Zahra Ashktorab

65 papers A* 10A 6Misc 1Journal 29Unranked 18
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 — conf
EvalAgent: Interactive Comparative Evaluation of Computer-Using GUI Agents.
IUI Companion
Yukun Yang, Simret Araya Gebreegziabher, Hojun Yoo, Charles Chiang, Chaoran Chen, Annalisa Szymanski, Hyo Jin Do, Zahra Ashktorab, Werner Geyer, Diego Gómez-Zará, Toby Jia-Jun Li
2026 — conf
MultEval: Collaboratively Creating Criteria for LLM-as-a-Judge Systems.
IUI Companion
Charles Chiang, Simret Araya Gebreegziabher, Annalisa Szymanski, Yukun Yang, Hyo Jin Do, Zahra Ashktorab, Werner Geyer, Toby Jia-Jun Li, Diego Gómez-Zará
2026 A conf
The Behavioral Fabric of LLM-Powered GUI Agents: Human Values and Interaction Outcomes.
IUI
Simret Araya Gebreegziabher, Yukun Yang, Charles Chiang, Hojun Yoo, Chaoran Chen, Hyo Jin Do, Zahra Ashktorab, Werner Geyer, Diego Gómez-Zará, Toby Jia-Jun Li
2026 J jnl
The Behavioral Fabric of LLM-Powered GUI Agents: Human Values and Interaction Outcomes.
CoRR
Simret Araya Gebreegziabher, Yukun Yang, Charles Chiang, Hojun Yoo, Chaoran Chen, Hyo Jin Do, Zahra Ashktorab, Werner Geyer, Diego Gómez-Zará, Toby Jia-Jun Li
2025 — conf
A Case Study Investigating the Role of Generative AI in Quality Evaluations of Epics in Agile Software Development.
CHIWORK
Werner Geyer, Jessica He, Daita Sarkar, Michelle Brachman, Chris Hammond, Jennifer Heins, Zahra Ashktorab, Carlos Rosemberg, Charlie Hill
2025 J jnl
A Case Study Investigating the Role of Generative AI in Quality Evaluations of Epics in Agile Software Development.
CoRR
Werner Geyer, Jessica He, Daita Sarkar, Michelle Brachman, Chris Hammond, Jennifer Heins, Zahra Ashktorab, Carlos Rosemberg, Charlie Hill
2025 — conf
Emerging Reliance Behaviors in Human-AI Content Grounded Data Generation: The Role of Cognitive Forcing Functions and Hallucinations.
CHIWORK
Zahra Ashktorab, Michael Desmond, Qian Pan, James Johnson, Michelle Brachman, Casey Dugan, Marina Danilevsky, Werner Geyer
2025 J jnl
EvalAssist: A Human-Centered Tool for LLM-as-a-Judge.
CoRR
Zahra Ashktorab, Elizabeth M. Daly, Erik Miehling, Werner Geyer, Martin Santillan Cooper, Tejaswini Pedapati, Michael Desmond, Qian Pan, Hyo Jin Do
2025 A* conf
EvalAssist: Insights on Task-Specific Evaluations and AI-Assisted Judgment Strategy Preferences.
UIST
Zahra Ashktorab, Michael Desmond, Qian Pan, James M. Johnson, Martín Santillán Cooper, Elizabeth M. Daly, Rahul Nair, Tejaswini Pedapati, Hyo Jin Do, Werner Geyer
2025 A* conf
EvalAssist: LLM-as-a-Judge Simplified.
AAAI
Michael Desmond, Zahra Ashktorab, Werner Geyer, Elizabeth M. Daly, Martín Santillán Cooper, Qian Pan, Rahul Nair, Nico Wagner, Tejaswini Pedapati
2025 J jnl
Generate, Evaluate, Iterate: Synthetic Data for Human-in-the-Loop Refinement of LLM Judges.
CoRR
Hyo Jin Do, Zahra Ashktorab, Jasmina Gajcin, Erik Miehling, Martín Santillán Cooper, Qian Pan, Elizabeth M. Daly, Werner Geyer
2025 J jnl
Interaction Configurations and Prompt Guidance in Conversational AI for Question Answering in Human-AI Teams.
CoRR
Jaeyoon Song, Zahra Ashktorab, Qian Pan, Casey Dugan, Werner Geyer, Thomas W. Malone
2025 J jnl
Interaction Configurations and Prompt Guidance in Conversational AI for Question Answering in Human-AI Teams.
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact.
