Category: Research

In Fall 2024, my User Experience class helped Dr. Claire Lauer user test an educational virtual reality experience based on the process of Advanced Water Purification. It was a great…

I have two new proceedings papers published from SIGDOC 2024. I’m very grateful to Mayank Muthyala for lead authoring “So You Want to Build a Chatbot? A Systematic Case Study…

I’m honored to announce that the Arizona Water Chatbot (aka AZ Waterbot) is live now! You can use the bot to get answers about Arizona water issues at http://AZwaterbot.org. The…

I’m honored that Waterbot is part of a white paper on how governments can effectively use generative AI technology! Helping municipal and state governments use AI tech safely, securely, effectively,…

Academic life is uneven: sometimes I’ve worked for multiple semesters without seeing a single publication come in, only to have multiple arrive in the same month. Happily, this month found…

I am deeply honored that I have the closing word on ASU’s “AI from the Experts” video. I feel like they captured my thoughts well: People look at all of…

On June 1st, I was thrilled to present at the Applied Rhetoric Symposium 2024, with a presentation called “Helpful Indeterminacy at Scale for the Public: Waterbot 1.0.” I got to…

A quick update this time: here’s a 3-minute video from my co-author Claire Lauer discussing the SIGCHI paper I mentioned recently. Thanks to Claire and Briana Rajan (first author) for…