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Author:

Chen, Cen

Title:

Mining Social Media to Unveil Emotional Contagion and Perceptions of Personal Fitness Information (PFI) Among mHealth App Users Over the Past Decades

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Mobile Health
Social Informatics
Personal Fitness Information
Emotional Contagion

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Committee Members:

Jack Carroll, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dongwon Lee, Committee Member
Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Aiping Xiong, Committee Member
Nicole Kreisberg, Committee Member

Author:

Tian, Ye

Title:

Supporting claim-making in democratic deliberation through an information recommendation system

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Information overload
recommendation systems
claim-making
democratic deliberation

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Committee Members:

Andrea Tapia, Major Field Member
Jack Carroll, Major Field Member
Guoray Cai, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Gastil, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Zhang, Shaokun

Title:

Lexicographic Hyperparameter Optimization and its Applications

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Hyperparameter optimization
temporal distribution shifts
AutoML

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Committee Members:

Qingyun Wu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jinghui Chen, Committee Member
Jeffrey Bardzell, Program Head/Chair
Lu Lin, Committee Member

Author:

Dai, Enyan

Title:

Towards Trustworthy Graph Neural Networks

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Trustworthy
Graph Neural Networks
Robustness
Privacy
Fairness
Explainability

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Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Xiang Zhang, Major Field Member
Suhang Wang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Lu Lin, Major Field Member

Author:

Hua, Dianya Mia

Title:

Pleasure Activism: Designing for Women’s Masturbation

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Pleasure Activism
Human Sexuality
Women's Masturbation
Interaction Design
Design History
Human-computer Interaction

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Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Yubo Kou, Major Field Member
Eli Blevis, Special Member
Karen Keifer-Boyd, Outside Unit & Field Member
Xinning Gui, Major Field Member
Shaowen Bardzell, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Hoesing, Mitchell

Title:

Sources And Methods: A Longitudinal Examination of CHI Papers’ Data Sources and Study Methodologies

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Large-language models
GPT
Multi-instance Multi-label classification

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Committee Members:

Jonathan Dodge, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Carleen Maitland, Program Head/Chair
Luke Zhang, Committee Member
Aron Laszka, Committee Member

Author:

Puhan, Amrit

Title:

Recovering Ground Truth Rankings When The Majority Is Misinformed

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Computational Social Choice
AI
Voting
Bayesian Inference
Multi-agent systems
Statistical Modeling
Concentration Analysis

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Committee Members:

Hadi Hosseini, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Justin Silverman, Committee Member
Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Luke Zhang, Committee Member

Author:

Gautam, Sanjana

Title:

The Learning Code : Designing AI-Driven Adaptive Learning Systems for Social Learning

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

education and learning
adaptive learning
social learning
personal data tracking
artificial intelligence
collaborative learning
system design

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Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Jack Carroll, Major Field Member
Heather Zimmerman, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kenneth Huang, Major Field Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Whitt, Heather

Title:

Scenario-Based Assessment of Information Technology Alignment and Misalignment: Incorporating User Perspectives

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

scenario-based methods
IT alignment

File:

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Committee Members:

Rosalie Ocker, Major Field Member
Steven Haynes, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Edward Glantz, Major Field Member
James Thomas, Outside Unit & Field Member
Carleen Maitland, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Lee, Sian

Title:

Beyond the Information Given: Factors Intensifying or Attenuating Individuals’ Susceptibility to Misinformation

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Misinformation
Fake News
Associative Inference
Cognitive Ability
Fact Check
Fact-Checker
Warning Message
Political Stance Congruency
Misinformation
Fake News
Associative Inference
Cognitive Ability
Fact Check
Fact-Checker
Warning Message
Political Stance Congruency
Susceptibility
Social Media

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Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Dongwon Lee, Major Field Member
Aiping Xiong, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mauricio Nascimento, Minor Field Member
Kenneth Huang, Major Field Member
S. Shyam Sundar, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Heaton, Connor

Title:

Learning to Contextualize the Field of Sports Analytics

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Representation Learning
Sports Analytics
Deep Learning
Sequential Modeling

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Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Dongwon Lee, Major Field Member
Suhang Wang, Major Field Member
Andrew Wiesner, Outside Unit & Field Member
Prasenjit Mitra, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Adenuga, Iyadunni

Title:

User Agency in AI-infused Systems

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Human Agency
Human-Centric AI-infused Systems
Scale Validation
Explainable AI
User-centered Design

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Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Jack Carroll, Major Field Member
Hadi Hosseini, Major Field Member
Christopher Dancy, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jonathan Dodge, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Ni, Haomiao

Title:

Deep Learning for Visual Data Analysis and Synthesis in Healthcare and Beyond

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Deep Learning
Computer Vision
Healthcare AI
Generative AI

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Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
James Wang, Major Field Member
Sharon Huang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Fenglong Ma, Major Field Member
Ying Sun, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Mendu, Sanjana

Title:

Developing Conversational User Interfaces To Deliver Evidence-Based Health Interventions

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

healthcare
human-computer interaction
mixed-methods
conversational user interface
generative AI
smart speaker
chronic pain
physical activity
health intervention

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Committee Members:

Xinning Gui, Major Field Member
Saeed Abdullah, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Andrew High, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kenneth Huang, Major Field Member
Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Karimi, Younes

Title:

Analysis of Extremist and Terrorist Groups on Twitter

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

ISIS
Iran
Extremism
Terrorism
Twitter
X
Social Media
Large Language Model
LLM
User Classification
Propaganda
Islamic Regime
Authoritarian Regime
Islamic State
Extremist Groups
Dataset
Behavior Modeling
Social Network Mining
Image Classification

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Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Sarah Rajtmajer, Major Field Member
Shomir Wilson, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Daniel Tavana, Outside Unit & Field Member
Anna Squicciarini, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Liu, Jiachen

Title:

Data-Driven Scene Reconstruction, Understanding and Generation

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

data-driven
3D scene reconstruction
plane reconstruction
generalizability
scene layout generation
floorplan

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Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
James Wang, Major Field Member
Sharon Huang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Fenglong Ma, Major Field Member
Huijuan Xu, Outside Unit & Field Member