Jaeyoon Song, Zahra Ashktorab, Qian Pan, Casey Dugan, Werner Geyer, Thomas W. Malone
2025 — conf
MetricMate: An Interactive Tool for Generating Evaluation Criteria for LLM-as-a-Judge Workflow.
CHIWORK
Simret Araya Gebreegziabher, Charles Chiang, Zichu Wang, Zahra Ashktorab, Michelle Brachman, Werner Geyer, Toby Jia-Jun Li, Diego Gómez-Zará
2025 — conf
MetricMate: An Interactive Tool for Generating Evaluation Criteria for LLM-as-a-Judge Workflow.
IUI Workshops
Simret Araya Gebreegziabher, Charles Chiang, Zichu Wang, Zahra Ashktorab, Michelle Brachman, Werner Geyer, Toby Jia-Jun Li, Diego Gómez-Zará
2025 — conf
Position: Theory of Mind Benchmarks are Broken for Large Language Models.
ICML (Position Papers)
Matthew Riemer, Zahra Ashktorab, Djallel Bouneffouf, Payel Das, Miao Liu, Justin D. Weisz, Murray Campbell
2025 J jnl
Proceedings of 1st Workshop on Advancing Artificial Intelligence through Theory of Mind.
CoRR
Mouad Abrini, Omri Abend, Dina M. Acklin, Henny Admoni, Gregor Aichinger, Nitay Alon, Zahra Ashktorab, Ashish Atreja, Moises Auron, Alexander Aufreiter, Raghav Awasthi, Soumya Banerjee, Joseph M. Barnby, Rhea Basappa, Severin Bergsmann, Djallel Bouneffouf, Patrick Callaghan, Marc Cavazza, Thierry Chaminade, Sonia Chernova, Mohamed Chetouani, Moumita Choudhury, Axel Cleeremans, Jacek B. Cywinski, Fabio Cuzzolin, Hokin Deng, N'yoma Diamond, Camilla Di Pasquasio, Guillaume Dumas, Max J. van Duijn, Mahapatra Dwarikanath, Qingying Gao, Ashok K. Goel, Rebecca Goldstein, Matthew C. Gombolay, Gabriel Enrique Gonzalez, Amar Halilovic, Tobias Halmdienst, Mahimul Islam, Julian Jara-Ettinger, Natalie Kastel, Renana Keydar, Ashish K. Khanna, Mahdi Khoramshahi, Jihyun Kim, MiHyeon Kim, YoungBin Kim, Senka Krivic, Nikita Krasnytskyi, Arun Kumar, JuneHyoung Kwon, Eunju Lee, Shane Lee, Peter R. Lewis, Xue Li, Yijiang Li, Michal Lewandowski, Nathan Lloyd, Matthew B. Luebbers, Dezhi Luo, Haiyun Lyu, Dwarikanath Mahapatra, Kamal Maheshwari, Mallika Mainali, Piyush Mathur, Patrick Mederitsch, Shuwa Miura, Manuel Preston de Miranda, Reuth Mirsky, Shreya Mishra, Nina Moorman, Katelyn Morrison, John Muchovej, Bernhard Nessler, Felix Nessler, Hieu Minh Jord Nguyen, Abby Ortego, Francis A. Papay, Antoine Pasquali, Hamed Rahimi, Charumathi Raghu, Amanda L. Royka, Stefan Sarkadi, Jaelle Scheuerman, Simon Schmid, Paul Schrater, Anik Sen, Zahra Sheikhbahaee, Ke Shi, Reid G. Simmons, Nishant Singh, Mason O. Smith, Ramira van der Meulen, Anthia Solaki, Haoran Sun, Viktor Szolga, Matthew E. Taylor, Travis Taylor, Sanne van Waveren, Juan David Vargas
2025 J jnl
Scopes of Alignment.
CoRR
Kush R. Varshney, Zahra Ashktorab, Djallel Bouneffouf, Matthew Riemer, Justin D. Weisz
2025 — conf
Synthetic Data for Evaluation: Supporting LLM-as-a-Judge Workflows with EvalAssist.
EMNLP (System Demonstrations)
Martín Santillán Cooper, Zahra Ashktorab, Hyo Jin Do, Erik Miehling, Werner Geyer, Jasmina Gajcin, Elizabeth M. Daly, Qian Pan, Michael Desmond
2025 J jnl
Togedule: Scheduling Meetings with Large Language Models and Adaptive Representations of Group Availability.
CoRR
Jaeyoon Song, Zahra Ashktorab, Thomas W. Malone
2025 J jnl
Togedule: Scheduling Meetings with Large Language Models and Adaptive Representations of Group Availability.
