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