University of Iowa

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FamilyBloom: Examining Ecologies of Collaboration in Family-Centered Health Tracking

Family health informatics tools can help support well-being with shared data tracking. Prior work typically focused on shared data review, but often in specific moments, like bedtime, or centered on caregiving of children or elderly members. To investigate how tracking can support mutual health collaboration between f…

CSCW '25Trust, Safety, and Privacy in Online Communities

Negotiating Choice in Online Safeguards for Older Couples with Memory Concerns

Researchers of online safety for older couples where at least one partner has cognitive impairment have posited the need for more flexible and adaptive online safeguard options and systems that support shared decision-making practices to maintain autonomy. We designed a safety option probe that embodies these two desi…

CSCW '25Fighting Misinformation, Building Believability

Searching for Affirmation: How Partisan Audiences on Google Search Induce an Abortion-Related Filter Bubble Effect

The evolution of information-seeking processes, driven by search engines like Google, has reshaped how people access and interact with information. This paper examines how individuals' pre-existing attitudes on polarizing topics, such as the legality of abortion, influence their engagement with modern information-seek…

CHI '25Conversational Chatbots +1

Foody Talk: Exploring Opportunities for Conversational Food Journaling

Digital food journaling can help support reflection and improvement of wellbeing relating to eating habits. However, it is often viewed as burdensome, and abandoned before gaining benefits. Advances in conversational user interfaces (CUIs) have the potential to support people journaling in a natural and interactive ma…

CHI '25Algorithmic Transparency & Auditability +2

Let's Influence Algorithms Together: How Millions of Fans Build Collective Understanding of Algorithms and Organize Coordinated Algorithmic Actions

Previous research pays attention to how users strategically understand and consciously interact with algorithms but mainly focuses on an individual level, making it difficult to explore how users within communities could develop a collective understanding of algorithms and organize collective algorithmic actions. Thro…

CHI '25Human-LLM Collaboration +2

Dango: A Mixed-Initiative Data Wrangling System using Large Language Model

Data wrangling is a time-consuming and challenging task in the early stages of a data science pipeline. However, existing tools often fail to effectively interpret user intent. We propose Dango, a mixed-initiative multi-agent system that helps users generate data wrangling scripts. Compared to existing tools, Dango en…

CHI '25Explainable AI (XAI) +2

"It Might be Technically Impressive, But It’s Practically Useless to us": Motivations, Practices, Challenges, and Opportunities for Cross-Functional Collaboration around AI within the News Industry

Recently, an increasing number of news organizations have integrated artificial intelligence (AI) into their workflows, leading to a further influx of AI technologists and data workers into the news industry. This has initiated cross-functional collaborations between these professionals and journalists. Although prior…

CSCW '24Session 2a: Navigating Family Dynamics and Youth Health Journeys

Opportunities and Challenges in Using Tangible, Teleoperated Voice Agents in Kid-Driven Play Among Families with Neurodivergent Children

Child-agent interaction research has largely focused on automated voice agents, although privacy concerns and quality of interactions serve as a rationale for using teleoperated agents in some settings. Research on neurodivergent children’s interactions with voice agents has largely focused on therapy and classroom co…

CHI '24Mental Health Apps & Online Support Communities +2

“That’s Kind of Sus(picious)”: The Comprehensiveness of Mental Health Application Users’ Privacy and Security Concerns

With the increasing usage of mental health applications (MHAs), there is growing concern regarding their data privacy practices. Analyzing 437 user reviews from 83 apps, we outline users’ predominant privacy and security concerns with currently available apps. We then compare those concerns to criteria from two promin…

CSCW '22Online Incivility & Radicalization; Online Incivility & Radicalization

Making a Radical Misogynist: How Online Social Engagement with the Manosphere Influences Traits of Radicalization

The algorithms and the interactions facilitated by online platforms have been used by radical groups to recruit vulnerable individuals to their cause. This has resulted in the sharp growth of violent events and deteriorating online discourse. The Manosphere, a collection of radical anti-feminist communities, is one su…

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