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact.
Jaeyoon Song, Zahra Ashktorab, Thomas W. Malone
2025 J jnl
Who's Sorry Now: User Preferences Among Rote, Empathic, and Explanatory Apologies from LLM Chatbots.
CoRR
Zahra Ashktorab, Alessandra Buccella, Jason D'Cruz, Zoe Fowler, Andrew Gill, Kei Yan Leung, P. D. Magnus, John T. Richards, Kush R. Varshney
2024 J jnl
Aligning Human and LLM Judgments: Insights from EvalAssist on Task-Specific Evaluations and AI-assisted Assessment Strategy Preferences.
CoRR
Zahra Ashktorab, Michael Desmond, Qian Pan, James M. Johnson, Martin Santillan Cooper, Elizabeth M. Daly, Rahul Nair, Tejaswini Pedapati, Swapnaja Achintalwar, Werner Geyer
2024 J jnl
Black-box Uncertainty Quantification Method for LLM-as-a-Judge.
CoRR
Nico Wagner, Michael Desmond, Rahul Nair, Zahra Ashktorab, Elizabeth M. Daly, Qian Pan, Martin Santillan Cooper, James M. Johnson, Werner Geyer
2024 J jnl
Can Large Language Models Adapt to Other Agents In-Context?
CoRR
Matthew Riemer, Zahra Ashktorab, Djallel Bouneffouf, Payel Das, Miao Liu, Justin D. Weisz, Murray Campbell
2024 J jnl
Emerging Reliance Behaviors in Human-AI Text Generation: Hallucinations, Data Quality Assessment, and Cognitive Forcing Functions.
CoRR
Zahra Ashktorab, Qian Pan, Werner Geyer, Michael Desmond, Marina Danilevsky, James M. Johnson, Casey Dugan, Michelle Brachman
2024 — conf
EvaluLLM: LLM assisted evaluation of generative outputs.
IUI Companion
Michael Desmond, Zahra Ashktorab, Qian Pan, Casey Dugan, James M. Johnson
2024 J jnl
Granite Guardian.
CoRR
Inkit Padhi, Manish Nagireddy, Giandomenico Cornacchia, Subhajit Chaudhury, Tejaswini Pedapati, Pierre L. Dognin, Keerthiram Murugesan, Erik Miehling, Martin Santillan Cooper, Kieran Fraser, Giulio Zizzo, Muhammad Zaid Hameed, Mark Purcell, Michael Desmond, Qian Pan, Zahra Ashktorab, Inge Vejsbjerg, Elizabeth M. Daly, Michael Hind, Werner Geyer, Ambrish Rawat, Kush R. Varshney, Prasanna Sattigeri
2024 J jnl
Human-Centered Design Recommendations for LLM-as-a-Judge.
CoRR
Qian Pan, Zahra Ashktorab, Michael Desmond, Martin Santillan Cooper, James M. Johnson, Rahul Nair, Elizabeth Daly, Werner Geyer
2024 — conf
Trust and Reliance in Evolving Human-AI Workflows (TREW).
CHI Extended Abstracts
Zahra Ashktorab, Gagan Bansal, Zana Buçinca, Kenneth Holstein, Jessica Hullman, Alison Marie Smith-Renner, Tongshuang Wu, Wenjuan Zhang
2023 J jnl
Decision Making Strategies and Team Efficacy in Human-AI Teams.
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact.
Imani N. S. Munyaka, Zahra Ashktorab, Casey Dugan, James M. Johnson, Qian Pan
2023 A* conf
Fairness Evaluation in Text Classification: Machine Learning Practitioner Perspectives of Individual and Group Fairness.
CHI
Zahra Ashktorab, Benjamin Hoover, Mayank Agarwal, Casey Dugan, Werner Geyer, Hao Bang Yang, Mikhail Yurochkin
2023 J jnl
Fairness Evaluation in Text Classification: Machine Learning Practitioner Perspectives of Individual and Group Fairness.
CoRR
Zahra Ashktorab, Benjamin Hoover, Mayank Agarwal, Casey Dugan, Werner Geyer, Hao Bang Yang, Mikhail Yurochkin
2023 J jnl
Helping the Helper: Supporting Peer Counselors via AI-Empowered Practice and Feedback.
CoRR
Shang-Ling Hsu, Raj Sanjay Shah, Prathik Senthil, Zahra Ashktorab, Casey Dugan, Werner Geyer, Diyi Yang
2023 A conf
SME-in-the-loop: Interaction Preferences when Supervising Bots in Human-AI Communities.
Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
Zahra Ashktorab, Michael Desmond, James M. Johnson, Qian Pan, Casey Dugan, Michelle Brachman, Carolina Spina
2022 J jnl
Group Chat Ecology in Enterprise Instant Messaging: How Employees Collaborate Through Multi-User Chat Channels on Slack.
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact.
Dakuo Wang, Haoyu Wang, Mo Yu, Zahra Ashktorab, Ming Tan
2022 J jnl
Reliance and Automation for Human-AI Collaborative Data Labeling Conflict Resolution.
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact.
Michelle Brachman, Zahra Ashktorab, Michael Desmond, Evelyn Duesterwald, Casey Dugan, Narendra Nath Joshi, Qian Pan, Aabhas Sharma
2021 J jnl
AI-Assisted Human Labeling: Batching for Efficiency without Overreliance.
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact.
Zahra Ashktorab, Michael Desmond, Josh Andres, Michael J. Muller, Narendra Nath Joshi, Michelle Brachman, Aabhas Sharma, Kristina Brimijoin, Qian Pan, Christine T. Wolf, Evelyn Duesterwald, Casey Dugan, Werner Geyer, Darrell Reimer
2021 A* conf
Designing Ground Truth and the Social Life of Labels.
CHI
Michael J. Muller, Christine T. Wolf, Josh Andres, Michael Desmond, Narendra Nath Joshi, Zahra Ashktorab, Aabhas Sharma, Kristina Brimijoin, Qian Pan, Evelyn Duesterwald, Casey Dugan
2021 A* conf
Effects of Communication Directionality and AI Agent Differences in Human-AI Interaction.
CHI
Zahra Ashktorab, Casey Dugan, James Johnson, Qian Pan, Wei Zhang, Sadhana Kumaravel, Murray Campbell
2021 A conf
Increasing the Speed and Accuracy of Data Labeling Through an AI Assisted Interface.
IUI
Michael Desmond, Michael J. Muller, Zahra Ashktorab, Casey Dugan, Evelyn Duesterwald, Kristina Brimijoin, Catherine Finegan-Dollak, Michelle Brachman, Aabhas Sharma, Narendra Nath Joshi, Qian Pan
2021 J jnl
Increasing the Speed and Accuracy of Data LabelingThrough an AI Assisted Interface.
CoRR
Michael Desmond, Zahra Ashktorab, Michelle Brachman, Kristina Brimijoin, Evelyn Duesterwald, Casey Dugan, Catherine Finegan-Dollak, Michael J. Muller, Narendra Nath Joshi, Qian Pan, Aabhas Sharma
2021 A* conf
Mental Models of AI Agents in a Cooperative Game Setting (Extended Abstract).
IJCAI
Katy Ilonka Gero, Zahra Ashktorab, Casey Dugan, Qian Pan, James Johnson, Werner Geyer, Maria Ruiz, Sarah Miller, David R. Millen, Murray Campbell, Sadhana Kumaravel, Wei Zhang
2021 A conf
The Design and Development of a Game to Study Backdoor Poisoning Attacks: The Backdoor Game.
IUI
Zahra Ashktorab, Casey Dugan, James Johnson, Aabhas Sharma, Dustin Ramsey Torres, Ingrid Lange, Benjamin Hoover, Heiko Ludwig, Bryant Chen, Nathalie Baracaldo, Werner Geyer, Qian Pan
2020 — conf
Cultivating Human Expertise Through AI-Assisted Data Science.
DaSH@KDD
Josh Andres, Christine T. Wolf, Michael J. Muller, Justin D. Weisz, Narendra Nath Joshi, Aabhas Sharma, Krissy Brimijoin, Michael Desmond, Zahra Ashktorab, Qian Pan, Evelyn Duesterwald, Casey Dugan
2020 J jnl
Happiness and Fear: Using Emotions as a Lens to Disentangle How Users Felt About the Launch of Facebook Reactions.
ACM Trans. Soc. Comput.
Pamela J. Wisniewski, Karla A. Badillo-Urquiola, Zahra Ashktorab, Jessica Vitak
2020 J jnl
Human-AI Collaboration in a Cooperative Game Setting: Measuring Social Perception and Outcomes.
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact.
Zahra Ashktorab, Q. Vera Liao, Casey Dugan, James Johnson, Qian Pan, Wei Zhang, Sadhana Kumaravel, Murray Campbell
2020 A* conf
Mental Models of AI Agents in a Cooperative Game Setting.
