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Author:

Jonas, Rebecca

Title:

Intra-Rural Digital Divides in Appalachia: Pathways for Digital Literacy and Inclusion

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

HCI
digital divides
rural America
Appalachia
digital skills
public libraries

File:

Download Jonas_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Daniel Susser, Major Field Member
Jack Carroll, Major Field Member
Kelley Cotter, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Andrea Miller, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Romera Rodriguez, Guillermo

Title:

Understanding Non-Participation in a Self-Regulated Computer-Mediated Communication Implementation: Exploring Challenges and Implications

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Education
Educational Technology
Computer-Mediated Communication
Self-Regulation
Gamification

File:

Download Dissertation_Reformatted-1.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey Bardzell, Program Head/Chair
Andrea Tapia, Major Field Member
Jack Carroll, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Heather Zimmerman, Outside Unit & Field Member
Yubo Kou, Major Field Member

Author:

Doty, Christopher

Title:

Crisis Media - Discovering Social Media's Role in the Emergency Management Process

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Social Media
Data Mining
Interviews
Emergency Management
Crisis
Disaster

File:

Download Final_Dissertation_-_Doty.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey Bardzell, Program Head/Chair
Prasenjit Mitra, Major Field Member
Timothy E. Kohler, Special Member
Stephanie Madden, Outside Unit & Field Member
Andrea Tapia, Major Field Member
Nick Giacobe, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Bidgoli, Morvareed

Title:

If You See Something Suspicious Online, Report It: An Investigation into Addressing and Overcoming the Challenges in Cybercrime Reporting

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

cybercrimes
cybercrime reporting
information policy
information security
cybersecurity

File:

Download FINAL_Dissertation_-_Morvareed_Bidgoli.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter Forster, Major Field Member
Jens Grossklags, Special Member
Anna Squicciarini, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Eric Baumer, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Major Field Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Rohatgi, Shaurya

Title:

Design and Data Mining Techniques for Large-Scale Scholarly Digital Libraries and Search Engines

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Mathematical information retrieval
Figure classification
Large-scale scholarly documents
Generative artificial intelligence
Scientific question-answering systems

File:

Download Final_Thesis-5.pdf

Committee Members:

C Lee Giles, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Amulya Yadav, Major Field Member
Daniel Kifer, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kenneth Huang, Major Field Member
Jeffrey Bardzell, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Seo, Hae Seung

Title:

Empirical Studies on Platform-Driven and User-Initiated Methods for Misinformation Correction

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Misinformation Correction
Social Media
Misinformation
Warning
Online Experiment
Fake News

File:

Download SEO_Ph_D_Dissertation_113023.pdf

Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Dongwon Lee, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Bu Zhong, Outside Unit & Field Member
Aiping Xiong, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kelley Cotter, Major Field Member

Author:

Khademi, Aria

Title:

Excursions in Causal Data Science: Fairness, Causal Attribution, and Applications

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Causal Inference
Interpretable Machine Learning
Fairness
Health Care
Causal Attribution

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_Aria_Khademi.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Susser, Major Field Member
Sarah Rajtmajer, Major Field Member
Vasant Honavar, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Aleksandra Slavkovic, Outside Unit, Field & Minor Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Agnihotri, Devanshi

Title:

Assessing mHealth Motivational Pathways Among Hispanic Individuals Through Technological Affordances

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Technological affordances
self determination theory
motivational technology model

File:

Download FINALAgnihotri_MS.pdf

Committee Members:

Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair
Saeed M Abdullah, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yunfeng Shi, Committee Member
Xinning Gui, Committee Member

Author:

Shen, Hua

Title:

Towards Useful AI Interpretability for Humans via Interactive AI Explanations

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Interactive AI Explanations
Conversational AI Explanations
Human-centered Explainable AI
XAI Human Evaluation
Useful AI Explanations
XAI Usefulness

File:

Download HuaShen_PhD_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey Bardzell, Program Head/Chair
C Lee Giles, Major Field Member
Sherry Tongshuang Wu, Special Member
Kenneth Huang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mary Beth Rosson, Major Field Member
S. Shyam Sundar, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Neupane, Bikalpa

Title:

HUMAN-IN-THE-LOOP APPROACH TO INVESTIGATE ALGORITHMIC JUSTICE IN AI AND MACHINE LEARNING ENABLED TALENT ACQUISITION SYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

algorithmic justice
algorithmic equity
underprivileged
marginalized
AI bias
AI fairness
video based hiring systems
HRTech
hiring
interviewing
perceptions of AI
human-in-the-loop
diversity in hiring
equity in hiring
DEI

File:

Download BikalpaNeupane_FinalDissertation_Aug5_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Susser, Major Field Member
Timothy Brick, Outside Unit & Field Member
Lynette Yarger, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair
Fred Fonseca, Major Field Member
Jordan Beck, Special Member