Sensify Lab

🎥 New video! Inside the @sensifylab, we design human-centered AI and interactive systems for social good—spanning health, sustainability, and education. youtu.be/Ycm_w06XGMM?si… Learn more at:🔗 sensifylab.org #HCI #HumanCenteredAI #SocialGood @UD_CIS @UDengineering

Late post, but academia runs on delayed gratification 🙂 Our paper When AI Rewrites the News is accepted to #CHI2026 🎉 📍 Barcelona | April 2026 🇪🇸 Grateful to Dr. Benjamin Bagozzi, Varun Pappu, and Matthew Louis Mauriello. @sensifylab #HCI #AIandMedia

Spotting Online News: How Everyday Readers Engage With — and Misjudge — Online Misinformation by @PreranaKh2 medium.com/acm-cscw/spott… @ACM_CSCW #CSCW2025

When a Nation Banned TikTok: What Nepal Teaches Us About Digital Governance and Everyday Users by @PreranaKh2 medium.com/acm-cscw/when-… @ACM_CSCW

Thrilled to be named an Innovation Ambassador at @UDelaware 🎉 Proud to join trailblazers turning ideas into impact alongside inspiring inventors and colleagues. Here’s to advancing #HCI, digital health, and human-centered design! udel.edu/udaily/2025/oc…

👩‍💻 Do you code with a smartwatch on? We’re studying how students respond to stress during coding tasks. Earn up to $70 this semester for participating! ➡️ delaware.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_e2… #STEM #Research #Smartwatch #CSStudents

A celebratory dinner after all the lab talks are done at #CSCW2025. Congratulations @PreranaKh2, Ashrey Mahesh, and Kyle Wang on a wonderful job! #HCI @sensifylab

Congratulations to @PreranaKh2 and Kyle Wang, who gave great talks today, and thanks to all the #CSCW2025 attendees for asking such wonderful and thought-provoking questions. We're looking forward to taking what we've learned here into the next stages of our research🙏 #HCI #CS

✨ Happening after lunch in Bergen, Norway, at #CSCW2025: @sensifylab will present our third and final: Tue, Oct 21 - 14:30 (Rm: Dovregubben-2). 🤖 LATA: A Pilot Study on LLM-Assisted Thematic Analysis of Online Social Network Data Generation Experiences (w/ Qile Wang). Join us!

✨ Happening next in Bergen, Norway at ACM #CSCW2025: @sensifylab will present the 2nd of 3 papers: Tue, Oct 21 - 11 am (Rm: Gjendine) 📱 Regulating Social Media: Surveying the Impact of Nepali Government’s TikTok Ban (w/ @PreranaKh2) — Impacts of Nepal’s TikTok ban. Join us!

@sensifylab also took a moment to snap a lab photo! And, I am throwing in a Fjord for good measure! #CSCW2025 #HCI #Fun #Bergen #Norway

Exciting day for the @UDelaware @sensifylab! 🌍 Our team — @PreranaKh2 & Ashrey Manesh — presented our first #CSCW25 paper, “Spotting Online News: A Mixed-Method Study of Online News Engagement and Perceptions on Misinformation Interventions.” #HCI #CS #Misinformation #AI

✨ Happening next at #CSCW2025: @sensifylab will present the first of three papers: Mon, Oct 20 — 11:00 (Rm: Smatroll) 📰 Spotting Online News: A Mixed-Method Study of Online News Engagement and Perceptions on Misinformation Interventions (@PreranaKh2) Join us! #HCI @UDelaware

(1/4) ✨ Excited to be in Bergen, Norway 🇳🇴 for ACM #CSCW2025 (Oct 18–22)! @sensifylab will present 3 papers that span #misinformation, platform governance, and #AI-assisted qualitative research. If you’re attending, let's connect. #HCI #SocialComputing #HumanAICollaboration ✨

(2/4) Mon, Oct 20 — 11:00 (Room: Smatroll) 📰 Spotting Online News: A Mixed-Method Study of Online News Engagement and Perceptions on Misinformation Interventions (@PreranaKh2, Luke Halko, Nabiha Syed, Ashrey Mahesh, & Aneseh Alvanpour)

@PreranaKh2 Tue, Oct 21 — 14:30 (Rm: Dovregubben-2) 🤖 LATA: A Pilot Study on LLM-Assisted Thematic Analysis of Online Social Network Data Generation Experiences (Kyle Wang, Moath Erqsous, & Kenneth Barner) — Using GPT-4 and Gemini to support thematic analysis; lessons for human-AI collabs.

🎥 Sneak peek! The CPUs — a creative undergraduate team — produced this teaser on @sensifylab to highlight how @UDelaware students can engage in hands-on Human-Computer Interaction research. Full video this October! 👉 youtube.com/watch?v=WYiKNE… #UndergraduateResearch #HCI #CS

🎉Belated! Congrats to @sensifylab PhD student @PreranaKh2 on advancing to candidacy with a proposal: Enhancing Media Literacy and Mitigating Misinformation Through In-Situ, Adaptive Language Model Driven News Reading Interventions. We paused our #CHI2026 crunch to celebrate!💙💛

As we close out our August issue we want to send special thanks to wonderful regular contributors: @JieLi3 @daria_loi #OvettaSampson @SheenaErete #JakitaThomas #YolandaRankin @mattm401 @iamviiish @rsoden_ and #NicolaBidwell Read them here at: rb.gy/scbqhf

So proud of our @sensifylab and @UD_CIS students in the @UDelaware Summer Scholars Program! Over the past 10 weeks, these talented undergraduate researchers tackled projects in AI-powered mental health, learning analytics, creativity support, accessibility, & more.👏💙💛