CHI
Katy Ilonka Gero, Zahra Ashktorab, Casey Dugan, Qian Pan, James Johnson, Werner Geyer, Maria Ruiz, Sarah Miller, David R. Millen, Murray Campbell, Sadhana Kumaravel, Wei Zhang
2020 J jnl
Torino: A Tangible Programming Language Inclusive of Children with Visual Disabilities.
Hum. Comput. Interact.
Cecily Morrison, Nicolas Villar, Anja Thieme, Zahra Ashktorab, Eloise Taysom, Oscar Salandin, Daniel Cletheroe, Greg Saul, Alan F. Blackwell, Darren Edge, Martin Grayson, Haiyan Zhang
2019 — conf
CHI4EVIL: Creative Speculation on the Negative Impacts of HCI Research.
CHI Extended Abstracts
Robert Soden, Michael Skirpan, Casey Fiesler, Zahra Ashktorab, Eric P. S. Baumer, Mark Blythe, Jasmine Jones
2019 A* conf
Resilient Chatbots: Repair Strategy Preferences for Conversational Breakdowns.
CHI
Zahra Ashktorab, Mohit Jain, Q. Vera Liao, Justin D. Weisz
2019 J jnl
Slack Channels Ecology in Enterprises: How Employees Collaborate Through Group Chat.
CoRR
Dakuo Wang, Haoyu Wang, Mo Yu, Zahra Ashktorab, Ming Tan
2019 A* conf
Thinking Too Classically: Research Topics in Human-Quantum Computer Interaction.
CHI
Zahra Ashktorab, Justin D. Weisz, Maryam Ashoori
2018 Misc conf
Entanglion: A Board Game for Teaching the Principles of Quantum Computing.
CHI PLAY
Justin D. Weisz, Maryam Ashoori, Zahra Ashktorab
2017 — conf
A Large Labeled Corpus for Online Harassment Research.
WebSci
Jennifer Golbeck, Zahra Ashktorab, Rashad O. Banjo, Alexandra Berlinger, Siddharth Bhagwan, Cody Buntain, Paul Cheakalos, Alicia A. Geller, Quint Gergory, Rajesh Kumar Gnanasekaran, Raja Rajan Gunasekaran, Kelly M. Hoffman, Jenny Hottle, Vichita Jienjitlert, Shivika Khare, Ryan Lau, Marianna J. Martindale, Shalmali Naik, Heather L. Nixon, Piyush Ramachandran, Kristine M. Rogers, Lisa Rogers, Meghna Sardana Sarin, Gaurav Shahane, Jayanee Thanki, Priyanka Vengataraman, Zijian Wan, Derek Michael Wu
2017 — conf
Benefits and Drawbacks of Using Social Media to Grieve Following the Loss of Pet.
SMSociety
Jessica Vitak, Pamela J. Wisniewski, Zahra Ashktorab, Karla A. Badillo-Urquiola
2017 — conf
Beyond Cyberbullying: Self-Disclosure, Harm and Social Support on ASKfm.
WebSci
Zahra Ashktorab, Eben M. Haber, Jennifer Golbeck, Jessica Vitak
2017 — —
Designing Cyberbullying Prevention and Mitigation Tools.
Zahra Ashktorab
2017 A conf
Identifying Women's Experiences With and Strategies for Mitigating Negative Effects of Online Harassment.
CSCW
Jessica Vitak, Kalyani Chadha, Linda Steiner, Zahra Ashktorab
2016 — conf
A Study of Cyberbullying Detection and Mitigation on Instagram.
CSCW Companion
Zahra Ashktorab
2016 A conf
Beyond the Belmont Principles: Ethical Challenges, Practices, and Beliefs in the Online Data Research Community.
CSCW
Jessica Vitak, Katie Shilton, Zahra Ashktorab
2016 A* conf
Designing Cyberbullying Mitigation and Prevention Solutions through Participatory Design With Teenagers.
CHI
Zahra Ashktorab, Jessica Vitak
2014 J jnl
Group-in-a-Box Meta-Layouts for Topological Clusters and Attribute-Based Groups: Space-Efficient Visualizations of Network Communities and Their Ties.
Comput. Graph. Forum
Snigdha Chaturvedi, Cody Dunne, Zahra Ashktorab, R. Zachariah, Ben Shneiderman
2014 — conf
Tweedr: Mining twitter to inform disaster response.
ISCRAM
Zahra Ashktorab, Christopher Brown, Manojit Nandi, Aron Culotta
2013 — conf
Bear-with-me: an embodied prototype to explore tangible two-way exchanges of emotional language.
CHI Extended Abstracts
Allan Fong, Zahra Ashktorab, Jon Froehlich