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iConference 2025 Paper and Poster Awards Finalists Announcement


Carnegie Mellon University, The Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy


The organizers of iConference 2025 are pleased to announce the finalists for this year’s Best Paper and Poster Awards. Five finalists in each category have been selected representing the most outstanding of the many submissions received.


This year’s finalists demonstrate breadth of quality information research being conducted at iSchools and other institutions worldwide. The work of these finalists will be presented along with all other accepted submissions at iConference 2025 our 20th iConference in the annual series taking place hybrid:


  • online with the Virtual Academic Program (11-14 March 2025) and

  • onsite with Academic Program in Bloomington, Indiana, USA (18-22 March 2025).

The iConference 2025 is hosted by hosted by the Indiana University Bloomington. The Award winners will be announced at the virtual iConference 2025 Keynote 11 March 2025 and celebrated at the Opening Reception onsite in Bloomington 18 March 2025.


Best Full Research Paper Award Finalists (1.000 USD)


  • ID 113 Improving Scholarship Accessibility with Reinforcement Learning by Wang, Haining; Clark, Jason; McKelvey, Hannah; Sterman, Leila; Zheng, Gao; Tian, Zuoyu; Liu, Xiaozhong

  • ID 145 Leveraging Social Circles and Algorithmic Processes in Digital Mental Health Tools for College Students' Stress Management by Kazi, Farhanuddin Fazaluddin; Sandbulte, Jomara

  • ID 180 Collaborative Human-AI Risk Annotation: Co-Annotating Online Incivility with CHAIRA by Park, Jinkyung Katie; Ellezhuthil, Rahul Dev; Wisniewski, Pamela; Singh, Vivek

  • ID 359 Does Google dream of electric memes? From human to computational culture by Smith, Alexander O; Joh, Una; Hemsley, Jeff

  • ID 362 Conceptual approaches to information-as-potentiality Chassanoff, Alexandra; Chen, Annie


Best Short Research Paper Award Finalists (500 USD)


  • ID 132 Discourses of Fear around AI and their Implications for Library and Information Science by Appedu, Sarah; Qin, Yigang

  • ID 135 Evaluating Techniques of Artificial Intelligence for Social Robots by Barfield, Jessica

  • ID 188 ‘Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep’: A Thematic Analysis of Datahoarding as Digital Curation Practice by Maemura, Emily; Wagner, Travis L.

  • ID 202 The Promoting Effect of Internet Use on the Physical Health of Chinese Older Adults: An Empirical Study Based on the Difference-in-Differences Model by Sun, Haoyuan; Fu, Zhenkang; Pu, Zhengtong; Zhu, Qinghua

  • ID 366 “Just because we can, does it mean we should?” The Integrated Data Infrastructure in Aotearoa, and its implications for Māori by Boey, Daphne; Toland, Janet; Campbell-Meier, Jennifer; Lilley, Spencer


Best Poster Award Finalists (300 USD)


  • ID 181 The impact of Economic Sanctions on China-U.S. Scientific collaboration: Evidence from the Civilian Universities on the U.S. Entity List by Lu, Chao;  Xiao, Chengrui

  • ID 212 Decoding Climate Data Modeling and its Impacts by Dave, Aashka

  • ID 258 A Comparative Institutional Analysis of Software Accessibility Laws, Policies, and Guidelines by Zhou, Kyrie Zhixuan; Sanfilippo, Madelyn Rose

  • ID 310 Generative AI in the Creative Domain: Innovation or Interference? Preliminary insights from online discussions by Lee, Hyun Seung; Luo, Manman

  • ID 425 Evaluating the language style of AI-generated peer review by Zheng, Xiang; Xiong, Tiancheng


Best Chinese Research Paper Award Finalists (1.000USD)


  • ID 449 融合大语言模型的中国古代山水志史料知识重构与可视化路径研究 by Zhou, Shubin; Cheng, Shuangling

  • ID 463 走向数智时代的“诗和远方”:智慧文旅平台用户承诺研究 by Zhao, ZeRui; Luo, YaLing

  • ID 465 融合SBERT和DTM模型的颠覆性技术识别方法研究 —以中国氢储能领域为例 by 张, 力月; 鲍, 泽孟鸿; 吕, 鲲

  • ID 519 Value-Added Logics of Humanities Data: A Case Study on Digital Humanities Projects by Jian, Hua; Wang, Xiaoguang; Hou, Xilong

  • ID 555 Research on the Framework of Action for Libraries to Contribute to the Realization of the Goals of Sustainable Development in Society ——Using IFLA SDGs Stories as Examples by Tang, Qiong; Ma, Yunzhe; He, JiaYu

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