Zheng will present on behalf of the author team:
    Heng Zheng, Yuanxi Fu, M. Janina Sarol, Ishita Sarraf, Jodi Schneider   
  • Exploring Parent-Child Perceptions on Safety in Generative AI: Concerns, Mitigation Strategies, and Design Implications    
    Yaman Yu
  • Toward AI Ethics Assurance, the Technical Landscape of Automated Compliance Testing of LLMs    
    Haohan Wang

3:30-4:00 p.m. Keynote Speaker

  • Assistant Professor Madelyn Sanfilippo will present the keynote "Governing Misinformation." In this presentation, she will address: the state of misinformation governance research and policy, drawing on her 2024 ARIST review; collective action approaches to governance, drawing on her contributions to a forthcoming edited collection, which she also co-edited with Assistant Professor Melissa Ocepek, “Governing Misinformation in Everyday Knowledge Commons;” and governance recommendations to address contemporary misinformation problems.

4:00-4:30 p.m. Poster Session III 

The Best Poster Award was presented to "Datafying 75 Years of Book Reviews from The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books," by Tanmoy Debnath, Glen Layne-Worthey, Rebekah Fitzsimmons, Suzan Alteri, and Sara L. Schwebel. Congratulations!

Posters

  1. Analysis of the Influence of Initial Conditions on the Flight Dynamics of a Sounding Rocket    
    Anargul Boranbayeva, Meirbek Moldabekov
  2. "Tweet of the town:" Synthesizing Local and Social Media Discourse on Book Bans
    Andrew Zalot
  3. Investigating the Effectiveness of Lower Limb Wearable Exoskeletons    
    Ayaulym Rakhmatulina
  4. Digital Monitoring and Forecasting of Agricultural Crop Condition Dynamics under the Influence of Greenhouse Gases  
    Bagdat Yagaliyeva
  5. Measure What Matters: Unlocking the Power of Journal Metrics    
    Chloe Miller, Melissa Wong    
  6. Exploring a Gap in Self-Aware Aging
    Christopher Lueg, Jialuo Yang, Siyao Chen    
  7. Gender Reveal 19th Century Style: Finding Hidden Cross-Dressing Narratives in Literature    
    Daniel J Evans, Ryan Dubnicek, Kadin Henningsen    
  8. Assessing the Quality of Pathotic Arguments    
    Dexter Williams
  9. Cognitive and Behavioral Approaches to Disinformation Inoculation through a Hidden Object Game
    Emily Wegrzyn
  10. Extracting Specific Anosmias as Early Indicators of Neurodegenerative Diseases Using Large Language Models    
    Evan Guerra, Halil Kilicoglu
  11. Do Biases in Educational Data Elicit the Same Biases in Models   
    Frank Stinar, Hanning Lin, Nigel Bosch
  12. Recognizing People, Organizations, and Locations Mentioned in the News    
    Xioran Zhou, Heng Zheng, Jodi Schneider
  13. Drowning in The Margins: Unveiling The Perpetual State Of Emergency And Missing Data In Urban Flood Disasters In South Korea
    Inyoung Jang, Jiwon Jenn Oh
  14. Investigating the Inter-relationship of Economic Factors and Propaganda in Media: Anti-Black Rhetoric in West Virginia Newspapers
    Jess Frye
  15. Capture, Understand, & Communicate Tacit Knowledge: Situated Media for Embodied Learning
    Jialuo Yang, Elaine Yilin Liu, Michael Nitsche
  16. You Keep Using That Metric, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means: A Gentle Rant on Document Layout Analysis Metrics in Scientific Document Digitization
    Jill Naiman
  17. Harmonizing Data: Discovering "The Girl From Ipanema"
    John Rutherford, Liliana Giusti Serra, Jodi Schneider
  18. Publication Type Tagging using Transformer Models and Multi-Label Classification
    Joseph Menke, Halil Kilicoglu, Neil R. Smalheiser    
  19. The Community Data Clinic: Advancing Digital Equity and Community Empowerment through Research and Education Partnerships
    Julian Chin, Anita Say Chan, Jorge Rojas Alvarez, Evan Allgood, Tracy Smith, Community Data Clinic research team
  20. Large Language Model Censorship in Different Cultures
    Kyrie Zhixuan Zhou, Diego Jose Marquez, Xizhen Kang (University of Minnesota), Yunpeng Xiao (Illinois Institute of Technology), Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo
  21. Distinguishing Retracted Publications from Retraction Notices in Crossref Data
    Luyang Si, Malik Oyewale Salami, Jodi Schneider
  22. ValueCompass: A Framework of Fundamental Values for Human-AI Alignment
    Marisa Yang
  23. Multi-label Sequential Sentence Classification via Large Language Models
    Mengfei Lan
  24. Wondering Where War Belongs: Vietnamese/Vietnamese American Picture Books
    Michelle Le
  25. Mobile Haptics and Visualizations for Deaf or Hard of Hearing Musical Experiences    
    Olivia Wang, Kyrie Zhixuan Zhou, Rachel Adler, Deana McDonagh
  26. Representation Of Socio-technical Elements In Non-English Audio-visual Media
    Puranjani Das, Travis Wagner
  27. Privacy Policies in Public Libraries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Countries: Open Doors, Closed Windows
    Rawdah Alfadhley
  28. "Character_0" By Any Other Name:  Exploring Speaker Attribution with Language Models
    Sarah Griebel
  29. Towards Knowledge-guided Biomedical Lay Summarization using Large Language Models
    Shufan Ming
  30. Datafying 75 Years of Book Reviews from The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
    Tanmoy Debnath, Glen Layne-Worthey, Rebekah Fitzsimmons, Suzan Alteri, Sara Schwebel
  31. "I Lost My Job to AI" — Social Movement Emergence?
    Ted Ledford, Jodi Schneider
  32. Network Analysis on Semantic Change
    Xiaoning Wang, Gelila Tilahun
  33. Saferbot: A Dialogue Platform for Facilitating Training and Community-Sourced Incident Reporting through Dispatcher and Community Member Persona Simulation
    Yiren Liu
  34. "What People Say Versus What People Do: Developing a Methodology to Assess Conceptual Heterogeneity in a Scientific Corpus"
    Yuanxi Fu, Jodi Schneider
  35. Addressing Biomedical Information Overload: Identifying Missing Study Designs to Design Multi-Tagger 2.0
    Puranjani Das, Jodi Schneider