Jiqun Liu, DISC member, an assistant professor in the School of Library and Information Studies and director of the Human-Computer Interaction and Recommendation Lab, and doctoral student Ben Wang attended the Microsoft “Task Focused Information Retrieval in the Era of Generative Artificial Intelligence” workshop from Sept. 27-29, 2023. The duo presented their early work on developing and enhancing task-supportive and personalized human-AI interaction to researchers from both academia and Microsoft Research teams. This work was supported by a 2022 DISC seed grant, Liu’s 2021 award from the National Science Foundation on bias-aware user modeling, and computing resources/credits from Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub.
Wang and Liu’s paper titled “Characterizing and Early Predicting User Performance for Adaptive Search Path Recommendation” also received the 2023 “SIG USE Best Information Behavior Conference Paper” award from the Association for Information Science & Technology.
Learn more about the Human-Computer Interaction and Recommendation Lab at the University of Oklahoma.
