Faculty of Information professors and students will have a strong presence at the 2025 ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), the premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction. CHI 2025 is taking place in Yokohama, Japan from April 26 to May 1, bringing together researchers, practitioners and industry leaders to showcase some of the latest research in human-computer interaction.
For more details, see the 2025 conference program, which is regularly updated with newly activated links.
The names of Faculty of Information participants are bolded.
Full Papers:
- Generative Politics and Labour Markets: Unions and Collective Life in a City in Crisis, by Ashique Ali Thuppilikkat, Dipsita Dhar, Noopur Raval , Priyank Chandra
- What’s in a Place? On Platformization of Traditional Agricultural Marketplaces, by Anubha Singh , Patricia Garcia , Priyank Chandra
- Talking About the Assumption in the Room, by Ramaravind Kommiya Mothilal , Faisal M. Lalani , Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed , Shion Guha , Sharifa Sultana
- The Datafication of Care in Public Homelessness Services, by Erina Seh-Young Moon, Devansh Saxena, Dipto Das, Shion Guha. This paper has received a Best Paper Honorable Mention Award which is given to the top 5% of all papers.
- A Matter of Perspective(s): Contrasting Human and LLM Argumentation in Subjective Decision-Making on Subtle Sexism, by Paula Akemi Aoyagui , Kelsey Stemmler , Sharon A Ferguson , Young-Ho Kim , Anastasia Kuzminykh
- Management, Cooperation, and Sustainability: Unpacking the Financial Data Practices of a Housing Cooperative, by Priyanka Verma, Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat , Samar Sabie
- Oral History and Qualitative Analysis with Youth: A Method for Cultivating, by Samar Sabie, Robert Soden , Tapan Parikh
- Hype versus Historical Continuity: Situating the Rise of AI in Climate and Disaster Risk Modeling, by Shreyasha Paudel , Sabine Loos , Robert Soden
- Digital Archives, Knowledge Conflicts, and Epistemic Injustices in the Himalayas, by Aarjav Chauhan , Robert Soden
- To Use or Not to Use: Impatience and Overreliance When Using Generative AI Productivity Support Tools, by Han Qiao, Jo Vermeulen, George Fitzmaurice, Justin Matejka
Late-Breaking Work
- They’ll be Protected in Colorado: Reproductive Health Access Organizations’ Use of Technology, by Adrian Petterson, Priyank Chandra
- Internet Disconnection as a Risk to Cross-Border Human Rights, by Zinnat Sultana, Rokeya Akter, Tanveer Ehsanur Rahman, Hasan Shahid Ferdous, M Ashraful Amin, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Sharifa Sultana
- “Users’ Expectations and Practices with Agent Memory”. By Jones, B., Stemmler, K., Su, E., Kim, Y., and Kuzminykh, A.
Workshop Organizing
- Emerging Practices in Participatory AI Design in Public Sector Innovation, by Devansh Saxena, Zoe Kahn, Erina Seh-Young Moon, Lauren M. Chambers, Corey Jackson, Min Kyung Lee, Motahhare Eslami, Shion Guha, Sheena Erete, Lilly Irani, Deirdre Mulligan, and John Zimmerman. 2025.
- Advancing Post-growth HCI, by Vishal Sharma, Hongjin Lin, Jared Katzman, Asra Sakeen Wani, Anupriya Tuli, Anupriya Tuli, Shaowen Bardzell, Christoph Becker, Martin Tomitsch, Neha Kumar
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