2023 Showcase
Each year, the Research Showcase shares human-centered, interdisciplinary research through a keynote speech and a series of short presentations and posters.
2023 Research Showcase
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
12:00-4:30 p.m.
Illini Ballroom, Illini Union
1401 W. Green Street, Urbana
Schedule of Events
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Poster Session I
1:00 – 1:30 p.m. Keynote Speaker
- Assistant Professor JooYoung Seo will present the keynote, "Beyond Sight: Envisioning Data Science Through Multimodal Access." In this presentation, Seo will talk about his journey as a blind data scientist and how he has been able to overcome the challenges of working with data without sight. He will also discuss the importance of multimodal access to data science and how it can help us to better understand data and make data science more accessible to everyone.
1:30 – 2:15 p.m. Presentation Session I
- Deep Cover: A Game to Help Older Adults Navigate Digital Scams
Anita Nikolich, Dan Cermak - “I'm Not Confident in Debiasing AI Systems Since I Know Too Little”: Teaching AI Creators About Gender Bias Through Hands-on Tutorials
Kyrie Zhixuan Zhou, Jiaxun Cao, Xiaowen Yuan, Daniel E. Weissglass, Zachary Kilhoffer, Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo, and Xin Tong - Inclusive.AI: A Decentralized Approach to Engage Marginalized Group in AI Governance
Tanusree Sharma, Jongwon Park, Yujin Kwon, Yiren Liu, Yun Huang, Sunny Liu, Dawn Song, Jeff Hancock, Yang Wang - Embedding Ethics in Infrastructure Supporting Data-Intensive Scholarly Research
Peter Darch, Ivan Kong, Kyra Abrams
2:15 – 2:45 p.m. Break
2:45 – 3:30 p.m. Presentation Session II
- Messy Metaphors in Voice Interfaces: A Playful (and completely serious) Perspective
Smit Desai, Michael Twidale - The core values and impact of public library makerspaces
Kyungwon Koh, Gowri Balasubramaniam, Emily Knox, and Andy Zalot - Sixty Years After Brady: A Survey of the States’ Criminal Discovery Rules Today
Catharine Young, Madelyn Sanfilippo - InterMusE: Designing a Digital Library for Collaborative Musicology
David Bainbridge, Rachel Cowgill, Frankie Perry, J. Stephen Downie, Alan J. Dix, and Michael Twidale
3:30 – 4:30 p.m. Poster Session II
Posters
Accessibility of Novel Methods of Authentication Among Blind and Low Vision People
Aziz Zeidieh
Activist organizations and their strategies to influence the legalization of medical cannabis in Brazil [Third Place Poster]
Janaynne Carvalho do Amaral, Jodi Schneider
Analyzing Retraction Indexing Quality in Subject-Specific and Multidisciplinary Databases
Malik Salami, Jodi Schneider
Assessing Citation Integrity in Biomedical Publications: Annotation and NLP Models
Janina Sarol, Shufan Ming, Jodi Schneider, Halil Kilicoglu
Automatic Categorization of Self-acknowledged Limitations in Randomized Controlled Trial Publications
Mengfei Lan
Can ChatGPT correct PDF-to-Text conversion errors in scientific publications?
Janina Sarol, Xuhan Zhang, Tanisha Roman, Jodi Schneider
Cause and Effects Between COVID-19 Cases and Related Social Media and Google Search Activity
Thierry Guigma
Coconut Library Tool: A Web-Based Application for Advanced Textual Analysis for Librarians
Manika Lamba, Faizhal Arif Santosa, Crissandra J. George
Dams of Time: Navigating Ethics in Geospatial Data Science
Ivan Kong, Peter Darch
Deception on Campus: An Investigation on Fraudulent Scams
Alejandra Arias
Disinformation Tactics and Designing to Deceive
Emily Wegrzyn
Enhancing SemRep Coverage Using a Relation Classification Approach
Shufan Ming
Epistemological responsibility in law and science: Sharing the burden [First Place Poster]
Ted Ledford
Graph Neural Bandits
Yunzhe Qi
Harold Baron Digital Archival Research and Publication Project
Divya Pathak
“Have a flare with me!”: A content analysis, grounded theory, and collaborative design approach to disability storytelling on TikTok
Morgan Lundy
How Computable is Scientific Knowledge?
Yuanxi Fu
How Knowledge Intermediaries Gather and Make Sense of COVID-19 Information: An Interview Study
Togzhan Seilkhanova, Jodi Schneider
Incorporating Indigeneity: my goal for librarianship
Katherine Witzig
Information Behavior Patterns in Mineable Digital Libraries
Daniel J Evans, Melissa Ocepek
A Large Language Model Based Approach to Detecting the Influence of Darwinian Ideas
Lucian Li
Metadata that Excludes: A Case Study of the Rock Springs Massacre in Digital Collections
Karen Wickett, Yingying Han, Ruohua Han
Mining the Scientific Literature to Support Personalized Nutrition Applications
Gibong Hong
IT Professionals’ Perspectives on Patron Privacy Protection in Public Libraries
Julian Chin, Masooda Bashir, Tian Wang, Erh-Hsuan Wang
PREPP-ing for Practice: An Experiential Learning Experiment in Practicum and Capstone Design
Sharon L. Comstock, Maria Bonn, Ben Schaap
Quantifying the Impact of Scientific Documentaries Using Natural Language Processing
Sri Nithya Yeragorls
Research with User-Generated Book Review Data: Legal and Ethical Pitfalls and Contextualized Mitigations
Yuerong Hu, Glen Layne-Worthey, Alaine Martaus, J. Stephen Downie, Jana Diesner
Rights Metadata and Usability of Digital Collections
Trevor Stratton
Technology and Law in Sports Market Control
Owen Monroe, Melissa Ocepek, Madelyn Sanfilippo
Technostress among Information Professionals: A Global Issue
Rexwhite T Enakrire
Text classification models for assessing the completeness of randomized controlled trial publications [Second Place Poster]
Lan Jiang
The Coming Age of Alternative Perspectives
Christopher Lueg, Siyao Cheng
Three-Dimensional Archiving of Native American Artifacts at the Spurlock Museum
David Eby
TORCHLITE: Tools for Open Research and Computation with HathiTrust: Leveraging Intelligent Text Extraction
Glen Layne-Worthey, Ryan Dubnicek, Boris Capitanu, Deren Kudeki, J. Stephen Downie
Unified Framework for Evaluating Confidence in Research Synthesis
Hannah Smith, Yuanxi Fu, Jodi Schneider
Unveil: An Escape Room Web Game for Cognitive Skill Enhancement in Older Adults
Philo Wang
Unveiling Privacy Measures in Mental Health Applications
Muhammad Hassan, Masooda Bashir
Using argument graphs to audit reasoning in empirical scientific publications
Heng Zheng, Yuanxi Fu, Jodi Schneider
Visualizing Race in Medicine
Chris Wiley
What went wrong? Examining ethical violations in retracted papers across disciplines
Julian Chin, Jana Diesner
Who needs a main entry, anyway?
Liliana Giusti Serra, José Fernando Modes