Conference Agenda (All times are shown in Eastern Daylight Time)
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Session Overview | |
| Location: Potomac II |
| Date: Friday, 14/Nov/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 5:00pm |
Precon 4: Past Meets Future: Human-AI Interaction, Digital Humanities, and Cultural Heritage Location: Potomac II Digital History and Cultural Heritage face complex challenges in access, interpretation, and engagement—posing exciting opportunities for human-AI interaction. By bringing together interdisciplinary scholars and practitioners, we aim to advance methods for discovering cultural heritage collections, designing human-centered tools, and expanding public engagement with the past through AI. Past Meets Future: Human-AI Interaction, Digital Humanities, and Cultural Heritage |
| Date: Saturday, 15/Nov/2025 | |
| 8:00am - 12:00pm |
Precon 8: Social Media Research, Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models, Crisis Informatics, AI Ethics (SM) Location: Potomac II This hands-on symposium/workshop includes a tutorial on using open-source LLMs for social media research, with adaptable code for your own datasets, followed by a best student paper competition on AI and social media topics. Explore recent developments in AI-based social media research, learn new tools, and connect with an interdisciplinary research community. 5th Annual Symposium on Social Media Research, Challenges, and Opportunities |
| 1:00pm - 5:00pm |
Precon 11: Forging Ahead: Librarianship and Information Services in Times of Technological, Cultural, and Political Change (MWC) Location: Potomac II This symposium explores how technological, social, and political shifts impact library and information services. Topics include emerging technologies (generative AI, human-centered AI, data privacy, and ethical AI), changing social values (such as AI for Social Good), and political challenges. Presentations will feature research and reflections on adapting services while upholding professional ethics and compassion in a rapidly evolving landscape. Forging Ahead: Librarianship and Information Services in Times of Technological, Cultural, and Political Change |
| Date: Sunday, 16/Nov/2025 | |
| 10:30am - 12:00pm |
Paper Session 1: Data Management, Retrieval, and Policies Location: Potomac II Justifying Biodiversity Data Access Restrictions: A Global Comparison of Data Policies 11:00am - 11:15am “Unnecessarily cumbersome”: Researchers’ Opinions on Restricted Data Access Systems 11:15am - 11:30am Interactive Graph Visualization and Teaming Recommendation in an Interdisciplinary Project’s Talent Knowledge Graph 11:30am - 11:45am How Data Reuse Leads to Citation Performance: The Mediating Role of Coauthorship in ICPSR-Based Author Data Coupling |
| 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
Paper Session 4: Political and Ethical Concerns Around AI and Informatics Location: Potomac II News Deserts as Information Problems: A Case Study of Local News Coverage in Alabama 2:30pm - 2:45pm Bridging the Divide: AI enabled Sensemaking Tools to Foster Civic Dialogue and Mitigate Political Polarization 2:45pm - 3:00pm The Datafication of Elder Care Services in China: A Policy Analysis |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
Paper Session 7: AI and the Museum Experience Location: Potomac II Is AIGC Technology Useful? A Comparative Analysis of Search Technologies for Online Museum 4:15pm - 4:45pm Linked Data Workflows for Community Collections: Experiments with Open Access AI 4:45pm - 5:00pm How to Get Enriched Metadata? A Multi-modal Model Fusion Strategy for Automatic Metadata Enhancement in GLAM Art Collections 5:00pm - 5:30pm Crowdsourced Cultural Heritage Transcription Data Management: The Next Piece of the Puzzle 5:30pm - 5:45pm The Culturally Similar Design of Virtual Guides Matters for Museum Experience: Perceived Compatibility as a Mediator |
| Date: Monday, 17/Nov/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Paper Session 10: AI in Healthcare Location: Potomac II Can I Trust This Chatbot? Assessing User Privacy in AI-Healthcare Chatbot Applications 9:30am - 9:45am Detecting AI-Generated vs. Human-Written Health Misinformation: the Impact of eHealth Literacy on Accuracy and Sharing |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
Paper Session 13: AI in Scientific Publishing Location: Potomac II AI-Augmented Search for Systematic Reviews: A Comparative Analysis 11:30am - 12:00pm Disciplinary Diversity in Academic AI Adoption: A Comparative Analysis of AI Tool Usage Declarations Across Scientific Fields 12:00pm - 12:30pm Automatic Identification of Citation Distortions in Biomedical Literature: A Case Study |
| 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
Paper Session 16: Science and AI Location: Potomac II What is a Data Document? Analyzing Four Emerging Data Documentation Frameworks in AI/ML 2:30pm - 2:45pm Exploring LLM AI in Automatic Generation of Abstracts for Research Publications 2:45pm - 3:15pm Surprising Resilience of Scientific Publication During a Global Pandemic: A Large-Scale Bibliometric Analysis |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
Paper Session 19: Spaces, Communities, and Information Location: Potomac II Using Community-Centered Design for the Development of a System for Indigenous Structured Vocabulary 4:15pm - 4:30pm Examining Urban and Rural Information Needs through Topic Modeling: A Case of South Korea 4:30pm - 5:00pm "If I Were Given the Opportunity in Today's World at 18 to go be in a Seedy, Dirty Gay Bar to Meet Community, I Would": Informational Functions, Loss, and Transformation of Queer Spaces 5:00pm - 5:30pm Mapping the Landscape, Measuring the Gap: Qualitative Methods Reporting in Information Science Research |
| Date: Tuesday, 18/Nov/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Paper Session 22: Activism, AI, and Identity Location: Potomac II “Workhorses and Show Ponies”: The Role of 501(c)(3) Recordkeeping Requirements on the Queer Activist Work of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence™ 9:30am - 9:45am Narrating Affect: Archives, Affect, and the Construction of Identity 9:45am - 10:15am How the Salvage has Turned: Shadow Archives, AI Counter-Surveillance, and the Limits of Digital Resistance 10:15am - 10:30am AI in the House of God: Threat, Tool or Transformation? |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
Paper Session 25: AI and Communication Location: Potomac II From Queries to Conversations: Examining Human–GenAI Information-Seeking Through Belkin’s Cognitive Communication Model 11:30am - 11:45am “Digital Friend” or “It”? Conceptualizations of LLM-Powered Chatbots in National Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Crisis Hotlines 11:45am - 12:15pm Human-AI Collaborative Content Analysis: Investigating the Efficacy and Challenges of LLM-Assisted Content Analysis for TikTok Videos on Palliative Care |